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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1971
Page
16
A proposed constitutional amendment to lower the voting age to 18 faced another delay as Congress postponed action for a week. Despite hopes in Minnesota Indiana Washington and Kansas to aid rapid ratification, House leaders postponed voting until Tuesday after a stalled funding vote for the SST program.
Hamilton County Commissioners and Cincinnati City Council approved $8,460 each to open and operate the Narcotic Out-Client and Residential Program from April 1 through June 3. The Talbert House staff will administer the center in a downtown area house, with capacity for 12 to 14 housing and up to 65 participants. Urine tests, counseling, and vocational training will be provided, with judges backing the project and federal funding hoped after June 3. local funding of about $1,300 monthly remains required.
Lee Wilson receives the Webelos Award and moves toward Boy Scouting from Cub Scout Pack 15 at Mayfield School. Mark Tolson also advances. Cubs earning awards include Joe Bendel Russ Schubert Scott Fuller Larry Elwood Michael Gibson Norbie Lewis Billy Joel Moore Jerry Pickett Bobby Sticklin Michael Ingram Gary Sebastian David Spicer Chuck Warrens Michael Gumm Joe Layne Jeff Warner. Webelos recipients include Donna Easterling Ricky Elam Danny Gibson Steve Kiser Roger Lawson Larry Roberts Mark Sallie Eric Tibbs David Birch Mark Aldridge Jim Demostenes Danny Fletcher Bill Linkous.
Herschel Fuller, 36, of 1205 Yankee Road Middletown, was declared mentally ill at a Butler County Common Pleas hearing and ordered confined to Lima State Hospital. Fuller previously broke into the Parkway Cafe on Yankee Road on March 5, 1969 and was sent to Lima for observation. Judge Robert L. Marrs presided.
Lt. William L. Calley's attorney complains of excessive rereading of testimony as the My Lai murder trial nears a verdict. Jurors review slides and maps from November 1969 to orient themselves on the March 16 1968 infantry assault and the crossing where charges allege at least 30 murders occurred.
Washington AP reports two major unions face picketing at their headquarters as Local 2 of the Office and Professional Employees strikes IAM members over a 22 percent three year wage offer. Detroit Local 42 also strikes UAW, with women secretaries leading the walkout. UAW and IAM are among the nation’s largest unions, challenging wage equity across ranks.
J H Browne of the Central Ohio Council will be the main speaker at the Mound Builders Area Council annual recognition dinner in Lebanon. The 7 p.m. event will present the Silver Beaver Award to two scouters and honor Sgt. Gordon R. Roberts, Medal of Honor recipient, with committee chairs Donald Schorr, Marvin Hollingshead, and Michael Norris assisting. Browne, Kansas native and longtime scouting leader, has held national and regional posts before his current role since 1967.
Xavier University in Cincinnati bans black foods in the campus cafeteria after a Food Advisory Board ruling. Director Willie Lee Lappin says collard greens and black eyed peas cannot be served in the required quantities or would not go over with diners. Black students had pressed for their inclusion in cafeteria offerings.
Cub Scout Pack 63 from Wildwood School launches three month ecology program starting tomorrow with a park and area cleanup near their school. The effort is part of the SOAR Save Our American Resources nationwide scout initiative.
Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice C William O Neill outlined draft rules to speed trials. He cited six month delays in metropolitan counties and proposed limits on lawyers caseloads to prevent overextension. Computers could help align judges, attorneys and courtrooms with pending trials.
The Rev. John McGill Krumm will be consecrated as the sixth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Ohio in Cincinnati at Christ Church. The 58-year-old New York rector succeeds Rt. Rev. Roger W. Blanchard who resigned to lead Episcopal Church programs in New York. The ceremony, to begin at 11 a.m., will be televised and attended by more than 300 clergy and lay leaders from across the region.
Four motorists were fined for careless driving and two for excessive vehicle noise in the weekly traffic session. Judge J T Lamb fined Nobal Keith 200 dollars and costs for careless driving after a reduction from driving while intoxicated. Others, William L Willman James H Easton Delbert N Nickel Richard D Cavoll and Jeffery Repper, were fined 50 dollars and costs each on anti noise charges after guilty pleas.
Mrs. Jean K. Spero of Columbus a housewife and mother of two daughters graduated from Ohio State University with the highest grade average among 1,349 degree candidates. She returned to college in 1968 as a transfer student from Wellesley College and earned a bachelor of science in home economics summa cum laude with highest honors and a 13.94 average.
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