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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1962
Page
1
Gen Ne Win seized power in a pre-dawn coup in Burma. Troops arrested Premier U Nu and cabinet, killing at least one, as parliament buildings were sealed and protests urged. Ne Win said action was to halt a deteriorating political economy and urged support while pledging order.
Washington columnist describes attempting an experimental obstacle course designed for youths under the President's Council on Youth Fitness pilot program. He notes his instructor, weighs 242 pounds, struggles to scale a wall, and jokes about returning after completion for a real workout. He also mentions quitting cigars for stronger coronas to test his own fitness.
Fair and cold in Virginia with increasing clouds in the south. Highs in the 30s, near 40 in the extreme southwest. Tonight and Saturday cloudy with a chance of rain in the south. Lows 30s south and 20s north. Warmer Saturday. Beckley highs 26, low 18. Oak Hill high 27, low 15. Greenbrier river 2 ft above normal, Lake 39 ft above normal with three gates open. New river gauge 3.6 ft.
The premature foundling Astra died at 2 a.m. in Beckley Hospital after a two day battle with respiratory ailment. Found on a Child Care Center doorstep February 21 she was named Astra and loved by 22 resident children. Funeral services will be graveside at Sunset Memorial Park Saturday at 11 a.m. with Rev. Virgil Cook presiding.
President Kennedy will tell the nation from the White House at 7 p.m. EST that the United States must resume atmospheric nuclear tests. He cites the Soviet test series last fall and lack of an effective test, following Russia's 34 month moratorium breach.
Bonn orders Ambassador Hans Kroll back from Moscow to Bonn to clarify a dispute over his plan for a German solution contradicting official policy. Axel Springer newspapers demand Kroll be dismissed. Kroll counters by seeking a criminal slander suit from the foreign ministry.
In Jamestown Rhode Island a Navy lieutenant Ralph Motika 41 was killed by his 17 year old son after he punched Motika's wife during a family argument. The mother and son with a family friend attempted to dispose of the body to stage a robbery. Other suspects include Mrs Dorothy Motika 36 and Mrs Betty Fontika 44 both of Norfolk Virginia. The body was found in the rear of Motika's station wagon on a remote road and the family later admitted driving the body to the site.
President Kennedy gains authority to lift the national debt limit to a peacetime high of 300 billion dollars after Congress granted the power. The article notes political shakeups in California and NATO travel restrictions affecting East German groups. It also mentions Kennedy's gift of a Texas history volume and Mrs Kennedy's travel plans.
A small British nuclear device was detonated underground in Nevada to test a new trigger mechanism and safety methods for handling atomic weapons. It marked the first foreign-made atomic bomb ever exploded on U.S. soil.
Former Vice President Richard M. Nixon told the California Republican Assembly that Republicans should leave the John Birch Society or its founder Robert Welch should quit. He warned Welch would not quit and urged a strong CRA resolution condemning him, criticizing remarks about Eisenhower as aiding communism.
French army units stormed Algiers Casbah sparking a half hour gun battle with a Moslem crowd. Two Moslems were killed and eight wounded. The Casbah battle pushed Algeria's daily toll to at least 21 killed and 27 wounded, with the year's total reaching 1,295 killed and 2,174 wounded.
New York flight 1 bound for Los Angeles plunged into Jamaica Bay just two minutes after takeoff from Idlewild, killing 95 aboard. Eight CAB teams probe the事故, the first fatal 707 crash in scheduled U.S. service since 1958, under floodlight scenes through the night.
New York upi reports two of the 95 victims of the American Airlines Astrojet crash were former Charleston residents. Dr. George T. Felbeck, 65, and his wife Helen died in the disaster. Felbeck had retired just yesterday as vice president of Union Carbide Olefins Co. He joined Carbide in the 1930s at the South Charleston plant and kept an apartment in Charleston for frequent visits.
Bodies recovered from the Astrojet crash include W Alton Jones former Cities Service and Richfield Oil executive en route to join Eisenhower on a fishing trip. Also killed was Admiral Richard L Conolly former Long Island University president famed for inshore bombardments. Arnold S Kirkeby president of Kirkeby among the victims.
Springfield Mass. UPI Valerie Hamilton, blind since age 13, loses her husband James D. Hamilton in the New York jet crash that killed 95. The 28 year old mother of two, who attended the University of Illinois, relies on her own strength and her late husband as her eyes. Neighbors praise her independence and resilience as she handles all housework and caring for children Robin and Nehl without help.
Lois A. Kelly, 23, a stewardess aboard the ill fated American Airlines Astrojet, was misidentified as the crash victim Lois Kelly. The real victim was a Havertown native and nurse from California.
Astronaut John Glenn, greeted by diplomats at the United Nations, met with Thant and Bunche in a private lounge to discuss outer space diplomacy. He later received awards at Waldorf Towers including a Bible and a gold trumpet, then played a few notes as a veteran trumpeter.
New York honors astronaut John Glenn with the largest ticker tape parade in Canyon of Heroes history. Sanitation Department proclaims him the winner and new champion, while admiration extends to Lindbergh for a different era as deputy police inspector Adrian Donahue recalls crowds going wild for Lindy.
East German authorities barred Maj. Gen. Albert Watson II from entering East Berlin on Soviet orders. The ban, requested by Soviet commandant Col. Solovyev, followed an American ban on Solovyev in West Berlin. Tensions rose after Soviet harassment of Western flights and prior entry controls on American aides traveling in East Berlin.
Washington reports three experimental high altitude firings from Wallops Island Virginia as part of a test series by NASA. Spokesman said today’s shots, along with six Thursday experiments, create a Fourth of July atmosphere at the launch site. Shots target weather wind readings and grenade tests study sound wave behavior in thin air.
A U2 reconnaissance aircraft vanished during a night training flight from Edwards Air Force Base in California. One crew member was aboard the two-seat plane, which departed on a local round robin flight and was reported missing after failing to return home around 10 15 p.m. PST following about three hours in the air.
A new drug alpha methyl DOPA lowered blood pressure in 31 of 33 severe cases and showed few side effects. Doctors Cannon Whitlock Angers Laragh from New York City reported in JAMA that the medication, acting on an adrenal hormone pathway, also helped patients with kidney damage and proved potent for emergency treatment of acute hypertensive episodes, including brain involvement.
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