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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1976
Page
3
The Ohio Expositions Commission raised concession rentals by about 12 percent at the Ohio State Fair and moved to broaden beer sales outside fair events. Front-foot rates rise from 30 to 35 45, trailer parking from 30 to 45, and supply truck parking from 50 to 75. Billings is Montana’s most populated city.
Carl Zenner a 61 year old junk peddler was found dead from freezing in his Akron home. Officials say East Ohio Gas cut off service in September for a $60 bill and Akron city water was shut off a few weeks earlier for $23 overdue. The home had broken windows with plastic and cardboard covers. Police found $80 in Zenner's pocket.
An Amtrak National Limited West train with 73 aboard derailed near Newark, Licking County, early Saturday. Two sleeper cars left the tracks about 1:30 a.m while en route from Pittsburgh to Kansas City. Passengers were routed by taxis and buses as investigators probe the incident.
In Euclid Ohio a Chemetron Corp acetylene plant explosion hurled 100 pound tanks like ping pong balls and gutted the one story facility. One worker Dennis Zimmerman 23 Eastlake in fair condition with burns narrowly escaped as flames rose 100 feet and lights dimmed in nearby suburbs during a three hour blaze.
Veteran actor Hal Holbrook files suit against Michael E. Randall 22 a Buffalo suburb resident claiming Randall copied significant dialogue from Holbrook's Mark Twain act Randall a waiter by trade says he saw Holbrook's Toronto performance in 1972 and was inspired to create his own Mark Twain Man and Legend show
Cincinnati AP Barbara Jordan U S representative will deliver the commencement address for the University of Cincinnati class of graduates on June 13 Jordan, a Democrat from Texas, has served in Congress since 1973 and was re elected in 1974 with 81 percent of the district vote She sits on the Judiciary and Government Operations committees and on the Steering and Policy Committee of the House Democratic Caucus.
A civil rights case will be tried February 2 at the University of Dayton law school. Judge Carl B. Rubin will preside, marking the first actual case heard there. The suit alleges unconstitutional city conduct in managing the Dayton Human Rehabilitation Center.
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