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Newspaper

Middletown Journal

Location

Middletown, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Oct 20, 1971

Page

2

Willy Brandt Wins Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo

West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, 57, receives the Nobel Peace Prize with a prize of about 88 000 dollars for his efforts to improve East Europe relations. Danish and German Social Democrats backed Brandt as key to easing tensions, as medicine and economics prizes were also announced for Earl W. Sutherland Jr. and Simon Kuznets. The literature, chemistry, and physics prizes will be announced in Stockholm and on November 2 respectively.

Oslo Norway Willy Brandt Bonnvernment Alfred Nobel Brandt East Europe Earl W. Sutherland Jr Vanderbilt University Simon Kuznets Harvard University Stockholm

Deaths And Funerals William Augspurger and William Slonaker Augspurger 8

William Augspurger 8 formerly of 2456 Wilbraham Road died at 8 15 p m Tuesday at the Ohio Pythian Home in Springfield where he had lived since January 1970 He retired in 1955 after a self employed paperhanger and earlier ran the Carter Augspurger Confectionery Store He was a member of Lincoln Lodge 93 F and AM and the Knights of Pythias Chapter 37 He was born in Miltonville His wife Elizabeth died in 1959 Surviving are two daughters Betty Fouts Dayton and Virginia Oakley Leesburg Fla and a brother Albert Lebanon Services will be at Oswald Funeral Home at 2 p m Friday Burial at Mt Zion Cemetery near Dayton Friends may call Thursday 6 to 9 p m at Wilson Schramm Memorial Home Arrangements incomplete.

William Augspurger William Slonaker Augspurger Wilbraham Road Ohio Pythian Springfield Carter-Augspurger Lincoln Lodge $93 F&am Knights of Pythias Miltonville Elizabeth Betty Fouts Dayton Virginia Oakley Leesburg Fla Wilson-Schramm Memorial S. Main St

Services for William Doolittle Held At Hall-Jordan Chapel

William Doolittle aged 87 of 801 Eighth Ave died Tuesday at Middletown Hospital. Services are at 1 p.m. Thursday at Hall-Jordan Memorial Chapel with Rev Guy Robinson officiating. Burial follows at Woodside Cemetery. The chapel will be open Wednesday evening from 6 to ? for visitation.

William Doolittle Eighth Ave Hall-Jordan Guy Robinson Woodside Cemetery

Bennett's Wife To Get 892,500 Alimony Yearly

Tony Bennett divorce settlement in Hackensack awards his wife Patricia 92,500 yearly alimony and 150,000 Englewood home plus custody of sons Dandrea and Dagel after desertion and adultery claims. Judge August Heckman presided. The unrelated Lebanon item notes W Glenn Banta, 79, dies in Chillicothe VA hospital. wife Hazel survives with son Lawrence and others.

Bennett Bennet Patricia Engiewood Dandrea Dagel

Obituary Notices for Local Residents and Services

George Clouse 63 of Freeman Ave to have services 2 30 p m Thursday at St Mark United Methodist Church Mrs Druculla Evans 73 of Overpeck to have services 2 p m Thursday at Pentecostal Highway of Holiness Church Philip de Fazio 24 of 1361 FE High St to have services in Phoenix AK Mrs Elizabeth Renners 73 of Hoeven Ave to have services 9 30 a m Thursday at St Ann s Church

George Clouse Freeman Ave St. Mark United Mehodist Druculla Evans Overpeck Pentecostal Highway of Holiness Church Philip de Fazio High St Phoenix Elizabeth Renners Hoeven Ave St. Ann’s Church

Kissinger Arrives In Peking

Kissinger arrived in Peking to arrange Nixon’s visit, with about 20 Chinese officials and an equal number of cars greeting the presidential Boeing 707. He and his party left the plane after roughly 10 minutes, watched by foreign reporters and diplomats as a large anti American imperialism slogan loomed at the airport. The official Peking press did not flag the arrival, while articles accused American and Japanese imperialists of colluding to seize Taiwan.

