July 30, 1961

Staff

Published Monday, July 29, 2002

The headline in the Suffolk News-Herald 41 years ago:

Cuba puts hijacked plane case in UN council's lap

HAVANA - The Fidel Castro government placed the hijacked Eastern Airlines plane case in the lap of the U.N. Security Council Saturday.

The decision announced by the Foreign Ministry appeared aimed at avoiding a showdown between the United States and Cuba over the fate of the $3.5 million Lockheed Electra plane.

JFK to talk with McCloy

HYANNIS PORT, Mass. - President Kennedy got a cabled report Saturday from his top disarmament advisor, John J. McCloy, on consultations in the Soviet Union-including three days of talks with Premier Khrushchev. The Cape Cod White House said Kennedy immediately made plans to confer next week with McCloy who is heading home from the Soviet Union.

Rev. C.J. Word attends seminar

The second annual summer seminar on the Minister and the Christian Church commenced Monday, July 24, at Virginia Union University and w8ill conclude Friday, Aug. 11.

Rev. C.J. Word, pastor of East End Baptist Church, is attending the seminar in which six denominations are represented, and pastors and their wives from eleven states and the District of Columbia are assembled.

Anniversary

CHUCKATUCK - William Bush Jr. will celebrate his 32nd anniversary as a leader and gospel singer in Chuckatuck today at 3 o'clock at Little Bethel Baptist Church. He was leader of the Humble Four and the Melody Four Quartet, and is president of the second senior choir for which this program is benefiting.

Two local boys on Dean's List

Two boys from the Suffolk have been placed on the Dean's list for the semester of the 1960-61 school session of the College of William and Mary.

William Jones Jr. is the son of William J. Jones, of Whaleyville. Jones is majoring in chemistry. William C. Underwood is the son of Mrs. P.T. Underwood of Suffolk. Underwood is majoring in history.

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