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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1965
Page
1
President Johnson directed tighter civilian spending after talks with Budget Director Schultze at the LBJ Ranch. Officials were instructed to trim all nonessential outlays to offset a rising defense budget due to Viet Nam.
Washington AP reports President Johnson faces a looming budget clash as a $10 billion military boost and new Great Society programs push spending toward the $120 billion mark. Peace marchers, led by SANE and allied groups, demand openness on Vietnam negotiations and urge nonviolence around the White House and Capitol. Norman Thomas and others critique administration secrecy while Moyers cites four priority areas: budget, legislative program, foreign policy, and program management.
In Salisbury Maryland Clarence Christopher family delays Thanksgiving to host 32 at Silom Community Hall for John Christopher 45 who had been missing 17 years presumed dead. John memory return sparked by accident and trip. he married an Florida girl, has seven children, works as electrical engineer in Huntsville Alabama. Grandchildren total now 17.
In Lorain Ohio a mother and her two daughters died when their car collided with a freight train in Shefield Village. Mrs Calvin King 38 and daughters Debra 12 and Mary Ann 10 of Shefield Lake were killed as the impact sent the auto several hundred feet along the tracks.
Pope Paul VI welcomed over 500 journalists from around the world in Vatican City and commended their arduous and difficult work covering the Vatican Ecumenical Council. The pontiff, son of a Catholic journalist, thanked the press for its coverage.
A regiment of Viet Cong guerrillas and a large South Vietnamese force clashed at the Michelin rubber plantation 45 miles northeast of Saigon. U.S. soldiers were reported killed and wounded, with Navy and Air Force planes targeting communist positions. The fighting followed two days of quiet after earlier battalion and regimental size attacks on the central coast.
A light local quip notes that small boys are washable yet tend to shrink away from the task, framing a humorous observation on childhood mischief and parental chores with a period tone.
London reports Britain prepared to send a defensive force to Zambia after saboteurs blew up a power line tower south of Kitwe, hitting copper mines in the north. Prime Minister Wilson’s office would not comment as Zambia’s Kaunda pressed for intervention amid Rhodesian claims of Communist involvement.
Five members of the House Appropriations Committee will depart soon to Vietnam to examine operations. The committee released no travel dates. Included in the delegation is Rep. William E.-minshall, R Ohio.
Frank Thayer, 75, emeritus professor of journalism at the University of Wisconsin, died Friday from complications after a fall. A UW faculty member from 1935 to 1961, he served as national vice president of Sigma Delta Chi from 1941 to 1946.
In Idalou Texas a three man bandit crew seized women hostages inside First State Bank. After nearly four hours police negotiation broke the standoff as two men fled after ramming a parked car and a third surrendered. The hostages were freed unharmed.
Blizzard like snow drifts pound Minnesota Michigan and Wisconsin as tornadoes and fierce winds sweep the Midwest. Minnesota towns report 2 to 14 inches with Hibbing 25 inches on the ground and Duluth 22 inches total. Indiana Illinois Arkansas Missouri report tornadoes and injuries while Michigan and Kentucky face gale force winds and power outages. Temperatures plummet with subzero readings in Montana the Dakotas and Minnesota.
Colder temperatures arrive with wind and rain last night. Tonight's low near 25 and tomorrow's high around 35. Skies stay partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow as winds ease by Sunday.
A widespread storm tore through Ohio causing scattered damage and minor injuries. In Delphos Allen County high winds wrecked five mobile homes at a trailer court. Police chief Norbert Grewe reported no serious injuries.
A strong windstorm hit Middletown and nearby counties last night. Seven people were affected with four treated in a hospital and three by local doctors. Power outages, downed branches, and lines were reported across Allen and Van Wert counties. In Newark, Licking County, the storm caused about 25 000 dollars in damage with a mobile home toppled, two injured, seven abandoned campers overturned, and a school roof ripped from its building.
Paris AP reported France's first Space satellite remains in orbit but its radio signals are nearly silenced. Technicians noted the "beep-beep" tone reappears sporadically yet feebly as orbit details prove hard to obtain. Antenna damage from launch likely caused the transmission issues after a three stage rocket launched from Hammaguir Algeria, sending the 92.5 pound craft aloft Friday.
In TIFFIN Ohio AP Lor en Steinhouser 15 of near New Riegel was killed Friday in a hunting accident near his home. Deputies said the youth was shot in the chest when a 12 gauge shotgun discharged as a friend handed it to him.
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