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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1966
Page
1
Reports indicate a US task force is moving a hydrogen bomb along a steep submarine slope near Palomar Spain to safer depths. The unarmed device, lost in a B52 crash two months earlier, is expected to be recovered by Sunday night with high confidence.
Jerome Patrick Cavanagh the 37 year old Detroit mayor officially enters the Democratic race for US Senator in Michigan challenging six time former governor G Alefinen Williams. The contenders seek the party nomination with a likely November clash against Rep. Robert Griffin for the seat vacated by Patrick V. McNamara. Cavanagh promotes new ideas and argues for logical judgments over old alliances while Williams campaigns after resigning as assistant secretary of state for African affairs. Concluded on page 2 column 8.
Neil Armstrong and David Scott returned to Cape Kennedy after landing at Merritt Island. They spoke of readiness to fly again while debriefings focus on the aborted rendezvous and Agena satellite attitude trouble. The crew will undergo six more days of debriefings before Houston reunions.
A light quip about an acquaintance being someone you know well enough to borrow from but not to lend to. The joke hinges on playful miswording of lending and borrowing boundaries between friends.
The Atomic Energy Commission announced its ninth weapons related nuclear test this year was conducted Friday at the Nevada test site. The yield was intermediate, estimated between 20,000 and 200,000 tons of TNT, according to the AEC.
Communist assault by a dug-in Viet Cong company inflicted moderate Marine casualties as they swept toward the Song Lip Tho River eight miles south of Da Nang. The 9th Marine Regiment faced heavy fire, with 150 mortars and 1,000 artillery rounds used. at least 10 enemy were reported dead. A Marine helicopter crash landed with no crew casualties.
RFK drew large crowds at the University of Mississippi and the University of Alabama. He criticized governors over civil rights, recalled 1962 riots at Ole Miss, and urged progress as the nation faces race tensions. A small Ku Klux Klan protest occurred near Ole Miss while Kennedy spoke in Tuscaloosa. In New York a separate AP report noted a fatal electric shock accident in Saratoga Springs.
In Upstate New York three men from Onondaga and nearby counties died in separate accidents. Nielard Teachout from Richfield Springs was struck by a car along Route 28 during navy leave. Martin Murphy of Marcellus and Stephen Hedmond of Howlett Hill perished when their cars hit trees near Olisco Lake and Olisco Valley. Police said two other people were seriously injured in the Split Rock crash where Alfred Wilmer, 33, was charged with driving while intoxicated, and two passengers in Stephen Redmond’s car, Sheila and Ethel Belonze, sustained injuries.
Five year old Judy Lynn Funseh at University of Michigan Hospital struggles through a five hour heart operation. Doctors revised her condition from good to fragile as pneumonia develops. Her mother describes moments of improvement followed by new fears while Judy endures the ongoing medical fight for a normal life.
Alvin the small sub, built by Wells Oceanographic Institute, completed a high risk mission to locate the missing hydrogen bomb after a collision involving an SZ heavy jet and KC125 tanker. Commissioned in 1964, Alvin crossed oceans to aid naval search, valued at about 575000 dollars, and traces a future fleet of deep sea exploration vehicles.
SANTIAGO Chile AP Princess Margrethe of Henmark said she planned an operation to reduce her height six feet. She told reporters that she would take steps to cut every inch of her height despite being a visiting heir to the Panish throne.
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