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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1960
Page
3
Hollywood AP says comic Tommy Noonan fell from a motor scooter during a rehearsal for a movie scene. Dr Lee Siegel reports abdominal bruises but Noonan will be ready to work when 20th Century Fox begins filming next week. He toppled when his foot hit the brake while reaching for the throttle and he was holding a cake in one hand.
The Milwaukee Road Hiawatha passenger train struck a semi trailer at a crossing near St Paul Park Minnesota derailing a portion of the Chicago bound service. Between 30 and 40 people were injured though none faced critical harm. The truck driver Rob ert Kensler 31 of St Paul escaped unharmed. Mahalia Jackson among the 1500 passengers was uninjured. The trailer cab was destroyed while the cab remained upright on the road.
A bolt of lightning killed two hikers and possibly a third on Arapaho Glacier near the continental divide. The bodies of Karen Cowperthwaite, 19, of Boulder and Richard Raymond, 21, of Denver were found near the summit of Arapaho Peak, while Karen's husband David, 22, was missing. All three were University of Colorado summer students. a search was organized to locate Cowperthwaite.
In Miami a Shenandoah Presbyterian Church youth group of thirty is reading the Bible in shifts during a trial testing Florida's Bible reading law. Judge J Fritz Gordon presides over suits by an agnostic and Jewish leaders with a larger courtroom crowd present. The case challenges religious activities in schools including Bible reading and holiday observances. The agnostic plaintiff is backed by the Florida Civil Liberties Union.
Chamberlin testified his daughter Sandra Sue seven developed disturbances and a dislike for school after hearing her teacher tell about angels and the devil He asked if he had requested the school excuse his children from Bible reading or other religious instruction.
Thomas A. Thompson, 30, started a year in jail after pleading guilty to hiring Don Elie, a Sarasota detective, to kill Edward Nixon Davis Jr., a former partner in British Honduras land deals. Thompson, who knew Elie was a police officer, denied any involvement by Mrs. Davis and said the plan grew from a bitter land dispute. He reported the deal to authorities, leading to his arrest.
Western Union asked the Federal Communications Commission to approve higher telegram and money order rates effective August 17. A 15 word full rate telegram would rise 5 cents. 50 word night letters would gain about 10 cents. Money orders under $100 would rise 5 cents, with graduated increases for larger amounts, due to higher wage costs from union contracts. The changes exclude private wire, measured service, telex, and volume-discount plans. If FCC does not delay, the increases take effect automatically.
Eight year old Norman Hesler Jr. of Perrysburg fell from a raft and drowned in a pond near the Ohio Turnpike on Monday.
President Eisenhower arranged for Senators John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson to obtain periodic confidential national security briefings from the CIA for their campaign. Kennedy and Johnson accepted with the condition that briefings remain personal and not restrict open foreign policy debate. Nixon already has access as a National Security Council member.
In Minneapolis unions vow to fight the proposed Great Northern and Northern Pacific merger at Interstate Commerce Commission hearings. Engineers fear seniority losses as NP and GN employments have fallen to about 1,500 due to dieselization among 65,000 workers across 17 states and Canada.
In Memphis Tennessee coeds from Memphis State University distributed about 10 000 hard boiled eggs as 4000 APC&E members gathered for the 44th annual meeting. The top issue was why per capita egg consumption dropped by 3.6 billion eggs last year. Reasons cited include late wake times and wives not preparing breakfast. Egg producers promote quicker serving methods such as frozen eggs in a metal foil package to toast directly.
Fifteen Eastern railroads asked the Interstate Commerce Commission for interstate fare increases from 2.29 to 5 percent, effective Sept. 1. The boosts would push some one way coach fares above $1 and first class above $2, with round trip rises not exceeding $1.70 for coach and $3.80 for first class. The railroads named include Baltimore & Ohio, Boston and Albany, Chesapeake and Ohio, Lackawanna, Erie, Grand Trunk Western, Monon, New York Central Nickel Plate, Norfolk and Western, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines, Pittsburgh and Lake Erie, Reading, and Wabash.
A federal court petition seeks removal of William E. Bufalino from the Teamsters Union board of monitors. Filed by Godfrey P. Schmidt, the former monitor, the action accuses Bufalino of being part of a Hoffa plotted setup to delay the monitors’ work in cleaning up the union. Bufalino is a Detroit Teamsters official. Schmidt is a New York attorney.
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