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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1969
Page
10
New Haven Conn AP Students for a Democratic Society approved a plan to support GE striking workers at Yale University meeting. The general strategy calls for student labor alliance actions including raising funds blocking GE recruitment on campuses and manning picket lines. GE workers strike is the longest in the company history with 133000 employees on strike.
A Flint meeting of the Weatherman, a SDS breakaway group, gathered 150 delegates with calls for secrecy and a $25 to $100 journalists fee. Led by Mark Rudd and Bernardine Dohrn the session began Saturday and ran into Monday night with discussions on male chauvinism factory worker alliances and the sugar harvest in Cuba.
Orville R. Gunyon aged 56, supreme governor of The Loyal Order of Moose, died Monday in an Indianapolis hospital. He had been elected head of the organization last summer and served as president of the Indiana Brass Co. at Frankfort.
Butler County commissioners authorize study for a third common pleas courtroom in the historic courthouse. Judge Marrs and officials plan to relocate part of the law library to the first floor to free space for a new courtroom and judge’s chambers, reducing the third floor weight load. The board also names 14 trustees for the new Butler County Community Improvement Corp including Millard Bechtel Ronald Helman Robert Myers C. L. Hardin and others with Bogan named clerk.
Samuel Latham 32 of 1586 Pueblo Drive New Miami is scheduled for trial February 16 at 9 a.m. for first degree murder in the April 3 killings of Dr Bertram Roden 63 and his wife Leona 58. Victims found beaten in their home at 40 Picadilly Drive after neighbor checked newspapers.
Waldo Michael reported to sheriff's deputies that a block and tackle worth 30 dollars was stolen from his garage at 8850 Kiester Road. Robert Vanskaik of 4171 Hamilton Trenton Road Williamsdale said vandals used an air rifle to damage windows valued at 40 dollars.
Cleveland industrialist Cyrus Eaton, in a news conference, urged withdrawal of 100000 troops in 60 days and all troops in 18 months to convince Hanoi the U S seeks an end to the Vietnam War. He cited eight days of talks in Hanoi and said North Vietnam wants peace but will not surrender. He warned of a looming low mood in the U S and questioned Park Paris and Harriman roles. He asserted Hanoi leaders would not take over the South and stressed Soviet and Red China support for Hanoi.
An astronomer said reports of a Christmas Eve comet were unlikely to explain the Star of Bethlehem. Ken Franklin of the American Museum Hayden Planetarium noted no comet was recorded at Jesus birth, probably in 6 B C. The seventh comet of 1969, Tago Sato Kosaka, was visible in late December and may have been seen from parts of the southern hemisphere on Christmas Eve and from the southern United States by January.
The Social Security Administration at 2022 S Monument Ave Hamilton invites the public to an open house from 10 a.m. to 4 30 p.m. on January 9. Dedicatory ceremonies begin about 1 30 p.m. with Congressman Donald E Lukens as speaker. The new building sits midway between Court and Ludlow streets.
James Wade Romans, a 21 year old former Middletown man serving a year at Kentucky State Penitentiary, asks Butler County Common Pleas Court to drop a first degree vehicular homicide charge pending against him. He contends he was extradited from Ohio and requests a speedy trial or dismissal.
Los Angeles AP Charles Manson plans to ask for joint counsel and voice in his defense as he fights for self representation in the Sharon Tate murder case. Judge Keene allowed self representation though McKissack says Manson seeks input on merits of joint counsel.
Friedrich W. Schultz-Wenk a 55 year old German born car maker who brought Volkswagen to Brazil and helped make Sao Paulo the automobile capital of Latin America died after a long illness He began in 1950 as a Volkswagen representative in Brazil and in 1953 opened a Sao Paulo factory assembling foreign cars from imported parts
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