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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1963
Page
1
Miners in Lorraine defied Charles de Gaulle by not reporting to work after a presidential draft order. About 96 percent of Lorraine basin miners stayed out, with riot police present and unions pledging broader action across France as they demand an 11 percent wage increase and shorter hours.
Sherwood Eddy, 92, longtime world leader of the YMCA and former Asia secretary, died today in Jacksonville. A Leavenworth, Kansas native, he studied theology and began missionary work in India in 1896. In 1921 he founded the American Seminar, YMCA sponsored international education project.
Four Birmingham airmen who died after the 1961 Bay of Pigs raid are said to have left a trust fund. The widows in Birmingham and Los Angeles receive $225 every two weeks from Bankers Trust Co. of New York, until they remarry. The fund, arranged by an employer and linked to a Central American anti Castro group, was intended for the men’s deaths and kept secret. The widows deny their husbands sought fortune and insist the payments do not reflect their motives.
Gen Nicolas Lindley Lopez, new chief of Peru's ruling military junta, says the bloodless ouster of Gen Ricardo Perez Godoy will not affect the democratic elections set for June 9. The civilian winner will replace the military bosses, and Peru's six million people on the Pacific coast took the change calmly.
A bus carrying about nine people, most likely nurses, plunged from Welfare Island into the East River and vanished. Two bodies recovered, six others presumed dead, one survivor. Coast Guard and city crews search with navy skin divers being requested as cold currents threaten recovery efforts.
A preliminary AP report from Palestine Texas notes water vapor and carbon dioxide were detected on Mars by the Stratosphere II balloon telescope but life on the planet would be marginal at best. The study says infrared tracings show the spectrum of Mars with bands attributable to water vapor and carbon dioxide, though exact amounts require further analysis.
Mrs. Clifton Daniel, daughter of former President Harry S. Truman, has given birth to her third child, a boy like her two other children.
A Washington dispatch reports widespread letters and vox pop responses to Kennedy tax reform proposals. Readers cite high taxes and deficits while weighing personal impacts on thrift, enterprise, and family needs. many express mixed views or outright opposition.
Elwood Jacobsen of Foreston Minnesota and Gaspar Alfonso Mikil a Filipino missionary were fatally shot along with a Vietnamese soldier when Viet Cong guerrillas halted a jeep convoy 70 miles northeast of Saigon. The killings occurred as government troops moved in to free the trapped group.
Irving S. Olds, 76, longtime board chairman of U.S. Steel Corp., died at his Manhattan home after a long illness. A Yale and Harvard Law alumnus, he had retired in 1952 after 12 years as chairman and previously served as secretary to Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in 1910-11.
Window Rock Ariz March 4 a unique election opened as the Navajo Indians sovereign nation by treaty elected a tribal chairman and the 76 member tribal council their highest governing body an estimated 25000 Navajos about 80 percent of registered were expected to vote
In Ouray Colorado a Sunday avalanche swept a road near Red Mountain Pass burying Rev. Marvin Hudson and his two daughters Amelia and Pauline. Rescuers faced more slides while searching the snow for the trio. The minister was en route to conduct services near Silverton.
Governor George Romney of Michigan stated that he will not become a candidate for the 1964 Republican presidential nomination. The announcement came in Washington as Romney ruled out a run.
In Topeka Kansas Sgt Henry F Haefeker at Forbes Air Force Base called the sheriff saying everybody in the house is dead. An autopsy found no traumatic injury and investigators assume natural causes. The ill father was hospitalized in fair condition and had been on sick leave. The two boys aged six and five were left alone for days before the discovery.
The Supreme Court unanimously upheld a lower court ruling that railroads may implement sweeping changes to working rules. It dismissed union challenges to featherbedding accusations and affirmed that both sides must pursue bargaining and, if needed, an emergency board, while a 72 hour armistice with the White House delays a nationwide strike. Talks resume March 13 in Chicago as negotiations restart to trim 13 000 firemen and later 27 000 more locomotive firemen amid modern diesel needs.
Showers and thunderstorms continue mild tonight in Southern Illinois. Skies stay cloudy and colder Tuesday with showers ending by midday. Tonight’s low near 40s with little temperature rise Tuesday. Weather details on map page 12.
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