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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1969
Page
8
In Greensboro North Carolina two pastors faced an assault charge after a church dispute. Judge Elreta Alexander dismissed the case after both sides offered forgiveness and urged reflection. Reverend Don Harrell apologized to Reverend J H Hutchins and the court.
Akron Ohio AP The Army woke Sharon Shepard at 6 am on Wednesday and she cried with happiness upon learning her husband Army Sgt Vernon C Shepard was alive after 38 days missing in action in Vietnam. He and Sgt Michael T Patterson walked into a South Vietnamese outpost near the Cambodian border. Shepard, wounded in the left foot and malnourished, said he could not share details of his return. He joined the Army in 1968 and volunteered for helicopter duty a month later. His sister-in-law noted his brother Mark Abel serves in Vietnam.
Robert Summers of Tiffin Ohio won the Midwest director post at the American Farm Bureau Foundation during its 50th annual convention in Washington.
Los Angeles district attorney Evelle Younger says he will not contest a court ban on pretrial statements in the Tate LaBianca murders case. He expects to try the case within 60 days and to release the grand jury transcript to defenses after all defendants receive it. Meanwhile, Charles Manson and five followers face murder conspiracy charges for the August 9 killings and related violence connected to the “family” cult. Investigators search for Donald O Shea at a Chatsworth ranch and Los Angeles officers plan to interview cult members in the San Jose slayings of Kathy Snoozy and Deborah Furlong. Manson’s next court date is December 22 for entering a plea.
Tuscarawas County Sheriff A J Young was elevated to president of the Buckeye Sheriff's Association at the annual meeting in Columbus Ohio succeeding Donald Thompson who becomes director at large. Wilfred Sunderhaus Mercer County was elected first vice president and John Casteel Henry County second vice president.
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