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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1959
Page
12
Attorneys including Lois Lanker of Columbus pressed for evidence of rehabilitation before release. They alleged police entanglement, witness tampering, and a manipulated court record amid Byomin’s lengthy, halted execution appeals.
Survivors of Hurricane Audrey victims sue the U.S. Weather Bureau for nearly 10 million dollars, alleging failure to warn residents of Cameron and other Gulf Coast areas in time. About 500 people died in the June 2, 1957 storm.
The Chronicle Telegram publishes annual subscription prices: 7 cents per single copy. Mail rates include Lorain and adjoining counties 15 dollars, elsewhere in Ohio 17 dollars, outside Ohio 18 dollars per year in advance.
Torrential rains after a tornado left almost 1 000 homeless in Miami. The downpour reached over seven inches in 16 hours and nearly one and a half inches in a three hour span. More than 100 injured, three homes demolished, and damage estimated at several million dollars. The storm system expanded along Florida’s west coast with high tides eroding Gulf beaches and winds near hurricane force offshore.
Hollywood mourns Ethel Barrymore 79 last of America's theater royalty dies in sleep at Beverly Hills home from heart ailment after year bedridden. Services planned likely Roman Catholic with burial at Calvary Cemetery in same Barrymore crypt. Ny lights dimmed at Ethel Barrymore Theatre.
In Columbus Ohio visitors to the State House report fewer women and more rats around the Capitol after sunset. Guards note a growing rat colony beneath a hedge and near a burned newsstand, with nine rats blocking a route and three at an alternate sidewalk. An extermination attempt cost 40 dollars and failed. The governor, Michael V DiSalle, was escorted home by a two rat detachment under his car.
The Senate rejected former Atomic Energy Commission chair Strauss for attorney general after a marathon session. Two Republicans joined Democrats in opposition, marking the first cabinet rejection in three years. Strauss accepted the result calmly in his Commerce Department office.
In Washington the Senate rejected Lewis L. Strauss as secretary of commerce. Senator Frank Lausche voted for the nomination while Senator Stephen Young voted against.
Mrs Pauline Jares reunited with her son Berea Bulovskii in Dayton after he was left in Czechoslovakia in 1911. He came to visit with his wife and two children still in Dulice as U S Rep Paul F Schenck helped arrange a three month visa via TWA Airlines.
A tentative agreement to end a six week strike against seven voluntary hospitals was reached early today in city hall negotiations. Terms were not released. Local 1799 Retail Drug Employees Union members will vote Monday night. Union leaders said they would recommend acceptance.
In Dayton Ohio 126 former Crowell-Collier Publishing Co employees sue for back pay severance and benefits after the Springfield printing plant closed December 14 1956. The suit seeks damages from 200 to 3070 dollars per claimant and covers vacation retirement and final pay. About 2500 workers were left jobless.
Elmer Mueller, nearly blind with limited vision in the alert eye, was fined $25 on a conviction of being a peeping Tom. The incident occurred in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and the case was handled by UPI sources.
Khrushchev flags insistence that Western terms fail and says talks possible with a businesslike approach. Herter’s plane arrives as East West talks teeter toward a summit without a clear path, with De Gaulle Eisenhower and Macmillan seen as possible participants. Pravda hints at rejecting the Western plan as the Big Three seek unity.
Secretary McElroy ordered Far Eastern forces to keep unescorted patrol flights near Communist nations after the Sea of Japan incident involving a US Navy P4M Mercator. He allowed field commanders to order fighter escorts where crew safety demands, while stressing continued non provocative patrols and labeling the attack as isolated and lawless.
The Ohio House unanimously passed a bill setting penalties for conspiracies to defraud the state and to engage in blackmail prostitution extortion arson gambling illegal narcotics and other felonies. Conspiracy to defraud would rise to ten years, other offenses to one to three years, with select changes proposed by the administration. The Senate approved related agriculture industry and banking measures and concurred on Columbus Day as a legal holiday. The House also advanced aid for mentally deficient children's training narcotic law strength and hospital fund use.
In Durban and Lamontville violence flares as thousands of residents engage in clashes with police over alleged brewery crackdowns. Casualties mount with three killed and hundreds injured as troops stand by and authorities warn of firepower if needed.
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