This Date in History 1978 Highlights Global Events
On this date in history the Paris signing ended Americas longest war in 1973, Edison’s bulb patent arrived in 1880, Marian Anderson’s Lincoln Memorial recital occurred in 1939, France recognized China in 1964, a space capsule fire killed Grissom White and Chaffee in 1967, and California flood deaths topped 100 in 1969. The week’s notable items include Kosygin’s India visit in 1969, Melvin Laird ending the draft in 1970, New York and New Jersey emergencies in 1976, and birthdays for Hyman Rickover and William Randolph Hearst Jr. Benjamin Franklin’s thought complements the page.
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Associated Press
Paris
America
Vietnam
Thomas Edison
Marion Anderson
Lincoln Memorial
Washington
Constitution Hall
France
China
Virgil Grissom
Edward White
Roger Chaffee
Cape Canaveral
California
Iraq
Israe
Alexei Kosygin
India
Melvin Laird
New York
New Jersey
Hyman Rickover
William Randolph Hearst Jr
Volunteers Aid Middletown Police With Snow Call
About 75 volunteers with four wheel drive vehicles offered aid as police dispatched calls across Middletown and neighboring areas. Gerald Helton ferried employees to the hospital after 6 pm yesterday while others pulled cars from ditches and delivered food, medicine, and fuel oil to shut ins and nursing homes.
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Sewes
Trenton
Franklin
Monroe
the _r police records department
Gobbler's Knob evacuations after fierce Ohio blizzard
In Darbydale Ohio residents cling to life in a hillside mobile home park as a blizzard rips through with 75 mph winds. Families, including Frank Fahner and Delores Munyan, describe the storm and fears of frozen doors and being trapped while seeking safety off Gobbler's Knob.
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Darbydale
Ohio
Gobbler
Frank Fahner
Percy Wilson
Middletown
Ter County
Flemming Road
Robert R. Walton, SR
Chariét
Thursda
Oak Hills Mobile Home Park
Columbus
Chelsie Walsh
Julie
Fahner
Mungan
White House receives 3000 cans in drive for bottle law
Environmental Action Foundation promotes nickel deposits on cans and bottles and has mailed about 3000 beverage containers to the White House. The group argues the laws would cut litter and save energy in production, while container manufacturers oppose the legislation. Great Mountain Forest covers 6800 acres in the Berkshire foothills near Norfolk Connecticut.
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Washington
Environmental Action Foundation
White House
Great Mountain Forest
Norfolk
Connecticut
Berkshire
Poles Drink Most Liquor in World Consumption Study
Amsterdam AP reports the Dutch Council for Distilled Drink's annual 1977 survey shows Poles averaged 5.7 quarts of hard liquor, leading Hungarians and Luxembourgers. French wine average was 107 quarts, while West Germans drank 159.5 quarts of beer to Australians at 147.9.
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Amsterdam
Netherlands
Dutch Council For
Multiple EMS Calls Reported Across City Streets
A series of ambulance transports and hospital admissions are outlined with times and addresses including Rhonda Tincher in labor at 304 S. Main St and transported for delivery, Linda DuVernois with a facial cut treated and released, Wes Holcomb with chest pains admitted, and Dorothy Purdum transferred to Good Samaritan Hospital. Additional cases include ill patients, breathing difficulties, and chest pains requiring hospital admission or care across several blocks and streets.
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S. Main St
Rhonda Tincher
Flemming
First Ave
Bill Otis
Central Ave
Lounell Wallis
Germantown Road
Crawford St
Kevin Joe Bays
N. Marshal Road
Shirley Lubberger
Woodlawn Ave
Tommy Albin
Grand Ave
Dorothy Purdum
Good Samaritan Hospital
Cincinnati
Lamplight Court
Robert K. Shephard
Arlington Ave
Charles Lindsay
Baltimore St
Nannie Holland
Meadow Ave
Lafayette Ave
Joyce Stafford
Inland Drive
Lawrence Gibson
Lost and Found and Obituaries in One Fragmented Page
A jumble of lost pets including a black male Siberian huskie named Sinbad near Sunset Park and various dogs found or lost in Jackson and Babeck areas plus several obituaries and funeral notices from McCoy Leffler Funeral Home for Mrs Howard M and Mr Einar Herman Jacobson among others. Also mentions a Texas Instruments calculator and other items in a Morgan Co collection with multiple phone calls for pickup.
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Sunset Park
Jackson
Mapie Park
MIRCO
Mecc i. Bto. Morgan CO
Texas Instrument
Dlack & Tan
Virginia Ay Franklin
Babeck
Trenton
Funeral Notices for Daisy Tolliver and Lillian Johnson
Obituary notices list Daisy Tolliver of Middletown aged 59 with funeral details at McCoy Leffier. service Friday 2 p.m. Howard Sears officiant at Woodside Cemetery. Also listed is Lillian Hiteshue, 92, of Springfield at ICCF Home, with visitation Sunday church service 4 p.m., burial at North Monroe Cemetery per family. Arrangements by McCoy Leffier. other fragments note John Johnson of Mount Pleasant with incomplete arrangements.
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McCray
Arthur C
Baltimore St
Founda
McCoy Leffier
David Kidd
Woodside
Dial
Tolliver
Daisy
Seneca St
Middletown
At Tolliver
Howard Sears
Woodsoe Cemetery
McCoy Leftier
Monroe Chapel
W. Elm St
Monro
Robert and
Lela Petry
Wigerey
Setvicey
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Eugene Sheffer
Ford
Devon River
Labimar Cihie
A/BIE
Lai
Reddy O
Jas
Benjamin Franklin
United States
Sat
Sun
Wheelers
Earl
First Investment Company
Marvin David Charles
Butler County
Lafayette Street
Robert R Walton
Robert C. Wright
Ralph A. Henderson
High Street
Hamilton
Ee Ie Gay
Oewe
Golaman Avenue
Robert R. Walton
Robert OD. Wright
Federal National Mortgage Association
Edward F. Loftus
Robert D. Wright
Buckeye Savings Association
Joan A. Riley
Butier County
Taylor Avenue
Donald M. Lerner
Tri-State
Robert DO. Wright Macrut Au
Dog — Gern
Shafer
Miami St
Central Ec
Sean
Howard M
Germantown
Janel Nursing Home
Lenora Spaniel
McCoy Leffler
Miam Valley
Rengeraere
McCoyer
Middletown Journal
Journal
Jason
Joyce
Bob
Wanda
Charlie
Rick
Ann
Mike
Nanny
Mark
Valentine
Middletown Journal Want AD Department
First & Broad Streets
Middletown, O
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