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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1965
Page
1
Cosmonauts Cooper and Conrad sat in the Titan 2 atop the rocket as a thunderstorm moved in delaying liftoff. A telemetry dropout and commutator concern prompted a 12:43 p.m. EST hold, then a final postponement as lightning and rain swept the Cape.
West German Ambassador Rolf Pauls presented credentials to President Zalman Shazar as hundreds of Nazi camp survivors clashed with police in Jerusalem. Demonstrators shouted insults and attempted to reach the residence, tearing fences before police restored order while Pauls reviewed an Israeli guard of honor.
Fragmented OCR text shows sections titled Deaths Funerals TV Highlights and Women's News with scattered words. The readable items indicate a local newspaper page containing entertainment puzzles and community notices with minimal coherent content.
More than 100 physicians specializing in obesity gathered at the Mark Hopkins hotel in San Francisco for a Wednesday dinner. The menu featured beef Stroganoff shrimp cold cuts cheese chicken salad green salad potato salad butter and pastries.
The government ordered 10 more federal registrars to Alabama Mississippi and Louisiana counties to register Negro voters. New counties Jefferson Davis and Jones Mississippi Perry and Wilcox Alabama and Ouachita Parish Louisiana join nine counties already covered. Registrations in those areas reached 16 492 by Wednesday with 2 057 that day. The registrars are Civil Service workers.
Six former Auschwitz SS guards and officials were given life sentences for mass murder after a 20 month trial in Germany. Eleven others received prison terms from 14 years to 3 years 3 months, with three acquittals. Survivors watched as verdicts were read.
Secretary of Defense Robert S McNamara says Soviet air defense missiles have shot down several U2 reconnaissance aircraft over the past years. He noted the same missiles used in Cuba in 1962 and cited a 1960 Soviet shootdown, without detailing other incidents. The testimony supported missiles over bombers for future U S defenses.
Typhoon Mary brushed mountains in Formosa today causing at least four deaths and injuring 71. Eight people were reported missing as police searched the area.
A witty remark defines a procrastinator as someone who delays tomorrow what they already delayed today. The line plays on the common refrain about delaying tasks and echoes everyday hesitations.
Cape Kennedy reports a global recovery effort for astronauts L. Gordon Cooper Jr. and Charles Conrad Jr. as the Gemini 5 capsule splashes down in the Atlantic southwest of Bermuda. The Lake Champlain and escorts stand by with three additional recovery zones established near the Canary Islands, Hawaii area, and Okinawa. If landing occurs on the button, Cooper and Conrad spend a night aboard the Champlain before transfer to Cape Kennedy for three days of debriefings and follow-up sessions at Houston.
The Senate approved a bill providing $10 000 in free life insurance for American military personnel in Viet Nam and other combat zones by voice vote and sent it to the House. The move follows insurers' reluctance to issue policies for service members in Viet Nam or slated to deploy.
Tokyo's leftist dominated metropolitan assembly adopted a resolution urging the United States to withdraw from Viet Nam, approved in a Wednesday night session.
U S Marines say their major assault on the Van Tuong Peninsula led to more than 600 Viet Cong dead. Officials report 552 VC bodies counted, 50 prisoners taken, and lighter Marine losses, with 1 200 guerrillas estimated in the area.
The forecast calls for showers to end tonight with mild above normal temperatures tomorrow. Tonight's low around 65 and Friday high in the mid 80s. Rainfall recorded last night at 0.42 inches at the water works. The official high yesterday reached 95 at 1:30 p.m. and overnight low was 71 at 7 a.m.
In Athens King Constantine selected Elias Tsirimakos a former leftist Socialist to form a new government and end Greece 35 days of political turmoil. Tsirimakos pledged to seek a confidence vote in parliament next week claiming 154 supporters, while Papandreou warned of severe denunciation. Clashes and protests erupted as youths demonstrated against the palace and Tsirimakos.
A lightning strike on the 120 foot level of Old Solo, a 202 foot tall 3000 year old giant in Sequoia National Forest, sparks a fire watched by two Tule River Reservation Yokuts men paid 4.98 per hour combined. They work five days a week eight hours, awaiting rain or snow to suppress the blaze.
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