25 May 1975
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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1975
Page
1
A Creekview Elementary field trip sent fourth graders, their teacher, staff, and parents to Hawaii. Photographer John Sheckler, staff writer Sandy Pawelkoski, and the group documented the journey for the newspaper. Page references indicate feature coverage across sections.
A man and woman mistaken for Patty Hearst were detained for 24% hours at a truck stop along Interstate 90 near Ashtabula Ohio. They were released after an FBI check showed no connection to the newspaper heiress who vanished on February 4 1974.
President Ford signed a $405 million measure to relocate and resettle over 100000 refugees from Cambodia and Vietnam. The package funds nine voluntary agencies, airlift costs, food and medical care, and job counseling with first arrivals at Indiantown Gap Pennsylvania.
In Mount Sterling Kentucky residents raise funds for 3 year old Rhea Dawn Maschino who needs open heart surgery. Donations come from locals, coworkers, students and surrounding counties. a bank holds $3,500 in her name as doctors hope to delay surgery up to two years.
Cartoonist Bill Mauldin of the Chicago Sun-Times was assaulted on a near North Side street while photographing illegally parked cars. He sustained a possible fractured nose and facial cuts. his wife said the attack followed a police tow truck and squad cars arriving as witnesses noted a party for John P. Daley and Mary Lou Bhatta.
Experts at a Washington conference warn hunger will not vanish with a few good harvests. Developing countries face poverty concentrated in rural areas with 85 percent of the world’s 800 million poor. Officials call for capital, tech aid, and price policies to boost farming and future food supplies amid favorable weather yet fragile gains.
Partly cloudy conditions in the Middletown area with a chance of showers and thundershowers today and on Memorial Day. Highs near 85 to 90, overnight lows around 60, and a 50 percent chance of rain both days.
About 300000 veterans may get June GI education and training benefit checks late as Congress adjourned for Memorial Day without final appropriation. A $425 million piece within a $15 billion supplemental bill funds June vouchers, but passage faces House Senate dispute over rail upgrade funds and timing.
Russell Lee Smith, a 28 year old parolee from Mansfield, went on a city wide shooting rampage in Dayton leaving two dead and nine wounded, then raped two teenage girls before killing himself. Victims include Joni Gatewood, Paulette Couch, and several others. the incident spanned multiple sites and ended at a ravine where the assailant surrendered to police briefly before shooting himself.
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