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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1962
Page
1
John Gorey lives on a street between two golf course greens. Since 1959 he has faced hundreds of golf balls crashing into his yard and window each year, with locals younger players coming through his bushes to retrieve stray balls. He is not a golfer but endures the noise and risk.
Cyrus R. Vance, 45, longtime Department of Defense general counsel, named by President Kennedy to succeed Elvis J. Stahr Jr. as secretary of the Army subject to Senate confirmation. Vance, a Yale-educated former naval officer, was born in 1917 in Clarksburg West Virginia and has served since 1957 in government and defense planning roles.
U S forces tighten a Thailand defense as SEATO powers weighed aid while Thai officials voiced satisfaction with American readiness to deter Laos incursions. Gen Paul Harkins noted no widening war risk. tanks move from Hawaii toward a 5000 man build up. Ambassador Young said the US would stay while the Red threat persisted and welcomed token help from SEATO states, excluding France. Pravda warned of possible retaliatory moves by the Soviet bloc.
Miss Michigan Karen Jean Southway was kept away as pilot John B Swainson canceled due to bad weather. Temperatures near freezing sent 35 people to hospitals. The heat wilted most tulips, yet 106000 people attended the festival's final day, officials reported.
The Supreme Court reversed six contempt convictions of witnesses who refused to answer questions from congressional committees investigating Communist activity. The court ruled indictments failed to name the subject under inquiry at interrogation time, citing that no one could be prosecuted for refusal without a grand jury indictment. Defendants included Norton Anthony Russell, Robert Shelton, Alden Whitman, Herman Liveright, William A. Price, and John T Gojack, with various jail terms and fines. Gojack’s union was expelled from the CIO in 1949 for Communist ties.
Agriculture Department employee Hales expected as lead witness as Senate Investigations subcommittee opens closed hearings on Estes affairs. Miller approved a $700,000 grain storage bond and Morris allegedly received a gift hat from Estes. probes concern favored treatment amid Estes multi million dollar empire. A Texas grand jury in Franklin holds a hearing into the death of Henry Marshall tied to Estes cotton allotments.
President Kennedy leads a nationwide push for medical care for the aged with rallies and TV appeals. The American Medical Association counters with a 7 pm NBC network program led by Dr Leonard Largan to oppose the King Anderson bill. The plan would raise a 17 percent payroll tax for workers and employers and expand federal control of medical practice, the AMA says.
Portland dispatch reports the National Congress of Parents and Teachers unveils a three year program to aid economically and socially deprived children. Projects include nursery schools, higher horizons programs, day care for working mothers, expanded guidance in elementary schools, and special help for Negro and Puerto Rican children entering integrated schools.
Dutch authorities announce evacuation of 180 women and children from Teminabuan to Vogeskop and Kiak on the Vogelkop peninsula amid Indonesian paratrooper incursions. Reinforcements arrive as both sides claim actions and casualties. Indonesia vows to use force if the West New Guinea dispute escalates.
A Toledo teen owed his life to a Navy submarine decompression chamber docked in Detroit. After suffering the bends from skin diving near Whitehouse quarry, Richard Brewer was flown from Toledo to Detroit by Coast Guard helicopter. Under two divers in a 24 foot chamber, doctors lowered pressure gradually from 20 pounds to 10 feet, allowing him to recover and walk.
A Biscayne Bay cabin cruiser exploded injuring the family aboard. A year-old girl was hurled into the water but fell unhurt. Father Alan Rothstein and mother Betty helped two older children overboard. A 16 month old child was carried to safety as the parents sustained minor injuries.
Cleveland AP The Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, representing 196000 members, demands a 25 cent hourly wage increase plus fully paid health and welfare plans, life insurance for survivors, and covered medical costs. The plan would start June 21, with unions presenting to 110 Class railroads, while management calls it inflationary.
The Weather Bureau reports no relief soon as temperatures will run about 15 degrees above normal this week with little to no rainfall. Tomorrow’s high around 9 plus a low near 7. Yesterday’s official high 6 at 3:45 pm and overnight low 64. A few drops of rain fell, but not measurable.
A A year old Japanese engineer Masatomi Kawa was released after being kidnapped last month by Communist guerrillas. He had been held at the home of a Vietnamese district chief about 23 miles north of Saigon in South Vietnam.
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