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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1975
Page
1
OSU agriculture students increasingly come from city backgrounds and women are joining. Darrow notes farm-raised students fell from 47 percent in 1973 to 41 percent in 1974, with about a quarter of freshmen women. Graduation numbers rise, totaling 500 degree holders in 1974.
President Nguyen Van Thieu ordered a paratrooper division from Da Nang to Saigon to strengthen urban defenses as North Vietnam presses its two week assault on the capital.
Civilians flee toward the coast as North Vietnamese forces push from Ban Me Thuot toward Pleiku Kontum and Darlac. Saigon abandons Kontum Pleiku and Darlac after a two week offensive, with heavy fighting and retreats across the region.
New York Review of Books released two photos of a man claiming to be Lee Harvey Oswald in Mexico City in 1963. The images, not Oswald, come from CIA surveillance and prompt debate on the Warren Commission findings and a possible reopening of the JFK case.
President Ford plans a new federal highway program that would return half of the four cent per gallon gasoline tax to the states, about 2 billion dollars annually, to be spent on roads with no fixed interstate matching required. Governors discuss diversions as Ford aims to aid road building and adjust aid to Cambodia.
Linda Hardy, dying of cancer in Columbus, Ohio, has three children Sheri 12 Joey 10 Amber 6 awaiting adoptive homes in Wichita. Her brother John Pinkerton, a 29 year old Air Force sergeant, says national publicity has brought offers and confusion about the family situation.
The Pinkertons plan to adopt Mary and her three grade school children including 8 year old Mike with cerebral palsy. Pinkerton, a Vietnam veteran stationed at McConnell Air Force Base, says he and Mary will provide a home and guidance though it brings financial strain. He has been named guardian in his sister’s will and remains hopeful despite her illness.
The body of Sylvester Merryman fifty of Barberton was found in the Ohio Erie Canal in Akron's industrial area. Police said he had been shot in the head and investigators were pursuing leads today.
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