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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1969
Page
1
Nearly 85 000 Cincinnati public school students will keep a full school day for the year after 57 percent of 110 000 voters approve a 5.2 mill operating levy. The $3.20 per $1 000 property value levy avoids up to five June days and 14 December days of cuts, easing a financial crisis and allowing teachers to be hired.
Parma teachers accept a $700 annual pay raise ending a three day walkout after voters rejected a 94 mill levy. Starting salary rises to $6,500 in two steps by next January, short of the requested $6,700. The dispute peaked when the county judge ordered the teachers back to class.
American paratroopers and South Vietnamese infantry today seized a mountaintop fortress overlooking the A Shau Valley in Dong Ap Bia near the Laotian border after a hard 10 day siege. The clash left 426 North Vietnamese and 39 Americans dead, with 273 paratroopers wounded as the force, expanded to over 1,000 paratroopers and 400 Vietnamese, attacked from four sides and reached the top at 11:45 a.m. The commander reported the enemy streaming off the hill and rear guards firing tear gas as the assault continued toward Laos.
Richard Lee Tingler Jr. 29, an FBI Ten Most Wanted fugitive, is jailed in Oklahoma City awaiting extradition to Ohio on six murder charges. Arrested near Dill City while using the name Don Williams, he faces unlawful flight to avoid prosecution for murder and armed robbery with a $100000 bond.
Gov James A Rhodes of Ohio says the news media were rude to his guests and defends a Life magazine profile as not as vicious as his 1962 campaign. The Life piece claims he paid over 100000 dollars in back taxes and penalties in ten years. Rhodes denies the accusations.
Apollo 16 astronauts Thomas Stafford John Young and Eugene Cernan wake refreshed after nine hours of sleep aboard the command ship en route to a lunar rendezvous nearly 200000 miles away. Mission control reports the midcourse motor firing not needed and praises the spacecraft as it travels toward the Sea of Tranquility.
Sen William Nye of Akron urged Gov James Rhodes to resign amid Life magazine allegations of unpaid taxes and ethics concerns. Nye compared Rhodes to Abe Fortas who resigned after a funding query. Rhodes denies the charges and aides call Nye’s demand surprising. Carney notes no state funds are involved.
Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller wrapped up a nine day Latin American tour landing at LaGuardia Airport after Panama. He said the hemisphere faces common concerns over exports and U S tariff reductions and stressed that nations must cooperate on mutual problems. Demonstrations accompanied his visits in several capitals with a fatal student shooting reported in Honduras. He noted most protests involved students and predicted more Latin trips in coming months.
The Middletown forecast calls for clearing skies and cooler temperatures tonight with lows in the 40s and 50s. Wednesday brings fair conditions with highs in the 60s to 70s. Yesterday’s high reached 72 and this morning’s low was 58.
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