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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1971
Page
1
Middletown High School remains closed after racial disturbances. Principal Lewis T. Hill plans Saturday parent meetings at three locations and a Sunday 2 p.m. general session to secure support before deciding if classes resume. A homecoming protest by black students followed by white demonstrations.
Hill announces cancellation of Sunday and Thursday events for the year after a meeting with parents representing both black and white students. Volunteers at Middletown High School began taking calls to answer questions and provide information, with continued service planned Saturday. He praised educators and the Middletown police for preventing tragedy and urged citizen attention. He described last night’s parent meeting as productive, with Rev. James Holloman and Mrs Betty Russell noting positive results.
Dock workers from Maine to Texas walked out, initiating a complete nationwide shutdown of deep sea ports. The 45,000 ILA members across East and Gulf ports join West Coast action, rejecting shipper plans for firm-owned labor under a wage-price freeze and threatening a Taft-Hartley injunction if pursued.
Negotiators for 80,000 soft coal miners resume talks after the old contract expired at midnight. Walkouts spread across several states as union and industry dispute wages and benefits under a Nixon wage price freeze. UMW plans a New York meeting Monday while no settlement appears imminent.
Tonight will be clear and cooler with lows around 66 degrees. Saturday will be sunny and warm with highs near 85. Yesterday reached 89 and the overnight low was 64.
A pithy reflection notes that true aging comes with time, not merely age, suggesting a sharp, thoughtful view on how character and maturity develop beyond years.
Washington Senators warn Nixon odds look fair to good for 1972 but party prospects are grave as liberals meet with wealthy donors and a university president. They critique civil rights stance, aging and youth policy, and say the GOP fails to attract blacks youth and elderly while Nixon eyes China trip and Vietnam de escalation.
The four Republican leaders Taft Brooke Javits and Hatfield criticized the administrations 1970 campaign results and policy tone saying the party cannot rely on a strong showing in 1972. They urged clearer messaging to energize 25 million new voters aged 18 to 25 while warning against campaign shrillness driving disenchantment. Javits denied reports they sought to push Spiro Agnew from the ticket.
All mines in Ohio southeastern soft coal fields and West Virginia Panhandle, within District 6, were shut down by a strike affecting about 7 000 miners in a dozen mines. District 6 leader Thomas Williams announced a full wage and scale committee meeting at 2 p.m. Monday in the Roosevelt Hotel New York City to ratify any new contract. no local referendum will follow.
Ginger Downgraded to tropical storm before midnight moves southwest and then northwest toward the Appalachian Mountains. By 6 a.m. EDT it was 60 miles southeast of Raleigh with winds 45 to 50 mph and a forecast of up to five more inches of rain. Coastal damage from Washington to Morehead City was widespread with one death reported. Insurance Institute estimates area damage at $900,000. Red Cross shelters housed 1,931 people in six coastal counties. Bath and Belhaven received National Guard assistance for flood rescues as Bellhaven was isolated by rising waters.
In Columbus Ohio the Ohio Education Association faces a possible statewide walkout as delegates consider a recommendation from the executive committee. They would seek a court ruling on funding disparities and require an acceptable tax package including personal and corporate income taxes before any action.
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