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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1970
Page
1
Robert Ingram, a bearded Black Miami officer with Afro shirts, is named Police Department's outstanding officer of the year. The 33 year old sergeant earns 932 a month and works citywide, emphasizing community involvement and pride in being both Black and a cop.
Saigon AP report states allied forces killed 166 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops in a sharp clash. Two U.S. helicopters were shot down, raising the past ten days toll. Total U.S. and South Vietnamese dead and wounded from helicopter crashes and combat are listed, with extensive aircraft losses since 1961. B52 bombers attacked supply depots and gun positions along Cambodia and Laos borders, delivering about 1,200 tons of bombs.
About 200 North Vietnamese troops attacked the Xieng Khouang airstrip on the Plain of Jars but withdrew after heavy air power. Government said around 70 enemy bodies were left on the battlefield and total Viet Minh and Pathet Lao casualties neared 500 since February.
A nationwide rail shutdown loomed Friday after failed talks between railroads and four shop craft unions. Federal Judge Howard Corcoran planned a hearing to decide whether to extend restraining orders preventing a coast-to-coast shutdown that began January 31.
The Senate passed a 35 billion education aid measure after Southern opposition to a ban on busing for integration. House actions included anti desegregation amendments to the HEW labor appropriation, with Nixon opposing inflationary funding. The conference now decides on the final package amid mixed signals on desegregation policy and court powers.
U S and Communist Chinese envoys meet in Warsaw in the 136th session of 15 year old talks. Walter J Stoessel Jr and Lei Yang head four members each in the small embassy reception room on Ujazdowskie Avenue. A Nixon portrait decorates the U S room.
The Middletown area will see fair and colder conditions tonight with lows in the teens. Saturday brings fair skies and a bit warmer temperatures with highs in the 30s, followed by a warmer outlook Sunday with a chance of rain. Yesterday's high reached 32 and this morning's low was 15.
Space Center Houston reports scientists will observe how the moon’s surface reacts to Earth's shadow during a five hour eclipse. ALSEP instruments left by Apollo 12 crew Charles Conrad and Alan Bean will beam data on thermal shock rock cracks gas release and magnetic field changes.
The Labor Department says living costs increased in January, though less steep than November and December. Consumer prices rose four tenths of a percent for the month, with seasonal adjustments showing six tenths for three months and an annual rate of 7.2 percent.
President Nixon lauded Andrew Wyeth as a world class painter at a White House toast honoring a month long East Room exhibit of 21 paintings. Nixon joked that Wyeth could not paint his portrait, though Wyeth would like to do it from life. Peter Hurd recalled painting a president and referenced the Johnson portrait once deemed the ugliest thing he had seen.
Vice President Spiro Agnew becomes the leading political draw in the United States with daily requests for appearances far outpacing those for President Nixon. He is expected to gross about 1.5 million dollars from five appearances, including 8 000 attendees at a St Paul dinner and nearly 1 000 in Atlanta, as Democrats lag in fundraising credentials.
A race related student boycott in southwestern Ohio largely ends as Princeton high school resumes with 250 black students returning. In Covington Kentucky about 20 black students demonstrate while 15 readmission conditions are set. Withrow Cincinnati, North College Hill and other schools plan talks and possible detentions as tensions ease.
The seven defendants in the Chicago riot trial start appeals today as Judge Julius J. Hoffman weighs sentences. Five were found guilty of inciting riots during the 1968 Democratic National Convention and face up to five years and a $10,000 fine. The judge may rule on use of wiretapped conversations in the government's case.
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