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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1969
Page
3
Bangor AP recalls astronaut James McDivitt described as quiet and reserved by Col John Bell at Dow Air Force Base. The former commander notes McDivitt focused on doing greater things during his assignment, highlighting his restrained demeanor.
Lester W. Koehler was elected president at the Butler Bar Association annual meeting in Idletown Ohio. Francis Beeler Oxford was named first vice president Harold Dance Middletown second vice president and Max Wear Hamilton re elected secretary treasurer. The group will take office July 1 with U S District Judge Timothy Horan Cincinnati as speaker. The association also supported the Legal Service Association of the Butler County Community Action Commission amid recent criticism following the murder conviction of Allen Warford.
Columbus based state official Wilard P. Dudley of the Ohio Bureau of Employment Services announced that Ohio’s unemployment rate for 1968 was 2.9 percent, the lowest in eight years and below the national rate of 3.6 percent.
Ohio Senate expected to receive a governor backed bill providing up to 900 grants for needy students at private colleges. Sponsor John Weeks notes 7.5 million dollars in the budget to fund grants ranging 100 to 900 for about 15 000 to 20 000 students from families under 10 000 dollars income. He argues the program sustains Ohio's private education and avoids overreliance on state universities.
Deputies report an arsenal was taken from Ray Fugate in a basement burglary at 404 Millville Oxford Road. The haul included at least 18 weapons such as two shotguns several rifles four muzzle loaders and other smaller guns.
The junior class stages Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth in the high school auditorium with Mike Sullivan as Mr Antrobus Diane Fouch plays Mrs Antrobus Sara Brodbeck is Sabina Steve Summers plays Henry Antrobus Mary Ann Barker is Gladys Antrobus Becky McCarty portrays the fortune teller Rita Davis serves as student director. Curtain at 7 30 p m Friday and Saturday.
Baker Island is a one square mile atoll in the Pacific under U.S. jurisdiction. It lies roughly 1 650 miles from Hawaii and is shaped like a saucer.
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