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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1963
Page
12
A 1938 radio broadcast of War of the Worlds by Orson Welles caused widespread fear as listeners believed aliens were invading. Reports describe panicked evacuations, mistaken broadcasts, and lasting alarm across the country, with towns like Montgomery and Milwaukee reporting intense reactions.
SEATO top military advisers met in Bangkok in a closed session to review the eight-nation alliance defense plans.
Col. Christophe Soglo, commander of Dahomey’s army, seized power in a bloodless coup after protests demanding the ouster of President Hubert Maga. The provisional government includes Sourou Migan Apithy and Maga as foreign minister, with Maga’s rival Lem Justin Ahomá also mentioned.
On October 30 1963 marks 303 days into the year noting historical milestones including the 1697 treaty of Ryswick ending King William's War the 1768 establishment of the first Methodist chapel in New York City the 1922 rise of Mussolini to premier and the 1941 sinking of the US destroyer Reuben James near Iceland. It also recalls postwar events such as European DP arrivals in 1948 the 1953 Nobel Prize to General George C Marshall the Warren federal obligations remark from ten years prior and the 1963 launch of the first geodetic satellite from Cape Canaveral Florida.
LIADISON Motor Vehicle Department records show that 24 women lost their Wisconsin driver licenses in September for drunken driving. Of a total of 3,300 drunken driving convictions, so far this year.
The report notes that 149 defendants were women while 304 men lost licenses for drunk driving in September. In California the Paths in Muir Woods near San Francisco were repaved where foot traffic damaged tree roots.
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