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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1966
Page
1
At Fort Knox Kentucky the annual live fire exercise drew cadets and Army brass to watch the M48 tank fire on a target hill. An Air Force simulated nuclear strike failed to occur, but the exercise proceeded with artillery and mortars neutralizing the imagined foe as smoke bloomed over the ridge.
Rhode Island College commencement speaker former ambassador John K. Galbraith charged Secretary of State Dean Rusk with terriby misinformed on American foreign policy. He cited lack of European ally support in Viet Nam and growing domestic discontent influencing policy.
In central Vietnam heavy fighting subsided to skirmishes while B52 strikes hit a North Vietnamese troop area 10 miles north of the battle zone. The 101st Airborne coexists with two NVA battalions as medevac helicopters evacuate wounded Eagles paratroopers amid jungle terrain and helicopter losses.
Former Vice President Richard M. Nixon says President Johnson should travel to France to convince Charles de Gaulle to remain in NATO. Nixon argues that France is essential to any Atlantic community and that Kennedy would have visited de Gaulle to talk through the issue.
Cincinnati police search for a suspected serial killer described as a maniac who has strangled and raped three elderly women in six months. The latest victim, Jeannette Messer, 66, was attacked while walking her dog in Burnet Woods near the University of Cincinnati. Evidence is being submitted to the FBI lab as investigators review footprints nail scrapings and a paisley necktie used in the assault.
A Greyhound bus carrying servicemen and a southbound pickup camper collided on a curve near Port Royal Virginia. Five people died including the drivers and 11 were injured. Identified victims include Paul O Crum and Patty Crum of New Castle Pennsylvania and Mary Kalmink. Bus operator Robert M Baine of Norfolk and serviceman Douglas J Josue of Manila aboard the USS Forrestal per police.
Jack Ruby, sentenced to die for the Oswald shooting, will face a sanity hearing Monday. The defense, amid an apparent shift, opposes calling witnesses or Ruby to testify to avoid potential testimony for a new murder trial. Judge Louis Holland will oversee as defense and other attorneys appear.
Tropical storm Alma moves along the South Carolina North Carolina coast with gale winds and heavy rain. The season's first hurricane now downgraded but still threatens shipping lanes as 47 deaths are attributed to Alma. Location about 70 miles south of Wilmington with winds near 50 mph. Gale warnings extended from Virginia Capes to Savannah.
Civil rights groups plan vocal and walking support as the James Meredith march approaches Jackson Mississippi. The route shifts to county seats to escort Black voters to registration places. Meredith, first Negro at the University of Mississippi, began the journey two days from the Tennessee line toward Jackson before being wounded by shotgun blasts.
The Weather Fair predicts warmer conditions in the Miami Valley. A night warm-up lowers the morning to about 55 degrees, roughly 10 degrees above this morning. Sunday will feature clear skies with a high near 80.
Capt Bill Carpenter of the 101st Airborne said he ordered air and artillery strikes on Communist troops overrunning his position because it was the most effective way to kill them. Napalm and cannon fire preceded the brief ground defense, and some of his men were lost. Carpenter, 28, known as the Lonesome End from the 1959 West Point team, led his company out of the battle area as the action concluded.
Severe thunderstorms and tornado threats hit the plains from the Dakotas to west Texas. Eighteen people injured with most in Lubbock, Texas, two near Abernathy. Funnel clouds seen in eastern Nebraska but no ground tornado reports. Winds gusty in Lubbock. showers scattered elsewhere. Skies clear in the Southwest and Gulf Coast to Great Lakes. cooler Midwest with a freezing point reached in Michigan.
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