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Newspaper
Somerset Daily American
Location
Somerset, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1963
Page
1
Somerset County voters face a hot open primary with ten men and one woman seeking four Republican nominations for county commissioner amid a $1 million annual spend and a courthouse renovation. Democratic candidates include three in the field. unopposed seats include Sheriff Norman F. Walker.
Somerset Atty Norman A Shaulis and John Betters charged Sunday night that Department of Highways employees were told to vote for Isabel Kline and George Morgan in the county commissioner race. They said workers were handed two cards naming the candidates and that elected officials would “work with” the highways department. Betters said he spoke with opponents who agreed to have the facts aired.
Somerset Area High School senior Jeffrey Hay received the Soroptimist Regional Citizenship Award at a Syracuse banquet during the North Atlantic Region spring conference. He was among 43 entrants from five states chosen as winners in their local districts for an essay on My responsibility as a citizen and for strong academics and community involvement.
In Pennsylvania the 35 to 50 percent turnout forecast targets five million eligible voters. Key races include two Superior Court seats with Mahady and Hoffman cross filing on the Republican ticket, and incumbents Ervin and Wright seeking reelection. Philadelphia mayoral contest highlights party rifts around Tate and Phillips.
President Kennedys jet airliner flew nonstop from Washington to Moscow in 8 hours 38 minutes 42 seconds setting international speed records. The Boeing 707 piloted by Col James B Swindal averaged 580 mph over 5004 miles with 15 records. It landed at Sheremetyevo Airport after departing Dulles and will proceed to Cape Canaveral for Gordon Cooper transfer.
An all night search for more victims ended with 27 dead after a migrant worker bus plunged into a 20 foot canal near Belle Glade. Thirteen children, five women and nine men perished, 15 escaped. The crash followed a passing attempt by a truck driven by James Sconyers.
Canada's House faces a week of policy debate with opposition moves likely to target Prime Minister Lester B Pearson's Liberal government. John G. Diefenbaker will open, aiming to introduce test motions while NATO nuclear policy and a spring NATO council meeting frame the discussion.
Federal testimony from 17 FBI agents details an espionage case against Yeoman J C Drummond of Baltimore charged with handing military secrets to Soviet diplomats. The defense begins Monday. Agents describe front-door access to the Soviet UN mission, a $1000 bonus to stay away, grab-bag file handling, and payments totaling about 48200 over four years with trips to Newport and Harlem rendezvous.
Cape Canaveral greeted astronaut Cordon Cooper with cheering crowds and a news conference recounting his 34 hour 20 minute orbital flight aboard Faith 7. He described a nearly casual reentry despite a failed automatic control system and detailed the voyage from liftoff to landing.
The Rev. George L. Detweiler of Somerset spoke at the baccalaureate for Somerset Area High School graduates. He called the era both thrilling and terrifying and offered three suggestions to face the world: develop faith, recognize God’s guiding purpose, and acknowledge God as the God of history.
Public welfare figures show 6 058 residents out of 77 450 on relief in March. Aid to dependent children assists 4 395, old age 602, general 454, disabled 402, and blind pensions 205. Expenditures total 241 226 dollars with 196 475 for relief, 25 134 medical, 19 317 admin, and 300 burials.
In Birmingham Alabama Sheriff Melvin Bailey reports a large dynamite theft precedes night bombings that sparked rioting by Negroes. Authorities tightened security while Kennedy and Wallace discussed racial issues at a TVA ceremony. Investigations target the blasts damaging a minister's home and an integration leader's motel.
A one car crash on the Pennsylvania Turnpike west of the Allegheny Tunnel in Stonycreek Two killed two Aliquippa men. Carnell Bryant aged 28 died at 3 10 p.m. from a fractured skull and other injuries while Andrew Young aged 21 died on arrival at 10 30 a.m. from intracranial hemorrhages and possible neck fracture. The convertible owned by Coyt Young of Aliquippa was eastbound when it struck a medial barrier, ran off the highway and overturned.
A total of 314 farmers are eligible to vote Tuesday on the referendum on marketing quotas for the 1964 wheat crop. Ballots may be cast 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. at ASCS offices in Laurel Hill Village, Meyersdale, Holsapple, and community fire companies and implement stores across Somerset, Lincoln, Black, Addison, Shade, Jenners, Paint, and neighboring townships. If two thirds approve, price support will be available at $2 per bushel for certificated wheat and 80 percent of normal yield.
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