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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1964
Page
10
Ohio state traffic safety officials released a year end review showing 93,515 injuries in 1963 about nine per thousand residents. The report notes 1983 deaths topping 2.00 per 100 million and that most fatalities involved pedestrians and the elderly. In cities, fatal crashes were rare while rural areas saw higher fatality rates.
Warren Nelson reports 1963 saw 2005 deaths, up 8 percent from 192 in 192. Motor vehicle travel rose to 49 billion miles, with 3 PM to 5 PM daily the peak crash period. About 65 percent of accidents occurred in daylight. Friday and Saturday had the most crashes at 37 percent. Only seven deathless days, but several days with 10 or more deaths.
Dr. D. Maxfield Dowell, rector of Christ Episcopal Church in Shaker Heights since 192, died at his home Friday night. His death marks the loss of a longtime church leader in the Cleveland area.
Wisconsin independent voters may deliver a test vote in the presidential primary. The state leans toward President Johnson, while Reynolds leads a slate of national convention delegates pledged to cast Wisconsin votes for Johnson at the Democratic National Convention.
A brief notice frames the outcome as rooted in underlying causes rather than a presidential matter, suggesting a shift in focus toward policy drivers and public demand. The item emphasizes causal factors over top leadership.
Senator William Proxmire predicts many Republicans will back George Wallace in Wisconsin's presidential primary. He argues Wallace could gain from misperceptions of the civil rights bill amid Senate debate on its mild provisions.
Campaigners report Rep. John W. Byrnes of Green Bay leading the lone state entry on the Republican ballot as the race remains uncommitted. A Democratic clash between Gov. Joan Reynolds and Gov. George Wallace has evolved into a broad, undeclared referendum on the federal civil rights bill.
The governor aimed for an unopposed favorite son path by inviting Republicans seen as potential candidates to cooperate in the state GOP primary. Republicans declined, Wallace arrived with Sutiation, and after a rocky start the governor found some audiences receptive to his view that federal action tramples states rights and that pending Senate legislation should be called a civil rights bill.
Reynolds says Wallace lied about the civil rights measure and Louis Hanson labels Wallace supporters as right wingers and kooks. Wallace retorts that everyone’s against him but the people. He argues any votes would force party leaders to pause platform plans and signal the public fatigue with federal meddling.
A mother’s call alarmed officials into testing Pvt. Kenneth R. Murray of Marietta Ohio for spinal meningitis after he rode the Frisen Meteor express through Springfield Missouri and Oklahoma City. Tests showed Murray had mononucleosis, not meningitis, but seven fellow soldiers were quarantined then moved to Ft Sill Oklahoma.
Miami University home economics faculty and students travel to the Ohio Home Economics Association meeting at Ohio University in Athens on April 1. Acting chair Mrs. Fileen Grice leads Prof. Mary Driscoll and assistants Mary Lee Sonander, Margaret Cantrel, and Anne Wiseman with five Miami students as members of the Miami chapter.
Ohio University president Dr Vernon R Alden outlines the first phase of President Johnson's Jobs Corps to place 40 000 draft rejects and school dropouts in educational and training programs with centers across the country The plan aims to reach 100 000 in the second year and focuses on conservation training basic education and job skills for youths ages 15 to 21 amid a budget of 208 million dollars in the first year.
Brazil's leaders rush to set a fast election in Congress to choose an interim president after Goulart fled to Uruguay. Speculation centers on Gen Humberto Castelo Branco and Marshal Eurico Gaspar Dutra as leading candidates. Congress has 30 days from last Thursday to name a successor to Paschoal Ranieri Mazzilli, who is acting as president of the Chamber of Deputies.
All key leaders agree on selecting an interim figure to govern Brazil during the difficult period ahead until the end of Goulart's unexpired term in January 1986. The agreement aims to stabilize the nation amidst political uncertainty and transition.
Bluffton College president J L Ramseyer announced plans to retire after his 63rd birthday November 5. He has led the college since 1938, the fourth president since its founding as Central Mennonite College in 190.
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