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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1968
Page
8
Truck driver Tom Jackson, parked off the highway, is approached by a man on horseback seeking directions to the nearest gas station. The rider explains he is transporting horses and ran out of gas, choosing to ride to the station.
Sen. Robert P. Griffin, a Michigan Republican, embraces a habit of defying odds. He now works to derail President Johnson's Supreme Court picks Abe Fortas and Homer Thornberry, facing resistance from his own party and Senate leader Everett Dirksen.
On July 19 various historic milestones are noted including the Franco Prussian War start in 1870, Prussia barring American ships in 1810, Seneca Falls rights convention in 1948, WW II events in 1941 1943 and 1965, a 1965 espionage case in New York, and a fatal 1981 aircraft collision in Hendersonville North Carolina.
South Africa sold substantial amounts of newly mined gold on the free market and to central banks without disturbing prices. Finance Minister Nicolaas Diederichs said the sales bolster the two tier price system and the dollar’s stability while testing the free market’s capacity to absorb gold. The South African Reserve Bank acted for the Chamber of Mines in these sales which support the country’s export earnings from gold, about 35 percent of total.
With One Spade opening and Three Spades by responder, examine four hands. Use cue bidding for suit control rather than Blackwood, weighing slam chances, trump support, and suit controls to decide between four diamonds and higher contracts.
A 1025.20 ounce silver bar with a London melter and refiner stamp is displayed at First National Bank of Glasco. Owned by Mr and Mrs Oren Campbell of Glasco, it cost about 2100 dollars via dollar silver certificates and U S Assay Office purchase. The bar was shipped to a Salina bank before the Campbells retrieved it.
A month old African lion cub weighing 65 pounds slept behind bars at the Chicago Avenue district station after Gary Spine 25 brought it in and offered to donate it to a zoo. He said the cub came from Africa after its mother died and kept behind bars for precaution.
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