Nixon backs Britain in expanded Common Market bid
President Nixon pledged U S support for Britain's entry into a larger Common Market within a unified Europe. He affirmed NATO commitment and European security after talks with Prime Minister Wilson.
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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1969
Page
1
President Nixon pledged U S support for Britain's entry into a larger Common Market within a unified Europe. He affirmed NATO commitment and European security after talks with Prime Minister Wilson.
Planes and roads were affected as a three day storm drenched the state with record rainfall. In Santa Paula and nearby areas residents fled rising waters while searches continued for the missing airliner.
Seventeen to eighteen inches of rain drenched Santa Paula causing the swollen Santa Paula Creek to flood the east end. A flood two feet deep inundated stores as residents evacuated for the second time in less than a month. About 10 miles east, an estimated 350 to 400 residents faced similar danger.
Residents flee Fillmore area as two rivers and a creek overflow. In Ojai Valley 600 spend night in schools from Camp Barnette to Rancho Sespe floods. Fresno central streets flood with sandbags. Lake Hughes reports fifteen homes washed away. Red Cross opens relief centers in Riverside San Bernardino Orange San Luis Obispo counties. Marines airlift food to about 3500 stranded in Orange County canyons.
The forecast for Middletown and vicinity calls for cloudy and cool temperatures tonight with lows in the mid 30s. Highs Wednesday will be in the upper 40s to 50s. Yesterday's high was 37 degrees with this morning's low at a mild 33.
Blanche Guinn of Elizabethton Tennessee learned from Army officials that her son Pfc Freddie Guinn age 20 had died in Vietnam a day earlier after being wounded in action He had feared another November tragedy as she remembered the 1967 funeral of her son Pfc John W Guinn who later returned alive Freddie had written of coming home and thanked his girlfriend Patsy Williams for a chain shaped like a heart
In Pasadena California the unmanned Mariner 6 with two TV cameras sped from Cape Kennedy toward Mars. After tracking for 4% hours navigation was locked on the sun and Canopus. The five month 226.3 million mile journey aims to assess Mars possible life conditions.
Canton police arrest John Beisel and half-brother Daniel McMullen after a bank holdup near city headquarters. Both, 23 and 26, face charges of attempted robbery and unlawful entry into a financial institution.
In Columbus, 74 West High pupils were arrested or suspended after disruptions linked to a noon hour sit-in and clashes with police. Principal David Randall and Supt. Harold H. Eibling backed the discipline, with most juveniles released to parents and court appearances planned.
Israeli warplanes bombed a Jordanian guerrilla pocket after it fired on an army patrol with machine gun and rocket fire. The raid followed attacks on Syria bases, with exchanges of fire across the river and no casualties reported. Reports say two Soviet MiG 17s were shot down during the Syria strike.
In Los Angeles, enthusiasts support KFAC AM and FM as the FCC blocks a sale to Atlantic States Industries citing diversification goals. Proponents argue split ownership would harm independent classical broadcasting. KFAC reports over 9 000 supportive letters.
A preliminary hearing before a faculty student judicial board was scheduled for 56 Oberlin College students. They face possible punishment for participating in a sit in that blocked U S Marines recruiters on campus last Thursday.
National and state education structures face growing strain as a multi part series explores how policy, funding, and classroom realities are shaping student outcomes. This installment examines administrative decisions and early indicators in districts across Ohio.
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