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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1960
Page
1
A full color Civil War map details the lineup of states, battles, places and dates tracing the war chronologically. A feature by Dr. Philip Van Doren Stern accompanies the map with historical context. Also note Youth Forum by Mary Flack on friendship.
The U S sky eye satellite is a great success as a weather watcher and promises to be the best way to monitor Russian rocket takeoffs. The piece includes pictures and a story on page 2. Also recommended are family readings in the Week End Dividend sections on pages 14 and 15.
Grand jury hears report on rest home inspections urged after a local county appraisal project regarding a $300000 real estate matter is discussed. Elyria area suspects confess to metal thefts totaling about $20000 across ten months.
A bi racial Greensboro committee accuses local chains F W Woolworth and S H Kress of blocking a plan for integrated lunch counters. Negro students from NC A and T College resume protests after a six week truce ends. CORE calls a nationwide Woolworth boycott. Demonstrations and arrests occur in Texas North Carolina and South Carolina.
Partly cloudy and warmer today with a few scattered showers this afternoon high 64 68. Cloudy with showers ending tonight low near 40. Sunday fair and cooler. Temperature range Friday 32 50 compared with last year 43 78. Precipitation 0.10 inch in 24 hours ending 7 p m Friday. Humidity 7 a m 56 percent, 1 p m 79, 7 p m 86. Lake Erie southeast winds 20 30 knots today, then southwest 10 18 knots tonight. Partly cloudy to cloudy with a chance of widely scattered showers today.
Andrew Trice aged 76 of Warren died at Trumbull Memorial Hospital after a pistol fell from a chair and discharged injuring him Monday. The incident was reported by UPI and the death closes a Warren Week incident at the hospital.
Geauga County declares a state of emergency as mud and impassable rural roads affect about half the county's 40 000 residents. Schools closed, residents walk miles for essentials while 50 repair crews work to fix thaw damaged roads ahead of expected rain and rivers cresting near flood stage.
Washington UPI James R Hoffa railing against Terence F McShane named by Judge Letts to the three man monitor board Hoffa accuses the former FBI agent of bias noting McShane was a government witness in Hoffas wiretap trials Letts also blocked Buff alino another Hoffa pick amid Senate Rackets Committee scrutiny and an appeals bid seeks to overturn the ouster of Smith by right to represent plaintiffs challenging Hoffas election concerns over due process and hearings.
Former President Truman tapped the Nixon prestige issue at Washburn University saying the 1958 South American attack on Vice President Nixon reflected on Nixon personally. He argued the trip showed Nixon’s poor standing abroad and that Americans are treated disrespectfully in South America.
The Soviet Union will buy 425000 tons of Cuban sugar at 3.06 cents a pound under a signed agreement announced Friday night by Cuban Commerce Minister Dr Raul Cepero and Bonilla.
A crowd of over 2,000 Black residents gathered near Nyanga and tried to march on Cape Town after a native infant was struck fatally by a South African naval unit. Police halted the march and warned Egyptians to turn back. The incident coincided with a broader mobilization and an extension of the state of emergency to 114 districts.
Storms bring thunder and heavy snow as flood relief efforts strain. Rescuers battle 57 mph winds while levees sag and towns flood in Nebraska Iowa Illinois. 14 000 homeless, 3500 families. Red Cross counts show wide impact across seven states with new crests feared.
Police opened fire at a crowded New York intersection during an arrest attempt on a narcotics suspect. An 11 year old bystander was fatally shot and grocery clerk Raymond Gannaway was killed. Haywood Bovian, 19, was wounded and fled. Patrolman Francis Carillo was injured when Bovian grabbed his night stick and attacked him. An unidentified suspect escaped amid the chaos.
In Pittsburgh a 61 year old carpenter Otio Pritchard sues Liggett and Myers Tobacco Co for damages alleging that 23 years of Chesterfield smoking caused lung cancer and the removal of a lung in 1953. The federal case opens Monday in a potentially precedent setting action.
A leaking bottle of illegally stored propane exploded Friday in the cellar of a Hackensack union hall. Seven workers, including the victim Erwine Davis, were injured or killed as they waited for the morning meeting of the International Order of Hod Carriers and Laborers.
MIAMI reports Mrs. Genevra McAlister says she gave about $944,474 to Leon Adjmi and sons on promises to buy a town in France to save it from a German named Finkelstein. She describes being duped into loans and a sham marriage to an art dealer as police pursue grand larceny charges against the trio.
Paris reports Khrushchev’s goodwill mission signing coopération accords with France on peaceful atomic energy and scientific research. Khrushchev’s 11 day visit includes secret talks with De Gaulle at Rambouillet and possible invitation to Russia next fall. France plans further tests until rivals scrap stockpiles.
Divers recovered the body of Sterling Raymond Traver, 5, from the bottom of a creek near the Holmes County line in Millersburg. The boy had fallen into the river Monday near the Tuscarawas Holmes county boundary.
A humorous note links Liberty’s index finger size to a local classified ad line. It advertises leatherette baby crib and chifferobe for 50 dollars, cedar chest 15, desk 85, electric blanket 5, with contact numbers for Elyria and Lorain Chronicle Telegram Want Ad taker.
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