25 Jun 1977
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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1977
Page
1
Orlando AP report says Judge John Sirica is considering retirement to write a book about the thoughts behind key Watergate rulings. He calls those decisions awesome and says they left him sad and very alone.
Officials plan further strategy in the hunt for jail escapee and rapist Gene Leroy Hart charged with the murder of three Girl Scouts. Police and up to 400 volunteers surrounded a 10 square mile search area as armed officers scoured the woods near the camp where the girls were killed.
Washington AP reports the Federal Highway Administration abandons its plan to convert U S highway signs from miles to kilometers at a cost of 100 million dollars after public outcry. Director William M. Cox cites 98 percent of 5 000 comments as opposition.
Groucho Marx returns to Santa Monica hospital with a kind of benign pneumonia after recent release. Nat Perrin, longtime friend and temporary guardian, described him as quite sick and feeble as Perrin faced a court hearing to be relieved as conservator.
Investigators say cause may take months to determine after a private plane slammed into two Cleveland homes, triggering explosions and fires. The pilot, 39-year-old Walter M. Nowikas of Morriston New Jersey, was killed in the crash.
Cloudy conditions with showers and thundershowers likely tonight and tomorrow morning. Highs Sunday in the mid 80s with low tonight in the upper 60s. Rain chances 60 percent tonight and 30 percent Sunday. Extended outlook shows showers Monday and Tuesday, then fair skies Wednesday with highs in the 80s and lows in the 60s.
Army clerk Marie Sode, married to a self described transsexual man Kristian von Hoffburg, was ruled unfit for service by an Army board citing homosexual tendencies. The three week hearing ended with a recommendation for honorable discharge amid debate over biological and psychological sex factors. Sode and von Hoffburg were supported by a defense sex roles specialist. the couple wed last November in Alabama.
Sarah Vaughan headlines the Newport Jazz Festival with a sellout show featuring Dizzy Gillespie and Clark Terry. Vaughan's ballads and scat routines win praise as promoter George Wein aims for strong attendance and finances after a renewed jazz surge.
President Carter and Rosalyn paid no federal tax on 1976 gross income of $55,000 yet sent a $6000 payment to the IRS. He framed the sum as a token tax and pressed that everyone with substantial income should pay something.
The Ways and Means Committee rewrote the gas guzzler levy in the energy bill. It sets 1979 model revenue at 915 million by 1985 with a 170000 barrel-a-day energy saving, and maintains a debt repayment use for the funds.
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