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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1978
Page
8
Film star John Wayne, 70, says he is hospitalized with bronchial pneumonia at Hoag Memorial Hospital after starting treatment over the weekend. He spends nights in the hospital and is home during the day, reporting he is feeling fine and expects to finish treatment by Wednesday.
In Worcester Massachusetts two volunteer Boy Scout leaders MacGregor Jr 36 and Matthew Roberts Jr 23 were arrested on 61 counts of morals offenses involving scouts aged 11 to 14. They lived at the same address and faced $1000 bail awaiting arraignment in Worcester Central District Court. Both men worked with youths in the Mohegan Council of Boy Scouts of Central Massachusetts and held laborer occupations. MacGregor faces five rape counts 19 counts of committing unnatural acts with minors and 11 counts of lewd and lascivious acts. Roberts faces four rape counts 14 counts of committing unnatural acts with minors and eight counts of lewd and lascivious acts.
A maintenance lapse at the Potrero plant left 69,000 PG&E customers without power for 1 hour 42 minutes. The operator skipped a required step while re energizing three 115000 volt cables causing a short circuit and knocking TV radio stations off air disrupting phone service transit and traffic signals.
Three former Houston officers—Terry Denson, Stephen Orlando, and Joseph Janish—face federal sentences for civil rights violations tied to the death of Joe Campos Torres, a 23-year-old ex serviceman whose body was found in a bayou near city police headquarters in May 1977. The maximum penalty is life imprisonment.
A New Jersey appeals court ruled a public school system discriminated against Sandra Castellano by denying sick leave benefits during her pregnancy. The three judges upheld back pay of 3,557 dollars and 600 dollars for damages, overturning a prior Civil Rights Division finding.
In Windhoek, police fear broader clashes after the assassination of Clemens Kapuuo, a moderate leader of a major multiracial movement. Police Commissioner Victor Verster sent reinforcements to Katatura as two assailants used Soviet pistols to ambush the tribe chief near his business.
TEL AVIV Israel AP Shlomo the giraffe died early today at Tel Aviv 200 zoo after collapsing two days earlier and failing to rise despite a dozen keepers attempts with chains and pulleys The eight year old 15 foot animal had fallen a week prior and veterinarians suspected injury autopsy to determine cause of death planned Dr Moshe Avram said Shlomo sired four offspring in four years and lived with mate and two daughters after falling from a three foot embankment last Tuesday then again on Sunday morning and never recovering
The Carter administration merges the United States Information Agency with the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs to create the International Communications Agency. About 8,700 employees remain, with a requested fiscal 1979 budget of 413 million dollars, citing inflation and a 20 million program to upgrade Voice of America transmitters as key reasons for the larger total. John F. Reinhardt will head the new agency, which aims for efficiency and centralized budget requests.
Tokyo officials postponed the billion dollar Narita airport opening after militants destroyed the control tower and threaten further violence. Prime Minister Fukuda ordered a Cabinet review to set a May opening with mid April repairs expected to resume limited operations. Transport officials warn security must improve as police mobilization continues and airlines adjust schedules.
Susan Jacobson vanished May 15 1959 and was presumed a runaway. Two years later her skeleton was found in a 55 gallon oil drum at the bottom of a 12 foot shaft in a Staten Island shipyard near a marsh and a red MAR sign. Her parents say investigators ignored the psychic Dorothy Allison who claimed to help police locate 20 bodies.
President Carter ordered a pause in talks with NATO allies last week as U S negotiators sought allied backing for deploying neutron weapons in Europe. A State Department spokesman said consultations continue and denied any interruption in Brussels.
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