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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1970
Page
1
Washington reports welfare rolls rose 20 percent in a year to a record 12.2 million, triggering tax squeezes and cutbacks in services. Nixon may need up to a billion more for the $8.7 billion budget as unemployment, court rulings, and broader eligibility drive the surge.
NASA official Arnold Frutkin says a standardization agreement signed in Moscow could let either superpower rescue the other’s astronauts and standardize future spacecraft. The text will stay private pending letters between M. V. Kellysh of the Soviet Academy of Sciences and Dr. George M. Low of NASA.
Cloudy skies and cool weather bring a weekend outlook with a chance of showers on Sunday. Highs will reach the upper 50s to low 60s today and tomorrow, with lows in the 40s. Yesterday’s high was 56 and this morning’s low was 40. Soviet space engineers reportedly plan a lunar exit design to dock with American spacecraft.
President Nixon, flanked by Governor Reagan and Senator Murphy, faced rocks bricks and eggs from antiwar demonstrators as his limousine moved through San Jose after a Republican rally. The incident marked the worst violence toward a president since JFK's 1963 assassination, preceding a heat-fireplace caused fire at the Western White House in San Clemente.
Army review court set aside the murder conviction of Capt. John J. McCarthy in the 1967 slaying of Cambodian Inchin Hai Lam. A majority said a new trial may be ordered after a pathologist questioned his earlier testimony and the wound's caliber. No final verdict yet on retrial.
New York AP Eastern Airlines plans to test two secret weapons for pilots in last-ditch hijack situations. One electronic device would stun a hijacker, the other a gunlike device firing an unspecified missile. The carrier emphasizes deterrence on the ground and nonviolent tactics aloft when possible.
Dave Cazel, aged 7, of Phoenix, ponders his Halloween look amid an array of masks in a store. He weighs devilish daffy and debonair styles before setting out to trick or treat, capturing a kid’s costume choice moment.
In Saigon the U S Army disclosed 89 American soldiers may have died from drug overdoses in the past 10 months in South Vietnam with 25 deaths confirmed by autopsies and 64 suspected overdoses. Troop admissions for drug related cases rose to 746 through September, up from 527 in all of 1969.
In Trenton New Jersey city schools closed to cool racial clashes tied to a pupil busing plan. Forty injured and 32 arrested as downtown windows were broken and officers faced rocks and bottles. Mayor Holland declared a local disaster emergency and ordered a curfew from 9 p.m. to dawn.
The Stabbert family private aid group, led by Fred and Roberta Stabbert, sails the Willis Shank to San Diego en route to Guatemala and Panama to speed garment industry jobs. They have built schools, supplied food and medicine, and trained locals since converting a World War II minesweeper into a hospital ship.
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