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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1968
Page
5
Burglars broke the front door with a jimmie bar at Vic Cassano's Pizza House 1201 Jackson Lane and stole about 50 dollars. Police report 3.80 from the cash register 42.80 from a cigarette machine and an unknown amount from the juke box. Moscow University stands tall as the Soviet capital's premier institution with 30000 undergraduates and a self contained campus.
WISHING WELL 4p. ERE is a daily fortune puzzle. Count letters in your first name then adjust by rules to get a key number. Start at the upper left and read letters under checked figures to obtain the message. 226 King Features Syndicate, Inc. 1968. World rights reserved.
Ohio lawmakers press toward adjournment with a jitney calendar. The Senate could vote tonight on raising pay from eight thousand to fifteen thousand, while the House may push for ten to twelve thousand or resist without annual sessions. A \$740–\$750 million bond issue faces House Finance review and possible voter consideration.
About 1,200 attendees at Midlletown High School heard Razors Edge Chorus of SPEBSQSA present Holiday By the Sea directed by Maj. Robert Wachter of Dayton. The program featured the Pittsburghers quartet and local groups plus a fashion show of beach attire from 1870 to 1910 loaned by Catalina Bathing Suit Co. The Pittsburghers arrived home from a USO tour of Vietnam hospitals to sing, while funds will aid Doty House and SPEBSQSA’s Institute of Logopedics in Wichita.
Samuel Hammons, a NASA health physicist, and his son Dale Hammons died after a booby-trapped package they picked up at a Greyhound station in Cleveland exploded during a 15 mile drive home to Lorain Ohio. The incident occurred Saturday and the package originated from Salt Lake City Utah.
The Senate returns to vote on ending debate on civil rights legislation and an open-housing amendment. Republicans hint at a possible compromise to maintain the conservative coalition, while Democrats warn of a near-certain lay‑aside if cloture fails again.
A dense schedule lists meetings for Monday and Tuesday including MHS Band Associates at 7:30 p.m. and Monroe Lions Club at 6 p.m. Central School activities at the auditorium and various organizations meet at Manchester Motor Inn, Legion Hall, and city buildings.
Bishop Clarence Issenmann attended the first official guitar mass of the Cleveland Catholic Diocese with satisfaction. The service took place before Cardinal Newman Day Banquet at the Sheraton Cleveland as six Diocesan Newman Club chapters participated.
Workmen cleared Penn Central tracks near Oak Harbor twelve miles west of Port Clinton after eighteen steel laden cars derailed from a sixty eight car freight. No one was injured.
Butler County deputies found a door pried open at the B and L Comet Service Station at Engle's Corner early yesterday morning but nothing appeared to be missing.
Steel Magazine says the 1968 stockpiling ahead of a potential summer strike is the most orderly ever. Factors include tighter truck scheduling after a summer strike, higher mill capacity, better consumer inventory control, and imports. First seven weeks of 1968 show 13.6 percent higher output. No. 1 heavy melting scrap price fell to $31 per ton.
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