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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1968
Page
5
A power failure left Lebanon without electricity for about two hours and twenty minutes after a coil burned out at the city power plant. City Manager Charles Guard cited a switch gear malfunction as the cause and noted two explosions were heard near the plant.
Representative Donald E. Lukens denounces France's actions as jeopardizing the American dollar and warns Congress may press Johnson to demand payment or end Paris NATO obligations. He notes U S aid to France after World War II and France owes 7.2 billion for WWI debt while de Gaulle withdraws 2.8 billion from gold reserves.
In Palm Beach County Florida the clash at a Glades sugar plantation ended with 52 jailed on inciting to riot and unlawful assembly charges while 80 Jamaicans were flown back to Kingston. The dispute centered on pay for cane cutters and deductions for board and savings.
Franklin school board re elected Dr John Sharts as president and Mrs Charlotte Robinson as vice president at a special reorganizational meeting. Two new members, Thomas Hudson and Jack Barcalow, were sworn in. The board set meetings for the fourth Tuesday monthly and created a 1056 dollar service fund for travel expenses. They also adopted a temporary appropriation to pay school bills with a 210 dollar 1967 budget balance noted.
Postmaster General Lawrence F. O'Brien announced plans to acquire a new air mail building at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport Ohio. The private contractor will construct and lease the facility at Five Points Road east of Hangar Service Road to replace current air mail facilities. Plans specifications and bids will be issued soon.
John Harry Stedman of Rochester New York invented printed street car transfers. They were first used in Rochester in 1892.
Robert N Townsley 42 named publisher and general manager of the Lebanon Western Star weekly by Congressman Clarence Brown Jr. He succeeds his father Gardner Townsley who died two weeks ago. David Schneider 29 becomes editor and Richard Chambers 41 is advertising director.
Darrell Begley a Messer Construction Co employee claims he was shot and wounded July 30 when he entered private property near Hamilton Auto Glass Co in Hamilton Ohio. He seeks 104 768 80 in damages alleging the defendant Larry Rouse shot at him after he panicked in a rear alley area.
Three Ohio newspaper executives were named to the 40 member Pulitzer Prize journalism jury for 1968. William M. Ware of the Cleveland Plain Dealer Thomas L. Boardman of the Cleveland Press and Jim Fain of the Dayton Daily News were announced by Columbia University President Grayson L. Kirk.
A Honolulu survey of 2000 American travelers to Pacific ports beyond Hawaii shows 70 percent are experienced travelers who have already visited Europe.
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