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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1963
Page
1
Ohioans donate new and used baseballs bats and gloves to the Peace Corps in the Dominican Republic after Peace Corps volunteers struggle to teach the game due to lack of equipment. Senator Stephen M Young reports outreach efforts and notes no precise count of items received.
Bahamas colonial authorities and the British navy joint investigated claims that Castro gunmen trespassed in British waters to seize two Americans and ten Cuban fishermen. Elbow Cay near Cay Sal and Cay Lobos were scene as police and Cmdr. J E L Martin planned an air survey and cross-border outreach.
El Mundo reports a U S CIA agent named Manuel del Valle Caral was arrested Thursday just before entering an unnamed embassy with incriminating documents. The paper states he was a radio operator for the CIA spy network uncovered in Oriente Province last month.
In New York City Mayor Wagner mediated 85 day blackout talks between publishers and the International Typographical Union. Harmonious sessions ended near midnight with both sides set to reconvene. Macy’s added an advertising boycott against the New York Post as the paper resumes Monday under old contract terms with a new bargaining pact to be negotiated separately.
Six crew members of a Moroccan fishing boat drowned when their craft sank in stormy waters off Mehedya port. One crew member survived by reaching shore.
Four teen passengers on a Greyhound bus escaped injury when the bus collided with Virgil Edwards’s auto at the Ohio 3 U.S. 36 intersection near Sunbury. The car’s driver Virgil Edwards was critically injured. his wife Jeanette and the bus driver suffered minor injuries. Arthur B. Cunningham, 35, of Columbus, drove the bus south toward Columbus and the red light. The bus skidded on slick pavement as it tried to avoid the halted car.
A two balloon tandem rig carrying a 36 inch telescope for the Stratoscope II project landed about 10 miles north of Pulaski. Scientists hoped data would show if life exists on Mars while deputies guard the instrument sites and Huntsville officials plan to retrieve the gear.
African students in Eva ton, Pretoria stoned Lt. Col. William Wessels as he attempted to calm a riot after the principal's expulsion of two students who urged Africans to withhold fees. Authorities supported the expulsion, triggering a strike and attacks on those who intervened.
An aide to Rep. Francis Walter says Sir Winston Churchill, 86, would be delighted and deeply moved by an honorary U.S. citizenship, noting that four states have offered or will offer such honors. Churchill could not travel overseas for ceremonies due to a fractured hip and convalescence.
Senate armed services member claims US suspended low level flights over Cuba and uses electronic car planes to listen from outside Cuban territory. He says high altitude U2 flights continue and electronic cars detect details such as generator operation.
Mecca radio alleged on Friday that four Egyptian planes bombed and strafed the Saudi seaport of Qizan. It said one aircraft was shot down in the Red Sea and claimed a second raid in two days, following an initial strike on a Saudi airfield near the Yemen border.
Five Marines died in a crash near Subic Bay while on a routine local operation. Two Marines suffered serious burns and one remained missing as a Navy spokesman reported. The H34C transport helicopter crashed in the Zambales Mountains about seven miles from the base. Names of victims withheld pending notification. Navy helicopters from Cubi Point were dispatched to recover survivors.
A judge ordered the removal of barricades across Peyton and Harlan Roads that segregated white and Black neighborhoods in Atlanta. Mayor Ivan Allen Jr. said the city would not contest the ruling, citing public peace and constitutional rights. The Dec 17 ordinance had prompted the barrier erection amid white fears of Black moves into a White area. A white homeowner group and Black residents sued to remove them, and Negro realtor C. C. Thornton bought a Peyton Road home amid the dispute.
Washington observers note Congress faces a painful annual debt limit debate this year with Democrats pressed to push Kennedy tax proposals and Republicans ready to use uncertainty over the limit to curb spending. The House Ways and Means Committee postponed action on a ceiling bill as leaders seek to trim the president's budget by about 10 billion dollars.
A light quip notes that today’s Chuckle Movies on television resemble furniture being either early American or old English, suggesting dated humor and style.
Washington officials rejected Britain's claim of a U.S. brain drain and high pressure recruiting. They said the United States attracts scientists and engineers for better facilities and opportunities, not coercive tactics, and that education and research systems shape the flow.
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