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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1962
Page
12
Hollywood AP reports Peter Fonda 22, youngest Fonda, testing for the part of John F Kennedy in PT 109. The film recounts Kennedy and nine others surviving the PT boat sinking after a Japanese destroyer rammed it in 1943. Kennedy was 26 then.
Six fishermen were stranded on two ice floes about 500 feet offshore at Lorain Ohio on Lake Erie. Balmy conditions caused ice breakup and the men were rescued by two boats, one crewed by former Navy veterans and the other by U S Coast Guard lifeboat station personnel. Five identified men were Lorain firemen and local residents Charles Biven Regis Saltis Charles Wright Robert Aycox and Clifford Cameron. One declined to give his name.
The Soviet press reported Premier Khrushchev sent a congratulatory telegram to new Syrian prime minister Marouf Dawalibi dated January 15, marking the first mention since January 16. No location or current activities of Khrushchev were disclosed amid ongoing rumors, including death rumors in Tokyo.
Edward Williams, 51, of 125 Hillcrest Drive Eaton, fell at Roller Haven yesterday, sustained head cuts and was knocked unconscious. He received 13 stitches and was treated at Middletown Hospital.
False alarms disrupted Painesville with fire and burglary calls at a department store two schools a factory a bank and several stores. Ohio Bell workers traced the trouble to a short circuit caused by water leaking through a manhole cover on Richmond Street, which also knocked out the police telephone.
The Alaska Highway stretches roughly 1,630 miles from Dawson Creek in British Columbia to Fairbanks, Alaska, with the pending reply also published today.
Robert Byington Jr. was released from jail after two months amid a nationwide search for his missing daughter Robin. The case centers on Patricia Byington and two other men who allegedly abducted Robin from Granville as Byington had fought a Las Vegas custody dispute. Authorities from Granville to the FBI pursued the car, colliding with another vehicle in a bid to halt the abduction.
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