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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1968
Page
2
Three Newark girls aged 5, 7, and 9 were found wandering near their homes after spending a night in a deserted 14 room house on South Central Avenue. They were tired and hungry but unharmed, having been discovered by an aunt who took them home for sandwiches and milk.
State Auditor Roger Cloud reported the final semiannual interest of 185,963 dollars on endowments totaling 6.1 million for Ohio State Ohio and Miami universities. The endowments are part of 10.4 million irreducible debt with a 6 percent annual interest obligation for lands set aside for schools and ministerial use.
A fire at Burton Rubber Processing Co near Chardon, Ohio, caused about $150,000 in damage to a rubber testing building. No injuries were reported and the cause remained under investigation.
Marine PFC Robert Burroughs, 23, son of Bishop Nelson M. Burroughs of Ohio, contracted a rare malaria strain on combat duty with the 3rd Marine Division. He died after being treated on the USS Sanctuary and will be buried in Chatham Massachusetts.
AP reports multiple fires in Cincinnati inflicting tens of thousands in losses. A $50,000 blaze at J. Cohen Wool Stock Co. was sparked by lightning observed by a returning unit. Four stories of a brick building burned as 100 firefighters fought the blaze for two hours. Earlier, Hillsdale Lotspeich school on Red Bank Road suffered an $8,000 fire with roof collapse after flames spread. Arson probes follow destruction of the wooden frame science and library building.
Mrs Ethel G Jasperson 79 native of Butler County died yesterday at Southgate Rest Home Wyandotte Michigan since 1934 husband Titus died 1954 daughter Lois Affholter Middletown three Jolliff brothers two sisters Joy Carberry Mabel Linn three grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren services 2 p m Monday McCoy Leffler Home burial Woodside Cemetery callers Sunday 3 5 and 7 9 p m also notices for Robert Richardson Elizabeth Hoskins Olga Huber and Hazel Fischer with service times and locations
Washington AP reports three Ohioans on the Defense Department list of service members killed in Vietnam. The fallen are S. Sgt. Earl Thomas of Cleveland Heights, Pfc. Jerry Ector of Cincinnati, and Pfc. Thomas L. Wilson of Hamilton.
In Rome caretaker Premier Giovanni Leone pushes to tax Vatican dividends in Italy to gain Socialist support. The vote of confidence passed 263 to 252 with 88 abstentions, as Leone aims to secure a fall mandate and appease reformists before their party congress. The Vatican newspaper denounced Leone for bypassing consultation and questioned concordat protections.
A Cleveland advisory board urged the Cuyahoga County Juvenile Court to limit the label delinquent citing stigma and negative reactions. The 25 member group urged divesting some child welfare duties to other agencies following a study by the National Council on Crime and Delinquency conducted last year.
At Ohio State University a protest over the dismissal of eight black students turned tense as about 125 demonstrators gathered near a campus residence. Ohio Highway Patrol protected the premises with riot squads and parked vehicles while officers removed the crowd after a standoff that included vandalism and barred access.
U S Senator Eugene McCarthy will campaign in Cincinnati on July 19 with a morning rally at Greater Cincinnati Airport in Florence Kentucky. His aides are running a large phone and doorbell drive in northern Kentucky to mobilize Democrats for district conventions on July 20.
Ohio prison officials promote William D. Salisbury to superintendent of Chillicothe Correctional Institution. Salisbury, 50, was assistant superintendent at Lebanon. he will succeed Marion J. Koloski, now Ohio Penitentiary warden. Main task is improving programs while maintaining security.
The State Controlling Board released 523000 to finance instructional television programs for more than one million Ohio students for the coming school year. The board also released 38000 for a highway safety program and 83554 to enter an engineering contract for a Toledo regional transportation study. It refused 35000 to buy an acre on the Miami University quadrangle and deferred action on releases for Massillon State Hospital farming land to replace routes 30 and 21.
Gallup Poll finds 3 to 2 unfavorable views of the U S Supreme Court, with more Americans disliking it than a year ago. The report notes a year earlier Americans gave mixed ratings, about equal shares calling the court excellent or good and fair or poor.
In Columbus Ohio AP reports Deer Creek Reservoir in western Pickaway County will be dedicated at 2 p.m. September 21. The project is the first of six reservoirs in the Scioto Valley Watershed with a three county committee led by Wayne E. Smith of Circleville to arrange the ceremony.
Sophia Thiel previously cited for keeping 50 dogs in a three room apartment faced fresh charges as 12 dogs remained at her residence. On March 19, 1967 she was put on a one year probation and ordered to report to the Municipal Court psychiatric clinic with instructions not to keep any more dogs.
Six year old Rae Anne Wood, with legs in casts, received money from an unknown admirer as she prepares to go home. Her brothers Jamie Stephen and Gered and her parents Mr and Mrs Roger Wood were killed when a single engine plane crashed west of Denver in late June. Rae Anne is the only survivor and may be released from hospital within a week.
Fire department responses include a 61 year old man on Wilson Street with breathing trouble, a stove grease fire at Robert Standley’s home causing no damage, and two false alarms. A 92 year old Hughes Howard was taken to Mid Deltown Hospital after experiencing breathing difficulty.
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