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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1961
Page
1
Families of airliner crash victims vented anger that the Army did not inform them directly. They learned of their loved ones' fate from news media or friends, with several relatives too shocked to accept the reports.
United Press International reports a Baltimore mother learns her son may be among Army recruits killed in a plane crash. An Army spokesman at Governor's Island says regulations require notifying next of kin before releasing names, except for tragedies inside service compounds. The Army had released only some names.
The sister of John F. Conway, a Philadelphia recruit, said the family learned of his enlistment recently and is awaiting official confirmation from military authorities.
The broadcast described families learning of the plane crash through emergency calls as wire services and broadcasters received numerous inquiries when soldiers aboard were confirmed dead. Some learned in the evening, others were awakened by the shock of the news.
A Constellation airliner carrying 79 people from Newark to Fort Jackson crashed near Holdcroft Virginia after engine failure during an emergency landing attempt. 74 army recruits from Pennsylvania New Jersey and Maryland died, with two engines failing on one wing. FBI and FAA crews joined local authorities to identify victims as the disaster prompted a national response and recollections of Kennedy era military buildup.
Wilkes-Barre civilian chief clerk Irvin Langel describes spending a day with 31 Army draftees aged 19 to 22. He processed their service numbers and fingerprints, saw them off by bus to Avoca for Imperial Airlines to Ft Jackson, and learned of the Virginia plane crash after leaving them.
A 54 year old Sheffield Lake motorist Charles E Kittle plunged his car from the East 31st Street bridge into the Black River. He died of a fractured skull at St Joseph Hospital. The driver may have suffered a heart attack before the crash. He leaves a wife Helen a son Charles E and a sister Mary Trotter. Funeral arrangements are pending.
A municipal court case results in fines for five workers including Fingulin and Lucki connected to a union dispute. The action centers on the Auto Workers Local 971 affiliation and an interunion challenge in Detroit, with suspension for Edward Brown pending appeal.
The B W Union found five workers guilty for overproduction at the Bendix Westinghouse plant. Fines totaling 195 dollars and two year suspensions were imposed and proceeds go to a chosen charity. The verdict was delivered after a three shift plant vote.
Dr. Willard Libby, Nobel laureate in chemistry, built a $30 fallout shelter near his Bel Air residence. The Santa Monica Mountains blaze leveled his house after railroad ties on the sandbag shelter ignited, collapsing the cave-like shelter. Mrs. Libby saved the Nobel Prize and a mink coat.
Tarain County deputies reported at 12 30 p m that a body found on the beach at Fairfax Ave Vermilion-On-The-Lake was identified as William Boswell 43 of Cleveland one of two men reported missing late Tuesday after a fishing trip on Lake Erie.
Northeastern Ohio shows cloudy conditions today tonight and Friday with scattered flurries near Lake Erie. Highs 38 to 42 degrees. Lows tonight 26 to 33 degrees. Northwestern Ohio remains partly cloudy and cold through today and tonight with continued low temperatures.
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