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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1959
Page
4
A Soviet air force jet set a world altitude record of about 15,300 meters 50,196 feet according to a Moscow radio report. Lt. Col. Nikolai Gorainov led a six man crew aboard a 21 plane with four turbojet engines in the climb.
The Manila Post Office employs fourteen cats to patrol storerooms and curb rats with pay equal to the rats they catch. The cats’ job is to keep mice populations down and support postal operations.
A broadcast reported a jet plane in the jet plane group achieving a 15 300 meter altitude and carrying a 10 000 kilogram payload as a new record.
Two brothers from St Marys Pennsylvania died when their car collided with a tractor trailer on U S 22 six miles west of Zanesville Ohio. John W Herbst 18 and Michael Herbst 24 both serving in Army and Air Force respectively were the victims. State patrol reported the car seemed to go left of center and struck the westbound truck.
In Tiptonville Tennessee Sheriff Fred Moore says landowner D. W. Armstrong, 40, was arrested on murder charges in the shooting of Floyd Eans, 29, a farmhand. Eans died from a back shot, with a preliminary hearing set for Monday and bond set at 1000 dollars.
Dr. M Levitt of the Franklin Institute describes 16 millimeter photos from Thor rocket 202 taken at 1316 miles up. He notes military reconnaissance potential, improved weather forecasting, and new astronomical detail from above the atmosphere.
Public Health Service reports 326 paralytic polio cases last week raising 1959 total to 3,407, 267 more than all of 1958. Through July 31 there were about 150 polio deaths, with California, New York, Washington, Minnesota and North Carolina contributing the bulk of the rise.
In San Diego AP reports Richard Chase was served a subpoena titled People versus Richard G. Chase, but checks show he was simply summoned for jury duty. The error appeared as a typographical terror in the docket.
The Evangelical Mennonite Church in Beavercreek near Kettering lost an appeal to exempt the second floor of its church building from property tax. The State Tax Appeals Board ruled that housing a clergyman on the second floor is not exclusively for public worship, while the first floor and a garage may be exempt as they serve worship purposes.
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