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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1978
Page
1
Yellowstone Sinks After Gibraltar Collision With Algerian Freighter
The U S grain ship Yellowstone sank after a collision with the Algerian freighter Ibn Batouta in the Straits of Gibraltar amid fog. Two Yellowstone crewmen were killed and three were missing. 21 others survived and were brought to Gibraltar for transport to the United States. The Ibn Batouta proceeded to Cadiz with no injuries reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gibraltar
U.S
Yellowstone
Aurora
Mediterranean
United States
Tangier
Gibraltar Straits
Ibn Batouta
Cadiz
Poster Child Is Nurse Walks From Polio to Nursing
Leilani Wolverton Logan, once Easter Seal poster child of 1957 who was paralyzed from the neck down by polio at 18 months, earned a nursing degree at St. Anne's School of Nursing. Now 27, she will work at Lake of the Ozarks General Hospital in Missouri. Her parents refused to accept doctors' predictions, teaching her to swim and walk with braces gradually removed after surgeries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Leilani Wolverton
Isself
Leilani
Bob Logan
St. Anne’s School of Nursing
Missouri
Lake of the Ozarks
Logan
Tennessee Governor Candidate Certifies Mental Hospital Patient
The Tennessee Election Commission certified Ben Miller, a 51 year old patient at the Murfreesboro VA Hospital since May 25, as a gubernatorial candidate. Miller listed his address as Blue Haven Motel Lake City and submitted 67 signatures. The panel had previously scrutinized Senate Minority Leader Howard Baker's petition but allowed his name after his affidavit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake City
Collins
Miller
Everbody
Election Commission
East Tennessee
James Hubb
Scorpion Bumped by Airline Sparks Odd Dayton Scene
Rex Thomas of Bakersfield Calif. carried a scorpion in a cottage cheese container through Dayton International Airport security. A guard planned to incinerate the creature until a sympathetic colleague allowed it to be mailed to Thomas. Miller, a Democratic gubernatorial candidate, remains in a psychiatric hospital claiming mistreatment and plans to run.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dayton, Ohio
Rex Thomas
Bakersfield
Calif
Dayton International Airport
Thomas
Cathy Cahlck
Israel withdraws from southern Lebanon as UN takes new border control
U N peacekeeping troops and Christian militiamen share border control in southern Lebanon after Israel's pullout. Maj Saad Haddad agrees to UN checkpoints to keep guerrillas from infiltrating the area as Syrian forces guard northern Lebanon to prevent revenge attacks by Giants Brigade after the Ehden assault.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beirut
Lebanon
U.N
Israel
Saad Haddad
Emmanuel Erksine
Ghana
Haddad
Erskine
Moshe Dayan
Kurt Waldheim
Tel Aviv-Haifa
Security Council
Ehden
Zagartha
Suleiman Franjieh
Giants Brigade
Franjieh
Phalangist
Tony Franjieh
Clear and cool night with mild weekend forecast
Tonight will be clear and cool with a low near 50. Thursday's forecast calls for sunny conditions and a high near 80. The previous day saw a low of 45 and a high of 65. From Friday to Sunday expect mild weather with a chance of scattered showers and highs in the low to mid 80s with lows around 60.
Nixon editor questions memoir gap in White House tape
The Grosset & Dunlap editor Robert Markel says Richard Nixon’s account of an 185 minute gap in a White House tape is not convincing and that Nixon declined expanding his explanation. Markel notes deletions for security were minor and not designed to fuel dispute with other Watergate accounts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Richard Nixon
White House
Robert Markel
Nixon
Markel
Grosset & Dunlap
Also Mentioned on This Page
Ann Landers
Women’s News
Straits of Gibraltar
Richard Daley
Tennessee
Baker
Scorpion
U.N. and
Militia
Houston
National Security Council
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