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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1966
Page
3
General Harold K Johnson arrives in Saigon for a two week inspection tour accompanied by Maj Gen Kithe Wear. The mission aims to review U S military operations in Viet Nam during the early 1960s.
The highway patrol announced Sgt D E Trovato is promoted to lieutenant and Cpl R L Saunders to sergeant. Lt Trovato leaves Post 9 on Ohio 4 between Middletown and Hamilton for Massillon as district lieutenant. Saunders becomes commander and Sgt Barton arrives Monday as the new corporal at the Middletown post.
Six sites remain under study for a 375 million atom smasher to advance peaceful nuclear research. Ann Arbor Michigan Brookhaven Upton New York Denver Colorado Madison Wisconsin Sierra foothills near Sacramento California and South Barrington near Chicago are being considered. A decision is expected by year end but may slip past the election as budget pressures and political factors loom.
On this date in 1777 the Marquis de Lafayette offered his services to the American colonies. Also noted: 1790 Samuel Hopkins first to use the patent law. 1877 Edison secured an early patent. 1914 Austria mobilized at WWI onset. 1917 start of the Battle of Flanders. 1953 Sen. Taft died. 1966 reference to Kefauver withdrawal a decade earlier. 1961 Macmillan negotiates with the EEC. 1965 Ky pledges army buildup to fight communism. 1965 Viet Nam pledge to continue strengthening forces.
Natives of Delaware are called Gamecocks, a name traced to one Delaware regiment in the Revolutionary War. The anecdote ties the nickname to a unit that distinguished itself in early American fighting.
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