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Newspaper
Ukiah Daily Journal
Location
Ukiah, California, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1963
Page
8
Romy Sehmeidi, hailed as an up-and-coming actress, inks a contract to play Annamarie in Columbia Pictures The Cardinal. The drama, adapted from Henry Morton Tryson’s best selling novel, follows a Boston priest rising to the rank of Cardinal.
Mendocino County Board of Supervisors meets in regular session May 14 1963 with Chair Scaramella and members present. Agenda covers minutes, transfers for Mental Health and Civil Defense, road and airport matters, public works bids, planning and zoning discussions, and adjourns after joint session with Planning Commission.
May 24 1963 marks the Iidth day of the year with the moon near first quarter. Notable events include Peter Minuit purchasing Manhattan in 1626 for about 24 dollars, the Hood sunk in 1941, Dulles' death in 1959, Carpenter orbiting Earth in 1962, and a thought by Schopenhauer.
President Kennedy, age 46, hosts a $1,000-a-plate gala in New York attended by about 600 donors, despite the event being billed nonpartisan. He jokes about Eisenhower and the steel industry, recalls last year’s price battle, and enjoys a star-studded lineup including Bob Newhart and Louis Armstrong as Audrey Hepburn leads the audience in Happy Birthday. The visit includes a brief meeting with Merbert Hoover and plans to attend tonight’s White House press dinner.
The Coast Guard sent four cutters and 15 aircraft in a major search for the missing Eureka fishing boat Cathy Queen. Identified as 36 feet and operated by Charles R. Witt of Newport Oregon, the vessel left Eureka nine days ago and has provisions for only three days.
Indonesian President Sukarno will tour Yugoslavia for three days in the first half of next month, at the invitation of President Josip Broz Tito, a government spokesman announced in Belgrade.
Washington dispatch notes Inter-American Human Rights Commission report citing ten year old children armed with machine guns guarding Cuban jails. The two thousand word document describes 60,000 prisoners facing humiliating, oppressive conditions in dank, rat infested facilities with diseases from bites. Testimonies highlight restricted mother visits and boys deemed men after age seven, barring contact with incarcerated mothers.
Robert Austen owner of an eight room apartment house struck a match to light a cigarette while checking a gas stove leak. A gas fume explosion ripped out one side of the frame building and inflicted second and third degree burns on Austen and Mrs Joyce Westerfield, Fire Chief Gordon Keel said.
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