25 Apr 1975
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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1975
Page
1
The Commerce Department reports a $1.4 billion March trade surplus, the second in a row, aided by a $571 million fall in oil import value as imports drop 6.8 percent while exports slip 0.8 percent. Motor vehicles and chemicals boost exports. aircraft and some farm goods fall.
A compact reader item outlines upcoming crossword puzzle features and local notices from Middletown area sections including garden news television theaters and vital statistics want ads. The fragment highlights area hints rather than full stories with no clear events or names.
Huong met Thursday with U S Ambassador Graham Martin and Friday with French Ambassador Jean Marie Merillon as Minh pressures for the presidency. Explosions near Saigon signal escalating turmoil while the airlift evacuated Americans and Vietnamese amid congressional deliberations on American troop protection.
The Senate approved by 77 to 7 a plan requiring President Ford to release $9.1 billion for highway construction to the states in the current fiscal year and the year starting July 1. The 1974 law lets either chamber overrule a presidential spending deferral Ford sought to curb deficits.
In Stockholm the West German embassy hostage crisis ends with three dead including a terrorist, 2 police and several hostages injured. Police captured the remaining five assailants after a top floor blast as Bonn rejects demands to free Baader Meinhof members.
Thunderstorms and tornadoes traverse the midsection leaving five dead and many injured in Missouri and Tennessee. Neosho bears the worst impact as a tornado wounds and destroys, while watches extend into Oklahoma Arkansas Missouri and Southern Illinois. A child dies in Tipton County as mobile homes overturn and Crockett County reports injuries.
Partly cloudy tonight with lows in the low 40s in the Middle town area. Saturday brings sunny skies and a high in the mid-60s. Yesterday’s high was 67 and the overnight low 54 with 45 inch rain recorded. Extended outlook calls for fair Sunday and a chance of showers Monday or Tuesday.
The Levy quintuplets, all under five pounds, are bottle feeding in incubators at Cincinnati General Hospital. Pamela Levy remains under Caesarean recovery and has not yet viewed the babies. Father Mark Levy, a P&G employee, declines photos and will choose names after his family stabilizes.
In Sebring Ohio three people Debra Ludwig 20 John Ludwig 26 and Ralph Lee 42 died in a sequence of shootings reportedly begun by Debra Ludwig's ex husband John Ludwig 26 who fired through a front door then shot Lee and Debra before killing himself after a confrontation in a rear car and in the home a child was rescued by a neighbor.
A 99 piece silver service said to have belonged to Adolf Hitler sold for $32,000 at Marsh Galleries in Indianapolis. The owner, a former U.S. Army officer and the buyer both requested anonymity. The owner reportedly found the set in Hitler’s Munich strongrooms.
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