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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1970
Page
1
A visit to the dentist ends with frustration as the practitioner is unexpectedly summoned away, leaving patients with mixed emotions about the interrupted appointment and the promise of rescheduling.
Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau announces Canada under the War Measures Act as the FLQ kidnappings tighten. Officials Cross and Laporte remain hostages while Quebec offers five prisoners for exchange and a safe passage deal is rejected. The act grants Ottawa sweeping powers to arrest, deport, censor, and detain without Parliament approval, with penalties up to five years and a $5,000 fine. The cabinet says measures are necessary and will be defined in coming hours.
A Kent State special grand jury indicted 25 individuals on 30 counts related to violence on May 4. The report exonerates National Guard members on campus that day, citing self defense amid rock and brick attacks and a riot in and around Taylor Hall.
In Philadelphia volunteers operate Good Samaritan and HELP without government funds. The programs assist at risk families with a baby sitting service and crisis hotline that handled over 13 000 calls. Founders Sherri Winter and Shelly Kaplan run a shoestring operation with 30 volunteers and 6 phones, aided by unpaid professionals.
In York Pennsylvania three shots were fired at William Penn High School principal Richard Eckenroth’s office after a student demonstration. Police arrested 23 people for disorderly conduct as about 40 students entered the school at day’s end. The York Free School group is blamed for the unrest as protesters urged student jury discipline and racial-discrimination charges against staff.
About 25 men in black nationalist robes protected firefighters as they doused a vacant East Side apartment fire. They moved a crowd away amid about 20 clashes with bystanders. no injuries or arrests reported. Arson suspected in both fires linked to rent-hike protests.
Tonight will be clear and cold with a freeze warning. Lows 26 to 32 degrees. Saturday should be sunny and slightly warmer with highs in the mid to upper 50s. Outlook for Sunday is fair and warmer.
The GNP rose 6 percent in July to September signaling possible recovery from stagnation, while industrial output fell 1.7 percent in September. Commerce data show third quarter GNP at $985.2 billion annualized, real GNP up 1.4 percent to $924.3 billion in 1958 dollars.
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