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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1972
Page
14
AP reports rapid TV bulletins and heavy radio coverage as the Wallace shooting unfolds. Radio provides minute by minute updates while TV offers dramatic footage, reactions, and later reassurances, with both media illustrating public shock and condemnation of violence.
A Newton blaze on Amherst Road killed five family members and left two others escaped. Victims identified as Francis Tesora Sr., 42, sons Vincent 17 and Francis Jr. 6, daughters Maria 14 and Frances 10. Marie Tesora and another son escaped. one firefighter injured. Cause is undetermined.
Cliff Arquette, creator of Charley Weaver, is back home after hospitalization since April 24 for a heart attack. A spokesman said the 66 year old can return to Hollywood Squares in three or four weeks after being released from a West Covina hospital on Monday following the incident near Phoenix, Arizona.
A woman rescued from four years with Indigenous captors returns with a half breed child and is shunned by townspeople and her husband. The listing also notes TV schedules for Mod Squad and Marcus Welby plus a murder mystery on Hawaii Five-O involving a former fiancée’s husband.
Channel schedule listing several programs with episode titles and host or actor names. Includes The Deadly Dream with Lloyd Bridges, Love Hate Love with Peter Haskell, Color Me Dead with Tom Tyron, and The Rounders with Glenn Ford across 1965 1971 airings with various times applied.
Cambridge AP Matina Lourets Horner a 32 year old mother of three will become Radcliffe College president July 1 the youngest in the school's 93 year history. Horner is an assistant professor of clinical and personality psychology at Harvard and will succeed Mary J. Bunting who resigned to join Princeton President William G Bowen.
Roland Hayes Jones, 28, an escapee from a Chattanooga jail, remained in custody after a shotgun shooting killed or seriously wounded George Turner, 30, in Cincinnati. Turner was in critical condition. Jones faces an intentional shooting charge without bond.
The article reflects on John Quincy Adams as the nation’s sixth president, noting his unique rise as a son of a president, the 1824 one party era, and his minority victory aided by Henry Clay. It critiques his nonpartisan stance, visionary yet doomed program, and later long service in Congress fighting the gag rule on anti slavery petitions, ending with Benton’s epitaph.
Amanda Middle School PTO will elect officers for the coming year at the regular business meeting tomorrow held on school grounds. The evening features a theme This Land is Mine with choral readings and patriotic songs performed by the sixth and eighth grade choirs.
The annual lawn fete at George M. Verity Middle School starts Saturday at 3 p.m. Festivities include games a Car smash white elephant booths and food vendors.
The Humane Association of the Miami Valley sponsors a Clown for a Day contest for boys ages 11 to 15. Entries due June 5 to Mrs. R Harold Karmer Middletown 45042 with name address age phone school and a short essay. The winner performs with Clyde Beatty Cole Brothers Circus on Aug 14 and receives a clown outfit seating for family.
Rio’s Flag nightclub hosts a revived old style dance night, reported by a Brazilian newsmagazine, highlighting nostalgic pairing and club scene revival in the city.
Sorrento Italy AP Billy Wilder plans a $3 million romantic comedy Avanti starring Jack Lemmon and Juliet Mills amid a market shift away from overt sex in cinema. He argues pornography fades as Hollywood moves beyond low-budget skin flicks to pricier productions.
Girl Scout ceremony at Scio staged as Brownies from Spring Hill School troops 1800 and 1888 advanced to Girl Scouting. Recipients included Tammy Felts Tina Madden Tracy Maines and others with first year pins to Kristie Collins Robin Eichhorn Cindy Ellis and more. A Court of Awards for Junior Troop 77 will honor spring badge earners. Leaders listed for troops 1800 1888 and 77.
Dayton Ohio hosts the Federated Democratic Women of Ohio annual meeting May 19 20 with Mrs Hale Boggs wife of Louisiana congressman and House majority leader as the featured speaker at the Saturday luncheon.
About 60 000 of the 140 000 Ohioans who should file quarterly state income tax payments have not done so. Post cards will be mailed to those with incomes of 8000 dollars or more not subject to withholding to remind them quarterly payments are due. The deadline is extended to June 15 with penalties of 5 percent per month up to 25 percent and 6 percent interest on tax and fine after that.
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