The Pontiac Press: 1961-01-20

Abstract

New president plunges into world problems ; 102 passengers escape death as jet crashes ; Coffee break change from Ike-HST in 1953 ; Motor wire smokes, causes excitement ; Area woman to usher a ‘fantasy’ ; Kennedy pleads with Soviets to work for peace ; 1,000 work to clear off ice: parade goes on despite snow ; Plan $5-million area hospital ; Shuffle Waterford school personnel: mayor changes involve new Kettering school ; Resume talks in rail tie-up ; In Royal Oak Township: no warrant on fire chief ; Students tuned to inauguration ; The day in Birmingham: School board sets 1.5 minimum for graduation ; Hold husband in wife’s death ; Deadline for registering is Monday ; Pontiac general to spend $180,000 ; Need 142,000 classrooms ; Pontiac’s Earl Maxwell heads Negro fund here ; Communist Party bacs K’s reforms ; Give AT&T green light for satellite contacts ; Old Man Winter kind to road commission ; Snow sends Hoover back to Florida ; Veteran newsman dies in Holland hospital ; Pontiac fifth among new car registrations for ’60 ; Victims mirror disaster ; Survivors, tell how they fleed ; Dash from wreck cost man $40,000