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Newspaper
Oswego Palladium Times
Location
Oswego, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1969
Page
1
Michael A. Bridges receives Oswego High School John Philip Sousa Outstanding Bandsman Award from Leonard Lambert. The annual tribute honors a graduating senior for outstanding musicianship and adds the winner’s name to a library plaque.
AP reports a three story brick building in midtown Kansas City burned out of control for about two hours after 2 am. Twelve people died including eight children and five month old Harry Smith. One resident evicted Saturday, believed linked to the blaze, is being sought. The 30 unit building is owned by Mary Cohen. Elevator shaft at the rear is cited as the fire origin.
216 survivors from the destroyer USS Frank E. Evans were rescued after a predawn collision with the Australian carrier Melbourne during SEATO maneuvers off the Philippines. One American sailor died and 56 were missing. the destroyer’s bow sank, the carrier sustained hull damage, and a court of inquiry was ordered. Cmdr A. S. McLemore and XO survived. Australian Rear Adm. Crabb aboard the Melbourne. Marine weather calm with no fire reported.
President Nixon travels west to outline core American values and address domestic and international issues before a pivotal Midway Island summit with South Vietnam's Nguyen Van Thieu. The trip includes remarks at General Beadle College and Air Force Academy ceremonies, with Rogers and Lodge joining the talks.
Autopsy confirms two 19 year old coeds missing since Ocean City vacation were murdered by stab wounds. Elizabeth Perry of Excelsior Minnesota and Susan Davis of Camp Hill Pennsylvania died from neck and chest injuries. Perry wore clothing. Davis’s body was nude.
New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, amid anti US demonstrations, said his Latin American fact finding trip was a tremendous success for learning what people think. He noted violence at several stops and said sympathy exists for protests while acknowledging U S friction with the region.
An escaped convict surrendered after holding a farmer hostage overnight in a Robeson County farmhouse. Ricardo Resendez, 26, Los Angeles, and fellow escapee James Lee had been sought after a Monday escape that left a guard dead and another abducted. Wilcox, 67, walked out with Resendez and Maj. Sam Garrison after dawn.
AP reports that U S deaths in Vietnam last week were 250 to 300, with 231 South Vietnamese killed and at least 2 437 enemy deaths. Through May 24 total U S battlefield deaths reached 5 009 and the war could top 40 000 by early October if the rate holds.
President Nixon in Madison at General Beadle College denounced campus revolts and city demonstrations as attempts at insurrection. He urged honesty and adherence to democratic process, stressing mutual rights, civil decency, and orderly change amid campus turmoil.
Senate Judiciary Committee votes unanimously to approve President Nixon's nomination of Warren E Burger to become chief justice of the United States.
The Pentagon announced a naval investigative board will determine the exact cause of Evans and Melbourne collision in the Pacific. It declined to speculate on which ship bore fault.
In an interview from Los Angeles County Jail Sirhan B. Sirhan expressed a wish that Robert F. Kennedy were alive and would be president He said he wakes up each morning and repeats the wish that Kennedy were alive to avoid his own confinement.
State Police said Luke D. Patti aged 45 of Seneca Falls is alive after divers stopped a weekend search in the barge canal off Route 31. Patti had been believed drowned when his fishing pole was found on a pier and his car was located nearby.
President Nguyen Van Thieu reiterated opposition to a coalition government with the Viet Cong after returning from visits to South Korea and Nationalist China. He said he would not discuss a coalition when meeting President Nixon at Midway Island.
A search was underway in the Barge Canal at Fairport for the body of 21 year old Mark LeBlanc of Notre Dame des Bois Quebec. He failed to return Monday to the Fairport Hotel where he was living after telling friends he planned to swim in the canal.
The market eased today with the Dow Jones industrial average at noon down 1.16 points to 982.01. At the New York Stock Exchange, more than 200 issues fell compared with advances, continuing the slide from the 1969 high reached three weeks earlier.
Former Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey charged the Nixon administration is unable or unwilling to combat hunger. He called hunger a serious and needless public health emergency and said a new administration promised to eradicate hunger but has accomplished little since January.
Paris AP report says Georges Pompidou appears certain to win France’s presidency after the Communist party calls for a boycott of the June 15 runoff against Alain Poher. Poher trails with 23.13 percent to Pompidou's 44.46 percent. Duclos leads third with 21.08 percent.
IRS released 1968 tax returns showing the foundation headed by Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas reduced links to Las Vegas gambling, switching funds to blue chip stocks. Douglas, who resigned as president of the Parvin Foundation last month, earned 84,765 dollars as its only paid officer over seven years. Returns show the foundation began selling its stake in the Parvin-Dohrmann Co. last November, a firm owning three Las Vegas casinos.
Heavy thunderstorms with high winds hit western New York on Monday, causing power outages, flooding, and at least one death. Mary Bekasinski, 77, of Webster, died of a heart attack while trying to remove wet clothes from a line amid the storm. Rain totals reached 1.26 inches in Rochester as winds toppled trees and limbs across Monroe and Genesee Counties.
Albany Times-Union reports State Tax Commissioner Joseph H. Murphy, in office since 1959, has submitted his resignation to Gov. Rockefeller for personal family reasons. Rockefeller’s office reportedly accepted the resignation with reluctance and would announce it this month. Murphy offered no comment when reached.
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