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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1966
Page
2
Clyde Spencer, 66, of 407 Cribb Street, dies at home. Funeral services set for 2 p.m. Thursday at Joseph R. Baker & Sons Funeral Home with Rev. W N Hidelbaugh officiating. Burial in Woodside Cemetery. Friends may visit the funeral home tomorrow 2 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m.
Pfc. Thomas M. Klein of Grand Rapids Michigan, 21, awarded a second Purple Heart after losing a leg from a mine near Da Nang. He pinned the medal on the flag over fallen comrade John Edgerly and was honored after reports to President Johnson spurred the action.
The Washington Post reports talks to move antipoverty job programs from the Office of Economic Opportunity to the Labor Department. Bertrand M. Harding says it is not a power play and would not jeopardize OEO, while other officials fear dismemberment of the agency.
Dayton couple arrested last summer for attempting to rent or sell their three month old baby received city jail terms. Father Hugh James Pavlovich was sentenced to six months while mother Betty Rose got a six month suspended sentence. The pair were arrested July 18 after offering to rent the baby to a policewoman for a sum of money.
An unknown age Toledo girl on Halloween night was bitten and clawed by an ocelot that is kept as a pet. She received tetanus shots and was tested for rabies at a local hospital.
Democratic gubernatorial candidate George P Mahoney was escorted by state police in southern Maryland after six threatening calls. His car was flanked by patrol cars and a private bodyguard drove his vehicle. Campaign aides reported two threats at his Baltimore County home and four at the Baltimore City headquarters.
A seventh grader asked at the Mid Town Information Center to view a special slide show titled For Their Sake. The Better Schools Committee arranged a private showing of charts and graphs comparing Middletown schools, but she appeared on literature cover rather than in the display.
Tokyo AP reports Sadao Araki, a wartime militarist who led Japan’s prewar regime and was a World War I war criminal, died of a hemorrhage aged 16. He received life imprisonment in 1948 from the IMTFE, was paroled in 1955 for ill health, and released in 1958.
Betty Fowles or Tena Langley remains in critical condition at University Hospital Columbus as authorities pursue charges against a 30 year old Urbana man in a near fatal beating. The victim, found in shrubbery outside a suburban home, lived and worked in the area. Police linked a parked car to the suspect and kept him in custody as the investigation continued.
In Philadelphia two boys aged 6 and 9 carried a ticking black attache case down Kensington Avenue. Police summoned the Army at Valley Forge, whose bomb disposal unit found a harmless graphite tube a small clock and an aspirin bottle linked by wire. Officials said it resembled a bomb but was part of a leftover Halloween secret agent costume.
Sheriff deputies sought the owner of a purse containing 459.60 found yesterday at the Interstate 75 rest area near Monroe. Mrs Mary Fellows of Canada on a Florida trip discovered the purse and notified the sheriff. The couple left after delivering the item to Sgt William Cain.
Five people were treated for injuries from auto accidents yesterday. Deborah Philpot, 16, was treated for a neck injury after a Shaker Road crash. Billy Napier, 20, was treated for chest contusions after a Route 123 collision. Corine Murphy, 31, was treated for a possible back injury on Michael Road. Deborah Creech, 17, and Shelia Creech, 15, were treated for contusions from a Dixie Highway crash.
A terrorist on a motor bike threw a hand grenade at a Saigon police checkpoint in the Chinese section killing two Vietnamese men and injuring four others, according to police sources.
Logan Goodyear Co. plant in Logan, Ohio, employing about 1,000, announced that United Rubber Workers Local 744 ratified a two year contract by a vote of 469 to 282. The deal provides a 12 cent hourly rise in year one and 11 cent in year two plus improved fringe benefits, grievance pay, hospitalization and a night shift bonus.
In Cleveland the Samuel H. Sheppard murder retrial continues as defense attorney F Lee Bailey promises a new approach aimed at showing an intruder with access. Prosecutor Corrigan opens with medical testimony while Bailey argues the weapon was wielded by someone with strength matching a woman and asserts the killer left no break in.
About 2,000 employees in Dayton and Toledo were idle as pressmen printers and guilds walked out. Dayton Newspapers Inc. faced a strike that halted the Daily News and the Journal Herald, with both News and editorial staff continuing. Toledo entered its second week without papers since an October strike on the Blade and Morning Journal.
Fred Hampton chief building inspector for the city was elected vice president of the Ohio Building Officials Association. The Columbus headquartered group aims to promote better understanding of zoning housing building and construction codes.
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