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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1962
Page
7
The provost of Long Island University says an investigation into rumored cheating on final exams is underway and diplomas will be withheld until settled. The probe began after students reported stolen exams circulated before tests. Bailardi, interviewing high scoring students, said none admitted advance knowledge.
About a thousand students defied martial law to march on the U S Embassy in Seoul protesting a beating by two American soldiers. Police blocked access with jeeps. over 100 demonstrators were arrested after police advance and repeated attempts via alleys. No violence reported.
Cuban Havana radio reported Romania has shipped the first of 1500 specially built tractors for Cuba. The tractors suit the Cuban climate and are ready for use with automatic sugar cane cutters expected before next year’s harvest. Romania provided Cuba with 2000 tractors last year.
Premiers and party chiefs from seven East European countries join Mongolia and Red China observers in Moscow to discuss farm shortages and the rise of the Western European Common Market. Albania is excluded amid Kremlin rift.
Prices received by farmers for cotton in the 1961-62 marketing year topped levels since 1968-50 with 31.88 cents a pound set as the minimum national average support price for the 1962 crop. The USDA notes higher prices amid a projected drop in use and a 14 million bale volume, 900,000 below last season, while carryover is seen around 600,000 bales above the prior year.
Thomasville voters approved a $250000 general obligation bond issue by 556 to 76 with 4 voided ballots. The funds will finance about seven miles of paving on 22 dirt streets and $60000 for street repairs. Results will be certified June 11 as bonds are prepared for sale. Mayor Roy M. Lilly praised voter support.
Berlin AP reports the East German Communist party newspaper Neues Deutschland acknowledged serious food shortages. It urged stepped up milk and meat production as leaders meet in Moscow to discuss economic problems. The Karl Marx Stadt district owed the republic enough milk for half a liter per person daily for five months and several major districts failed to meet end May targets. Meat output also fell short in Frankfurt on Oder Leipzig Potsdam Cottbus and Neubrandenburg.
CHICAGO AP The AMA says the King Anderson medical care bill is on trial not the association. President Kennedy cites AMA opposition to Social Security in 3080s disputes and asks why the AMA supported or opposed various positions in 1949 1953. Larson insists past actions do not affect the bill's merits and urges focus on King Anderson.
In Paris the American community and French officials held a multi faith memorial for 130 crash victims of an Air France airliner at Orly Field. Most were American with 105 from Atlanta. The service at the American Episcopal Cathedral of Paris, led by Mayor Ivan Allen Jr, honored the victims as martyrs to aviation safety and called for ongoing safety efforts. The bodies were expected to be flown to Atlanta later this week for identification.
California voters chose Richard Nixon and Gov. Edmund Brown to lead their parties in the 1962 governor race. Nixon defeated Assemblyman Joseph Shell by about 2 to 1 in a statewide tally from 17,439 of 31,212 precincts, while Brown faced weak opposition and drew nearly as many votes as the Nixon–Shell total, signaling solid party backing.
Industrialist Arthur H. Bunker told a Senate Armed Services subcommittee that Climax Mollybdenum Co did not reap a windfall from canceling a molybdenum contract with the government stockpile. He said the government drove a very hard bargain as Sen. Symington warned taxpayers may lose over 1 billion in stockpile deals.
Atlanta dentists Hope Harvey Payne Jr and Robert Payne sue Compagnie Nationale Air France in federal court for willful misconduct and gross negligence over a jet crash that killed 130, including 116 Georgians. They allege overloading and airworthiness failure on a Boeing 701 charter tied to the Atlanta Art Association. Mrs. Annette Snelson Payne, 66, is a crash victim.
Georgia Republicans moved to nominate a new standard bearer after the death of A. Edward Smith, the party’s first post Reconstruction governor candidate. Smith died in a head on collision near Woodbury, with 34 000 signatures toward a November ballot already collected. A special State Executive Committee meeting set for June 20 could trigger a second nominating convention. Smith’s death spurred support for a scholarship fund in his name through the Georgia Bar Association.
France's De Gaulle suggested clemency for ex General Edmond Jouhaud might be possible if it aids a peaceful Algeria settlement. A government spokesman said Jouhaud appealed to Raoul Salan to accept Algerian independence, with no clear indication Salan had responded.
Republican state nominating convention selected insurance executive John Alsop to run for Connecticut governor. The convention used an unprecedented eighth ballot and a loser could trigger a state wide primary. The report is part of Tuesday’s primary roundup across multiple states.
Extra police patrolled Rome's Jewish quarter after two nights of street fighting between Jews and Fascists. Six civilians and several police were hurt Monday. two youths and five officers injured Tuesday as tear gas was used. The flareups came during Rome's municipal election campaign with voting set for Sunday. Campaigners from the Italian Social Movement, a postwar fascist party, drove through the former ghetto bearing party symbols, drawing pedestrians into scuffles.
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