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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1969
Page
1
Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir returned to Milwaukee to revisit her childhood elementary school. She appeared moved by the moment though tears did not come as she walked the halls of the institution she attended over fifty years ago.
President Nixon invoked the Railway Labor Act to form an emergency board and postpone a nationwide rail shutdown for at least 60 days. The action bars unions from striking on six roads and stops management from threatens to halt all rail traffic as four shopcraft unions bargain with 76 carriers. Both sides blamed each other for stall tactics while the board prepares recommendations for a settlement.
President Nixon backs Haynsworth amid Senate split and pressure from Democrats and Republicans. Key figures like Hugh Scott and Robert Griffin withhold endorsement while Margaret Chase Smith and George Aiken indicate opposition or caution. Bayh shifts to actively seek defeat with disclosures and a 30 to 46 vote range anticipated. Meir visit to Milwaukee highlighted by school reception and pride in Israel.
Gen Earle J. Wheeler, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, arrived in Saigon and forecast a renewed combat season after the current lull. He and Gen Creighton Abrams will review progress turning action to South Vietnamese forces as U S forces report low activity and prepare for a possible winter spring campaign. Rival forces exchange limited engagements near Saigon and in the Mekong Delta while B52 bombers conduct five missions dropping 750 tons on North Vietnamese bases.
The 102nd Combat Support Company from Ohio will depart South Vietnam on Sunday as part of phase two troop withdrawals. The 200-man unit, led by Capt. Donald J. Sceranka of Cleveland, sails from Da Nang and lands at Standiford Field in Louisville before being inactivated at Fort Knox and reconstituted in Cleveland.
Winter battered the central Rockies with up to a foot of snow in Colorado and freezing temperatures. Denver received 7 inches as a shuttle flight crashed near Lowry Air Force Base, killing five and injuring two. one death occurred in a storm traffic accident. Wind warnings stretched across New Mexico and the region.
Wil ly Brandt won the chancellorship after a decade long effort to restore Social Democrats credibility in West Germany. His victory follows entry into government in 1966 and marks the party’s rise to power in a 20 year history with 42.7 percent of Sunday’s vote and a coalition with the Free Democrats.
The Weather Bureau predicts a sunny and warm Sunday with a high in the mid-80s and a low near 55 tonight.
Hurricane Inga with 90 mile per hour winds turns north toward Bermuda as it nears the tourist island 24 miles away. The National Hurricane Center notes a sharp northward turn and warns gale force winds may affect Bermuda as Inga loops and speeds up in response to a cold front. Dr. Robert Simpson calls Inga one of the screwball storms, having circled in place for days.
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