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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1961
Page
1
More than 1,000 Scots rallied at Holy Loch to protest the U S Polaris base. Demonstrators waved banners and pipes as sailors from the Proteus were jeered by a rowdy minority. A clergyman urged calm as pro Polaris voices defended the fleet and missiles.
In Havana Bay ceremonies marking La Coubre ship explosion anniversary, anti Castro terrorists fired on a crowd from a speeding taxi, wounding eight people, five seriously. The taxi fled but license plate was captured. Fidel Castro appeared about 30 minutes later amid officials investigating possible additional injuries.
Amid turmoil a crowd chanted Cuba si Yankees no as Castro marks a official mourning day for the La Coubre disaster. The munitions ship explosion killed over 80 and injured many, with Castro's spokesman accusing Yankee imperialism of barbarous sabotage.
President Kennedy convened a high level, unannounced meeting on disarmament with advisers including Dean Rusk John J McCloy Glenn Seaborg Arthur Dean Lyman Lemnitzer Paul Nitze and White House staff. Pierre Salinger called the session routine and offered few details.
President Kennedy will meet Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah at the White House next Wednesday. The session is requested by Nkrumah who will attend the United Nations General Assembly in New York. The 4:45 p.m. EST appointment was disclosed by White House press secretary Pierre Salinger.
City commissioners passed a dog control law last year and it is now being enforced. Lynn Danner reports on how the ordinance works and introduces the man who collects dogs that wander from properties, licensed or not, with page 21 reference.
President Kennedy plans a defense policy shakeup emphasizing new weapons and guerrilla warfare over large manpower increases. The Army will see graduates from Ft. Bragg trained guerrilla specialists spread through all divisions to instill hit and run combat tactics as a core element of grand strategy.
Officials note that massive nuclear forces reinforce a stalemate between the Soviet Union and United States while conflicts in Laos and the Congo grow in importance. The U S runs military aid in 45 countries and top officials expect many to engage in limited warfare. President Kennedy said McNamara recommended boosting conventional forces, with a decision due around mid March.
The report notes expectations of a rise in the 42.9 billion dollar military budget linked to increased conventional warfare capacity. It says a large manpower expansion is unlikely despite Kennedy McNamara and Rusk emphasis. Current forces total about 2.5 million with Army plans for three more divisions seen as contentious. Marines seek 25,000 extra”. administration support for three divisions appears uncertain.
Folsom California AP reports officials tightened security and segregated feeding at Folsom Prison after a racial flareup injured ten inmates on Friday night. Six Negroes and four whites were hurt by flying trays and ricocheting bullets. no serious injuries. A warning shot was fired after a white inmate struck a Black inmate and a portion of breakfast was dumped on the floor. The noon meal proceeded tensely without further incident.
President Kennedy announced that Sargent Shriver will serve without pay as director of a temporary Peace Corps, drafting recommendations and building a volunteer pool for overseas service. He will head the corps if Congress creates a permanent agency, giving up his Merchandise Mart role in Chicago. Shriver, Eunice Kennedy Shriver’s husband and former Chicago School Board president, joins 14 others named to key posts as the program is organized with aims of 500 to 1,000 volunteers overseas by year end and several thousand in coming years.
Forest Evashevski the University of Iowa athletic director and former football coach will join as a part time consultant on the training program. The White House said Kennedy will seek Senate confirmation of Shriver’s appointment at once, though the Peace Corps lacks statutory authority until Congress acts on the permanent program.
A violent storm struck Chicago's South Side injuring at least 52 people. Fire Department labeled the area a disaster zone as gas line breaks were reported. Injured were taken to Jackson Park Hospital with some in serious condition after winds toppled a display case and tossed cars and a motorcycle.
Four youths two aged 15 and one 16 were charged with homicide in the death of a 73-year-old man stomped during a Harlem robbery near Mount Morris Park. Ernest Johnson Bernard Rowe Lawrence Waller and Allen Trahan, all African American, faced homicide charges after the Friday night incident.
New York AP reports Marilyn Monroe, treated for a nervous ailment, is scheduled to be discharged Sunday from Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center.
Frankfurt action lifted the German mark about 5 percent in all foreign exchange deals, easing dollar pressure abroad while frightening German business leaders. Banks set the rate near 3.93 marks per dollar, making the mark officially worth about 25 cents. The move, the first since 1949, could raise German prices for exports or squeeze profits, prompting emergency meetings nationwide.
Alwin Muenchmeyer, president of the German Federation of Chambers of Commerce, criticized the revaluation as influenced by outsiders. Markets and major exchanges closed as the new rate took effect and traders prepared for weekend adjustments. Domestic shoppers face little impact, while imports like Italian shoes and British woolens may fall about 5 percent. A Sunday news conference by Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard and Finance Minister Franz Etzel will detail the decision and its expected effects.
State police joined a search for a Houston man questioned in the fatal beating and robbery of two sisters in Nacogdoches. The bodies of Mrs. C. B. Hagans and Mrs. M. H. Gibson were found eight days after the killings. A TV set, a new car, and about $500 were missing.
A grim joke centers on a cannibal father scolding his son for talking with someone in his mouth, highlighting dark humor about family and macabre supper talk.
A second Polaris submarine is expected to reach operational range of the Soviet Union within weeks. The Patrick Henry heads to Holy Loch Scotland to resupply while Proteus awaits and George Washington nears New London for missile readiness. Navy plans call for two thirds of the Polaris force on station, aiming for four subs on patrol by year end. The Abraham Lincoln was commissioned March 11.
In Congo hostilities erupt as Congolese seize Banana port from U.N. garrison and clash with U.N. forces. Sudanese troops fight in Matadi where fighting damages the Canadian station and contact with the U.N. is lost. Dag Hammarskjold orders restoration by negotiation or force if needed. Military commanders in Leopoldville work on truces as fighting threatens supply lines.
Elizabeth Taylor, 29, stricken by pneumonia, underwent an emergency tracheotomy at the Dorchester Hotel vicinity before transfer to London Clinic. Doctors, including Lord Evans and Dr. C H Goldman, said her condition remained grave as she fought a severe staphylococcus pneumonia. Eddie Fisher stood by during the operation.
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