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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1962
Page
1
A Lincoln Park resident sent 200 dollars to Detroit Mayor Jerome Cav anagh asking the money be given to a worthy charity. The sender claimed past misdeeds and said he had cheated a man long ago. Suburban letters arrive as residents protest a proposed city income tax.
Soviet cosmonaut Gherman Titov and US astronaut John H Glenn Jr. greeted each other at a National Academy of Sciences function in Washington. They planned speeches at an international space symposium, with tours of the capital and a White House visit. Their wives joined the brief meeting as officials from the Soviet Embassy, NAS, and Caspar looked on.
Algiers two blasts struck a Muslim medical insurance office near the Casbah as European terrorists continued their terror campaign. There were no immediate casualty reports, while authorities cited a deadly day in Algiers and Oran with many Muslim victims and ongoing tensions over the cease-fire and move toward independence.
Rep Frank Bow says President Kennedy wants federal bureaucratic control of hospital services and would not compromise on Social Security Administration oversight after meeting AMA leaders. Bow backs substitute legislation offering elderly persons up to 125 a year in tax credits or grants to pay for their own medical insurance.
A Tokyo disaster saw two electric commuter trains collide with a derailed freight at Mikawashima station injuring 147 and killing 83. Rescue workers bore into twisted wreckage as officials investigated prime causes and casualty details.
A 16 year old boy missing from a school tour to the Kin River was found safe at home late Wednesday. Sheriff Deputy Sam Rouvier said James Goodin apparently separated from his seventh grade class at Newtonsville Grade School and hitched a ride home. A teacher accompanying 138 pupils said Goodin tried to get classmates to walk up the river bank before going alone.
A light note remarks that Lincoln is not considered handsome by some, yet he appears favorable on the eighty five dollar bill. The playful line pivots on the bill’s image and public perceptions.
Athens AP report says the United States contemplates sharing Western Europe nuclear warheads with a European political union including Britain. NATO ministers to review plans for a supranational strike force as discussions intensify on bringing Britain into the Common Market backed by France and West Germany.
Dayton Ohio AP jurors convict Henry and Robert DeLove on two felony counts for impeding deputy marshals and assaulting FBI agents. Robert DeLove, 31, is guilty on one count. Henry faces up to three years and $5,000 per count. Deliberation lasted about eight hours. Robert acquitted on a prior moment.
A high pressure system brings fair skies and rising temperatures tonight and Friday. Overnight low around 52 with Friday's high expected balmy. In nearby Vividie, yesterday reached 42 at 1:45 PM with an overnight low near 4 at 4:15 AM.
Detroit newspapers have not released regular editions since April and appear unlikely to publish again before next week. Details on the blackout remain unclear as readers await updates from the two daily papers.
President Kennedy is to receive an advisory board’s recommendations today on rail wage settlements affecting about 450,000 nonoperating rail workers. Unions seek raises while carriers press for inflation avoidance, amid a looming 90 day bargaining period and prior union authorizations to strike.
New York AP reports Kentucky romance between Jim Owen of Lexington and Ximina Villarroe leads to a 15 month scooter journey. Owen plans to depart from New York, ride 17 000 miles through Mexico via Panama to Venezuela and Colombia, then Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, Chile, and back to Santiago. He carries 55 dollars, 75 pounds of gear, including 22 pounds of hooks, and has support from a scooter firm and oil company.
In a dawn robbery at Sacred Heart Catholic Church rectory Youngstown a gunman woke Msgr Walter Martin and Rev Conrad Aleckna and stole 725 dollars from both priests. The flashlight tactic and wallet takes included 150 from Martin and 75 from Aleckna.
The Ohio Supreme Court scheduled the execution date for Ronald G. Fenton, an Akron man convicted of raping and killing an 11 year old girl in August 1900, for June 1 after denying a review of the case.
Washington AP reports the United States closed the first nuclear test week in the Pacific with its third and largest burst, a low megaton device near Christmas Island. Dropped from a plane, the one to several million tons of TNT yield marks a significant step in the series, announced by the Defense Department and the Atomic Energy Commission.
In Harrisburg the ailing former president Eisenhower avoided direct judgment on Kennedy's steel price rollback while signaling discussions with Republican leaders. He described his West Coast vacation and visit to Gettysburg Farm, and noted the broader debate over a moratorium on atmospheric tests and a formal test ban with international inspections. The episode unfolds amid ongoing Operation Dominic nuclear activity and a gathering at a Geneva disarmament conference.
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