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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1968
Page
3
City Council of Richmond California rescinded a policy restricting police gun use after a 15 year old Charles Mims was shot by a reserve officer during four days of racial unrest. Councilman Harold Silva swapped his vote to revoke the action taken last week amid petitions and public outrage.
Chicago reports that several hundred American cities have ordinances requiring builders of new residential developments to place all utility wires underground. The trend reflects growing concern over aesthetics and outage resilience, with municipalities weighing costs against long term reliability.
A vintage advert promotes Carter's Pills as an laxative to energize the digestive tract and restore peristalsis for temporary relief. The copy claims many satisfied users and a 49 cent price.
About 250 Ohio National Guardsmen were deployed to the London Correctional Institution to quell disturbances in four dormitories where inmates threw objects and started small fires. State officials described the action as precautionary with perimeter guards and possible inside assignments to restore calm.
The 1970 census will use mail in 60 percent of the population with about 400 district offices to handle 500 000 people each. Large metropolitan areas will test the two way mail system while most counties use the traditional census taker.
Edward L. Luster 36 of Rittman was arrested after a police chase and charged with cashing three stolen payroll checks in Williamsburg. He is held without bond and suspected of leading a four-state check stealing ring. FBI involvement expected as over $15,000 in stolen payroll checks have surfaced across Ohio Indiana Kentucky and West Virginia.
Wally Mellish, a 22 year old ex convict, surrendered to police after a week long siege in Sydney during which he demanded to marry his childhood sweetheart. Rev Clyde Paton mediated by phone ending with a wedding ceremony and Mellish holding a shotgun as he gave himself up along with his 11 week old son Leslie. Bride Beryl Muddle, 19, faced unsettled charges for unpaid prostitution fine.
The Lebanon school board approved a 2 021 105 budget for 1969 up 115 080 from the previous year, with anticipated income down about 50 000 due to Ohio property tax cuts. Teachers salaries and instruction costs rose 96 250 to 1 359 450 as six or seven new teachers are needed.
Mary Redden 61 of 517 Boylston St in Middletown Hospital after a fall from a ladder at home left her with two broken ankles. Vandals damaged a backhoe at a Victoria Avenue site damaging tar and clay pipes. Enoch Hale 1743 Tytus Ave reports theft of two fishing rods and reels valued near 120 dollars. Fern Maze 309 Yankee Road says a purse worth 80 dollars and a baby carriage were stolen from her front door.
Gasoline and oil were drained from six new cars at the Beck-Talbert Pontiac dealer on Central Avenue early yesterday.
A 22 year old Marine, Thomas Fulton Scholfield, is sought after taking 2 year old Vicky West at gunpoint and fleeing toward Redding. His wife Loretta Scholfield later returned the girl to Marysville, after Theresa West and others were tied up and the child was harmed but alive.
Washington AP reports Explorer 38 has ceased spinning to extend antenna booms taller than the Empire State Building and start monitoring radio signals. Despun Monday from Goddard Space Flight Center, engineers will test experiments over six days before deploying the booms. The satellite orbits about 3640 miles above Earth to study low frequency signals from the Milky Way and distant galaxies.
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