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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1969
Page
2
Theophilus May, 108 years old tomorrow, planned to vote for Richard M. Nixon last November but could not due to forgetting to register. He has been bedfast for two years.
Rep. Donald E. Lukens will be hospitalized in Paris at the American Hospital for 10 days to two weeks after contracting malaria during a Biafra trip. He plans a return to the United States and expects confinement for a few weeks. Friends may send get well cards to 6 Boulevard Victor Hugo, Paris, France, with 20 cent regular mail or 40 cent air mail.
Italy has about 235 factories that produce bicycles motorcycles and accessories. They employ about 35 000 workers.
Four Ohio House chairmen for the 108th General Assembly were designated by Speaker-designate Charles F. Kurfess. Representative Ralph Fisher will chair Finance Appropriations for a fifth term. Keith McNamara will lead Reference for a second term. Barry Levey will head Judiciary. Carlton Davidson will chair the 26th District seat.
In Pittsburgh, a bus driver stopped near the North Side police station and alerted officers. Police arrested 19 year old Robert Marshall on armed robbery charges after he was linked to three knife point bus hold ups over the past year and held for court.
A Boeing 727 of Afghan Airways with 67 passengers and crew on board crashed on approach to Gatwick Airport near London. Authorities voiced faint hopes of survivors as fire and rescue teams rushed to the wreck in a field just outside the airport perimeter. The flight originated in Afghanistan and had last stopped in Frankfurt, Germany.
An 88 year old man Willie Murren and his 64 year old niece Edith Hobbs were found in a Middletown home after suspected carbon monoxide exposure from a three burner gas stove. Hobbs remained in fair condition while Murren was dead possibly since Thursday. Coroner Dr. Garret J. Boone said CO poisoning is likely but blood tests will confirm. Firemen police and gas officials investigated with oxygen given to Hobbs and funeral plans pending.
A Hamilton area man, Larry James Martin, 25, died in a traffic crash on US 27 north of Millville. He suffered chest and head injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene by Butler County coroner Dr. Garret J. Boone. The crash occurred at about 6 30 p m near the victim’s home. Investigating officers included deputies Robert Jackson and Terry Alfrey, Deputy Joe Pater, and Patrolman Howard Dittman. The body was sent to Marshall Smith Funeral Home in Oxford. This marked Butler County’s first traffic fatality of 1969, following no deaths at the same date in 1968.
NASA officials forecast a busy 1969 with manned lunar landings and orbital flights. Apollo 11 aims for mid year landing, Apollo 10 tests Lunar Module, Mariner probes target Mars flybys, and ongoing satellite observatories accompany a tight funding outlook amid Vietnam and domestic pressures.
Sally Golson aged 61 of 1217 Grove Street died yesterday afternoon after arriving at Middletown Hospital at about 5 30 p m ambulance transport. Fire squad treated her at 1207 Prospect Avenue before transfer. Golson was a kitchen employee at the Manchester Motor Inn. Bailey Funeral Home arranging services.
Lt. John James 25 of Euclid Ohio died when a Navy training plane crashed on the shore of Mono Lake about 20 miles south of Bridgeport California. Lemoore Naval Air Station sent an investigative team to the scene east of the Sierra Nevada.
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