07 Oct 1962
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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1962
Page
1
U S advisers completed their withdrawal from Laos on Saturday ending a 1955 civilian mission to train royal forces. Maj Gen R H Tucker was the last American to depart with 79 colleagues en route to Bangkok.
Washington AP Congress advanced toward adjournment as the House approved a 3.9 billion foreign aid bill in a Saturday session. Rep Otto Passman in a wheelchair guided the measure to a 171 to 108 vote amid low attendance. Senate action due next week. The package funds economic development loans and military aid abroad within a larger 1.28 billion appropriation including Cuban refugees and Peace Corps items. President Kennedy had proposed nearly 4.96 billion.
President Kennedy tours Michigan with rallies in Detroit Flint and Muskegon then Minneapolis and St Paul urging registration and vote. He attacks Republicans citing farm aid credits and notes Orville Freeman’s agriculture leadership while implying Romney hides party affiliation in campaign materials.
A US Marine helicopter assigned to a Viet Cong raid crashed in central Viet Nam on Saturday, killing three American crewmen and injuring five. The crash occurred as 300 Vietnamese troops landed for the operation. It was the third US helicopter downed in 24 hours. Names of the dead and injured were not released.
The Journal highlights Fire Prevention Week with Middletown efforts to reduce fires, focusing on training children, plus historians Crout and Vorhis review the original Middletown fire department. The piece notes three years of prep for the 21st Ecumenical Council opening in Vatican City and reports Air Force sonic booms troubling residents.
In Canterbury Walter Stonebridge, charged with breaking a shop window, asks the court for six months detention. The magistrate can only sentence up to two months. Stonebridge laments winter and a bed as officials note the window was worth three pounds ten shillings. To justify six months, a five pound window would be required.
The Weather Bureau forecast fair conditions for the third World Series game at Yankee Stadium on Sunday with a chance of rain Monday. Temperatures are expected around 70 degrees for Sundays matchup.
A reader notes President Hoover once returned his salary to the government and claims current authorities are compelling everyone to imitate the act, signaling a broader push for government salary returns and public accountability.
Astronaut Walter M. Schirra Jr. completed a six orbit earth trip and spent a quiet three hours in Honolulu signing autographs for about a thousand civilians and an equal number of military personnel. He arrived aboard USS Kearsarge and left for Houston after a brief welcome and a short speech from a flatbed truck.
A U S court order cleared the way for former Maj. Gen. Edwin A. Walker to be released on a $50,000 bond from Springfield Missouri federal prison while he undergoes psychiatric evaluation to assess competence for his seditious conspiracy and insurrection charges. Witnesses claim he led rioters against deputy U.S. marshals during a violent University of Mississippi campus clash.
UCLA’s Bruins stopped Ohio State at the one yard line on Larry Zeno’s late field goal to halt the top-ranked Buckeyes. Georgia Tech and Army also fell, Mississippi crushed Houston 40-7, LSU returned to the top ten with a 10-7 win over Georgia Tech, Michigan defeated Army 17-7, Southern California and Washington each won, while Ole Miss tied a school TD record in a 76?0 rout of Houston in a moved homecoming game from Oxford to Jackson.
East German police shot a West Berlin tunnel digger and blocked a British officer and two ambulances from aiding him on the East side of the wall. British and American authorities protested and argued for four power rights to free movement in Berlin as the incident raised tensions at Checkpoint Charlie. The man’s condition remained unknown hours later.
Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko met for three hours in Berlin, ending without new ideas or progress on the East-West stalemate. Rusk said it was a general review of the Berlin situation and hinted at another meeting, though none was set.
In Oxford, Deputy Attorney General Katzenbach appeals to respected Ole Miss student leaders to quell jeering as James Meredith remains on campus with a shrinking federal guard. He plans campus talks to explain actions taken and seek student ideas.
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