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Newspaper
Troy Record
Location
Troy, New York, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1966
Page
1
A 25-year-old Colonie mother and her three-year-old son died in a fire at 87 Cordell Rd yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Doria Turner and her son Thomas were found in a rear upstairs bedroom, the mother face down partly over her child, indicating a protective effort.
A two story Colonie home and garage fire kills a mother and her 11 month old son from smoke inhalation and burns. Firefighters battle flames for nearly an hour. authorities await official autopsy and determine cause.
Coroner Marra and Lt James Flater with detectives and patrolmen examined the Turner residence near Niskayuna where two bunk beds held bodies of Mrs Turner and her son. Det Eugene MacMorris and Chief Surdam will continue the Colonie investigation.
Fatal rioting broke out in Watts as more than 600 Negroes rampaged through the area. A white truck driver was shot to death and another man died as police and National Guard moved in. Rioters overturned cars, looted stores, and attacked motorists while hospitals treated dozens for gunshot and stab wounds.
A bill to require annual safety inspections for all vehicles failed in the Senate after repeated show of hands and shifting votes. In the Assembly a related amnesty bill to erase certain first offense records was defeated 80-75. Senate debates highlighted electronic voting and shifting majorities.
Senate Republican Leader Earl Brydges and Assembly Democratic Speaker Anthony Travia announced near agreement on a divorce reform bill. They indicated they may add more grounds for divorce beyond those proposed, signaling progress on the contentious legislation.
In Munich the 36 year old Gerda Munsinger tells CBC interviewer that Soviet troops in East Germany ruined her life and that she never cooperated with them. She calls the accusation of espionage a lie and says she was a farmer girl at war’s end.
Timothy Camann seven year old of Tonawanda was accidentally strangled when a garage window he was climbing through shut on his neck at his home. Police said the accident occurred yesterday in Tonawanda New York.
President Johnson signed a new law raising six billion dollars in taxes to fund the Viet Nam war. He called it the right measure at the right moment as the plan revamps withholding and raises some excise taxes. The bill was enacted within hours of House and Senate approval with an effective date near March 15.
The new graduated withholding rates take effect May 1 as auto excise rises to 7 percent and telephone tax returns to 10 percent. President Johnson signed the bill amid brief remarks about Viet Nam funding and fiscal restraint. Congress rushed embossing of the bill for the White House, with House approval 288 to 102 and Senate 72 to 5.
American aircraft pounded a Communist staging area just south of the border after reports that two barracks north of the border were heavily damaged. B52s joined Phantoms and Thunderchiefs with strikes 60 miles northwest of Hue while Johnson sought more war funds. Three American aircraft were downed with losses including one Albatross and two crewmen killed or missing.
Detroit professor Dr. John Mahoney argues there were two Patricks in early Irish Christianity Palladius preceded St Patrick and may have done part of his work. He notes dates 431 432 461 and cites O Rahilly Carney. Mahoney laughs at wearing green and plans a family celebration with songs.
Cape Kennedy officials cleared the Titan 2 mission to launch with astronauts Neil Armstrong and David Scott after solving three fuel cell and communications problems. Engineers removed a faulty box from Gemini 9 to fix a link used during Scott’s planned two hour space walk. fueling began at 12 50 a.m. with a possible two hour delay to ensure all systems remained nominal.
A national inter religious peace conference opened in Washington with leaders denouncing an obsession with anticommunism. John C Bennett and Rabbi Jacob J Weinstein warned the United States risks war policy excesses and the neurosis of fearing communism, as 500 delegates hear calls for peaceful unity among Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant and Jewish groups.
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