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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1962
Page
2
An air, sea and land hunt failed to locate the 94 aboard an Italian jet that vanished in a monsoon storm before landing at Bombay. Investigators searched Murbad area 50 miles east, as six Indian Air Force planes withdrew at dusk and patrols pressed on through thick jungle.
London AP reports Sir Winston Churchill, recovering from a thigh fracture, showed early signs of phlebitis in his left leg Saturday night. Middlesex officials noted the condition, with Churchill’s wife visiting and doctors warning the situation requires hospital care and bed rest.
Police report two shepherd boys located debris of an Alitalia jetliner about 50 miles northeast of Bombay on a jungle hill. One European man’s body was recovered at the site and an Italian lira note was found nearby.
Three British Army recruits are joined by their mothers for a one week visit to an engineers camp near Cove. Maj. Edward Smeeden says the trip shows mothers how recruit training starts. Mothers Billet with local families and hope to avoid 6 am wake up calls.
A Huron County man, Chester W. Appleton, who spent most of nine years in Ohio Penitentiary, will be released this week due to a defective indictment. Judge George B. Marshall granted habeas relief as authorities prepare a corrected indictment and potential retrial for breaking and entering a food store. The case involves malice and felony value terms in the original charge, with issues tied to a June 1953 or earlier indictment date and recent law changes raising felony thresholds. Appleton may face additional charges in Pennsylvania if a hold is honored.
Six neighbors in Street Somerset sue for lower rates claiming new homes behind their fences invade privacy. They complain of women sunbathing with clothes to their backsides and men seeing legs during meals. The court refused to cut taxes, ruling the issue not distressing enough.
Daniel Boone files suit in Jefferson Circuit Court claiming the county's 34 000 purchase of the Avalon from a Cincinnati bankruptcy sale is frivolous public money spent on an antiquated boat. The county plans a museum or excursion use while Boone cites health welfare and drainage needs as higher priorities.
Around the clock landfill work stemmed the Big Sandy River flood at Louisa causing a washout at the river edge. Crews hauled rock and filled the gap after the river jumped its channel. A house dropped into the river when the flood pushed around a dam, and several families evacuated along US 23 as traffic was rerouted.
The Utility Workers Union and Ohio Edison Co. reached a two year contract for 1600 employees with a 3 percent wage increase, retroactive to July 1, and wage bumps of 5 to 10.5 cents first year and 45 to 105 cents second year, pending ratification. The piece notes the first bank in the original colonies was chartered in Boston.
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