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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1963
Page
7
In San Bernardino California a bus carrying 40 Campfire girls rolled after brakes failed on a mountain outing. Driver William Jones 53 eased to a soft shoulder and slowed the vehicle before tipping into a 10 foot ditch. Twenty two girls suffered minor injuries.
Ghanaian and Ethiopian students who studied in Bulgaria recount racial abuses and forced indoctrination, saying communism offered no dignity. They describe being called black monkeys, spat on, and threatened with deportation, with lectures on Marxism compulsory and African student groups banned.
Dwight D. Eisenhower and Mamie Eisenhower travel separately for vacations. He flies with two friends for three weeks of hunting and fishing near La Paz Baja California. Mamie heads to the Maine Chance farm in Scottsdale Arizona, with plans to return to Palm Desert in early March.
In England and Wales men are confined to prisons and detention centers while homes outnumber women by 30 to one, highlighting a stark gender disparity in living arrangements and custody statistics.
Jersey Shore Pa AP reports Mr and Mrs John A Cline have five children with a common birth date. Three siblings Tommy 7 Mary Jane 3 and newborn Margaret Anne all born Feb 7 at Jersey Shore hospital delivered by Dr Neil Dunkle. Eldest John is 10 born March 29 and Susan 5 born June 15.
In 16th and 17th century sword use, the dagger served as a left hand auxiliary. This practice complemented main blades, aiding defense and offense as practitioners balanced grip, tempo, and distance in duels and training.
Mayor Robert F Wagner resumes the City Hall talks with publishers of nine closed New York dailies as a 73 day blackout continues. Union leaders say printers will keep negotiating while others are idled and a guild council labels the shutdown a strike and lockout. Senator Javits praises the mayor for a terrific effort to end the dispute.
Carpenter Leslie Cox, allergic to wood, was pensioned off after 14 years with Birmingham city parks. He will receive 3 pounds 0 shillings 40 pence weekly for 33 years, then 2 pounds 11 shillings 1 penny for life, while seeking non wood related work.
The Rayburn Building rises on Capitol Hill as Congress debates the cost of a new 10 story House office complex. At $83 million for 149 suites plus renovations bringing total close to $100 million officials and members weigh the value of extra rooms for 435 lawmakers.
The article notes an $18.5 million project to expand the House into three office buildings while its 435 members remain unchanged. It cites the shift from one building in the 1920s to larger staffs and hundreds of letters daily, driven by increased district populations and government services, plus congressmen generating much of the extra workload through newsletters and speeches.
U S Representative Walter H. Judd of Minnesota is set to address about 1,500 members of the Ohio Grain & Feed Dealers Association during their 84th convention in Columbus. The three day meeting runs today as part of the gathering.
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