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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1972
Page
14
Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr responded to a Soviet Cuban demand for U S withdrawal from Guantanamo Bay with the word Nuts. The remark came during his attendance at the East Coast Flag Officers Symposium after Fidel Castro finished an 11 day trip to the Soviet Union.
Debbie Parker returned to a flooded bedroom in Dubuque Iowa after a vandal cut a hole in a window screen and used a garden hose. Police reported more than an inch of water on the floor when she arrived home.
By late 1974 a new four lane bridge may cross the Ohio River from West Virginia and end just short of East Liverpool. Ohio delays stem from federal red tape and land purchases, while West Virginia progresses with piers and main span bids. WVDH says the $20 million bridge could open by 1974. Ohio warns completion may take about three years after land is secured.
The Laborers' District Council of Ohio approved a new three-year contract for 10 000 workers, ending a 10 day statewide strike that halted or slowed about 800 million in highway and heavy construction. Details were not released, but the wage package includes a 1.15 per hour increase over two years with wage reopening in year three. Central Ohio workers earned 5.55 per hour under the old deal.
Tim Grunewald, blind son of Rev. Harold C. Gruenwald, has graduated eighth in a 700 member Riverview High School class near St. Louis. He attends Southeast Missouri College and plans psychology. He uses tape recordings and reader notes to study and lived at 10 Kenwood Drive in Middletown.
The Madison Board of Education meeting formerly set for July 20 is moved to July 13 at 4 30 pm due to vacation conflicts. The change affects attendees and public access.
A 20 year old Trenton youth testified that he helped plan a 480 stereo set theft from his brother then turned state witness. Timothy Gibbs implicated Paul Neanover and David Terrell and all were bound to the Butler County grand jury under 5000 bonds. Additional youths faced charges in a McDonald’s knife point hold up and other local offenses including meter destruction and shoplifting.
Firefighters and railroad crews worked through dawn to move seven derailed Chesapeake and Ohio freight cars near Bath Indiana on the Indiana Ohio border. One tank carried hydrogen peroxide a flammable liquid and another contained activated carbon a powder. Minor leakage occurred but no area threat two miles north in Franklin County. A small peroxide fire was quickly extinguished. Two tank cars loaded with fertilizer tipped onto their sides by a railroad embankment. College Corner and Oxford fire crews helped with the response as investigators opened the derailment inquiry.
White Cross Stores Inc of Monroeville Pennsylvania merged with Revco DS Inc of Cleveland after stockholders approved terms in separate meetings. The merger forms a discount retail drug chain with 478 units across 16 states.
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