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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1962
Page
5
Strikes for higher pay disrupted Italian newspapers and heavy industries. A two hour walkout by printers and non editorial staff halted Saturday afternoon editions and Sunday morning papers nationwide.
Kingston report that the last British soldiers have departed Jamaica ending 300 years of occupation. Jamaica will gain independence in August with defense handed to the local West India regiment soon renamed the Jamaica Regiment.
President Ayub Khan summoned an emergency cabinet meeting in Rawalpindi to discuss the Soviet veto blocking a UN Security Council move toward renewing India Pakistan talks on Kashmir.
A sequence of six earthquakes rattled Calapan, 86 miles southwest of Manila, with no casualties or damage reported per the Daily Mirror.
Thailand's army chief Gen. Chitt Navisthira received the U.S. President's Legion of Merit in the rank of commander. The citation praised him for expanding the royal Thai army into a modern force aiding the mutual security program of the United States and the free world.
Prime Minister Nehru told Parliament that after the United States and Soviet tests the scientific and technical gains will likely end the need for further nuclear explosions for a long time. He cited experts who say the knowledge gained reduces testing necessity.
London report says Commonwealth Secretary Duncan Sandy indicated further talks will occur between the British and Indian governments on India's proposed acquisition of MIG jets from the Soviet Union.
In Munich the Bohemian Schwabing quarter saw new street fighting between hundreds of students and police early today. Police reported 26 arrests as clashes continued despite efforts to restore order.
The U S government accuses Revlon Inc of fixing wholesale and retail prices and illegally allocating sales territories to carve 25 percent of U S cosmetic sales from drug and department stores. The complaint seeks court action to bar antitrust practices dating to 1952. Revlon denies the charges and vows to fight vigorously.
Atlanta and Thomasville face a shift as the VA requires non discrimination in funeral contracts. Local white firms refuse integration while three Augusta Negro funeral homes plan bids. The change, effective June 30, could lead to Negro funeral houses handling VA burials and families facing federal burial benefits.
Boston AP report says State Atty. Gen. Edward J. McCormack Jr. opposes Sen. Kennedy and will oppose him in the Sept. 18 open primary. He urges his uncle John W. McCormack to avoid involvement in the Buckingham McCormack Kennedy fight amid White House noninvolvement. The younger McCormack cites the critical importance of the speaker’s position. Kennedy had been endorsed over Edward McCormack at the June 9 Democratic State Convention.
Thomasville resident Earl Collins died when his 1961 Ford pickup crashed head on into a tree on Cairo Ochlochnee Road. He lived in Thomasville for 19 years and leaves a wife Myrtice Hart, four sons, a daughter, siblings, and several relatives. Funeral services are set for 4:30 p.m. Sunday at Forest Hill Church of God with burial in Laurel Hill Cemetery.
Laurens County Sheriff W. R. Bussell said Harley R. Gilder admitted fatally shooting his wife with a 38 caliper pistol after a family dinner. Gilder is held without bond awaiting a Monday hearing.
Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Mrs. John F. Kennedy met at the White House over tea and backed plans for a national culture center in Washington. President Kennedy briefly joined in, and the pair planned a November 29 closed circuit TV dinner to launch fundraising, with both husbands possibly taking part.
Former Egyptian ruler Farouk files a 750000 dollar libel suit in Florida claiming Madame Sherry and co author Ruth Barnes Tralvis libeled him in the memoir Pleasure Was My Business. He says the book recounts a 1952 visit to Rancho Lido and a royal receiving line alleging events he denies.
London AP report says William Douglas Home plans to advertise his new play The Cigarette Girl using scathing London drama critics remarks. He defends the tactic as a response to the lack of favorable notices and calls critics remarks dismal and brutal.
Pan American World Airways said it would seek a federal court injunction in Brooklyn to halt a flight engineers strike set for 2 p.m. Eastern Time. Eastern Air Lines planned a similar walkout, with Mediation Board efforts ongoing and no immediate comment from Eastern. The dispute centers on jet cockpit crew reduction and training paths, as talks faced rejection from the union and a tentative TWA agreement loomed.
A small group of pacifists besieged the Pentagon, with sixteen demonstrators arrested Friday as signs like Dont Work For War Quit Your Job were displayed. Military officers and staff watched from the entrance during the event.
Secretary of State Dean Rusk held a 26 hour stopover in Rome meeting President Antonio Segni and Premier Amintore Fanfani to review NATO and the European Common Market. Rusk arrived from Bonn and praised the Atlantic alliance while noting limited Italian American policy differences.
A bomb ignited a fire in a gas storage reservoir in Oran Algeria triggering panic in a nearby residential quarter. Firemen in gas masks fought the blaze as residents fled and authorities closed electric power to prevent explosions. The blaze was extinguished after about an hour, but gas continued to escape. The incident followed a Secret Army Organization broadcast calling for a stand against independence, with further violence reported in Bone and Algiers amid fragile peace talks.
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