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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1970
Page
2
The 120th Butler County Fair starts today with 11:30 a.m. appearance by Miss Jane Logan 1970 Miss Ohio State Fair. Today features white horse shows at 2:30 and 7:30 p.m., 4-H booths and grange displays judging, and a 4 p.m. sand concert.
Middletown residents have contributed only 60 toward a 2353 goal set by the local American Red Cross chapter to aid Celia victims. The nationwide drive seeks 6 million, with more funds urgently needed. Checks should be sent to 125 St Main St. Local volunteers report 13,000+ have registered, 685,000 spent since Celia passed Corpus Christi Aug 3.
The highway patrol and Talawanda Future Farmers of America open a safety booth at the Butler County Fair today. FFA members display self designed safety posters judged by advisers with bail game tickets as prizes. Local patrol Post 9 shows safety films and Vascar timing. A recruiting officer will be present from noon to 9 p.m. to discuss becoming a patrolman.
Dayton father Wesley O’Neal 27 and son Gregory O’Neal 6 were killed in a two car crash on Interstate 70 in Preble County. Eight others were injured including Shirley O’Neal 24 and children Steven 5 Lisa 3, all Dayton, plus Indianapolis residents Sammy Coleman 24 Evan Coleman 9 Kevin Coleman 9 Marcus Steinnis 1, Allen Hanna 19 of Camden N J. The Cosgrove car carried Robert J. Cosgrove 28 of Columbus. Hanna was the lone uninjured. The westbound O’Neal car crossed the median and was struck broadside by Cosgrove’s vehicle.
The Rev. Herbert Wilson Jr., son of the Rev. and Mrs. Herbert Wilson Sr. of Middletown, has been appointed overseer of the Churches of God in Northeast Argentina. He is a former Middletown resident and Clayton Street Church of God member who has served as a missionary overseer in El Salvador and British Honduras and will attend a Language Institute in Costa Rica before his new assignment. His father, the Rev. Mr. Wilson Sr., pastors Temple of God on Verity Parkway.
A motorcyclist, James Harold Johnson, 33, of Farmersville Rt. 1, was riding on Garfield Street at 1 p.m. when he rode over a curb and was flung from his bike. He is in Middletown Hospital in fair condition with a severe head injury, a broken ankle, and cuts and bruises. Damage to the motorcycle was about 65 dollars. In a second accident reported by city police, four cars were damaged at 4:05 p.m. with no injuries. Lee Young, 70, of 1111 S. River St., Franklin, drove into a stopped car driven by Nancy Louise Gibson of 167 Linwood Drive, Franklin, which then struck Philip Barnett, 25, of 1324 Central Ave., Franklin, on North Germantown Road near the Frisch Restaurant.
Dayton mother Carolyn K Littler aged 21 jumped from her husband s car on Ohio 4 near LeSourdsville after an argument. A state patrolman saw the moving car as it entered LeSourdsville Park and reported she sustained a head laceration and back abrasions. She was treated in the hospital emergency room and hospitalized for further examination with two young children aboard.
The United States and South Vietnam signed the second 1970 food for peace deal to ship 150000 metric tons of U S milled rice worth over 25 million dollars. It may be among the last such pacts if South Vietnam reaches rice self sufficiency by year end, part of Public Law 430 programs totaling about 740 million dollars in agricultural aid since 1967.
Skeletons of five American soldiers suspected to have died providing rear guard protection for a U S Special Forces camp evacuation were found near an allied base 13 miles from the Laotian border in northern South Vietnam. A graves registration team is seeking more remains and tentatively identified the bodies from a dog tag and an M16 rifle near the bones.
COLUMBUS Ohio AP State Highway Director P E Masheter said Saturday all of Interstate 80 in Ohio will be open to traffic by Sept 15 placing the federally sponsored transcontinental highway within sight of completion from coast to coast Most of I 80 in Ohio doubles as the Ohio Turnpike but unlike the turnpike the interstate will operate toll free I 80 enters the northwest corner of Ohio and continues east by passing Toledo Sandusky Cleveland Warren to Exit 15 near Niles and Youngstown From there the Ohio Turnpike becomes I 80s to the Pennsylvania Turnpike I 80 continues toll free across Pennsylvania to New Jersey and New York City Masheter said on Sept 1 the Department of Highways will open to traffic a section of I 80 from Ohio 534 east of Lake Mil tion to Ohio 46 including the interchange of I 80 Ohio Turnpike and 80s The balance of the interstate route between U S 422 in Girard east to Ohio 193 will open to traffic on Sept 15
Patti Moehlman, a 26 year old Texas zoologist pursuing a doctorate in behavioral ecology at the University of Wisconsin, has spent six months observing wild burros in Death Valley. She plans to continue for about a year, traveling by foot, jeep, and horse Ra fiki to document movement and habits as part of a study to inform possible wild burro refuges in the Southern California desert. Her work involves photographing and naming burros, with estimated regional populations in the thousands, and builds on prior field study in Tanzania and Texas.
Government statistics show a 17 percent increase in Iraq's population over five years bringing the total to about 9.4 million. In 1965 it was just over eight million. Despite growth Iraq remains sparsely populated, about two thirds the size of Texas.
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