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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1961
Page
4
Partly cloudy afternoons and evenings with scattered thundershowers. Highs 84 to 98, lows 39 in mountains and 58 to 70 elsewhere. Yesterday’s readings ranged from 64 to 100, with no precipitation in the 24 hours ending 7 am today. Sunrise 5 10, sunset 6 58, length of day 13.8 hours.
AP correspondent Carl Hartman profiles Berlin in a four part series, noting isolation, division, and the city as a crossroads between communism and the Western world. He contrasts thriving West Berlin with a lagging East Berlin, highlighting refugees, subsidized prosperity, and cultural gaps. Berlin remains a magnet for those seeking freedom, even as the Soviet sector tightens controls.
The Chaves County Chapter of the American Red Cross sponsors a Junior Life Saving Course for ages 12 to 16 and a Water Safety Rides Course for those over 14 with a current junior or senior life saving certificate. Courses run August 7 to August 17, weekdays 5:30 to 7:30 at Cahoon Pool. The Safety Rides Course parallels the Junior Life Saving Course and is open mainly to youths assisting Water Safety Instructors, though others may enroll.
A Baltimore woman attending a Washington banquet sat beside a Russian Embassy official. Later she found a personalized matchbook in her purse bearing the name Ni kita Khrushchev in red ink on gold.
FBI Dallas chief Curt is Lynam announced the arrest of Evelyn Lohmann a 54 year old secretary and director at Sweetwater Savings and Loan Association in Sweetwater on a false entry charge for 5757. She was arraigned before US Commissioner Gladys Walls and released on 25000 bond. Investigation into the association books continues. Deposits for the institution are insured up to 10000 per depositor.
A compact daily horoscope for each sun sign with guidance on patience, tone, and work. Aries advised to be serene and cooperative. Taurus hoped for a favorable work day but warns about health. Gemini encouraged creativity and fairness. Cancer urged acceptance of advice and faith. Leo should focus on demeanor as much as action. Virgo to start with a prayer and improve with tempo. Libra optimistic about Venus. Scorpio warned against rash changes. Sagittarius cautioned on finances. Capricorn urged caution in trades but openness to new ventures. Aquarius urged emotional control. Pisces empowered to use assets and ignore petty annoyances. You Born Today highlights: idealistic, impulsive, talented, brave, and prone to overconfidence. notes notable names born today.
Walters Oklahoma officials form the 100 Club to target drivers exceeding 100 miles per hour. The group includes two justices of the peace and imposes fines of at least 100 dollars for speeding offenses.
Washington AP reports President Kennedy, in six months, offered concrete plans to raise future federal spending by over 10 billion dollars. The proposal seeks 10.41 billion in added obligational authority for 1962 and beyond, with 6.51 billion in the current fiscal year.
In Chicago on Rainbow Beach amid Fourth consecutive Sunday wade in protests, about 65 African American and white demonstrators gathered, surrounded by two police cordons as roughly 30,000 bathers frequented the three block Lake Michigan shoreline on a hot Sunday afternoon.
Irving Jacobson and Julius Adler plan Go Fight City Hall as their Broadway debut novelty. For two decades they produced works in New Yorks Lower East Side Jewish neighborhood, aiming to gauge audience climate downtown.
Gettysburg AP report: a 1868 cryptic note in an English military journal accuses Edwin M. Stanton, Lincoln’s secretary of war, of aiding the assassination plot. Research chemist Ray Neff and cryptographer Leonard Fousche authenticated the message, which cites three men and a Lincoln death plot blamed on people close to him.
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