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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1962
Page
1
President and First Lady Kennedy reunited in Newport Rhode Island after nearly a month apart. Jacqueline Kennedy held hands with the President while their daughter Caroline joined. The family relaxed at the Auchincloss sea shore home awaiting a saltwater cruise and swim.
About 2,000 military aircraft will participate in Sky Shield III a 52 hour mock war to test North American air defenses. Civilian flights will be grounded except Hawaii and Alaska have shortened shutdowns and emergency flights remain allowed. The exercise starts 2 p m EST and lasts through Labor Day weekend reducing typical Sunday airline activity.
The commander in chief received full honors as a 21 gun salute marked landing of hisplane. Sailors manned the rails of the carrier Lake Champlain and the Newport Naval Base band played Hail To The Chief. Kennedy inspected a Marines honor guard and shook hands with Naval Academy football players led by captain Steve Hoy who presented a signed autographed football. He avoided trying it, despite a fondness for basketball.
Mrs Geral dine Reinhart of Birmingham national MS Mother of the Year 1962 died Friday after an operation. She was 43 and had battled the crippling disease for 13 years.
An informed source says Russia attempted a Venus space shot last Saturday and failed, with three fragments still in a low, slow Earth orbit and a fourth piece reported to have fallen to Earth. NASA confirmed information consistent with the report, as U S and Soviet moves toward Venus loom with Mariner 2 launching from Cape Canaveral for a December flyby.
Two U S Army helicopters began airlifting relief supplies to the flood stricken city of Sunchon in southern Korea after the Nam River broke through a dike, killing at least 150 people and leaving more than 10,000 homeless.
Chicago and North Western Railway shut down by a telegraphers strike affecting 10,600 miles of track. About 1,000 members halted work, delaying freight and commuter service. Federal mediator and negotiators pressed talks over Labor Day weekend as regional supply chains feel growing strain. The strike halts wheat hauls, delays river bank work, and slows road construction and missile site progress near Rapid City and Fort Dodge.
U S sources say Washington is weighing new military assistance to neutralist Cambodia including H34 troop carrying helicopters and M113 amphibious armored personnel carriers. The aim is to bolster Cambodia’s 29,000 strong armed forces for mobility against Viet Cong infiltrations in border areas.
The line suggests a humorous twist on the biblical Adam and Eve theme. It frames Eve as a force that humanity has yet to master, hinting at a playful reflection on control and temptation in a tongue in cheek style.
FBI agents investigated threats of violence tied to desegregation at a Roman Catholic school in Buras Louisiana near the Mississippi River. The school was closed due to fear of violence and limited police protection, with plans to reopen Tuesday. U.S. Attorney General Kennedy ordered an FBI probe after the closure, as officers and pickets watched the scene outside.
Federal Judge J. Robert Elliott refused a temporary injunction against segregation in Albany public facilities as racial tensions spill toward Leesburg. Negro attorneys presented seven witnesses in a reshaped desegregation suit while King planned seeking federal protection amid gunfire on rural Negro homes near Leesburg and renewed church arson concerns. Seventy five people were jailed for a prayer vigil at City Hall, including fourteen white clergymen from northern and midwestern states.
Peter Wallace, 19, son of television figure Mike Wallace, was found dead in a ravine in Greece. He had been missing since Aug 4 after leaving a summer camp to hike, and apparently slipped on a narrow path and fell.
PORTSMOUTH Ohio AP a Scioto County family of four died Friday when their car collided with a tractor trailer on U S 52 about 12 miles west of here Killed were Daniel Baker 60 his wife Esther 41 and their twin daughters Linda and Lana 10 The family lived in Buena Vista on U S 52 near the Seioto Adams county line Authorities said Baker apparently lost control while trying to avoid the oncoming truck on a narrow bridge.
AP report from Cleveland says a car failed to make a turn on a suburban Garfield Heights bridge and struck concrete pil lars, killing Anthony Portale, 31, of Lakewood.
The White House said a U.S. Navy patrol aircraft 15 miles north of Cuba was fired on by vessels believed Cuban. No crew were hurt. Washington warned Castro's regime that U.S. forces will shoot back if attacked again, as Congress broadened calls for retaliation and rumors of Soviet troops in Cuba circulated.
Havana residents felt invasion jitters as Cuban propaganda accused the United States of planning a new push to topple Fidel Castro. The regime ordered partial militia mobilization and reinforced guards, with police stopping Cuban applications to travel to the United States until further notice, while foreigners were exempt.
The American Bar Association termed Arthur Goldberg highly acceptable from professional qualifications for the U.S. Supreme Court. ABA committee chairman Robert W. Meserve of Boston said the rating reflected the view of at least a majority of the committee after an informal assessment at the request of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy prior to the President's announcement.
Tass reports 700 Cuban farmers sailed from Havana to the Soviet Union to study farming for a year. A prior group of 1,000 spent a year there learning cotton and rice growing and farm machinery operation.
In a Labor Day weekend chase at Brooklyn’s Coney Island, James Clark, about 27, a Negro, killed a woman and Patrolman Nicholas A. Panico, 32, then wounded four others before he was shot to death by Patrolman Herbert Nolan. Patrolman Robert Byrnes, 29, remained in critical condition.
Clark visited a boarding house from which he had been expelled. Lora Carter aged 23, operator of the house, was fatally injured. Clark then assaulted four others nearby before reaching the boardwalk and fatally shooting Panico and Byrnes on foot duty. He seized their public safety items and fled.
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