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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1973
Page
5
The 750 ton USS Force sank after a fire in calm seas 820 miles west of Guam. All 65 crewmen escaped in lifeboats. some suffered smoke inhalation but no immediate medical attention needed. The Springbank and Sepia head to the scene from Subic Bay and Honolulu.
Thomas L. Wiley, director of personnel and public relations at Middletown Hospital, will be the main speaker at the W. W. Sebald Self-Reliance Awards banquet at the Manchester Motor Inn. The Middletown Jaycees chair the event recognizing local high school youths with four top finalists named in each division.
Detroit judge Wade H. McCree Jr. of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals says racism slows progress in America and blacks still lose jobs to women. He urges reconciliation to end stagnation while warning young black people face unemployment and hopelessness.
William V. Bradley 70, former president of the International Longshoremen's Association from 1953 to 1963, was found dead Monday after his car crashed into a parked vehicle in New York. He led the union back into AFL-CIO in 1959 after expulsion for alleged racketeer influence and spoke on race and labor issues.
A sea and land search for a single engine amphibian plane missing on a flight from Erie Pennsylvania to Howell Michigan was suspended by the U S Coast Guard. The pilot, Robert Joy age 51 of Howell, was the only occupant. Joy and his son Robert Jr 30 of Howell flew in separate planes. the father failed to arrive at Howell while the son landed there. The Coast Guard had scoured western Lake Erie for three days and Michigan Civil Air Patrol conducted a land search without results.
In Yellow Springs Ohio on Monday night Rev Ralph Abernathy urged Antioch College students to persevere in their strike seeking a five year financial aid guarantee. He called the action a crucial moment in Antioch’s history and endorsed their tactics.
Charles Fenstermaker an 18 year old from rural Homerville was crushed to death Monday when the front end of a unit he was cleaning slipped. He died at Lodi Community Hospital.
The Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service asked the Ohio Department of Agriculture and PUCO for help as farmers face gasoline and diesel shortages and a lack of railroad box cars for fertilizer shipments. Agency spokesmen monitor the situations but take no immediate action. Fertilizer suppliers blame foreign sales and car shortages for the strain.
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