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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1970
Page
1
Clearwater based American National Bank said its prime rate was reduced from 32 percent to 8 percent. President Neil Muzzy noted the bank was late to raise rates and would be among the first to lower them for borrowers.
The Middletown forecast calls for cloudy mild conditions with showers likely tonight and a risk of thundershowers. Winds will increase with a low around 50. Wednesday turns windy and cooler with a morning shower chance and clearing by late afternoon. Highs near 55 to 60.
In New York President Nixon and Georges Pompidou praised the outcome of Nixon’s apology trip after protests over France selling jets to Libya and withholding jets for Israel. Pompidou called it a great joy to be with Nixon as a nearby pro Israel demonstration gathered outside the hotel with chants and a single arrest reported.
Viet Cong and North Vietnamese gunners shot down three American helicopterson Monday as total US losses reached six thousand four hundred fifty nine aircraft since 1961. One American fatality and six wounded among the helicopter crews. South Korean forces reported eighty one enemy killed along the coast from Cam Ranh Bay to Hoi An with one Korean fatality and eleven wounded. Military spokesmen noted additional North Vietnamese deaths from airstrikes near the Mekong Delta and near Superstition Mountain with no US casualties.
Laotian government and communist forces clashed near Sala Phoukhoun at the Route 7 and Route 13 junction south of Vientiane. A police post at Muong Kassey was attacked with rockets and rifle fire, with reports of some government casualties. A separate clash occurred at Paksong near the Bolovens Plateau, with about 10 government troops killed and a company engaged.
Union leader William W. Winpisinger says a nationwide rail strike looms after a federal court barred a single whipsaw walkout in the job jurisdiction dispute. Judge How ard Corcoran upheld the ban, leaving the option of a nationwide strike or prolonged litigation.
Former President Lyndon B. Johnson was admitted to Brooke General Hospital in San Antonio Texas on Monday after noon for tests. Doctors noted changes in his electrocardiogram and described his condition as stable.
Researchers report survey satellites can monitor air and water pollution and trace it to sources. MIT and NASA tested airborne sensors along the U S northeast coast while Barringer researchers tested balloon and plane sensors over Chicago, noting sulfur dioxide inversions and plume imagery.
TEL AVIV AP Israel feels dominant in the Middle East as Egyptian threats loom. Nasser vows a “war of destiny” while Israel, outnumbered 40 to 1, holds 523 miles of front, air superiority, and high morale despite casualties and terror at home. Premier Golda Meir faces a rival coalition challenge at home.
Police retrieved a 2.3 gram vial of Apollo 11 moon dust from a mailbox after a tip. UCLA's Dr. George Wetherill said the undisturbed sample was handed to NASA and would undergo further tests.
Apollo 13 crew James Lovell Thomas Mattingly and Fred Haise will endure a 21 day quarantine after moon flight to prevent possible back contamination. A Sciences panel led by Dr Alan Brown weighed quarantine need as Apollo 13 targets the Fra Mauro highlands 110 miles east of Apollo 12 site.
Dr Timothy Leary, 50, smiles as federal agents take him toward California after a Houston prison sentence of 10 years for marijuana smuggling. He was convicted Jan 20 in Laredo Texas, and faces appeals after being found a danger to the community. Leary already held without bond in Santa Ana for a state marijuana possession conviction.
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