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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1966
Page
1
John Aspinwall the Texas Ku Klux Klan state grand vice president resigned after threats to his children. He reported teleco threats to kill or injure his kids and n% his wife also received calls promising harm if he stayed.
Peggy Ann Brodnick, 17, survived a week in woods with kidnapper William Diller Hollenbaugh after a long manhunt in the Tuscarora hills. Hollenbaugh and an FBI agent were killed. Deputy Sheriff Fran is Sharp was wounded. Peggy Ann, treated at Fulton County Medical Center, praised safety.
A humorous sign on a reducing salon front window reads Come in and shoo the fat. The witty display aims to attract customers with a playful tease about weight loss services.
Washington AP report says Defense and Treasury teams target American civilians who have returned from Vietnam era service to pursue profits and tax actions. Department officials indicate cross agency review will focus on earnings from overseas assignments and business dealings tied to wartime service.
Miami Beach FL AP Grueling Miss USA rehearsals thin the field to 15 semifinalists for Saturday night finals. Miss Ohio Karen Dietz says she mistook a 2500 prize for money to visit her brother in West Germany. Separate reports note U S probes into Viet Nam money manipulation, with 76 civilians and several service members under scrutiny and efforts to curb black market PX trading amid Saigon’s supply surge.
In Da Nang, government troops ringed Buddhist pagodas after hours of heavy fighting as Ky's forces pressed a three block pocket of resistance. Viet Cong urged troops to rise up while Buddhists avoided any Ho Chi Minh birthday associations and casualties mounted on both sides.
The forecast calls for partly cloudy skies tonight with a low in the 50s and Friday expected to stay similar with a high near 75. Yesterday’s high reached 73 and the overnight low was 49, with Middletown reporting four‑tenths of an inch of rain. Today's 11 am temperature was 72.
Theodore Francis Green aged 98, former U S Senator, died at his Providence home. The oldest man to serve in the Senate, Green suffered heart failure after cerebral strokes in 1962. He entered the Senate at 69, was reelected thrice, and served 23 years before retiring in 1960.
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