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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1962
Page
1
The piece portrays voters seeking value in every public servant from dog catcher to senator. It notes the inner pride and sense of duty felt when casting a ballot, amid a crowded field of choices and a rising voter population.
The public is a demanding taskmaster, an octopus of pressures squeezing elected officials. Those defeated escape promises, able to pause commitments until the next election and perhaps try again.
India plans to bring home its United Nations forces from Congo and Gaza to counter a Chinese invasion. A Foreign Office spokesman said 5700 troops may depart Congo after a Congolese deal, while 1250 Gaza troops await U.N. approval for withdrawal. Home Minister Shastri ordered rifle training for villagers near Ladakh. The Chinese have seized an old Indian base at Daulet Beg Oldi, threatening the western front as border tensions rise.
UN Acting Secretary General U Thant plans talks with ICRC leaders to outline a plan for inspecting Cuba bound Soviet ships for arms. The ICRC says Castro would accept ship inspections and notes final agreement depends on Thant Ruegger and Borsinger talks. The US backs the proposal, potentially lifting the Cuba naval arms blockade, while Castro rejects inspections on Cuban soil.
A humorous observation notes that some wives resemble Teddy Roosevelt’s Rough Riders as they go through life yelling Charge. The joke plays on Roosevelt’s famed rallying cry and the energetic, bold approach to tasks.
A would be thief broke into Dr. E. M. Early's Dayton clinic but escaped empty handed after entering through a basement window. Police found a skeletal figure on the basement floor, explaining the burglar’s apparent reluctance to take medicines or narcotics.
Voters flock to polls as early turnout appears brisk across Ohio with 10 to 15 percent of registration casting ballots in 90 minutes. DiSalle seeks a second term against Rhodes as key races for Congress and the Senate loom and a Sunday milk sale proposal advances.
In Boston local, Massachusetts voters turnout to decide if Edward Kennedy will win the US Senate seat, likely defeating Republican George Cabot Lodge. President Kennedy campaigns for his brother, casting a lift for the Democratic ticket as Ted seeks the remainder of the term begun in 1959.
San Francisco dispatch says up to five million California voters are expected to cast ballots to decide between Gov Edmund G Brown and Richard M Nixon. Nixon urged a television audience to ignore smear campaigns as Brown accused him of repeating old charges. Nixon denied seeking the White House and pledged support for Kennedy when appropriate.
Washington reports state that the Soviet Union may have paused assembling IL28 jet bombers in Cuba after a sharp U S warning. Surveillance flights will indicate whether planes are being drawn back as Khrushchev pledged to remove offensive weapons from the island.
Earl W. Tonsing, 41, of Wadsworth died Monday in a two vehicle crash at the intersection of Ohio 301 and 18, about 10 miles south of Elyria, Ohio.
The forecast calls for generally damp conditions with scattered showers likely late tomorrow. Temperatures improve to around 50 by tomorrow, with tonight’s low near 37 and Monday’s high around 47.
An explosion in a coal mine 650 feet underground near Nyaalesund Spitzbergen trapped about 100 workers. Gov Finn Backer Midboe announced ten bodies recovered and eleven miners missing and presumed dead. No cause yet reported for the Arctic blast.
About 50 million Americans vote today in a presidential election shaping Kennedy's New Frontier programs and likely future GOP leadership. The stakes include 39 Senate seats 435 House seats and 35 governorships Kennedy votes in Boston as weather forecast calls for generally dry day with scattered rain in the North.
New York AP report says Mrs. Franklin D Roosevelt seriously ill at her apartment cannot vote today even by absentee ballot. A family spokesman says she did not have an absentee ballot because she went to a hospital at the end of September and no one expected she would be too ill to vote in Hyde Park as usual. The 78 year old former First Lady was rest ing quietly Monday and her condition was unchanged.
About 50 million are expected to vote in the off year elections, a new high but short of the 1958 peak of 47,854,000, as 83 million are qualified. Analysts say population growth rather than voter interest fuels the rise, with both sides trumpeting victories yet no clear outcome likely amid the Cuban crisis backdrop.
Detroit报道 Michigan voters decide whether Gov. John B. Swainson or Republican George Romney should lead the state. Romney, former head of American Motors, aims to avoid active presidential campaigning in 1964, while Lt. Gov. Lesinski labels him a liar about that plan.
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