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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1969
Page
12
Franklin City Council approved the 1969 budget showing about a 10 percent overall hike with roughly a 10 percent pay raise for city employees in a two hour meeting. The $1,028,017 budget lists transfers reducing net spending to about $883,758 and details rate increases for water sewer and landfill services.
Siracusa, 30, a science teacher at Brooklyn's Franklin K. Lane High School, was beaten by three youths and doused with lighter fluid. He smothered the flames and is reported in good condition at LaGuardia Hospital. attackers' school status was unclear.
Clay Shaw faces trial on charges of conspiring to murder President Kennedy as jurors are drawn in New Orleans. Judge Haggerty orders tight security with deputies screening spectators while prosecutors clash over delaying the start and accuse Ramsey Clark of influencing the jury selection.
Vital statistics note several births yesterday and today including a boy for Mr. and Mrs. Jean M. Bibeau and a girl for Mr. and Mrs. Corbett Wilder. Out of town birth reported for Mr. and Mrs. Dan E. Forney in Beloit Wisconsin. Hospital dismissals list multiple local residents from Hughes Memorial Hospital Hamilton.
Two Clinton County teenagers Anne Swaim and Mike Riley vanished Friday after saying they would grab a snack in Xenia. A late Monday call from Anne in North Carolina said they were "well and together" and en route to Wilmington, with authorities noting possible elopement but offering no further details. The case prompted intensive searches and concern from relatives and local officials.
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