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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1969
Page
1
In Weirton West Virginia the annual Christmas parade featured a 30 foot food float built by the Weirton Crime Stop Committee. About 10 000 residents donated canned goods to be delivered to Salvation Army for distribution in poorer areas.
In Adelphi Maryland two masked men interrupted a Sabbath service at a Seventh Day Adventist Church and robbed the congregation at gunpoint. They ordered worshippers to sing hymns while they fled in a small foreign car. Police described the assailants as dressed in black with stocking masks. one was about 5 foot 2 and the other about 6 feet, using a sawed off rifle to threaten worshippers. Elder Harold M. Lindsay said the experience was horrible and noted the church’s size estimated at 53 to over 100 members. The robbery remains under investigation.
The forecast calls for partly sunny skies and somewhat warmer temperatures today with a high in the 40s. It will be cloudy tonight with a low in the low 30s. Monday will be cloudy and colder.
A chain collision on the New Jersey Turnpike in fog killed six and injured 19 as 15 cars and six trucks crashed. A tractor-trailer split and burned, trapping two cars. Police named two dead, while the others burned. Authorities closed the turnpike for hours as traffic backed up toward Philadelphia for the Army-Navy game.
A U S scout helicopter was fired on during patrols 75 miles northeast of Saigon near the Cambodian border. Air cavalry and gunships killed 40 NVA in a base camp complex while tracking enemy positions. Two Americans wounded. NVA artillery bombarded Bu Prang camp, and the US ceded Mekong Delta base My Tho to the South Vietnamese navy.
A glimpse into Vice President Agnew dismissing criticisms as he keeps talking. Readers are told today’s deeply committed youth rally around global causes, with Beverly Sills noted for conquering pollution and self destruction themes.
Lt. William L. Calley Jr. faces a new charge of murdering an unidentified adult male in Quang Ngai Province, alleged to have occurred about six weeks before the My Lai killings. Army officer Maj. Gen. Talbott appointed Lt. Col. Hopper to review whether the case goes to trial.
Accounts from Vietnam veterans describe prisoners being thrown from American helicopters and civilians shot by U S pilots. The reports involve a My Lai massacre scope from 109 to over 500 victims with an Army lieutenant charged with premeditated murder.
Apollo 12 commander Charles Conrad Jr and crewmates Richard F. Gordon Jr and Alan L. Bean enter quarantine at the Lunar Receiving Laboratory after returning from the moon. They display rocks and Surveyor 3 samples to officials and the public at Ellington Air Force Base.
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