25 May 1960
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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1960
Page
1
AP reports southern Chile rocked by earthquakes tidal waves and erupting volcanoes as authorities tally about 2000 dead or missing and roughly two million left homeless. Isolation hampers full casualty counts while damage runs into hundreds of millions of dollars and reconstruction will take years.
Massive quakes and tsunamis hit Osorno Province Chile flattening villages. Waves swept sections of Maullin Quelec and Mehuin drowning dozens. Volcanic activity rose with Osorno Caulle Carral and Casablanca erupting. President Alessandri ordered relief as planes ferried aid and Pope John XXIII urged funds.
Tokyo reports 183 dead or missing and millions in property damage after the Chilean tidal wave. Japanese villagers begin returning to shattered homes as authorities assess wreckage and relief efforts.
Honolulu AP reports Hilo starts burying victims along the waterfront as 38 are dead 21 missing and 53 injured in Hawaii’s worst disaster in 14 years. City residents face disease risk with spraying to combat illness and officials urge boiled water after massive sanitation problems.
Alert shortcomings were reported canceled in the hardest hit areas as Soon onslaught from the sea struck Asia. The Philippines saw heavy crop and property damage with no confirmed deaths. Formosa and Okinawa had no new casualties. A 6-foot wall of water hit the east coast with 95 dead 85 missing and 854 injured cited by Japanese police. Affected ships and villages were vast with 2,621 ships sunk or cast ashore 4,079 homes destroyed 41 900 flooded 80 dyke breaches and 251 bridges wrecked leaving at least 150 000 homeless.
A light quip questions the IRS policy on refunds for unsatisfactory service. It frames taxation as a consumer grievance and hints at bureaucratic rigidity, prompting a wry take on government guarantees and customer satisfaction.
Los Angeles and Long Beach harbor suffered waves and tides causing extensive damage. SBA regional director Donald McLarnan said mooring, landing dock and boat repair businesses may apply for government loans, while individual boat owners are not eligible. A skindiver, Raymond Stuart of Torrance, remains missing after the surge.
The Rev Maurice McCrackin will help lead a Memorial Day Peace Walk to Dayton's Wright Patterson Air Force Base. The Cincinnati minister, an income tax protester, served six months in federal prison last year for his stance. He will be joined by A J Muste and students from Fairborn and Antioch College in a protest against international reliance on force.
Washington AP: consumer prices increased four tenths of a percent in April reaching a record, led by higher food costs. Poor spring growing conditions helped push food prices up, with the meat consumer price index at 126.2 percent of the 1947-49 base, up 9 percent from a year earlier.
Don Bertram waited on the sidewalk through a thunderstorm outside a Great Bend furniture store from 12:30 a.m. until it opened at 10 a.m. He bought a $239.95 living room suite on sale for 39.95, saying he did it for a friend. Police and fire crews checked on him but he was unharmed.
At the United Nations Security Council Western opposition doomed a Soviet resolution seeking condemnation of U.S. spy plane flights. Ceylon and Tunisia eyed abstention or support as debate continued with Poland and the Soviet Union likely to vote yes and Argentina plus Nationalist China voting no. France opposed formal assent and Britain and Italy appeared set to vote no as the session progressed.
Thousands of young leftists massed around Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi in Tokyo for a sixth night of protests against the U S Japan security pact. Estimates placed the crowd at 5 000 to 8 000 as labor unions backed the anti pact demonstration.
Hundreds including women and students massed before Kishi’s home calling for withdrawal of the U S Japan security pact. Etsuro Shiina led candlelit protests while Ichiro Keno warned of revolutionary currents. Tokyo police planned 7,000 guard and clashed with demonstrators injuring about 300.
West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer traveled to Lake Como in Italy for a vacation. His remark to reporters urged them to focus on the American selection, calling it very interesting, but he did not elaborate on the statement.
The Socialists and the Communist bloc object to the treaty citing bases for American forces in Japan for a further decade. They argue the pact blocks a neutral foreign policy and keeps Japan aligned with the West.
Lloyd Shuffstall, sought for murder, waits in an emergency room in Franklin, Pennsylvania, grimacing in pain as he receives treatment for gunshot wounds after shooting himself under the chin during a confrontation with authorities.
Lloyd E. Shuffstall 51, a former mental patient sought in the slayings of his wife Vera Rose 47 and Harold DuPont 43 was found wounded and sitting against a tree trunk about a mile from his home. He claimed he shot himself after the killings. Police said DuPont was shot on a dirt road and Vera Rose was killed in her bedroom. Shuffstall, freed from a mental institution a week earlier, was hospitalized and jailed.
Nine Americans and their C47 from Communist East Germany saw their return halted as gusty winds and rain stopped the flight. In separate defense news, the aircraft carrier Saratoga and West German ship Bernd Leonhardt collided 200 miles off Cape Henry in calm seas. Harold E. Stassen stated that Richard M. Nixon cannot win the presidential election.
The House Ways and Means Committee voted for a temporary public debt ceiling of 294 billion dollars starting June 30 for one year and approved extending current corporate income and excise tax rates for another year.
President Eisenhower addresses the American people on the collapse of the summit and its impact on free world policies. The report notes the U2 spy plane incident, White House appeal for global broadcasts, and forthcoming closed hearings led by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee with top officials slated to testify.
Two probes were planned on a smaller scale by a special committee and a subcommittee studying government policy machinery. In and outside the Senate, partisan squabbling persisted despite calls for bipartisanship. Paul Butler accused the Eisenhower administration of a soft policy toward Russia, while Thurston Morton defended a bipartisan review and a record of peace.
The weather office warns of stormy conditions and showers expected through Thursday in the Miami Valley. Today remains partly cloudy with mild conditions, forecasting a high near 8 and a low around 62. Thursday turns cloudy and warmer with scattered thundershowers, highs near 81. Middletown records show yesterday’s official high at 4:30 p.m. and a 61-degree low at 4 a.m.
White House aide Robert E Merriam told Capitol Hill Club women’s division that the United States initially lied about the U2 incident to give pilot Francis Powers a chance to cope. The claim frames the administration’s early actions in the Cold War spy overflight.
U2 weather reconnaissance flight missing drew early weather cover from NASA and State Department after Soviet claim of shoot down. White House aide Merriam said Powers carried escape gear and was instructed to attempt flight to safety if forced down. The weather rationale aimed to aid his exit, with no disclosure of who ordered the weather cover.
AP notes roundabout communications and heavy weather caused conflicting accounts of the American C47 transport plane downed near East Germany. Initial claims of takeoff were contradicted by higher ranks. Weather in the Baltic hampered U.S. liaison and Soviet handling of the case as reports from Kluetz landed spot remained unclear.
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