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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1965
Page
1
U S servicemen in Saigon report shortages of ammunition and equipment while some items appear on the black market. Army advisers say Soviet made ammo clips outperform U S ones and that up to date rifles are only for Special Forces. Camouflage poncho liners are in short supply, with officers admitting scarce supplies despite high priority.
Paul Lucero 38 killed himself with a shotgun after authorities closed in near an olive orchard. The slayings included Dolores F. Gifford 21 and her two sons and daughter, plus the brutal beating of another woman and two young girls. Lucero's estranged wife Alberta reported being struck and the infant Rebecca Dee injured.
A half century of “putting action into a promise” leads the Girl Scouts into their peak week as they push programs and community projects. Gloria Swanson is noted for seeking a new role. Holland is involved in a referenced struggle.
The oldest Shaker church west of the Alleghenies burned Saturday in a deliberate training exercise for 125 firemen from 15 departments. The two story frame building of 1818 on Ohio 741 near Lebanon collapsed after about 45 minutes. Otterbein Home used it as a dormitory for orphans and condemned as unsafe. renovation costs were deemed unjustified.
A mystery body was found in a bloodstained trunk in a Montevideo home after a tip to the AP claimed former Nazi Herbert Cu kurs was killed on Feb 23. Police found a plaque, airline tickets, spent cartridges, and a French inscription about a Luftwaffe member. The tip compared Cu kurs to Albert Cukurs, with Eichmann’s capture noted as context.
In Selma Alabama a crowd jeered white protesters blocking a planned 50 mile march to Montgomery while Governor Wallace denounced the action. In Moscow and Peking relations deteriorated as China accused the Soviet Union of violent treatment of students and Beijing demanded an apology.
The group Concerned White Citizens of Alabama planned a mile and a quarter march from a church to the Dallas County Courthouse, with 500 onlookers taunting as Public Safety Director Wilson Baker moved through the crowd to disperse it, while state authorities promised necessary measures.
AP reporting that many Russians offered to serve as volunteers for North Vietnam per Tass citing North Vietnamese Ambassador Nguyen Van Kinh. The embassy said it had received numerous letters requesting permission to go as volunteers.
The forecast calls for a cloudy cold day with occasional light rain or snow. High near 40 and the night will stay mostly cloudy and cold with continued chilly conditions through Sunday night.
Lord Morrison, son of a London policeman, rose from Labour Party ranks to serve as deputy prime minister in Attlee’s 1945 51 government and as foreign secretary after Bevin’s death. He died Saturday night at 77, later raised to the peerage in 1959.
A witty remark defines an oil prospector as a man unsure if he is four feet from a million dollars or a million feet from four dollars. The quip frames pursuit of wealth with humorous uncertainty.
The Defense Department announced two battalions of Marines about 3500 men will be sent to South Viet Nam at the South Vietnamese government request. They will operate in the Da Nang area to bolster air base security and relieve South Vietnamese forces for pacification and offensive actions against Communist guerrillas. The move follows consultations between the U S and South Viet Nam.
Pope Paul VI will celebrate Mass at All Saints Church Rome in Italian marking the start of major liturgy reforms across the Catholic Church. The changes, praised by L Osservatore Romano as evolutionary, allow modern languages replacing Latin with many bishops already adopting reforms in various countries including the United States where English appeared in Mass last November 29.
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