Belgrade Henry A. Kissinger Peking Nixon Tanjug Kissinger Peking Press People’s Daily Japa Taiwan

Fatal Shooting Probed

Hamilton Butler County police and the coroner investi gate the death of Melvin Gundler 47 of 3318 Cincinnati Brookville Road who died at 8 05 am today of an apparent self inf licted gunshot wound in the head. County Ptl Richard Laney took Gundler to Fort Hamilton Hospital from his home about 6 43 am Laney said the victim s wife was awakened when she heard a noise and found her husband sitting on a bed with a .22 rifle beside him.

Hamilton Butler County Melvin Gundler Cincinnati Brookville Road Richard Laney Gandler Fort Hamilton Laney

Senators Back ROC U N Membership Support

Washington AP reports 69 senators including Republicans William Saxbe and Robert Taft Jr signed a one sentence statement urging continued Republic of China membership in the United Nations.

Washington Ohio William Saxbe Robert Taft Jr Republic of China United Nations

London report cites one in six children needing special treatment

A London board of inquiry finds that about one in six schoolchildren require special educational care. The issue is especially severe in secondary schools according to the report.

London

Convicted Slayers Spared From Chair in Ohio

The Ohio Supreme Court spared three men from the electric chair and imposed life terms after applying a U S Supreme Court ruling on juror eligibility in capital cases. Cases included Raymond Watson for the slaying of Cleveland officer Steve Hubber in 1967, and Robert Leroy Pruett and Robert Wigglessworth. A fourth case involving Thomas C Welch received a hearing to assess rights waiver claims.

Columbus Ohio Ohio Supreme Court U. S. Supreme Court Raymond Watson Cleveland Steve Hubber Hubber Watson Cuyahoga County

FCC Chief warns against government news censorship

FCC Chairman Dean Burch told a Senate subcommittee that government intervention in radio and television news would be dangerous. He said the FCC will not act as arbiter of truth or distort news, and will only intervene if stations are ordered to fake events. He defended the Fairness Doctrine as essential to balanced airtime for competing political viewpoints.

Federal Communications Commission FCC Dean Burch Senate Subcommittee On Constitutional Rights Burch Republican National Committee

Avon Reports Higher Earnings in Third Quarter

Avon Products Inc reports record sales and earnings for the quarter ended September 30. Net sales rose 15 percent to 208.367 million dollars from 181.312 million a year earlier. Net income increased 7 percent to 22.504 million dollars, 39 cents per share, up from 20.997 million dollars, 36 cents per share.

New York Avon Products, Inc

Grocery stores shift in US from 1960 to 1970

The number of grocery stores in the United States fell from 250000 in 1960 to 208000 in 1970. Most declines occurred among small stores with annual sales under 100000 or weekly sales under 2000. Supermarkets and discount convenience stores rose during the decade.

United States

Franklin Forms Ticket Sales Committe For Orchestra

About 35 Franklin residents including civic leaders voted to establish a ticket sales committee for bringing the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and two additional cultural groups. Charles Anglesby named chairman. A directors board will be named Thursday to oversee sales and publicity. Roughly $6,000 must be raised to invite a 95 member ensemble and potential jazz quintet or ballet group. Thirteen concerts planned with ten for children and three for adults. The city faces $6,000 cost despite $20,000 foundation grants. First performance set for February 7.

Franklin Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra Civic Club Charles Anglesby

Ohio bars gain extra hour after time change

At 2:00 a.m. clocks move back to 1:00 a.m. Sunday Oct 30, extending closing time for licensed bars. Richard E. Guggenheim, director of the Ohio Department of Liquor Control, explained the daylight to standard time shift lengthens late hours for establishments with authorization.

