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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1966
Page
3
In Dayton Ohio city records its first drowning of 1966 as 11 year old Jimmy Fletcher dies in a 15 foot deep gravel pit pool. The report notes a historical tidbit that Congress paid six dollars a day up to 1814.
Middletown Area Teen-Age Republicans TAR vote to hold a teen queen beauty contest alongside an area Young Republican beauty contest on July 16 at LeSourdsville Lake. Harding Jones remains spokesman. Norman Nichols becomes TAR publicity chairman. TAR backs all Republican candidates and will attend the Ohio State Young Republican convention in Toledo on July 30.
NATO ministers discussed a compromise to let a 15 nation council decide the future of 72,000 French troops in West Germany after De Gaulle withdraws from NATO. French and allied officials debated military and political factors including nuclear weapons, with key figures Luns Lemnitzer Ailleret Rusk Brosio Stewart Schraeder and de Murville present.
A burglary at Baltimore Grocery on 1318 Baltimore St. around 11:30 p.m. led to losses including a case of pop 25 to 30 dollars in cigarettes and four dollars in candy and gum plus four dollars in potato chips. Police noted the Oakland Dry Cleaners break in produced undetermined losses and clothes were scattered.
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