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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1960
Page
1
Farm Beach Florida Kennedy to hold trail blazing news conferences with live TV and radio broadcasts. Press secretary Pierre Salinger said networks welcomed live coverage and that Kennedy will likely speak first on January 21 after taking office with more frequent conferences than in the past eight years.
The Polo County grand jury reported alcohol influenced most crimes in its file and warned that drunkenness is a violent, partial killer. The article notes widespread connections between liquor and criminal acts across the period studied.
Tear gas and fire hoses were used to break up a Ghent demonstration as socialist leaders called a general strike in Antwerp. The eight day action aimed at toppling Premier Gaston Eyskens amid tax and welfare cuts. A mass Brussels rally occurred with police deployed near Parliament and the royal palace as Catholic unions condemned the strike as political.
An armed U.S. Air Force attache plane over Laos was hit by gunfire while observing Soviet air drops to Pathet Lao rebels. No injuries reported aboard the eight‐member crew led by Maj. Armand Riser. The incident, possibly from a Soviet aircraft, occurred near Saigon as the plane returned. A separate note mentions a Moscow hotel ship navigating toward Cuba with tractors and paper cargo.
In New York, delivery boy Robert Guitarri was stabbed to death by Edward Vogt during a Christmas tree delivery dispute. Vogt, 19, admitted stabbing with a nine inch hunting knife after Guitarri refused demands for money. Rovk had prior complaints, including an 1958 molestation charge, mugging, and larceny.
New York Police Commissioner Stephen P. Kennedy was held in contempt for disobeying a court ban on assigning officers to higher ranking duties without proper pay. He was warned he could purge the contempt by complying within ten days. The action highlights ongoing clashes Kennedy has with police union factions and his refusal to permit outside police work during spare time.
Night bombings have become common but daylight blasts mark a new phase. A department store in Havana was damaged with 15 injured, many women and girls among the victims. TNT was blamed as the United States allegedly supplied explosives to anti-Castro elements. A variety store, a main power station, and a plush Havana nightclub also suffered damage as saboteurs struck in multiple locations. A Camaguey-Havana passenger train collided elsewhere, injuring over 60, with officials blaming counterrevolutionaries.
Betty James, 26, hospital nurse's aide and mother of three, died from injuries after a street assault on Tuesday in midtown by a 25-year-old Black man. Another earlier attack in the same area involved a Michigan Bell clerk and an ice pick. Police report no motive yet and the earlier robbery seemed not attempted. Tito to receive $200 million credit from US and seven Western nations to reform Yugoslavia currency and trade.
Jerusalem reports a rift within Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion's cabinet as Lavon faces exoneration claims. Foreign Minister Golda Meir reportedly walked out in protest, drawing up a resignation letter later discouraged by Levi Eshkol. Details remain censored amid security concerns.
Eugene Zuckert named Secretary of the Air Force and John Connally chosen for Secretary of the Navy as Archibald Cox to serve as solicitor. The New York Times notes the Senate Democrats likely retain policy control with Magnusen and Reed slated for vacancies and Mansfield and Humphrey to lead the party.
Dr. Charles E. Osgood of the University of Illinois argues in New York that the cold war stems from human nature and the belief that stronger defenses guarantee safety. He warns nations default to building bigger weapons, hindering alternative paths, and suggests a shift to new ideas could offer a permanent solution.
Announcement confirms Zuckert, 49, to head Navy after Kennedy victory. Connally, 43, chosen as Navy secretary contender. both Democrats. Kennedy to meet with Sen. Fulbright at Atlantic shore home, amid reshuffle of wartime veterans and Air Force officials. Zuckert formerly assistant secretary of the Air Force and Atomic Energy Commission member. Connally Texas lawyer and Navy veteran long allied with Johnson.
New York City Fire Commissioner Edward Cavanagh Jr. condemned the Constellation’s sloppy condition and said he would have halted work on a civilian project. Navy officers at a court of inquiry scrutinized safety procedures after the December 19 blaze at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, which caused about 575 million dollars in damage and killed 49. The remarks followed criticism of Navy safety rules and procedures by city and federal officials.
President elect John F Kennedy considers higher expense money to attract wealthy ambassadors. He discussed the issue with Rep. Joan Rooney, who notes such stipends as booze allowances and notes Joseph Kennedy funded ambassadorial costs for Britain. Officials worry career diplomats cannot be posted to major capitals without such funds.
The Agriculture Department reports an average American ate about 1498 pounds of food annually broken into 444 pounds of dairy products excluding butter 401 pounds of fruits and vegetables 108 pounds of potatoes 178 pounds of meat fish and poultry 6 pounds of flour and cereal 8 pounds of sugar and syrup 7 pounds of butter fats and oils 41 pounds of eggs and 9 pounds of coffee tea and cocoa.
Granville Johnson, 43, a former mental patient, surrendered to 12 state troopers after wounding two officers in a gun battle Tuesday. He was pushed from a rugged mountainside near his log home where he and his wife and 10 children lived.
In Valtanissea Sicily four Capuchin monks and four others plus a gardener were charged with operating an extortion murder ring based at a monastery. The gardener died in an apparent self harm after arrests. The group allegedly threatened and harmed targets, including a wealthy farmer killed in 1958 after demands for money were ignored.
Juan Carlos and Luis Amadeo Cardoso, longtime Peron era police officers, reportedly hold a time in exile record after five years and nearly five months in the Paraguayan Embassy basement in Buenos Aires. They reportedly kept guards outside, received $50.8 monthly from the embassy, and were allowed visitors including relatives and a priest.
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