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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1959
Page
2
A U S Air Force jet abandoned by its pilot crashed into a schoolhouse in a crowded Okinawa housing area. Ten Okinawans reportedly died and 76 were injured as burning wreckage engulfed 30 houses. Police later put the death toll at 16 with about 100 injured, including six children.
Four children were injured in a jet crash on Ishikawa island near Naha. Capt. John G. Schmitt parachuted to safety after engine trouble and fire forced ejection. Officials set up shelters for 130 homeless nearby as political fallout drew in Lt. Gen. Burns. Socialists pressed for compensation from the United States over risks to Okinawa residents.
AP report from GEORGE TOWN says 38 year old T. C Campbell of Georgetown drowned yesterday. Fellow fisherman Lonnie Thomas recovered the body from the Blue Hole Dam on the South San Gabriel River.
In 96 degree heat in New York City hydrants sparked clashes as firemen shut them off after youths had opened them. In the Bronx a gasoline bottle was thrown from a roof into a group on a stoop, injuring a 72 year old woman and others. In Manhattan a mob of about 25 youths attacked two firemen trying to close a hydrant, one struck with a garbage pail and one stabbed in the left arm.
Deputies seized three men and a vehicle packed with arms during a dawn raid near North Perry airport in HOLLYWOOd Florida. The trio includes Carlos Manuela Castro, former editor of La Libertad in Santiago Cuba, Jose Carbonel Perejo, and Robert I Daunt the Miami based pilot. Police recovered two .50 caliber machineguns four carbines nineteen army rifles a .45 pistol and many rounds of ammunition as officers responded to reports of a suspicious landing shortly after 2 30 a m.
The second captive born rhinoceros heads to Milwaukee to meet the first captive rhinoceros born there. Mohinija, a seductive Indian rhino from Whipsnade Zoo, was sold for an undisclosed price and will mate with Jimothi, a Basel native.
A Houston mother left two toddlers playing in the bathtub and returned to find 9 month old Michael Dwayne Hinsley drowned. The 3 year old brother Larry Wayne Hinsley apparently turned on the water. Artificial respiration failed to save the child. The father, a 21 year old truck driver, was away in Arizona.
The Soviet Union opens a 40 day public exhibit in New York as Eisenhower and First Deputy Premier Kozlov attend the ceremony. Nixon tours the fair and says it won’t resolve bilateral differences but may ease misunderstandings. Visitors pay $1 adults, 50 cents children, with Kozlov visiting Toy Corp and Camden shipyards before Moscow talks.
MARLIN AP reports James Robert Jones 71 of Clifton died from injuries after a pickup struck a power pole on Highway 6 just north of Bremond last night. The accident occurred in Bre mond county and the victim succumbed today. Authorities investigated the scene andTraffic conditions were disrupted briefly.
Mrs Earl Long returns to Louisiana and files an answer to Governor Longs separation suit. Judge orders 10 day restraint on disposing community property and requires Long to show cause by July 6. Long blames wife for hospitalizations amid his nervous breakdown and heart trouble.
Washington AP reports the 1959 fiscal year ends with the largest peacetime budget deficit on record. Eisenhower forecasts $12.9 billion deficit, possibly lower. Revenues may exceed $68 billion. 1960 outlook hopes for a surplus if growth continues. Congress wary of higher taxes and spending.
Washington AP reports officials study how to modify security checks for defense contract workers after a Supreme Court ruling found the program unauthorized. The plan affects about three million civilian plant workers, aiming to protect secrets while excluding government and non-sensitive plant workers. The court criticized the lack of opportunity to clear accused workers, part of its nine month term ending Monday.
Washington AP report says Lewis L. Strauss formally resigns as secretary of commerce. The resignation is effective at close of business today after a Senate rejection of his cabinet confirmation. The White House disclosed the move and Italy’s Prime Minister Segnioff planned a visit to the United States, prompted by letters between Strauss and President Eisenhower.
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer flew into West Berlin ignoring Communist threats. He arrived for a meeting of the West German Electoral College which will choose a successor to President Theodor Heuss. Earlier East German threats to blockade the city had been issued but not repeated.
In Austin the compromise committee failed to agree on a tax program forcing a last chance debate in the Texas House to piece together a bill. Speaker Waggoner Carr vowed a final House vote on Rep. Frates Seeligson’s proposal, hoping to avert a third special session. The plan centers on a luxury tax and other levies to raise about 183 million dollars if enacted as drafted.
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