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Newspaper
Sarasota News
Location
Sarasota, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1961
Page
1
The Sarasota Bradenton Airport Authority unanimously voted down selling 110 acres of airport land for a four year college site. The FAA and county officials argued the land should generate revenue for airport operations, not support a college.
Washington report on the National Conference of Weights and Measures warning consumers about deceptive packaging. Short weight, oversized containers, and misleading adjectives are cited as common tricks. UPI notes federal and state laws exist but enforcement is difficult amid large shipments. Senate hearings led by Sen. Hart will review potential new protections.
A large scale maritime strike spreads from port to port threatening to halt most of the 990 ship merchant fleet. Some 80,000 officers and crew members from Fast, West and Gulf Coast ports walk off, with picket lines at New York piers and other ports.
In La Paz a heavy security guard surrounded Ambassador Adlai Stevenson as Communist-led rioting left at least four dead and nine wounded. Stevenson, not the target, hurried to Lima after expressing regrets to President Victor Paz Estenssoro during talks as disorders raged.
A cold front nears north Florida bringing showers and unsettled weather while temperatures barely dip. South Florida mostly dry with scattered showers. Orlando reports the heaviest rain. Partly cloudy through Saturday with coastal morning showers and inland afternoon showers. highs 87 to 82, lows 70 to 75. Winds SW 8 to 15 mph. Also ad insert for Cavalcade of Homes and Pageant of Homes with price ranges and FHA down payments.
Ten Negro and white freedom riders, barred from the Tallahassee airport white restaurant by closed doors, vowed to resume their sit-in today and continue until served. Clergy volunteers from the North, guarded by police, stayed in the terminal for nine hours Thursday and last night with no incident while awaiting the restaurant’s reopening.
Grass and crops sear in the Far West while unseasonable cold grips the eastern two thirds. Thunderstorms bring isolated heavy rains in New Mexico and Arizona as central Texas to eastern Dixie see rains. Temperatures top 100 west of the Rockies with 106 in Sacramento and 105 in Newhall and Tucson. An all time cold pocket east of Lakes Erie and Ontario drops to 40 in Albany and 43 in Buffalo. Hundreds of thousands of poultry perish from the heat.
A five day exhibit for outdoor enthusiasts opens Tuesday June 20 at Bayshore Gardens Shopping Center and runs through Saturday June 24. Sponsored by THE NEWS the event features camping boating fishing hunting outdoor cooking gear and other vacation season articles. The items are displayed in the open air plaza and for sale in stores in the plaza.
President Kennedy planned a major speech on foreign aid despite a back injury that put him on crutches. He aimed to address congressional opposition to the $4.8 billion aid program at a shoreham hotel luncheon with the National Conference of International Economic and Social Development, a coalition of business labor and farm groups.
Tallahassee Governor Farris Bryant signed a $200 across the board teacher pay raise into law. A companion bill for a $400 merit pay raise for superior teachers remains pending. He also approved $550 per teacher unit from state sales tax funds to help meet local school expenses, totaling $50.3 million, up $7.7 million from the current biennium. Bryant still must act on the merit pay measure.
A House subcommittee on un American activities screens thousands of graduate student government fellowships after questioning the National Science Foundation about a $3800 award to a student once convicted for contempt over Communist questions. A subcommittee source says you look for more rotten apples.
The Plaza Restaurant marks 32 years serving Sarasota residents with enduring dining. Founder and staff celebrate continued community support as the eatery remains a local staple in the city.
Washington reports show the Tractors-for-Freedom Committee received a secret report from four technicians who negotiated with Fidel Castro over swapping men for machines. Castro seeks 28 million dollars in tractors for 1,167 Cuban rebels from the April 17 invasion, with a fuller written report to follow and no decision yet.
Khrushchev in a national TV address says a peace settlement in Europe must occur this year and hints Moscow would sign an East German treaty if West rejects a united German peace. Western observers believe the Kremlin would back off if negotiations proceed, as Washington-Soviet talks on disarmament loom after the Vienna summit.
President Kennedy weighed two Berlin options as Khrushchev pressed for a crisis over the German issue. U S officials said the Soviet leader seeks to escalate pressure in months to come while rejecting changes to the Communist position.
An 18 month old boy named Peter Lollar with osteogenesis imperfecta is flown from Little Rock to Shriners Hospital in Chicago for examination to see if a rodding operation, inserting steel rods into bones, can prevent fractures. His mother Lani and father Oris accompanied him after referral by their physician.
Gov. Farris Bryant may veto a 1961 Legislature inventory tax cut. Merchants led by Sen. John Sutton urge against a veto arguing it would raise county revenue, while Bryant says surveys show the bill would reduce tax collection in many counties by millions yearly.
Two homemade bombs exploded in downtown Washington with a caller claiming eight more bombs planted to protest integration. The first blast hit the Veterans Administration building near the White House at 11 pm. a second shattered a telephone booth at 15th and Massachusetts at 8:30 am. No injuries reported. Police and FBI warned of possible additional devices as they searched city blocks. The caller, speaking with a southern accent, said he opposed integration and targeted the capital.
Attorneys for the city of Jacksonville plan to move to dismiss a federal suit challenging last year’s sale of municipal golf courses to private owners. The suit, filed by four Negro golfers, claims the sale was a subterfuge to avoid integration under a federal court order.
Bill James Hargis' Communist America serial will skip today’s editions to publish entire Chapter 8 in the weekend edition. Chapter 3 appears then and Chapter 9 starts Monday’s edition.
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