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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1973
Page
1
North Hollywood AP reports 1973 was a good year for comedians says Bob Hope. He lists ten jokes reflecting the troubled year and notes audiences in war zones sought laughter. He cites Washington Watergate beef energy crisis and other satirical lines.
More than 200 independent truckers from over 10 states formed a national group to take their complaints to Washington. A three man Ohio Maryland Indiana committee will meet ICC and Cost of Living Council, with possible dates for a nationwide shutdown discussed but not set.
President Nixon signed a $375 million measure to encourage prepaid health maintenance organizations, aiming to cut costs and test feasibility over five years. He also approved $2.6 billion for sewage treatment funds and signed four other measures, while Kissinger planned California talks.
General Francisco Franco named interior minister Carlos Arias Navarro the first civilian premier of his 34 year rule to replace the assassinated Luis Carrero Blanco. Arias Navarro, a former Madrid mayor and police figure, is seen as signaling a new crackdown on antigovernment elements after the December 20 bombing. He is 65 and expected to be sworn in soon with an 18 member cabinet.
David McCuulsky, 24, of Athens Ohio, arrived in Haifa during the October war and was drafted to the Golan Heights front. He carried stretchers at a field hospital, aided wounded infantry, survived an artillery strike, and earned an Israeli medal and a tank service token after a 31 day tour ending at Christmas Eve.
Franklin County Prosecutor George C. Smith filed suit in Franklin County Common Pleas Court to stop the community release program for Ohio inmates. He cited six escapes and argued inmates with violent crimes roam public places while law requires confinement. Institutions named include Lucasville Mansfield Chillicothe Marion London Lebanon Lorain Sandusky Mount Vernon Camp Perry Marysville.
The forecast calls for partly cloudy skies with highs in the low 30s and a chance of rain or snow tonight and tomorrow. Lows tonight reach the upper 20s and tomorrow’s high remains in the 30s.
Journal editors and reporters in Middletown select the ten defining stories of 1973. Pages 19 outlines the top stories while features on downtown mall economics and Carlisle village income tax pamphlet preview appear on pages 34 and 35.
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