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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1975
Page
1
Fragmentary newspaper snippet reports a deadly incident involving Dayton area police officers. The page mentions Ann Landers inside and lists sections such as Vital Statistics and Women's News, with partial references to Middletown and county areas.
terrorists shot and killed U S Air Force Lt Col Paul R Shafer Jr and Lt Col Jack J Turner on a Tehran street as they were driven to work. The assassins escaped and Iran promised swift justice.
Samuel L. Dalton, longtime Springfield School District assistant superintendent since 1969, was named the next superintendent of Middletown City Schools. School Board President Howard Schueller announced at a press conference that terms would be revealed next Tuesday.
Fifteen servicemen were killed and three missing after the Mayaguez rescue off Cambodia. The Pentagon lists 11 Marines, two Navy corpsmen, and two Air Force members among the dead, with about 50 more wounded.
President Ford tells New York Daily News there was no punitive element in continued bombing of Cambodian airfields and harbors after the Mayaguez rescue. He notes Marines on Koh Tang and says time given to Cambodians for return was sufficient. Ten crewmen later landed in San Francisco describing captors as a ragged band in a small gunboat.
About 100 Laotian youths seized the U S aid agency headquarters in Vientiane and painted Americans go home on walls while troops guarded the gates of the Kilometer 6 housing area. In Savannakhet, a dozen Americans and six foreigners remained under loose arrest for a sixth day amid Pathet Lao activity.
Prices overall increased by 0.6 percent in April led by grocery costs reversing a downturn. The rise doubles March and marks the largest since January, though the annual rate remains well below 1974 levels. Government forecasts expect inflation around 6 to 7 percent this year.
Storms sweep the Midwest from Texas to the Great Lakes with tornadoes, wind, rain and hail. At least four people are dead and many injured as twenty one tornadoes are logged across Texas, Arkansas, Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota and Michigan. Illinois towns report wind gusts to 120 mph near Dwight.
Clear skies and lows in the 60s forecast for Middletown tonight. Sunny with highs in the 80s tomorrow afternoon. A chance of showers Thursday night and again Friday and Saturday, with clearing skies by Sunday. Yesterday's high 88 and overnight low 66.
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