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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1972
Page
5
Rep. Walter E. Powell announced Western College has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities grant totaling $239,780 to develop a humanities program. The funding funds workshops retreats and consultants for students under the program.
Invited guests answer questions on television satire as Cynthia Lowry departs on vacation. The interview highlights how humor targets both parties without hostility, noting favorable reactions from Eisenhower Truman Kennedy and Gay Activists who protested one routine.
In Cerritos a 400 foot banana split was claimed by three Boy Scout troops and ice cream workers who prepared it in a shopping center lot. The feat used 120 gallons of ice cream 1200 bananas 69 gallons of syrup 24 gallons of whipped cream 28 pounds of almonds and three gallons of cherries. About 80 scouts 30 ice cream workers and spectators shared the dessert amid the event.
President Nixon will hold meetings in San Clemente this week with Secretary of State William P. Rogers and former Treasury Secretary John B. Connally, both returning from overseas assignments.
TV networks suspend regular programming to cover the 36th Democratic National Convention in Miami Beach. Live and taped highlights air on channels 12 and 22 at 9:30 p.m. Tonight includes O'Brien opening remarks and credentials and rules committee reports. Also on tap are election of officers and Olympic trials on channels 12 and 22.
The Democratic telethon ran 19 hours and drew nearly four million in pledges to reduce a 1968 debt. ABC air time cost 1.6 million, volunteers staffed 32 centers, and late-mail contributions aimed to push receipts past 5 million. A host phoned the Western White House for Nixon, but the guard rejected the attempt.
Ohio roads and highways caused 14 fatalities over the weekend raising the 1972 total to 443. Among the dead were two Cleveland area pedestrians and a Wooster couple killed in a bizarre car train collision Sunday.
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