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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1959
Page
1
Dickie Mescher guides his prize home but his mother Mrs. Donald Mescher shows less enthusiasm. Dickie plans to find another hobby after the win, signaling a shift in interest following the award.
President Eisenhower Harold Macmillan and Charles de Gaulle endorsed a conditional plan for a summit with Nikita Khrushchev after a foreign ministers meeting in Geneva. The three notes pressed to narrow gaps and prepare constructive proposals while keeping options open for summer talks. They diverged on timing and scope but agreed on a broader discussions framework.
A three year old boy in Philadelphia area dies after eating poisoned fish. Federal inspectors trace tainted filleted fluke and flounder to a single Philadelphia wholesaler with distribution limited to Philadelphia suburbs and nearby South Jersey. Several others sickened and a hospital autopsy planned for a farmer found with a partly eaten fish.
In Mesquite Texas a white Leghorn hen has ousted Blackie the cat from raising her five kittens. The hen protects and feeds the kittens while Blackie’s feline mothering is thwarted. The kittens respond to the hen’s clucking and seek food despite pecking from other hens. Blackie previously parented five kittens raised by the Leghorn last year.
A pre Easter snow storm battered the eastern Rockies and pushed into the Midwest bringing drifts over a foot in Colorado Wyoming and western Nebraska. Tornadoes hail rain and strong winds lashed Texas and Oklahoma with at least one injury and widespread road closures.
The Grace liner Santa Rosa and the empty oil tanker Valdhem collided at 3 a.m. in the Atlantic 22 miles east of Atlantic City. Six tanker crewmen were injured and one was killed. The cruise liner carried no injuries and prepared to transfer 265 passengers to the Grace liner Santa Clara for their return to New York from Nassau.
Los Angeles AP defense attorney S Ward Sullivan said startling new evidence could win Mrs. Elizabeth Duncan a new trial. He cited a tape of Augustine Baldonado, one of two laborers who confessed to the slaying of Olga, in which a woman other than Mrs. Duncan allegedly urged the murder.
A storm center moves through the Miami Valley bringing light showers. The forecast calls for cloudy skies and cooler conditions with a high near 68 and a low around 45. Friday expects partial cloudiness and cooler highs near 55. Middletown officials recorded a high of 78 yesterday and a low of 40 this morning.
Fire in the forward paint room of the 16000 ton Santa Rosa was isolated but not controlled hours after a collision. Crew injuries were treated aboard. a seriously injured man died after arriving by Coast Guard helicopter. Rosa and Valdhem planned to proceed to New York under tug escort with Coast Guard craft nearby.
Police hunted gunman Richard Allen Hunt, 27, a dairy worker from near Harrisburg, Ore, feared to have escaped like he entered, abducting motorist Allie Derrick of Mill City and forcing him to drive toward Portland as hundreds searched rainy streets and timbered hills.
State and local officers seized 45 well heeled men in a raid on a plush gambling parlor in Piermont New York. Some players were seen at cards while others lounged in chairs as officers swept in. A catering firm served steaks and other foods as guards guarded the site. Wads of over 2000 dollars were found on several men and a Rolls Royce was parked outside. The raid linked to the State Investigation Commission aims to curb organized crime and involved cooperation with Rockland County district attorney. All suspects were detained for questioning at the New City office of the district attorney.
AP reports a trusted source on the Indian border says the Chinese Communists announced the Dalai Lama fled Lhasa during the revolt in the Tibetan capital.
The article notes a new four in one vaccine targeting polio diphtheria whooping cough and tetanus set to enter the market soon. It will be used for a children’s shot series similar to the prior three in one vaccine.
Frank Rasmussen, 35, and partner Harry Boyer faced 18 sticks of dynamite in a Death Valley tunnel when a faulty fuse triggered multiple blasts. Rasmussen was buried by debris but pulled free by Boyer, then rushed to Skidoo for treatment where he remains in traction with leg injuries.
Detroit boy Brian Lee Forrest eleven bolts from Herman Keifer Hospital during a routine skin test fearing the needle. He eluded pursuit by his mother and reached home five miles away claiming the needle looked like a sword.
A humorous reflection notes that a man’s name tends to appear in newspapers only in three moments: childhood, inability to read, and after death. The quip plays on the inevitability of posthumous citations and public notices.
Three Ohio colleges oppose loyalty oaths tied to government loan aid. Antioch and Wilmington refuse funds for the defense education program, Oberlin accepts 13 013 despite faculty objections to the oath affidavit. The program aims to provide low interest loans to students with repayment after graduation. Roosevelt and others push to remove the oath requirement.
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