13 Jun 1976
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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1976
Page
1
Ronald Reagan won a Missouri showdown with President Ford, collecting 18 more delegates toward the Republican National Convention. On the Democratic side, Jimmy Carter began fence mending conferences with primary opponents as unemployment surfaced as a general election issue.
Jimmy Carter, while campaigning in Plains Georgia, pulled a peanut plant in a field and joked that peanuts are more interesting than vice presidential talk. The Democratic platform subcommittee endorsed reducing adult unemployment to 3 percent within four years and issued sections on economy reform and accountability. Republican results in Missouri gave Reagan 30 of 49 delegates and Ford 16 with 3 uncommitted, as Ford led 960 to 686 overall. Carter planned talks with George Wallace and Morris Udall while weighing ties with other Democratic figures.
Sherman Cottongim 67 of 8588 Wayne Trace Road died when a tractor being towed by a Camden pickup flipped. The chain tangled and the death was ruled a traffic fatality with no charges. Private funeral services planned for Tuesday at the R.C. Nein and Sons Funeral Home with visitations Monday evening.
Forecast calls for highs in the upper 80s today and Monday. A 50 percent chance of rain remains through tonight and again tonight into Monday.
Coroner Warren and his wife preserve history in an old downtown Lebanon residence with a blend of old and new elements. The piece previews the structure’s past through photography and staff reporting.
Donnell Happy Haynes, inmate at Chillicothe Correctional Institute, earned an associate arts degree in a Saturday commencement at Ohio University. While serving a 10 to 25 year sentence for armed robbery, the 34 year old former Ohio State student says education aids his readiness for parole eligibility in 1979 and future societal reintegration.
In Montevideo the armed forces ordered the removal of President Juan M. Bordaberry on Saturday. Vice President Alberto Demichelli, 80, was named to replace him as officials said Bordaberry refused to sign during a dispute with military leaders.
Rep. Wilbur Mills faults a Rand Corp. study claiming some treated alcoholics can safely resume drinking. He warns such findings risk encouraging relapse and insists complete abstinence is the proven cure. Mills previously chaired the Ways and Means Committee before resigning after a 1974 scandal.
Hope Cooke Namgyal, once queen of Sikkim, seeks U.S. citizenship again after 11 years and exile. Congress approved a private relief bill granting permanent residency, delaying naturalization for five years, amid House subcommittee objections to renouncing nationality.
Arbitration opens Wednesday over a Postal Service order requiring letter carriers to cross residents lawns to speed delivery. National Association of Letter Carriers president James Rademacher criticizes trespass as an economy move. A second case challenges the Kokomo plan to redraw routes for eight hours work daily.
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