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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1961
Page
1
State Safety Commissioner Carl Posch announced a sweeping revision to Des Moines towns point system. The plan wipes out all points earned before June 15 and introduces five major changes after that date to clarify penalties and clarify how long points remain on records.
Cape Canaveral authorities completed construction on the Saturn launch facility. NASA officials described the site as pivotal in the space race, with the massive rocket expected to generate about one million pounds of thrust at liftoff and carry astronauts toward the moon in coming years.
Adlai Stevenson departs Caracas after a 48 hour stop in Venezuela's capital en route to Argentina on a presidential mission to Latin America. He expressed satisfaction with the talks and noted Romulo Belancourt's stand against dictatorships. In the same period, Williams Milling Co. in Sac City suffered a major fire destroying over 200000 bushels of grain and causing about 300000 dollars in damages.
Former President Harry S Truman criticizes Northern desegregation protests during a morning walk in New York. He attacks activists from the Your People's Socialist League and affiliates for interfering with others’ business and urges sweeping their own backyards first while noting hypocrisy in New York, Boston, and Chicago.
State officers began a weeklong truck inspection focusing on registrations fuel loads log books and safety. Municipal Court cases show fines from 25 to 380 with one driver paying the top penalty for carrying 77000 pounds gross weight, 4000 above limit, as overloaded trucks filled the municipal lot.
Davenport Arthur Harger, about 27, was seriously injured today when he fell from the fifth floor of the Securities Exchange Building to the alley below. He was washing windows in a conference room when the accident occurred as he worked for Varsity Window Cleaners.
A five nation OAS committee voted to send a special mission to the Dominican Republic to assess whether the nation is moving toward greater freedom or tightening dictatorship after the assassination of dictator Rafael Trujillo. The mission follows a U.S. request and Dominican Foreign Minister Herrera Baez welcomed the move as Washington leads regional efforts. The initiative marks a diplomatic gain for President Kennedy’s administration amid prior regional actions against Trujillo.
Des Moines Gov. Normal Erbe vetoed his seventh bill to complete action on the 357 measures passed by the 1961 Iowa Legislature. The measure would have exempted certain industrial materials from the two percent use tax. The veto made the last act of the session law.
Parris, a 20 year old employee, returned home with wounds after a race riot in Trinity North Carolina. He claimed Negroes wielding belts beat him after an incident at a grill where whites and Negroes clashed. About 40 Negroes and a dozen whites were said to have been involved. No arrests have been made.
Tom Wallace a past president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors and dean of Kentucky writers, died at 56. He edited the Louisville Times and served as former president of the Inter American Press Association and honorary vice president of the organization.
President Kennedy returned to America after a week abroad meeting Khrushchev de Gaulle and Macmillan. He arrived at Andrews Air Force Base at 9 23 a m and was greeted warmly by hundreds. He rode to the White House with Dirksen and Fulbright to give a 6 p m EST televised report to the nation. Congressional leaders expected a firsthand account with mixed optimism and skepticism about East West relations.
A government source says Rafael Trujillo's assassination arose from a broad conspiracy to overthrow the government. Dr Robert Reid Cabral and his family were held four days by four fugitives led by retired Gen Juan Tomas Diaz, who sought help from Latin American allies before Diaz and Antonio de la Maza were killed in Ciudad Trujillo.
Seven more Freedom Riders, two Black and five white, were jailed for breach of peace in Jackson Mississippi after arriving by bus from New Orleans. Authorities insist the charge is not tied to segregation, while plans include additional riders from Louisville and St Louis, with a first flight expected later.
Captain Bernard L. Westfall of Iowa City participates in a 17 day mock space mission in San Antonio with Captain Louis De Gang of Phoenix. The drill tests reactions in a sealed steel tank as they simulate conditions of space travel. Westfall reads Andersonville and War and Peace during idle moments and plans to study elementary Spanish.
Federal sources say Bernard Goldfine may face more jail time if he refuses to disclose details of cash withdrawals and checks totaling over 600000 from Strathmore Woolen and other holdings. The 70 year old textile and real estate magnate could gain freedom if he fully cooperates, with a judge aiming to uncover where the funds went. The case echoes a 1950s congressional spotlight that contributed to Gov Sherman Adams’ White House resignation after Goldfine aided his hotel bills and hospitality while denying wrongdoing.
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