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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1963
Page
1
A week from today area viewers will witness a rare solar eclipse and are urged to learn safety steps. The notice highlights a mechanical viewing method, local peak time, and technical details found on page 17.
Columnist Jenkin Lloyd Jones argues Russia mirrors Pavlov in psychology by shaping Western expectations for disarmament. The note mentions North Ridgeville charter rules on mailed zoning notices and a separate item about railroad firemen accused of featherbedding as a safety measure.
A series of grass fires kept Elyria firemen busy yesterday with a major blaze burning about 1000 acres along West River Road near Griswold Road. A 10 44 a m alarm, multiple engines, and later help were needed as winds and dry vegetation spread the fire threatening homes and businesses. Fire officials could not determine a cause.
Moscow reports show Russian and Red Chinese negotiators debating ideology with no formal break likely. A Peking declaration labels differences grave but solvable, while observers expect a neutral communique and another meeting possibly in Peking.
A high ranking Soviet spy who defected 18 months ago has given the CIA the names of many if not all Russian agents in the West and revealed methods used by Communist agents. The defector plans a new British identity to avoid murder by Russian agents and will soon emerge with a new background.
In Rosman North Carolina reports say locals accused a teen summer camp of promoting free love and nudity. Officials say a council visited the site to keep campers away from Rosman and confusion over a camp named Summerlane with alleged Negroes arose.
About 400 mountaineers rioted after a camp incident causing a gym to burn and a lake to be set afire. Gunfire shattered a bus window and one man was stabbed but not seriously injured. No arrests were reported as counselors protected 55 children. The group headed toward Midvale in New Jersey.
The 60 ton crane owned by Homer Merritt Construction Co. lay 12 days 38 feet under water. It was retrieved at 5 p m amid crowds and boats. Police report the barge tipped causing the mishap and that the unit is mud encrusted and heavily damaged awaiting overhaul.
President Kennedy named Howard R. Cottam as U S ambassador to Kuwait to replace Parker T Hart who will keep his post as ambassador to Saudi Arabia and continue other duties in the region.
In SOUTH AMHERST Mayor Jack E. Walker narrowly avoided serious harm when a falling tree limb tangled a rope around his leg. He was hoisted briefly and treated by a local doctor, then returned to duties with a sore leg and caution to rest it for several days.
Pittsburgh UPI reports search teams prepared for a final probe into a 25 year old abandoned soft coal mine seeking teens Danny O Kain 13 Billy Burke 13 of Baldwin Township and Robert Abbott 14 of Pittsburgh. Heavy fans to remove dangerous air delayed the start. State Mines Inspector Samuel Curtis said the focus would be on areas not covered in prior penetrations.
Dry Friday with highs around 84 to 90 degrees and mild tonight cooling to the low 60s. Sunday looks partly cloudy and humid with scattered thunder showers and not as warm, followed by similar temperatures the next day.
Washington sources report the six man fact finding panel adjourned as rail unions and management offered no new talks. With a July 29 strike deadline looming officials warned congressional action may be needed to avert a crippling walkout.
Alex Shondor Birns was released on a 50000 dollar bond while authorities recheck his alibi for the night Mervin Gold was killed. Gold, a convicted financial manipulator, was found beaten strangled and shot in his car trunk near Solon after leaving Kandrac's Steak House with a young woman.
The White House told American newsmen in Saigon that President Kennedy hopes there will be no repeat of a recent incident in which a South Vietnamese policeman mishandled reporters during a Buddhist service. The U S Embassy has expressed the full measure of our concern to President Ngo Dinh Diem's government, Press Secretary Pierre Salinger said Friday.
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