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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1971
Page
1
Hundreds of rebel bodies drift down Sri Lanka rivers toward the sea in a brutal civil war showing the depth of unrest. Security forces burn corpses on funeral pyres away from towns as Colombo endures curfew and gunfire amid reports of thousands dead and fears of overseas gun running.
Tens of thousands of antiwar marchers filled streets of San Francisco and rallied at Golden Gate Park with speakers urging peace in Indochina. Police counted 156000 in San Francisco while Washington drew hundreds of thousands in a Capitol rally noted for its orderly, festive mood and broad cross section of participants.
Cincinnati police found the decayed body of John Dockey entombed in concrete inside a hotel room closet. The man, missing since Christmas, had Social Security checks cashed since his disappearance, and the concrete casing was covered by men's clothing.
Two US Navy fighter bombers chased a MIG21 deep into North Vietnam then dodged surface to air missiles before returning to the Kitty Hawk. The action came amid a week of intense air activity over the North, with SAM sites targeted as far as 110 miles inside North Vietnam and a bombing run over Laos.
A look inside Guantanamo Bay shows tense life under U S control. The base commander states bluntly that withdrawal is not an option. The article contrasts the base’s status with wider Cuba relations and military interests.
The forecast calls for daytime highs in the mid s with nights in the Ws. Monday should bring similar temperatures with increasing cloudiness.
Gov. John J. Gilligan names Oregon administrator Gaver as consultant to James Welsh for six months before he becomes director of Ohio Department of Mental Hygiene and Corrections. If approved, Gaver will lead the Mental Health Department while Bennett Cooper would head the new Department of Corrections.
Soyuz 10 connected with the Salute space station after a 41 hour chase and flew together for 5½ hours. Tass reported docking and berthing tests under ground control, aiming to build the first orbital space laboratory. The craft landed near Karaganda Kazakhstan at 2:40 a.m. Moscow time 6:40 p.m. EST Saturday.
A new law empowers U S credit users to learn what is in their files and challenge entries. The Fair Credit Reporting Act requires disclosure of information on credit bureaus files except medical data and limits access to those with legitimate business needs. It also sets dispute procedures, time limits for harmful data, and rules on reporting for high value insurance and job investigations.
At Texas A&M and Space Center Houston scientists combine a pinch of lunar soil with a reactor treated mix and lettuce to probe what in moon dust helps plants grow. Five grams of lunar soil will be irradiated then placed with lettuce roots to test uptake and identify activated elements and growth effects.
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