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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1973
Page
17
Nixon aides press for a clear economic plan as the top national problem with inflation controls and spending cuts. They seek a written statement or speech and a public appearance to show progress on the people’s business while pressing Congress on trade energy and revenue sharing bills.
Swedish police locked gunman, accomplice, and four hostages in a bank vault in Stockholm for a third day. Authorities hoped locking them in would allow a safe seizure, while negotiations continued and the gunman insisted on keeping a hostage to secure his exit.
By The Associated Press many fires across six Western states were brought under control on Saturday leaving one major blaze, the Freezeout fire in Hells Canyon Oregon, still out of control as authorities work to prevent new outbreaks. Fires have burned about 195000 acres in California, Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Nevada and Washington with several hundred smaller fires adding more land burned.
Forecast calls for mostly sunny skies with today’s temperatures near 90 degrees and overnight lows in the upper 60s. Tomorrow mirrors today’s conditions with continued warm, sunny weather.
Nasser Ahmed Abu Bakr a 54 year old North Yemeni armed with pistol and grenades hijacked a Yemen Airways DC6 from TaiZZ North Yemen to Asmara Ethiopia. He surrendered after 75 minutes of negotiation and delivery of weapons to Kuwaiti officials.
Rescue teams broke through mud and rock to an underground chamber where two copper miners have been trapped for more than a week in CASA GRANDE Arizona. They made a tiny opening and signaled with a light but received no response. A six inch shaft was completed to the chamber enabling food supplies and a microphone to be lowered, yet no reply was heard.
A letter bomb in the Bank of England injured three men and a second device exploded in a women’s shop. The wave of bomb threats blamed on Irish Republican Army extremists disrupted shopping, travel, and sport across London with large crowds evacuated and several bombs defused.
The article notes certain crimes on American college campuses have increased sharply, reporting a rise of up to fifty percent. It references related pages and tangential items including a Japanese student Tadaki Kamo joining Franklin High School and a Brady Bunch segment filmed at Kings Island.
The AP survey shows Canada strikes and bad weather crimping newsprint for Ohio papers. Some dailies curtailed pages or skipped editions, notably the Bellefontaine Examiner suspending Saturday publishment for 82 years. Others reported 30 day inventories and conservation measures while Cincy and Dayton papers warned of possible future curtailments.
The Middletown Journal has no problem with newsprint and expects adequate supply for the year. Editor Frank R. Myers says the paper is watching waste and aiming to "squeeze the paper down" wherever possible.
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