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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1960
Page
16
In Miami Florida AP report 72 year old Alex Wojda a retired kitchen worker committed hara kiri fearing leg amputation from illness. In Muncie Indiana two police officers were suspended after minor traffic collisions during a new city campaign.
Moscow announces Cyrus Eaton, a Canadian born industrialist living near Cleveland, is awarded the Lenin Peace Prize valued at 35,000 dollars. Tass praises him as a public figure contributing to peaceful coexistence between the peoples after his calls for US Soviet understanding. He visited Moscow in 1958 and met Premier Khrushchev.
Old line Democrats seek to block a walkout as uncounted ballots from Tuesday’s Alabama primary threaten to shift votes. States Rights candidates look to win most of the 11 electoral votes if the Los Angeles convention rebuffs a civil rights platform or pro integration ticket. Incomplete returns show 10 States Righters and one Loyalist led across 1,656 of 3,295 boxes, with runoff May 31 if no majority. Sen. John Sparkman seeks a fourth term amid opposition from John Crommelin and Zeke Calhoun.
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