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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1961
Page
5
The United States plans an early next year moon mission with an unmanned Ranger spacecraft. Ranger stands 16 feet tall and weighs 70 pounds and will carry television equipment to transmit pictures of the moon to Earth.
Federal tax liens filed against comedian Ernie Kovacs and wife Edie Adams claim they owe 71,628 dollars in income taxes for 1959.
Tass reports a gold nugget weighing 14 150 grains or over 31 pounds found in a northwest Siberian field. At 35 dollars per troy ounce this nugget is valued around 16 000 dollars.
Hollywood AP reports Rea M Hunt an original Keystone Kop in silent films died of a heart attack at 68. He collapsed at his Pacoima home Wednesday after a 40 year career as producer director and cameraman and actor in Mack Sennett comedies. He retired in October after twenty years as Columbia Pictures property master.
Cape Canaveral reports the Air Force probes another Atlas launch failure after an 85-foot Atlas E model exploded over the Atlantic Ocean 95 seconds after liftoff during a 7,300 mile test. The incident marks the seventh failure in ten launch attempts raising concerns about reliability and safety.
Congress completed action on a bill to extend for one year the current excise tax rates on liquor wine beer cigarettes automobiles and other items awaiting President Kennedy's signature. The Senate approved the measure by voice vote.
Joann Dyer Miss Ohio won the Miss National Press Photographer title at the National Press Photographers Convention. Sha ron Alkire Miss Colorado placed second and Gloria Shaw Miss Illinois finished third. The ceremony highlighted pageant winners from multiple states.
A Conservative legislator urged the British government to train West German and other NATO navy crews aboard American nuclear submarines, signaling deepening alliance cooperation amid tensions.
London Prime Minister Harold Macmillan has a cold and sore throat and has canceled all weekend engagements on his doctor’s orders, his office said today.
President Kennedy, upright and “feeling fine,” hosted Japanese Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda after recovering from a bacterial infection. He walked without crutches, canceled a final Ikeda conference, and planned a weekend at Glen Ora with family. Dr. Travell noted a mild strep throat. Salinger called him practically recovered.
Fidel Castro rejected the Tractors for Freedom Committee offer to swap inmates for 50 farm tractors and said he would send a delegation of captured rebels to explain his stance to the U S public. He accused the group of lying and sought 1 000 tractors while linking other proposal options to possible exchanges with political prisoners and invasion leaders.
Thomasville forecast calls for generally fair warm conditions today and Saturday with a 72 low tonight and 86 high tomorrow. Winds from the southwest at 5 to 10 mph. Temperatures through Wednesday expected to run 3 to 6 degrees under normal. rainfall about 0.2 to 0.5 inch Tuesday or Wednesday.
Elisabethville reports suspicion that Moise Tshombe’s pledges to gain release may have been coerced. Officials say Tshombe hinted true views only after leaving Leopoldville reach. He promised to turn over his army and send Katanga delegates to Parliament, but gave no firm dates.
Japanese Prime Minister Hayao Ikeda flew into New York for a round of activities including a meeting with U N Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold.
The House Appropriations Committee advanced a $42.7 billion defense plan for the new fiscal year starting July 1, funding Polaris submarines, bombers, missiles and larger forces. The panel kept close to the President’s program, cutting only $231 million from the request in a bookkeeping move, with a net $8.2 million smaller amount than the current year.
Seattle AP reports June Magnuson was granted a divorce from U S Rep Don Magnuson on charges of neglect due to his busy schedule. The action was granted Thursday in Washington state.
A rapid-fire series of meetings was convened in New York to resolve an eight day maritime strike. Talks with the National Maritime Union Masters Mates and Pilots and shipping owners to consider Goldberg proposals for a 60 day voluntary suspension or risk an 80 day Taft Hartley injunction. William E Simkin of FMCS organized the sessions with President Kennedy ready to appoint a three man committee if unions agree.
A Washington dispatch reports U.S. consent to seat Communist China in the U N Assembly as a supposed step to press Peiping into refused seating. The plan, linked to the Ikeda mission and Dean Rusk, envisions two Chinas with Communist China in the assembly and Nationalist China on the Security Council, avoiding a Nationalist veto.
Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson told President Kennedy that economic want and social unrest are rising in South America amid growing awareness of needs for reform and progress. He said Cuba's communism concerns are not just U.S. issues and described the Latin American reception to the alliance for progress as broadly hopeful.
Miroslav Nacvalac the 39 year old Czechoslovak diplomat accused by the United States of being the country’s top spy left for Paris and Prague after Washington stripped him of diplomatic immunity. The United States demanded his exit, while Czechoslovakia rejected the recall citing U N immunities. The case surfaced amid claims of meetings in California and payments for information, which the U S said were false.
The American Marietta Co announces a Georgia site across the Chattahoochee from Atkinson Power for a new cement plant with initial capacity of 1.6 million barrels annually, potentially rising to 3 million after a second kiln. Cost is unnamed but estimated between 15 and 22.5 million dollars. The project includes heavy emphasis on dust and noise control with by product stone from Georgia Marble Co and limestone from Southern reserves near Cartersville.
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