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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1965
Page
1
The agency considers restoring Korea era college deferment standards to limit drafts. About 2.2 million students hold current deferments, while Viet Nam era boards seek more inductees. State draft chiefs meet to discuss raising available manpower and reviewing 1-Y cases from failed mental exams.
North Vietnam leader Ho Chi Minh called for the withdrawal of U.S. troops in a New Year message broadcast from Hanoi via Moscow Radio. He accused U.S. circles of claiming peace while intensifying war and urged an end to military operations in South Vietnam to secure real independence.
Washington reports that U S peace moves in Viet Nam extend to France Yugoslavia and a NATO council session in Paris with envoys Goldberg and Harriman. They meet De Gaulle Couve de Murville Tito and others while urging a genuine settlement and signaling guarded optimism amid Vietnam war tensions.
Warren C. Bud Nelson, Lebanon, Ohio safety director, backs a state law mandating front and rear seat belts and their use. He argues enforcement similar to stop signs and speed limits could cut highway deaths, as 50 died in a recent Christmas week span. He favors education, enforcement, and legislation plus measures like vehicle inspections and driver reexaminations.
New York AP bulletin says Bethlehem Steel Co. the nation's second largest producer announced a $5 per ton price increase today on structural steel shapes and piling.
The U S Weather Bureau predicts mostly cloudy windy weather tonight with scattered light showers. A little cooler with low 48 to 53. Saturday remains mostly cloudy with scattered showers and cooler. The long range forecast shows temperatures through next Thursday about 10 to 12 degrees above normal. Yesterday’s high 63 and overnight low 57 at 8 this morning.
Viet Cong blasts the Dalat U.S. enlisted barracks killing one and wounding ten Americans along with one Vietnamese. The raid precedes a planned major attack near Quang Ngai as North Vietnamese troops reportedly seize outposts and Minh Long district HQs amid heavy rain hampering U S air counterstrikes.
A chaotic weather pattern brought wintry snow and ice in the northern Plains while mild air spread east of the Mississippi. Temperatures plunged below zero in eastern Montana and western Dakotas, with record highs noted at some Midwest cities such as 61 degrees in Moline Illinois.
The New Year holiday weekend began with lower traffic fatalities than the Christmas period. By early Friday Ohio reported at least 11 deaths across several accidents, including three with multiple fatalities, as hazardous conditions and storms affected regions from the northern Plains to the Pacific Northwest.
The Defense Department reports the U S military is halfway to adding 340000 personnel for the Vietnam era. 159000 enlisted thus far with 181000 needed by September to reach 2980000. Navy and Marines near full strength while the Air Force lags, Army has the largest recruitment task ahead.
FBI says it broke an inside theft ring that stole government property from the Charleston Naval Shipyard. Twenty six men were indicted in Charleston on charges tied to a year long pilfering scheme dating 1959 to 1964. Henry H. Harris, director of the naval supply center's storage division, is named among the defendants.
A sailing vessel with 35 aboard struck a coral reef southeast of Miami before dawn. Coast Guard helicopters rescued all 25 passengers and 10 crew. 24 flown to Homestead Air Force Base and 11 to the Coast Guard base near Miami Beach as the Mandalay broke up in 8 to 10 foot seas off Cape Florida.
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