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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1970
Page
1
A prisoner writer recalls a fatal car crash caused by an unlocked vehicle and a child at the wheel. The piece follows ten faces from joy to guilt, courtroom strain, and eventual remorse, ending with a sobering parallel to a later hit and run.
Washington AP reports eight school districts will be selected for a one year trial paying private firms based on improvements in reading and math of disadvantaged children. Six firms will work with about 15 000 students in a five million dollar program.
Massive parades in Belfast and 16 other cities marked by heavy security and no injuries after a bomb explosion in an empty Belfast hotel. Officials credited police and Prime Minister Lynch for keeping order as tens of thousands of Orangemen marched in a day noted for both restraint and warnings of potential violence.
Cambodian infantry battled up Mt Kim Rom combat slopes capturing key resort area portions 50 miles west of Phnom Penh. A second force of about 1000 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese struck south of Kim Rom, inflicting heavy casualties on a government battalion. Fighting imperils Highway 4 and the Kompong Som oil refinery as both sides suffer losses.
Senate subcommittee hears that responsible operators are leaving the business as money hungry dealers take over. Standard Oil dealer Charles E. Shipley details high turnover, rental subsidies, and supplier programs that push price cutting and weaken private capital, hurting motorists and small operators.
A 359 foot Canadian cargo vessel Eastcliffe Hall sank in the St. Lawrence River near Massena New York after hitting a submerged object. Nine people are missing including two women and two children. Ontario police report 12 survivors with some swimming to shore. The 3,335 ton ship owned by Hall Corp of Canada was bound for Saginaw Michigan with pig iron.
Police used tear gas and riot sticks to break up a loud crowd of about 1000 youths in Milwaukee Wisconsin at Water Tower Park. Four officers and one youth injured and 12 arrested after the crowd toppled signs and pelted patrol cars. Earlier clashes had occurred July 1 and 2 following complaints of all night noise near a hospital.
New Bedford residents faced racially tense days as Sen Edward Brooke urged calm after meeting Black leaders to push for better housing education and jobs. Mayor Roberts eased the city curfew from 9pm to 5am starting earlier at 10:30pm.
Tonight will be fair and warm with low temperatures in the lower 70s. On Wednesday expect eerie clouds and a chance of thundershowers with highs near 90.
State Auditor Roger Cloud reported Ohio welfare outlays reached 373.9 million dollars in fiscal 1970, up 36.5 million or 10.6 percent from 1969. Aid for Dependent Children totaled 125.2 million, up 19.3 million and 53 percent of all programs, with 66,142 cases and 253,539 recipients versus 57,404 cases and 227,196 recipients in 1969.
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