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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1959
Page
6
The article discusses lingering questions about youth work camps including how to separate delinquents, who gets referred, and reducing stigma. Rockefeller proposes a site survey for two camp types, plus more detention facilities, expanded parole and probation, continuing education, and a part-time work program for ages 16 to 18.
In Pinehurst North Carolina the Little Zipster a tiny 450 pound one man helicopter was tested at Pine Needles golf course. Igor Bensen of Bensen Aircraft touts its use of automobile fuel and suburban practicality. Ready made models priced around six thousand nine hundred and fifty nine dollars.
About 100 delegates from 40 states meet in Lawrence Kansas to rework the minimum standards for school buses. The conference, which drafted the standards five years ago and saw broad state adoption, aims to update amid changes in the bus industry and highways.
New York ship movements report no arrivals today as transatlantic passenger and mail ships depart. Sailing include Flandre, Plymouth, Ryndam, and Southampton bound for European ports.
The article reports on a Soviet launch of an automatic interplanetary station aboard a multistage rocket destined for the Moon. Western observers note the mission’s terminology and the quick detection by Britain's Jodrell Bank telescope, which tracked signals for about 20 minutes before they ceased.
In JUUKA Finland a speeding motorboat crashed into a second boat carrying 21 youths to a party. Fifteen youths aboard the second craft drowned. Eight survivors reached shore as fog and high waves hindered rescue on Pielissaerv Lake.
A car struck by a train at a railroad crossing in Lapeer Michigan killed five people and left three injured. The driver Lynn D. Morris 38 of Otisville Michigan failed to see the oncoming train. Morris died along with four of his six children. His wife and two other children were critically injured.
A private plane crash near Duanesburg during an emergency landing left all four occupants with minor injuries. Mr and Mrs James Ruland of Brooklyn their five month old son James Jr and Pilot Louis IG Landauer of Latham crawled from the wreckage moments before the fire consumed the aircraft.
Observatories question Soviet term interplanetary station as NASA tracks a moon vehicle in orbit attempt. Eisenhower briefed while a Cape Canaveral Atlas Able rocket exploded 10 days earlier. July 1959 ads show help wanted volume rising 53 percent over 1958 across 134 cities. seven month total up 44 percent.
The Workmen’s Compensation Board reports 5,000 more industrial accidents in the first eight months of this year than last year. Col S E Senior, board chairman, notes 433,540 incidents so far vs 498,315 in the prior year, a 1.2 percent rise with no given reason.
Former New York governor W Averell Harriman told a Ford Hall Forum audience that capitalism should be abolished. He argued capitalism is linked to colonialism in Asia and warned against communism embodied by leaders like Khrushchev.
Billy Graham closed a large campaign in Surray drawing about 16 000 worshippers. Rain forced sermons to be broadcast from loudspeakers in six college buildings. About 2 850 altar calls were reported as the preacher prepared to start a month in Indianapolis.
About 100000 persons heard evangelist Billy Graham during his weeklong crusade at his alma mater Wheaton College in Wheaton Illinois as reported by AP.
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