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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1964
Page
1
Tampa AP reports Jefferson High School student Carl Delvic faced a $5,000 bond after a class theme stating a plan to travel to Washington and kill the President. Police were notified when the line was read to the dean, and the mother offered to take responsibility if he were released.
A Middle East Airlines Air Liban Caravelle jet overshot Dhahran airport during a sandstorm and crashed in shallow water about 10 miles off the Saudi Arabian coast. Twenty three Americans were among the 49 aboard as divers and Navy helicopters searched for survivors.
President Charles de Gaulle is reported in very satisfactory condition after prostate surgery on Friday. A communique said he took several steps in his hospital room about four hours after the operation. Government officials anticipate his return to the Elysee within a month.
Harold Macmillan reportedly retires from active political warfare after prostate surgery last September amid fire over the Profumo affair. De Gaulle plans no immediate resignation and Pompidou will assume routine duties during convalescence, presiding over cabinet meetings from the hospital as France prepares major elections.
Nathaniel Stubblefield described as mastermind of a phony check ring arrested in Cincinnati. FBI says he is among seven indicted in South Carolina for stolen and forged checks and money orders. others have been arrested. Stubblefield jailed on $30,000 bond.
Democrat Mike Mansfield and floor manager Hubert Humphrey clash over round the clock sessions to push the stalled civil rights bill. Mansfield argues for voting while Humphrey favors extended Senate sessions to force action.
A forest fire burned about 100 acres fifteen miles southwest of Chillicothe Ohio on Friday before crews contained it. No injuries were reported.
Byron De La Beckwith, 43, freed on a $10,000 bond after an all white jury failed to reach a verdict in his second murder trial for slaying Medgar Evers. The mistrial in Jackson means possible re trial on May docket. Beckwith arrived back in his Greenwood home after 10 months in jail.
Jerrie Mock returns to Port Columbus after completing a solo around the world in 29 days aboard a single engine Cessna. The Columbus welcome included Governor Rhodes and FAA officials with a presidential telegram declaring Jerrie Mock Day. Mock earned the women’s world speed record and the first grobe circling flight in her plane’s weight class.
Mrs Jerrie Mack’s single engine voyage lists city by city arrivals from Columbus Ohio on March 19 to a return in Columbus on April 17 with dates in Bermuda Azores Casablanca Bone Cairo Dhahran Karachi New Delhi Calcutta Bangkok Manila Guam Wake Island Honolulu Oakland Tucson El Paso Bowling Green before final Columbus stop.
A quip notes that hard work may end life, yet suggests resting to death is rarer. The witty line contrasts labor with laziness as an ironic punchline.
Arthur George Post 25 who was found insane on three occasions is charged in Houston with threatening President Johnson. He was in the county jail awaiting arson trial when U.S. Commissioner William Costa set bond at 100000. Secret Service agent Lane Bertram testified four witnesses heard the threats. Post had been committed to Rusk State Hospital after a prior sanity finding and released in February after a psychiatrist declared him cured.
A large dawn search operation by U.S. and British air forces includes jets and helicopters, private planes, desert vehicles, and shops. Passengers tally 23 Americans, 11 Saudis, four Lebanese, one Syrian, one Bahraini, one Jordanian, and one Palestinian. The crew comprises five Lebanese, one French, and one Swiss in Dhahran’s modern desert milieu.
Belgium's 12 000 doctors and dentists halted an 18 day strike but the socialized medicine law dispute remains. They agreed to meet with government officials next week after 5 hours of talks mediated by university rectors. Prime Minister Le Fevre expressed optimism for a prompt agreement on the law.
Federal mediators pressed unions and railroads toward a voluntary five year settlement as White House efforts aimed to avert a nationwide strike. President Johnson warned a strike would paralyze the nation and awaited weekend developments to judge if an agreement could be reached.
U S and South Vietnamese security forces tightened around Secretary of State Dean Rusk amid reports of Viet Cong planned bomb and grenade actions during his Saigon visit. A bus bombing wounded two U S servicemen and police tracked a suspect leaving behind a high explosive while guards surrounded key targets including near Ambassador Lodge s home.
Andrew Milne aged 64 was killed at the Standard Slag plant in Marblehead Ohio when a stone laden truck ran over him as he cleaned truck scales. The accident occurred on Friday at the slag yard in Port Clinton area.
Sen Barry Goldwater forecast winning the Republican renomination on the second ballot if California votes for him and he secures delegates from June state conventions. He told the American Society of Newspaper Editors he could count on more than 435 delegates, calling that the most conservative count, and said 425 pledged delegates would exceed any other candidate.
Author Ben Hecht is reported dead at age 70 in his Manhattan apartment on West 67th Street. The celebrated writer, famed for The Front Page and motion picture scripts, reportedly died of a heart attack. his wife attempted resuscitation as police assisted with oxygen.
Wee Carolyn Davis 39 of Fairborn faces a Greene County common pleas court trial for second degree murder in the death of her newborn daughter. She allegedly delivered the baby in her bathroom on February 9, strangled it and placed the infant in a clothes hamper. Doctors ruled her legally sane and ordered her returned.
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