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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1963
Page
1
Navy official dismisses danger to aircraft carriers from Soviet bomber flyovers. He says electronic warfare reveals both sides’ detection limits and insists carriers remain valuable, not doomed, while noting intelligence secrecy and the risk of revealing methods.
President Kennedy travels a fast five day, five state path to view Navy land and air weapon demonstrations at China Lake California and later attends a Los Angeles breakfast for Democratic contributors before heading to Honolulu for a civil rights address. He will meet British PM Macmillan after Ireland and proceed to Italy as White House officials announce. The China Lake stop features 2200 square miles of desert testing with numerous weapon demonstrations, some still in development.
Profumo, British air minister, begged leave to be excused from a final audience with Queen Elizabeth II amid a political crisis. He admitted lying to Parliament over an affair with Christine Keeler, who testified of repeated meetings. Keeler also implicated Soviet contacts, raising fears of potential blackmail in the tense climate surrounding Prime Minister Macmillan’s Conservative government.
In Portsmouth New Hampshire a Navy court of inquiry concluded its eight week investigation into the loss of the nuclear attack submarine The Thresher. A Mystic Massachusetts diver team recovered the body of Melvin Mulder 18 of Mystic from the town reservoir after a drowning incident last Thursday.
Albert Lea Minnesota municipal court filed a first degree murder charge against Robert Eugene Chapman for the shooting death of Rev. Borner Nyjordet. County Attorney said the complaint was procedural to bring Chapman before a grand jury convening today to consider the case.
Rescue crews worked through a collapse in a Baltimore and Ohio tunnel about 20 miles east of Parkersburg as nine workers cleared debris for Arthur Boggs and Harry Nichols who were buried under tons of stone. One man survived and others were trapped after a second cave in halted operations.
Former Gov. Thomas F. Dewey, a two time presidential candidate, endorses Nelson A. Rockefeller as the logical GOP nominee to oppose Kennedy. Dewey greets the Rockefeller couple returning from their honeymoon at a $100 plate fundraiser, extending best wishes.
Vatican City enters nine days of official mourning for Pope John XXIII with his body at St. Peter's Basilica. Requiem Masses daily, a constant line of mourners, and burial near Pope Pius XI mark the solemn period through June 17 before the conclave opens June 19 to elect a successor. President Lyndon B. Johnson to represent the United States. Bishop Vladimir Kotliarov to attend. cardinals continue arriving in Rome.
Eleven year old Joey Renzi, who is blind, met President Kennedy as the helicopter carried the president away. Joey described Kennedy as tall with a strong grip and said the president waved goodbye. Joey wrote a Braille letter to Kennedy asking for the honor of meeting him.
About 4 000 Alabama National Guardsmen will begin a two week summer training period on Sunday. Army officials say the timing is routine and not connected to the crisis over integrating the University of Alabama. Thousands may be in federal uniform when three African American students attempt to enroll at the Tuscaloosa campus and Huntsville branch next week.
Seven Lexington youths, ages 16 to 25, were arrested on open charges after a Thursday night race riot in Lexington North Carolina left one white man dead and a photographer wounded. Police found a home made zip gun and a sawed off rifle during arrests as crowds clashed outside segregated venues.
Iowa Attorney General Evan Hullman told members of the Iowa Crime Council that the state’s new liquor laws, effective July 4, will be enforced mainly by local police with the Liquor Commission maintaining a dedicated enforcement division. The five hour briefing covered searches seizures and sales to minors, plus a briefing on fireworks prohibitions and penalties including a $10 fine or up to 30 days in jail for violations, excluding sparklers and toy snakes.
Air conditioners fans and industrial use pushed Muscatine’s power plant to a new peak demand of 28,000 kilowatts between mid and noon today. The prior peak was 26,600 kilowatts recorded on December 1, 1962.
Weather records fall as Muscatine reports a high of 89 and nights around 74 amid a weeklong heat wave. The Weather Bureau predicts little relief with highs in the 90s and isolated storms possible tonight or Saturday morning across Iowa, where temperatures run 5 to 10 degrees above normal and rainfall of 1 to 2 inches, up to 4 inches in spots.
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