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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1969
Page
1
Abbie Hoffman faced reporters at the Federal Building in Chicago as a top aide to Mayor Daley testified that Hoffman proposed leaving town for 100000 dollars during the 1969 Democratic National Convention. Hoffman and seven others stand trial for conspiring to incite riots at the convention.
Humor note on the medical world noting the difficulty of shock treatment after a man has seen his wife in curlers. A light joke about patient embarrassment and clinical practice.
German deputies of SPD and FDP vote to form a coalition that would end 20 years of CDU led government. CDU opposition seeks to block. Willy Brandt and Walter Scheel announce agreement on joint policy. Final Bundestag approval pending.
The Middletown region sees mostly sunny warm weather on Saturday with highs in the mid 80s and nights in the mid 50s. Sunday outlook is fair and warm. In political news a SPD FDP coalition would hold 12 seats of 496 in parliament, Brandt needing FDP backing. SPD 224 deputies favor left alliance, while CDU FDP wish for union with CDU to block the link.
The IMF and World Bank move toward issuing Special Drawing Rights as a new global money backed by international cooperation. SDRs will exist only on ledgers, with $9.5 billion to be distributed over three years starting 1970, skewed toward large quota nations. calls grow to aid developing countries amid concerns over unequal distribution.
U S troops fought along the DMZ near Saigon with 82nd Airborne and 101st Airborne units engaging fewer than 50 enemy fighters. Two observation helicopters were shot down and a paratrooper was killed with 10 wounded. An Air Force Phantom was shot down northeast of Saigon. Two Americans were killed and 20 wounded in attacks at the same time.
Dayton scene as School Superintendent Wayne M. Carle requests the board dismiss educator Arthur E. Thomas amid renewed racial disturbances at several high schools. The board postpones action until a meeting with the Model Cities Planning Council. Thomas, 31, leads the Model Cities education program and is a former elementary principal.
PHILADELPHIA AP A doctor who confines his practice to drug addicts says only one in 20 who use marijuana abuses it and that the same rate applies to alcohol. Dr David E Smith, medical director of San Francisco's Haight Ashbury Clinic, warned at a news conference before the 21st annual scientific assembly of the American Academy of General Practice that young people fear grass while amphetamines and barbiturates drive the problem. He cited overprescribing diet pills and amphetamines, criticized Operation Intercept, and urged attention to pharmaceutical products like cough medicines and stay awake pills as real hazards.
Mexicans urged to avoid crossing into U S as Operation Dignity prompts a boycott in Nogales and Matamoros but border traffic remains steadier than expected. Officials say delays at crossings persist on the U S side while easing in some Mexican ports.
The Atomic Energy Commission announced two additional nuclear tests for Amchitka Island after Thursday’s one megaton underground explosion yielded a ground roll with no quake or tidal wave. Critics abroad and at home opposed the test, warning of seismic risk, while officials reported no radiation leakage and minimal damage. AEC added personnel would return to the island Friday.
Dayton printers at the morning Journal Herald and afternoon Daily News will vote Sunday on a proposed new contract after six weeks of strikes. Negotiators for Dayton Newspapers Inc. and Local 57 International Typographical Union reached a tentative agreement Thursday night, with details withheld. The two papers have been idle since Aug. 22, amid a dispute over language regarding a lawsuit the company filed against the union. The $34,000 suit arose from last May when papers ran with empty pages due to a claimed union slowdown.
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