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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1968
Page
3
The Associated Press reports Ohio weekend traffic deaths reached 20 with over half on Sunday as warm weather drew drivers onto highways. One unidentified victim died in a double crash near Alliance. Identification was expected later today. Weekend tally covers 6 p.m. Friday to midnight Sunday.
The Executive Mansion stands as the first structure erected by the federal government in Washington, marking an early milestone in the capital’s development and ceremonial history.
In Dallas a walkout from Black Methodists for Church Renewal interrupted a Holy Communion service as final steps moved ahead for the United Methodist Church merger of Methodist and Evangelical United Brethren congregations. The group charged racism remains in the plan and urged action on representation and the phased end of a separate Negro Methodist jurisdiction, while notes of a $20 million crisis fund surfaced to aid urban slums.
The former First EUB Church adopts the name Faith United Methodist after a merger of Methodist and EUB denominations. A citywide union service for Middletown United Methodist churches is held next Sunday at 7 30 p m at Faith United Methodist Church Baltimore Street Philadelphia Avenue. Other EUB and Methodist churches participate in the unification events.
The Federal Trade Commission survey finds average finance charges of 25 percent in slum areas versus 21 percent in nonslum areas. FTC Chairman Paul Rand Dixon told a Senate Banking subcommittee that no excessive profits were found in the ghettos, and said higher business costs in slums drive higher prices and credit costs.
A Hong Kong visitor says Canton officials pressured Asian businessmen to buy sets of about 100 Mao Tse tung badges. The boxes sold for 16 to 20 dollars, with threats that trade contracts would be denied without purchase.
Report notes 3.5 million Frenchmen travel abroad for vacations while about 5 million Britons seek sun in Spain Italy and France, contrasting climate and travel patterns across nations.
Reader questions on Chrysler and Brunswick investments. Chrysler's market share rose from 10 percent in 1962 to over 18 percent in early 1968, with sales up about 25 percent year over year through March and the first quarter. Hold, or sell part while keeping the core stake. Brunswick dividend history noted. broker sale advised as stock remains speculative.
In New York a vintage signboard campaign for a shaving cream maker featured a long running jingle series of 605 verses, a notable relic of roadside advertising from earlier days.
Britain’s ace plowman Ken Chappell won the British championship to win an expenses paid trip to Rhodesia for the world plowing title. Government sanctions barred him from taking his own plow, so he plans to borrow one in Rhodesia if needed.
The province of Maryland was named in honor of Queen Henrietta Maria, wife of King Charles I of England, reflecting colonial ties to the monarchy.
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