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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1965
Page
14
Washington accepts 3800 American-grown Japanese cherry trees as a gift from Japan to be planted around the Washington Monument in early November. Experts resolve the import ban on foreign trees by sourcing stock from U.S. nurseries. The six to eight foot single petal trees cost about 20000 dollars.
Marie Mauser a 17 year old Indianapolis girl with a bone marrow failure visited Indiana's state prison to thank inmates who by voluntary blood donations have given her 78 pints. Warden Ward Lane learned of her case from a newspaper account and inmates have funded a television set and a $90 check through their commissary funds.
An earthquake rattled Southern California with aftershocks and a 4.2 magnitude. Police reported no extensive damage though walls cracked and glass broke in Palm Springs. Caltech said the epicenter was about 80 miles southeast of Pasadena in the Palm Springs area.
Newark Ohio AP reports Emil Nitz 45 of Baroda Michigan piloted a single engine plane that ran out of gas near Kirkersville Sunday forcing an emergency landing in a field. Nitz escaped serious injury and the aircraft suffered only minor damage.
Tomorrow's stars favor task completion and action on postponed projects. Follow tested procedures to avoid errors and handle romance with care. Birthday readers see 1966 gains in career and finances, with boosts in late spring and summer and cautious months in November and early December.
A short daily fortune puzzle from 1965 by William J. Miller. It explains a numeric key game using the reader’s first name length to generate a key number and read a message from a grid. The feature is distributed by King Features Syndicate.
Mary Douglas delivers the weekly Blade-Times in Brunswick Maryland, chatting with customers on her route. The 88 year old great grandmother walks hills to earn money and leaves papers in safe places if no one answers, earning praise as a patient model carrier.
More than 300 convicts at Cummins Prison Farm write Gov. Fau to reject the resignation of Warden Dan Stephens amid heavy criticism for using a 5 foot 1 pound strap on inmates. The letters, about 15 percent of inmates, urge keeping Stephens as captain. Many letters defend his approach as needed to curb troublemakers.
In Toledo Ohio Mr and Mrs John Hilding welcome Allen and Ellen joining their three older siblings Susan Steven Judy James and Bobby Danny and Mike making the family three sets of boy girl twins. Twin birth odds cited by Mrs Hilding, national exec secretary of the Mothers of Twins Club, note one in 80 and 1 in 17 for a second set. The national record reportedly is seven twin sets.
In Strasbourg France the Socialists from six Common Market nations urged that if France boycotts any talks the five partner states should proceed without Paris. The group from France West Germany Italy Belgium the Netherlands and Luxembourg met after a weekend session to push for a way forward despite France's stance on the common agricultural policy and deeper political integration.
The public prosecutor in Viterbo Italy asked a judge to bring actress Gina Lollobrigida and six others to trial on obscenity charges over the film Le Bambole The Dolls The charge was filed last June and Lollobrigida expressed surprise saying she would not perform in a scene offensive to morality A one man grand jury must decide whether to proceed against Virna Lisi Nino Manfredi Jean Sorel and three others.
Cincinnati AP reports Ernest Schmid 980 of Deer Park died from injuries after being struck by a car while crossing a street Sunday Oct. 11.
Phoenix residents face waste worries as the city condemns John R. Mannings garbage cans for ragged edges and ill fitting lids. Manning alleges damage by city workers and theft by neighborhood youths, while officials promise further investigation and caution about lid theft.
Cuban Prime Minister Raul Castro met in the Kremlin with Soviet Deputy Premier Vladimir Novikov today. Tass did not disclose details. Castro, Fidel’s younger brother, arrived in the Soviet Union on October 7 at the invitation of Defense Minister Rodion Malinovsky.
A set of flagged notes include a red Schwinn 3 speed bicycle missing in front of Journal with reward, a black female with phone contact, a white Tabby cat named Tabby with reward, and a death notice for Mildren Whitehead 62 at Middletown Hospital with funeral details at McCoy Leffler Funeral Home and interment in Taylorsburg Ohio.
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