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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1972
Page
1
Weather summary notes partly cloudy cold conditions with lows in the mid 20s and highs near 40s for Thursday. Forecasts call for continued clouds and slightly warmer temps Friday and Saturday with a chance of rain. Middletown recorded a 43 degree high and 31 degree low with a trace of rain overnight.
Ohio National Guardsmen patrolled a 15 mile stretch of Lake Erie shoreline near Port Clinton as a storm that battered the southwest coast of the lake for 24 hours began to wane. A steady rain changed to snow early Tuesday evening and the snow slowed to periodic flurries.
The storm lashed the Ohio Valley to New England with heavy snow and freezing rain. Evacuees along a 200 mile stretch of Lake Erie and Lake Huron exceeded 10,000 as shore damages surpass 1 million dollars. Coast Guard patrols, Red Cross aid, and disaster declarations awaited state actions in Ohio and Michigan.
Two men robbed a Greensboro Wachovia Bank branch and held six hostages, including the bank manager. Pursued for four hours, a rolling roadblock and FBI involvement ended the chase after a head-on collision with an FBI car near Winston-Salem.
AP report details half a dozen mortar and grenade assaults across South Vietnam killing 13 and wounding 55, mainly civilians. Attacks centered in the Mekong Delta with a sixth near Da Nang in Quang Ngai as U S warplanes bombard both sides of the DMZ in a bid to pressure cease fire talks.
Pentagon sources say the United States has turned over more than 600 planes and helicopters to the South Vietnamese air force as a rapid buildup continues ahead of a proposed cease-fire. The transfer lifts South Vietnam’s air fleet to about 1,850 aircraft and helicopters, worth over 300 million dollars, including 120 F5 Freedom Fighters and 270 UH-1 Huey helicopters from US stocks and allied nations.
Air Line Pilots Association chief John J. O'Donnell calls on President Nixon to station federal officers at airports to supervise boarding and passenger screening. He cites the magnitude of skyjacking as beyond local and state capability and urges immediate action. FBI Acting Director L. Patrick Gray explains he ordered tire shots to abort a hijacked Southern Airways jet, preventing an international destination and freeing passengers.
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