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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1972
Page
6
West Germany faces a reported plan by a Near East terror group to send additional letter bombs to public officials in the West. Security was tightened after last month's Munich style attack and the murder of an Israeli diplomat in London.
A note states that an electric cell can deliver one shock of 300 to 500 volts, two or three times the voltage used in an ordinary house, highlighting the danger of higher voltage exposure.
Hamilton Butler County commissioners approved a contract to buy 38 additional Coyle voting machines for the November election in a 2 to 1 vote. Dale Logsdon and William Denham signed the purchase. Arthur F. Reiff dissented. The board also advanced Crescentville Road improvements from Ohio 747 to I-75.
AP reports Angela Davis, famed American black activist and Communist, has departed Havana for a trip to Chile marking her latest international absence from Cuba.
Middletown High School presents an updated Thorton Wilder Our Town directed by James Butch opening tonight at 8 p.m. The cast sails to Ohio Wesleyan University for a 9 to 11 a.m. workshop tomorrow, with two thirds of the play to be shown at the SCAO conference in Delaware. Art Buchwald will attend the Ohio Wesleyan event as an SCAO drama board member.
Tickets for the Middletown area Young Republican beauty pageant are on sale at Readmore Book Store Nixon phone center Republican headquarters 36 N Broad St Nixon headquarters 1919 Central Ave and Powell for Congress Head quarters old train depot Charles Street. Pageant is scheduled for Act 27 at the American Legion hall with prices 3 dollars per person and 5 dollars per couple. Final contestants will be announced next week.
Three Dayton men pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of trespassing after a break in at a Middletown warehouse trailer behind McAlpin’s. John Thomas, Joseph Jarman, and Ralph Jones received six month jail terms with partial suspensions, with Jones fined $200. Thomas to rejoin Budda Drug Clinic for treatment.
Monroe and Spring Hill elementary PTOs back the 7.9 mill school tax levy this fall. Middletown Board of Education President Howard Schueller says only further cuts left are closing lights and doors. Vice President William Schaefer cautions defeat now may hurt all 13 000 students long term.
Elieff of 1701 Lafayette Ave is named chairman of the Middletown area committee To Elect Mark C Petty as county recorder. Mrs Betty Rhoads named vice chair and Mrs Dorothy Schultz named secretary treasurer for Petty's campaign committee.
The SEC asks U.S. District Court to place Koscot Interplanetary cosmetics firm and promoter Glenn W. Turner into receivership. The motion seeks a temporary receiver and an injunction against further securities violations. Hearing set for December 12 in Atlanta. Turner’s Florida lawyers challenge jurisdiction.
A television set valued at 344 dollars was reported stolen yesterday from the home of Loran Sorrell at 3108 Keays Ave. A door glass was broken and an inner door forced at Mobil Oi Station 319 Richmond St. no items were taken. Mrs Doris Downs of 521 Elm Drive Carlisle reported the incidents.
The Christian Reformed Church chapels halted on federal land at a White Lake South Carolina rest stop were relocated about 100 yards after a four year dispute. The government ruled the chapels could not occupy the right of way.
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