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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1976
Page
3
The body of Daniel Gearhart, an American mercenary executed in Angola, was returned to the United States for burial. The plain wooden casket was unloaded at Kennedy Airport after a Portuguese airliner brought it to New York.
Gearhart, 34, a native of Kensington Maryland and husband to Sheila with four children, died in Angola after being captured by Cuban troops days after his arrival. He served in Vietnam with the Special Forces and worked as a cafeteria equipment mechanic before securing his position via an advertisement in Soldier of Fortune Magazine. Funeral services were tentatively set for Wednesday.
A car cleaning feature highlights a powerful six jet action with hot water extraction to remove all dirt. The description emphasizes thorough interior and exterior cleaning capabilities using steam and heated water for deep soil removal.
Mississippi’s 30 Republican delegates voted to remain unaligned and to vote as a bloc at the convention. Ford holds 1,096 delegates, Reagan 1,024, with 138 uncommitted. both camps claim enough votes to clinch the nomination. Carter and Mondale plan a Plains policy-session while Reagan and Ford lobby Mississippi delegates.
In Montreal dealers and collectors are paying 400 to 500 for flawed ten dollar Canadian Olympic coins from the first series. Austin Page of the Canadian Olympic Coin Program says 30 imperfect coins have surfaced and total production before the die change is unknown. The error shows a faint queen Elizabeth II head on the skyline side and faint skyline on the queen’s neck. Page notes two faces on the die and that the machine may have struck without silver, causing the two halves to imprint.
More than 700 artists from Ohio compete in paintings sculpture graphics pottery and photography at the Ohio State Fair Fine Arts Show. Special exhibitor Tesla Kitchen of Adelphi presents primitive painting in the Grandma Moses tradition. Set in the Cox Fine Arts Building the exhibit runs daily from August 26 to September 6.
Washington AP reports a busy Senate schedule with action on LEAA funding extending five years to 5.3 billion and criticism over 4 billion spent since 1969. Debates include Clean Air Act amendments, auto emission deadlines to 1979, a postal service commission with reporting by Feb 15, and a tax bill extending anti recession cuts. Mine safety shifts to Labor and public meetings bills require agency openness.
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