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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1972
Page
1
Apollo 16 crew rest day as launch activities accelerate at Cape Kennedy for Sunday's fifth manned lunar surface mission. The countdown and preparations press on with teams finalizing equipment and checks ahead of liftoff.
Cape Kennedy Florida AP reports Apollo 16 with NASA crew John W Young Charles M Duke Jr and Thomas K Mattingly II launching at 12 54 p m EST for a 12 day 2 hour 36 minute mission. They will land in Descartes area to study lunar mountains for signs of ancient volcanism and conduct extensive science and photography.
Scotland's first quintuplets and their mother are in good condition at Bangour General Hospital near Edinburgh. The four girls and a boy were delivered by Caesarean section on Friday, six weeks premature, weighing between 2½ and 3 pounds each, and will stay in incubators for several weeks.
North Vietnamese forces routed South Vietnamese troops from a key fire base in the central highlands as tanks pushed into An Loc. Viet Cong rockets and mortars attacked Saigon and Da Nang, leaving at least 51 dead.
Nearly two inches of rain drenched Portage Summit and Medina counties forcing road closures and flooding basements of over 300 homes. In Ravenna and Streetsboro areas high water disrupted travel and mud slides closed two county roads while weather officials warned the storm would intensify.
Wet today and tonight with a 50 percent chance of rain and thundershowers. Only a 10 percent chance on Sunday. Lows around 55 tonight, highs near 75 tomorrow.
Edith Russell one of the Titanic survivors now 93 in London says there was no music as the ship sank, only terrible screaming. She recalls clinging to a brown stuffed pig gift and jumping to a lifeboat hours before 1,513 died on the White Star liner’s maiden voyage near Newfoundland. She survived in underwear with her pig and memories.
AP reports President Nixon ends a 40 hour Canada visit by signing a cooperative plan to clean the Great Lakes. The blueprint calls for 2.5 billion dollars or more in expenditures to curb water pollution across the five lakes with governments and private industry on both sides funding the long term program, led mainly by U S contributions.
The Chinese table tennis team swept five of six international matches in Detroit at Cobo Hall on Friday night start of a two week American tour. Dell Sweeris of Grand Rapids beat Liang Ke Liang for the only American victory amid a tense atmosphere as anti Communist protesters disrupted the opening moments.
Washington AP report notes total industrial output rose 0.6 percent in March, with the Fed index at 109.6 percent of 1967. gains led by business equipment, steel, textiles and paper while consumer goods rose modestly. Some congressmen warn profits may rise with production amid Phase 2 controls, as JEC prepares hearings starting April 25 on industrial performance.
State patrol Sgt. C P Dwyer and about 50 officers chased Howard Poff 45 of Norwood after he shot his estranged wife Mary nine times and Jane Curliss three times at her home. Dwyer was wounded during the predawn arrest attempt in Newtown. both women remained in critical condition at a Cincinnati hospital.
New York AP reports three major steel firms led by U S Steel joined Bethlehem Steel in freezing rolled steel prices for the rest of the year. Jones & Laughlin followed Bethlehem, with William R. Roesch saying the move could curb inflation if widely adopted.
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