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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1962
Page
1
Partly cloudy skies with little change in conditions. Sunny periods expected, with a brighter afternoon and a high around 75. Roswell region forecast notes a mild day with light winds and no precipitation anticipated.
President Kennedy urges U S Soviet cooperation on weather satellites radio tracking stations and complementary Earth mapping satellites plus intercontinental communications space medicine and manned flight. He sends a March 7 letter to Premier Khrushchev proposing UN visits and an Outer Space Committee meeting in New York to work out details.
Postal inspectors pursued a baffling theft in New England as mail pouches carrying about 900000 dollars for Boston's Federal Reserve were stolen and later found near New Haven Union Station. Only 41000 remained missing. unrecovered funds belonged to First National Bank of Hazardville, a Hartford suburb.
The State Board of Educational Finance approved expansion at the New Mexico Military Institute to support about 1,400 cadets. Plans include a 325 cadet barracks addition, a mess hall expansion, and a 1.7 million dollar project, with out-of-state enrollment increases and enhanced public relations.
The European Secret Army Organization set up a National Committee of French Resistance in Algiers and urged ex-General Salan to lead the liberation of Algerian territory amid terrorism and paralysis. In Oran, saboteur squads checked employee IDs at gas and electric offices, stamping their papers with the group’s symbol.
A Walker Air Force Base airman died in a car crash on Main Street when the vehicle missed a curve and struck a utility pole guy wire, then toppled. Passenger Miguel A Hernandez was hospitalized for observation. the incident marked the second death in Chaves County this year and the sixth in New Mexico. Ballard Funeral Home handled local arrangements as the body was sent home for services. General Lemnitzer departed Washington for a trip to South Vietnam.
Honolulu report says aged Syng man Rhee delayed his return home due to Korean government objections. His adopted son Rhee In Soo, 90, plans to fly to Korea to explain his father health to officials and seek permission for his return. Rhee, who will be 76 on March 2, had said he would leave Saturday for Seoul and apologized for errors of his regime.
A thunderous blast ripped through a Spokane pizza parlor and an adjoining cafe and supermarket Saturday night. Three people were feared dead and at least a score injured, police said. The blast caused extensive damage to the buildings and surrounding area.
Mrs Wayne Simpson was electrocuted when a sun lamp fell into her bathtub at their farm home near Peshastin Washington The lamp's fall into water left her stiff and unable to move with burning and crackling sounds as her husband returned home and found her still alive An electrician suggested her body’s grounding in the tub may have saved her life
In Guatemala City, the army imposed martial law amid a student led revolt against President Miguel Ydigoras. Clashes killed about 20 with at least 590 wounded. Troops patrolled streets, several leftist leaders were arrested, and a curfew from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. kept essential services moving.
The Coast Guard rescued nine Navy crewmen after a P2V Neptune bomber forced landed in the Gulf of Mexico ten miles south of Grand Isle. Two Coast Guard helicopters reached the scene about fifteen minutes after the pilot reported the emergency. The bomber had been training at Keemone Tenn, New Orleans.
Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara states U S nuclear strike power is vast enough to absorb a surprise attack, defeat Russia, and still deter third powers. He says by end of 1962 the United States can handle non nuclear crises on two fronts without mobilization and comments on the B70 bomber role and current technological limits. Southeast Asia remains pivotal to Pacific security and calls for economic reforms alongside military force.
The report shows New Mexico road tolls totaling five for the current year up to this date, identical to the five tolls recorded at the same point last year.
Donald Martin nine years old won five dollars for the best news tip last week. He reported finding a skull near Eagle Creek outside Ruidoso. The skull has been sent to the FBI for tests to determine if it belongs to a murder victim whose torso was found floating in a Rio Grande suit case in 1959, with body parts found near Bent in Otero County.
Manila report says 107 aboard the chartered airliner disappeared over the western Pacific with only a few Americans believed alive. U.S. rescue forces expanded a search, tracing five objects spotted by a search plane near Guam as destroyer Brister headed toward the scene and authorities considered a ditching likely.
The Army will form two new Hawk anti-aircraft missile battalions at Fort Bliss Texas this summer each battalion numbering 526 officers and men.
Israel and Syria halted their front line bombardment after a UN ceasefire. Israeli and Syrian forces exchanged artillery and air strikes along the Sea of Galilee with both sides claiming victory and casualties reported on both sides. Israel reported fishermen and police boats fired on, while Syria claimed heavy losses on Israeli positions and tanks were involved in the counterattack.
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