Tornadoes Hit Ohio Area Cause Damage and Fatality
Severe storms with 67 mph winds and baseball sized hail blasted Ohio, killing one person and injuring others. Tornadoes struck Darke County near Ithaca damaging five barns and injuring a farming couple, while another funnel near Thornport damaged a grain elevator and a trailer. A mother aided escape by breaking a window. Across the state, power outages and injuries occurred as storms moved from Cincinnati to Cleveland.
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Weather outlook and rainfall report for Middletown
Clear to partly cloudy skies and cooler temperatures greet tonight with a low near 59. Tuesday expects sun and a high around 78, while Wednesday brings cloudiness and a chance of showers. Middletown rain totaled .55 inch yesterday, the first meaningful soaking since April 5 when 1.24 inches fell. yesterday's official high reached 84 at 2 p.m., and the overnight low was 58 at 6:15 a.m.
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Middletown
Suspect Held With Key To New City Hall
In Ashtabula Ohio police found the front door key to the new city hall and police station in a man’s pocket during questioning about a string of home break ins. The building is so new officials have not moved in. The detainee said he had worked for a contractor involved in the project.
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New City Hall
Ashtabula, Ohio
Welsh stowaway tries air freight trip home in a crate
Brian Robson a 19 year old Welsh traveler hid in a crate aboard a jet hoping to reach Britain cheaply from Australia. After 92 hours including a long stopover he emerged in Los Angeles and faced federal charges as a stowaway and illegal entrant.
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Pan America
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Fund Grows For Negro Church Ruined By Bomb
In Oxford Alabama the Pine Ridge Christian Methodist Episcopal church, damaged by a pre dawn dynamite blast, will be torn down for a new building funded by white donors. The reconstruction fund tops 3000 dollars and may reach 4000 as late contributions arrive. The new church will cost seven to eleven thousand dollars. White citizens started the fund after a Mothers Day Klan rally in Anniston. Church leaders say the members have not engaged in civil rights activities.
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Child seeks attention by bending IBM card, says source
A remark notes that in modern classrooms a swift, attention grabbing tactic for a student is to bend an IBM card. The comment reflects on classroom dynamics and the use of devices or materials to draw notice.
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IBM
South Bend Teachers End Strike For Talks
360 union teachers returned to public schools in South Bend after a weekend compromise led by George T. Bull and Louis Bruggner. The walkout began after the board proposed a $5,200 minimum for new teachers. the federation sought $5,400 plus benefits. The board will discuss wages at a Wednesday meeting, with the return seen as a moral win for the teachers.
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George T. Bull
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South Bend Federation of Teachers
Louis
South Bend Community Education Association
Bruggner
Johnson asks Congress to cut excise taxes by nearly four billion
President Johnson formally asks Congress to reduce excise taxes by about 4 billion dollars, assuring no immediate rise in defense spending will negate the plan. He proposes a July 1 and January 1 rollout totaling 1.75 billion each, plus 464 million spread to 1970, with broad repeal of taxes on consumer goods and manufacturing inputs.
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Polish defector diplomat questioned in Berlin asylum case
US officials questioned Wladislaw Tykocinski a Polish diplomat who defected and sought asylum. His wife and 17 month old son remained in East Berlin as he was flown by US Air Force to West Germany for asylum review. Tykocinski had led Poland's military mission in West Berlin for eight years.
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Truck Crash Ties Up Middletown Streets
A steel truck overturned early today on Sutphin Street near Wayne Avenue, dumping metal sheets. Driver Garland Nickell, 23, of Middletown Trailer Court, said a trailer wheel broke. Damage estimated at 3000 dollars as police redirected traffic between Wicorf Street and Grand Avenue.
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Wordslawn Avenue
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Sutphin Street
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Grand Avenue
Weith
Toll High After Viet Explosion
Four 500 pound bombs at Bien Hoa Air Base exploded in chain blasts injuring 103 Americans and leaving 22 missing. Maj. Gen. Moore said no sabotage and that delayed fuzes could trigger more blasts in days.
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South Viet Nam
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Beagle Geoffrey Pardoned By President Johnson
Rockville Centre New York AP A beagle named Geoffrey chewed a $10 bill into pieces, and Mrs Rocco Ruggiero sent the torn bill to President Johnson who replied with a presidential pardon The White House letter notes Geoffrey’s taste for rugs and furniture and jokes about rug workers and the national economy.
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White House
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United States
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Treasury Department
U.S
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