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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1963
Page
10
Tens of thousands of Pakistanis have been forced from their homes as monsoon rivers surge in East Pakistan. Officials report 12 dead, while press reports claim over 50 drowned in the current floods. This marks the third disaster in six weeks after a May cyclone and tidal wave killed about 1,200 and early June floods killed more than a score.
A fishing tug rescued two men stranded after a 45 mph gale capsized a 19 foot sailboat off Mentor-on-the-Lake. Ed Wahl Jr of West Richfield and George Koch of Cleveland were pulled from life jackets about 40 yards from shore. Boat owner Rafe Royle of Chesterland and two crew clung to the hull. others were Donald Davis of Chesterland and Gordon Doble of Euclid.
DAMASCUS AP reports Iraqi President Abdel Salam Aref vows continued crackdown on plots to turn Iraq into an atheist communist state. He cites the Kurdish rebellion as one such scheme while Kurdish leader Mullah Mustafa Barzani denies Communist involvement.
In Athens Greece releases 19 prisoners held since the 1947 49 Communist civil war amid political debate. Seventeen freed July 1 and two on Sunday saving 941 inmates from the civil war era. Detention sparked violent leftist protests in London during King Paul and Queen Frederika's visit.
The Rev. Dr. Franklin Clark Fry, president of the Lutheran Church in America, calls 5.2 million members to act against racial discrimination in a pastoral letter to 6,842 pastors. He notes all people are created by God and redeemed by Christ as equals. Fry also leads the Lutheran World Federation and chairs the World Council of Churches central committee.
An Ohio man, Lewis W Clarke 59 of Kinsman Trumbull County, was killed when his car veered across US 322 near the Pennsylvania Ohio line and struck guard rails. He was thrown from the vehicle in the Sunday crash.
New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller challenges Barry Goldwater’s conservative strategy in a policy statement signaling a presidential bid. He denounces extremism and warns the party against a split that could hurt GOP votes, while Sen. Carl Curtis defends Goldwater’s approach as not sectional.
John W. Pietze 24 of Cheney Kansas drowned while swimming after water skis at Lake Afton Sunday. He helped Julietta Elderton, a water skier, into his boat when she fell in and then went after her skis. Pietze sank in 20 feet of water. Halloween soul cakes in England were given to beggars in exchange for prayers for the dead.
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