06 Jun 1972
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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1972
Page
1
A spokesman for Wankie Colliery said 468 miners are feared dead after a massive underground explosion at the Wankie coal mine north of Bulawayo. At the time 435 Africans and 33 whites were underground.
Feared survivors were none as rescue teams faced poisonous gas and damaged ventilation. The Manchuria mining disaster earned the grim distinction as the world’s worst in its history.
A spokesman at the Wankie Mine Hospital reported four surface workers were admitted with injuries from an underground explosion at the Wankie Colliery. No cause for the blast was given, and no details on injuries were provided. The Anglo-American Group mine produces about 30 million tons yearly and supplies Rhodesia’s coal needs.
California votes to shape the Democratic race with George McGovern widely favored to win California's 27 delegates amid four state contests. Humphrey campaigns across California while Yorty backs him. results could push McGovern past 850 delegates and end Humphrey hopes.
In Bolton Massachusetts interior designer David W. Durrant staged a "wedding in reverse" for his divorce. About 60 friends attended a ceremony featuring a cake, matchbooks dated June 3 1972, a single car with Just Divorced painted on it, and gifts themed around separation. Durrant, 29, said the event celebrated his freedom after seven years of marriage and two years of separation. He invited his ex-wife but doubted she would attend.
The Defense Department will study a killer satellite system to intercept inspect and destroy hostile space vehicles. The Air Force space and missile systems organization solicited proposals May 26 from industry with at least three firms to conduct competitive studies.
British paratroopers chased a wanted IRA member into a Belfast house Monday night and arrested him and seven others, including a battalion commander and two senior company officers. mobs attacked troops with rocks as an hour long gun battle followed, with sporadic fighting continuing. A gasoline bomb targeted a foot patrol and a 50 pound bomb in a baby carriage was left outside an army post but did not detonate.
Stockholm AP report on Olof Palme accusing the United States of ecocide in Vietnam calls for immediate halt to ecological warfare. He urges disarmament and environmental protection while Brazil, Canada, and other delegates weigh development and pollution concerns at the U N conference.
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district ruling ordering consolidation of Richmond city schools with Henrico and Chesterfield counties. In a 5-1 decision the court said a federal judge cannot compel a state to reorganize internal government to achieve racial balance unless there is evident discrimination.
The January welfare bill fell by 12.4 million to 1.54 billion as medical costs decreased, while 60,000 more people entered relief rolls. AFDC payments reached 10.7 million recipients, with 7.7 million children, at 555.8 million dollars. The Senate Finance Committee tentatively backed a new financing plan aimed at reducing AFDC rolls and saving states 5 billion through 1974.
A humorous remark notes that middle age is reached when a wife tells her husband to pull in his stomach and he already has done so.
American fighter bombers destroyed or damaged more than 100 water craft on North Vietnam inland waterways in a major strike. Navy pilots from the Coral Sea claimed 69 ships sunk or damaged on the Song Ca River near Vinh, two miles from the coast.
Partly cloudy tonight with lows in the upper 50s. Wednesday brings sun and a cooler high near 80. Yesterday's high reached 83 and overnight low fell to 64. Middletown recorded .15 inch of rain by 8 this morning.
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