Columbus Ohio Richard E. Guggenheim Ohio Department of Liquor Control

Dock Workers Back From Strike In California And Philadelphia

About 150 machinists on Los Angeles Long Beach docks and the Master Stevedore Contract Association reached a three year contract with a $1.65 per hour wage increase from $5.77 plus new fringe benefits. In Philadelphia a portion of dock workers briefly returned to work under a state court order as the wider dock and coal strikes continue. The United Mine Workers strike actions affect 100,000 members across 20 states, with railroad officials furloughing 15,000 workers and coal supplies dwindling at some plants in southern West Virginia and Indiana. Miners seek a $13 daily wage rise to $50, doubling the union welfare fund payments among other demands. Contract talks resumed, but UMW President Boyle said no serious offer had been made yet.

Los Angeles Philadelphia Long Beach Calif United Mine Workers Union West Virginia Indiana Coal Producers Association Union Welfare Fund UMW W. A Tony” Boyle

Arrest Raid Nets Stolen Goods In Butler County

Warren H. Brown of 2754 West Elkton Road was arrested on two counts of receiving and concealing stolen property and illegal possession of a sawed off shotgun after a sheriff led 14 deputies in a raid at his West Elkton Road home. About $2,000 in stolen property was recovered including 24 chainsaws, four from a Brookville hardware store and 20 from a Landmark store near Wilmington. Also seized were a .38 caliber revolver reportedly stolen in California and a shotgun believed stolen in Tennessee.

Hamilton Butler County Warren H. Brown West Elkton Road Harold J. Carpenter Here Brookville Ohio Wilmington Clinton County Smith & Wesser California Tenesse

Two men placed on five years probation in Butler County

James Neal Jr. of West Elkton and Ronnie Dean Thomas of Wapakoneta received five year probation from Butler County Common Pleas Judge Fred B. Cramer. Neal pleaded guilty to stealing a motor vehicle August 1 and was ordered to pay restitution for another passenger’s injuries. Thomas had pled guilty earlier related to a United Dairy Farmers store robbery and a break in at an Oxford insurance office in 1969 and had been committed to the Lima Institution in 1970.

Hamilton Butler County Common Pleas Fred B. Cramer James Neal Jr West Elkton Ronnie Dean Thomas Camelot Drive Wapakoneta Neal Rocky Burts Flemming Road Shane Moore Moore Thomas Lima State Hospital United Dairy Farmers Oxford Insurance Lima Institution

Accident Blamed On Flat Tire Near I-75

Three people were treated at Middletown Hospital after two separate single vehicle crashes. Cincinnati man Steve Leininger, 21, was head-injury treated when his northbound car on Interstate 75 went out of control after a rear tire blew and rolled over near Monroe at 9 32 a.m. In a second incident on Ohio 63 two miles west of Lebanon at 2 50 p.m. Middletown youths Paul Moore Jr., 23, of 2119 Roosevelt Ave., and another passenger suffered shoulder injuries.

Middletown Hospital Cincinnati Steve Leininger Monroe Middletown Ohio 63 Lebanon Paul Moore Jr Roosevelt Ave

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NOBEL Albert Oswald Mt. Zion Cemetery Mr. Doolittle W. Glenn Banta Veterans Administration Hospital Chillicothe Hazel Lawrence Kentucky Harold Frizzell Centerville Bennetts William Craig China First National Bank Barnitz Bank Middletown Bankers Association THE Downtown Progress Corner KAL Progress Corner North East Progress Corner First National Bank OF Middletown Ollie Johnson Valparaiso Ind Johnsons Bill Robert Leroy Pruett Ashtabula Robert Wigglesworth Summit County U. S Thomas C. Welch Morgan County Welch Supreme Court Morgan County Common Pleas Court Gov Sen Sam J. Ervin Jr D-N.c Subcommittee Avon U.S Union Sannery SCM Ta Life Insurance Keyman Insurance Jones -Grimes Aes Harrison Insurance Associates North Main Street Ae Ae aCe POL, Adv
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