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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1970
Page
1
Administration economists hail a 0.3 percent real GNP rise in the April-June quarter after two slight declines. They foresee gradual gains through year end and into 1971 with unemployment easing only mildly, while the jobless rate fell to 4.7 percent in June.
The Supreme Court faces pressure for a summer session to decide on legality of neighborhood desegregation plans in large cities. The Little Rock school board warned conflicting appeals could cause chaos, arguing that housing patterns create racially identifiable schools and that bused integration is needed. An appeals court suggested strip zoning, while the board proposed forced busing at cost. The case echoes prior requests from Charlotte County NAACP and Cincinnati NAACP for rulings on segregation.
Cambodian army troops retook the Kiri Rom plateau after Viet Cong and North Vietnamese withdrawal. They report renewed fighting 21 miles north of Phnom Penh at the Long Vek munitions depot with about 300 Communist reinforcements. The enemy burned Prince Norodom Sihanouk’s holiday villa and other buildings as they pulled back.
Nevatta Hunter a Denver 3 percent student in speech pathology at Children’s Hospital uses dual hearing aids in class. Edward Hard Heart an Oglala Sioux visited Denver to promote Cheyenne Frontier Days July 21 26 as a member of the Sioux dancing troupe touring Colorado.
In Cleveland Ohio a Pennsylvania pilot on a vertigo episode was guided to a safe landing by a 22 year old charter pilot above the crippled craft. Pearse J Joyce 53 of Level Green Pa was unconscious when emergency crews arrived and later found in good condition at a hospital.
Tonight will be fair and not so cool with a low in the 60s. Saturday should be partly cloudy with a high again in the 80s. Sunday brings a chance of showers and little temperature change. The high yesterday was 88 and the overnight low was 59.
Senate hearing hears bomb-making instructions circulating widely in underground papers and in schools from junior high to college. New York City police bomb squad chief Lt. Kenneth O Neill shows leaflets and manuals, cites Swiss army manual Total Resistance, and displays pipe bombs. Commissioner Leary calls the threat gigantic and urges federal laws to track explosives and regulate dealers and disposal.
House elders push back against reform limits as a proposal would divert one third of investigative committee funds to the minority party. The measure, advanced by a bipartisan group, passed 105 to 63 over Republican opposition.
Henry McCarthy, 51, spotted a ticking package near the Victoria Hotel in Quebec. He dampened and smashed it with an iron bar, revealing a dynamite stick, detonator, and clock. Police dismantled it. Premier Bourassa remained in residence at the hotel.
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