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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1960
Page
3
The report notes nominations approved for Woodside as SEC member and Tom Killefer of McLean as vice president of the Export-Import Bank. Senator Prescott Buch is pictured nearby.
Seoul South Korea AP reports John M Chang longtime foe of Syngman Rhee won the premiership yesterday by the National Assembly. He inherits an ununified party and faces work directing policy reforms and economic stabilization.
The Mekong River swelling threatens Laos capital Vientiane as international residents depart for Bangkok while political turmoil sits in the background. Families of American Embassy and aid workers lead the exodus as the river threatens widespread flooding.
Smithsonian Astrophysical Laboratory observers report Echo 1 the 10 story high balloon satellite may be losing shape after detecting wobble Thursday night. A puncture or other malfunction could cause deflation or mis-shape following its launch earlier week.
A 29 year old Briton Peter Richard Poole was hanged in Nairobi Thursday night, the first white man executed in the British East African colony for killing a Negro. A second item notes dining etiquette where younger men rise for an elder gentleman unless age difference is minor.
The State Department backed away from its earlier merit based rationale for funding the traveling African students in a case tied to Nixon era politics. Officials said the reversal stemmed from updated application details and corrections, including the number of nations represented among the students.
Virginia Attorney General Ibertis S. Harrison Jr. told the 42nd annual State American Legion convention that civil human rights must be defended and warned that surrendering domestic issues to federal control leads toward socialism. He urged support for states rights as power grows. Concurrently the 40 and 8 Grand Voiture meeting opened, naming William T. Coyner as chef de gare and James W. Withers as grand conducteur.
Geneseo New York Ralph Bixby aged 50 died after a tractor tire he was inflating exploded striking him with the rim. Sheriff deputies reported the accident occurred at his location and preliminary findings indicated the tragic mishap.
Grimes brief notes Joseph Godlove the Welltown plumber on Locust Hill Farm possesses a rare double wheel bicycle from forty to fifty years past. Norman Wolford of Winchester visited Friday. Col Daniel E Wright of St Petersburg, formerly local, ill and unable to visit this summer. Orchard efforts at Snow Hill farm show fine young apples. Barbara Godlove vacationing near Winchester with Jessie Godlove. Preaching at Galilee next Sunday. many attend Little Mountain Church at Cedar Grove.
Lockborne Air Force Base expanded the summer chow hall menu to feed ROTC cadets training in the area. Twelve local girls assist with serving duties at the new dining options.
US authorities received a report that eight Soviet scientists died in a fire at Mirny base in Antarctica. An American attached scientist, Gilbert Dewart, was not listed among casualties and the fire date remained unclear. Mirny is a principal Soviet research base with about 80 buildings.
A Knoxville physician operated in a silo to treat Billy Joe Smith after an electrical shock halted his heartbeat. Dr. Howard Vesser of Mascot made a six inch chest incision and massaged the heart, with the boy given an even chance to live after further hospital surgery.
In Peoria Illinois Edward Sharp gave a stranger matches. Moments later the stranger set Sharp's back yard shed ablaze and tried to ignite the house. The arsonist fled, leaving Sharp with a burned shed and damaged property.
In San Diego AP reports a black and white skunk named Whirley nested in washing machines. Ora B. Greenwalt found him asleep, he woke, and she left. neighbor Mrs. Kenneth Phelps had a similar encounter. A sheriff’s deputy suggested leaving the animal alone, and it reportedly wandered away.
Courier 1A, a 500 pound satellite designed for global military comms, exploded 15 miles up after Thor ble-Star booster cutoff 30 seconds early. Officials study telemetry to determine cause and aim to retry within weeks. another Thor successfully launched Discoverer XIV prior to Courier failure. A Bomarc A defense missile also intercepted a drone bomber over the Gulf of Mexico in the latest missile test.
Clarence Hudson a 66 year old department store janitor was found dead in his apartment seated in a homemade electric chair. A ground wire from the device was clutched in his hand while both feet rested on a wet towel and coins were taped to his temples connected by wires to a transformer to boost voltage from a wall outlet.
The Arlington County school board votes 4-1 to continue the ban on school sponsored dances for another year. Dances will be allowed only if sponsored by responsible citizen groups in junior and senior high schools.
President Eisenhower will appear on election eve TV to aid the Republicans and will make other political appearances where the party deems helpful. Senator Thruston B. Morton reported after a 45 minute White House call on GOP campaign progress. Morton said the President’s program emphasizes mostly nonpolitical appearances to boost interest in him and the party.
The United Nations Disarmament Commission adjourned without producing a plan for resuming U S and Soviet disarmament talks. It adopted a mild appeal urging big power negotiations to resume quickly and to the General Assembly to consider worldwide disarmament. The Assembly meets September 20 with the same members.
A Pocahontas Fuel Corp. mine accident in Bishop Virginia killed Raymond Johnson 47 of North Tazewell and critically injured Alvah T. Thompson of Welch West Virginia. The men were on a large continuous mining machine when 25 to 30 tons of rock fell trapping them. Johnson had returned to work four days earlier after a January cutback.
Chrysler directors have appointed the Dewey firm to assist in a wide internal probe of the company. The investigation covers the past decade and includes scrutiny of officers and key personnel, following the resignation of President William C. Newberg amid disclosure concerns and allegations of kickbacks and side profits.
Police say Manning Arata Jr. of Charlottesville Virginia a 22 year old tractor driver died by his own action. His body was found in a car with a hose from the tailpipe to the rear seat. He was broke unemployed in debt and had reported the theft of his truck tractor last week. The car was registered to girlfriend Elaine Johnson of Jersey City who said he proposed marriage and had been living in the car and sleeping at service stations. She last saw him Saturday.
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