Post Office Plea For Cutback Exemption Endorsed
Three Democratic senators backed the Post Office plea for relief from manpower cuts that could bring four day residential deliveries and close 12 000 branches. Postmaster General Watson outlined planned service reductions slated to begin this summer with Saturday window service cuts and eventual elimination of many fourth class offices.
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Washington
Post Office Department
A. S
Mike) Monroney
Senate Post Office Committee
Ralph Yarborough
Texas
Monroney
Yarborough
Wyoming
Gale McGee
Congress
Eries
Watson
Ducing
Miss YR beauty pageant grows into major club event
The Miss Middletown Area Young Republican Beauty Pageant has evolved from a club meeting winner select to a full pageant and dance at Elks Country Club on Rt. 4 South of Middletown. Past winners include Donna Emrick now Mrs Roger Davey and Beverly Hayes. the event has featured multiple contestants and state connections. Tickets are sold at the clubhouse door.
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Elks Country Club
Rt. 4
Middletown
Cleveland
Donna Emrick
Roger Davey
Beechwood Drive
Trenton
Maya
Ohio
Miami Beach
LeSourdsville Lake
Beverly Hayes
Ann Agee
Terry Borchers
Kettering
Miami University
Anne Murrell
Lebanon
Rt. 3
Warren County
Roger Gillespie
Hamilton
Ray Sneyd identity questioned in King slaying case
James Earl Ray is identified as Ramon George Sneyd by his attorney after Ray pleaded innocent to King’s murder. He will be tried November 12 for murder, with the trial potentially lasting six weeks. Ray, 40, was arrested in London on a forged passport and later extradited.
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Memphis, Tenn
James Earl Ray
Martin Luther King Jr
London
Ramon George Sneyd
Arthur Hanes
Ray
King
Hanes
Sneyd
Birmingham
Ala
Chicago
Lord R. G. Sneyd
John Ray
Shelby County Jail
Akron National Guard stays on duty amid curfew in troubled Negro sections
Ohio National Guard troops remain on duty in Akron for a sixth straight day with no removal date set. Disturbances linked to rock throwing and harassment near Wooster Avenue prompted a 9 p.m. curfew and a larger guard presence. Pickets from United Black Front urged a boycott of neighborhood stores, while officials expected possible deactivation within days if calm holds.
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Akron
Ohio
Ohio National Guard
DeCorso
Wooster Avenue
John
Ballard
Wye City
United Black Front
Black Front
Adj
Sylvester T. del Corso
National Guard
Recruiter Velasco Transferred to Lead Hamilton Middletown Office
Marine Gunnery Sergeant David J. Velasco of Fairfield has been moved from the Middletown recruiting office to Hamilton to serve as non commissioned officer in charge of both Hamilton and Middletown offices. A 14 year veteran, Velasco served 13 months in Vietnam ending last September.
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David J. Velasco
Fairfield
Middletown
Hamilton
Hamilton-Middletown
Vietnam
Hamilton man gets three years probation for embezzlement
Roy C. Stoneker of Hamilton Ohio was placed on three years probation after pleading no contest to two of four embezzlement counts. He signed fictitious names to two A3,500 loans at Dollar Federal Savings & Loan. Judge Porter noted Stoneker's compulsive gambling and lack of prior criminal life.
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Cincinnati
Hamilton
Ohio
U. S. District Court
David S. Porter
Roy C. Stoneker
Dollar Federal Savings & Loan Association
Porter
Sloneker
Stoneker
Anti-Gun Drive Gathers Strength in Maryland
A month-long campaign for gun-control laws in Maryland has collected over 10 000 petitions and 52 000 postcards for Maryland congressmen. Led by Maclyn McCarty Walter S Orlinsky and Mrs Marvin M Polikoff the effort handed petitions to U S Sen Joseph D Tydings and sent 10 000 cards to Sen Daniel Brewster and 8 000 each to Reps Clarence Long Edward Garmatz and Samuel Friedel. The drive has cost about 400 dollars.
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Baltimore, Md
Maryland
Maclyn McCarty
Walter S. Orlinsky
Baltimore
House of Delegates
Marvin M. Polikoff
U.S
Joseph D. Tydings
D-Md
Tydings
Orlinsky
Daniel B. Brewster
Clarence Long
Edward Garmat
Samuel Friedel
Cincinnati Man Charged With First Degree Manslaughter
Clyde W. Simpson 43 is charged with first degree manslaughter in the fatal shooting of Mary Speight 41 in Cincinnati. Police say Simpson, the victim’s common law husband, fired after she approached with a knife.
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Cincinnati
Clyde W. Simpson
Mary Speight
Simpson
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Post Office
Johnson
1St Ave
Miss Middletown
Emrick
Hayes
Agee
Murrell
Our
Citizens Savings and Loan Association Savings and Loan Association
Central
S. Breiel Blvd
Charles Q. Stephens
Dist. Atty
Phil M. Canale
Stephens
Police & Fire
Ohio Bell
The
Nationwide Bell System
Cincy
Western Union Telegram
Ford
RAY Linville
Judy Brown
Driftwood
S. Main St
Sports Bowl
Jerry Brown
Frisch
Frisch Restaurants
Germantown RD
South Main ST
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