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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1970
Page
1
Payson Utah residents 4300 strong raise house for Charles Warren a Highway Patrolman paralyzed by a gunshot last fall. Volunteers drywall paint and pour cement on a $40000 four bedroom disabled friendly home with accessible baths and therapy equipment expected completion by mid September.
In Montevideo the Tupamaros threat to execute American agrarian expert Claude Fly and Brazilian Consul Aloysio Gomide while Dan Mitrione is dead heightens fear for remaining captives. Police search after a possible body near a beach yields no definitive identification. The government suspends civil rights for 20 days to aid a broad crackdown as 100 suspects are detained.
Pamela Anne Eldred and other Miss America state winners pose on a plane ramp as they depart Philadelphia for a 22 day tour of South Vietnam military bases with the Miss America USO Show. The lineup from bottom to top includes Eldred, Mary Cox Miss Tennessee Ann Fowler Miss Alabama Patsy Johnson Miss North Carolina Margie Huhta Miss Oregon Susan Anton Miss California Adria Easton Miss Colorado and chaperone Mrs Irene Bryant.
Washington AP Senate critics of the Safeguard anti ballistic missile system pressed in the final day of debate to counter claims that expanding missiles is needed to spur a Soviet arms control agreement. A showdown vote on two more ABM sites is set for Wednesday as opponents seek to overturn last year’s one vote setback. Republican Leader Hugh Scott voiced support for Safeguard as a minimum response to Soviet missile threats and as leverage in SALT talks in Vienna. Senator J W Fulbright labeled the bargaining chip argument distracting from the failure of Safeguard, while Senator Gordon Allott defended its deployment as a restrained response to grave threats.
UMTA chief says buses curb congestion but hurt the poor elderly and handicapped under current operation. Government subsidies are urged to sustain public ownership as federal spending on bus research and demonstrations continues.
Washington reports US fighter bombers and gun ships have doubled air strikes on Cambodia this month with an average of 30 sorties daily since August 1, up from 24 in July. Additional photo-recon flights noted. No official reason given for the surge amid intensified ground fighting. The Nixon administration denies providing close air support.
SAIGON AP says U S B52s dropped 600 tons on enemy bunkers and base camps as massed North Vietnamese troops threatened a South Vietnamese artillery and patrol base near Fire Base O Reilly, while tactical fighters and helicopter gunships supported the strike amid ongoing mortar fire.
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Tonight expect fair skies and mild temperatures with lows in the mid to low sixties. Wednesday will be partly sunny with little temperature change and highs in the mid eighties. No rain is expected. Yesterday's high reached 74 and this morning's low was 60.
Florida officials said they would sue the Army over plans to dump nerve gas vaults in the Atlantic about 282 miles east of Cape Kennedy. Army spokesmen described the gas as no more dangerous than coal. Vaults left Richmond Kentucky and Anniston Alabama for Sunny Point North Carolina and will be loaded on a barge and towed to sea for disposal.
To Sue Army moves toward Athens as Kentucky train tackles steep grades. Section crews scan tracks near Spruce Pine North Carolina for possible landslides while rain falls. Elaborate security measures mark the Operation Chase mission.
Lima Ohio remains under a state of emergency with guards withdrawn while tensions persist. Authorities report a fatal police shooting involving Christine Ricks and ongoing petitions demanding two officers’ dismissal. City police and sheriff deputies patrol the south side in 12 hour shifts amid curfew and gun can sales ban.
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