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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1965
Page
2
Two hundred feet below the Pacific, Sealab 2 houses divers adapting to a helium atmosphere. Capt. George Bond describes the habitat, its eerie quiet, marine life, and communication challenges with topsiders.
The body of Pfc. Nelson E. Wilson 19 a Taft High School graduate killed in Viet Nam is to be returned to Hamilton for military services. He died from multiple fragmentation wounds while on patrol in Viet Nam. He was father to a three month old daughter he never met. His wife Mrs Dieretta Wilson of 714 S Fifth St learned of the death Wednesday night from two visiting lieutenants. Wilson had been in Viet Nam since June and had been home on leave last January. His mother Mrs Ruth Wilson also resides in Hamilton. He was a member of Israel Baptist Church.
Nadara Mehl 17 daughter of former Middletonians Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Mehl Jr. drowned in a public El Paso pool last Thursday. Funeral services were held Monday after she graduated from an El Paso high school. Her death, though unexplained, comes after a career as a trophy-winning swimmer. The Mehls have lived at 1501 Prairie Drive for 15 years. Mrs. Mehl is Dorothy Metcalf of Middletown. A sister and three brothers survive.
Hamilton investigators report the theft of 50 cross ties along the railroad right of way parallel to Route 127 in June. Each tie is 8 feet long and 10 inches square, valued at 325 dollars. A railroad official noted four men are typically needed to move a cross tie.
Funeral services for Mrs. Della Craig age 78 of 3412 Central Ave. will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at St. Pauls Episcopal Church in Franklin. Burial follows at New Hope Cemetery. Local arrangements are by Wilson Memorial Home. Mrs. Craig died yesterday at Middletown Hospital.
Funeral services were held for Sewell Bowen Skidmore 55 of Bethany at McCoy Leffler with Rev Ellis Webb presiding. Burial followed at Spring Hill Cemetery near Bethany. Skidmore died Wednesday in Houston with survivors including a daughter and five grandchildren. A list of additional service notices for Beverly George Corza Hinkel Campbell and others was also given.
New York widow Mrs Kyra Deakin Hubbel 63 led original casts of Beggar on Horseback in the 1920s and died Wednesday night in a New York infirmary. Paris vice admiral Emile Muselier 83, WWII Free French leader, died Thursday in Toulon navy hospital. London aviation pioneer Francis Trounson 79 died Thursday at home near London. Orange Texas financier H J Luther Stark 77, among Texas' wealthiest men, died Thursday after heart attack complications.
Richard Crenna star of Slattery's People becomes a father again as Maria arrives weighing six pounds at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital. She is the couple's third child and second daughter.
Pat Harrington Sr a longtime Broadway musical comedy star died in a suburban nursing home at 64. Born Daniel Patrick Harrington in Montreal he rose from 1920s burlesque to club stages in New Yorks Jack White's Club 18 then to shows like Ladies and Gentlemen Panama Hattie and Call Me Madam. Survived by wife Ann and son Terry with another son Pat Harrington Jr continuing the family in comedy.
Two separate crashes were tallied by the highway patrol this morning. A Lebanon youth, 17, and his sister, 14, were injured when their car hit a utility pole on Hamilton Road. In a second incident a Greyhound bus struck the rear of a car on I-75 north of Rt 122, injuring a father and his three children.
Rep. Clement Zablocki told a Milwaukee Democratic club that the war in Vietnam is closer to negotiated peace than most realize. He said after the failure of the Viet Cong monsoon offensive, Hanoi faces two options: escalate fighting or pursue peace negotiations.
National Guardsmen enforced a 10 PM to 5 AM curfew in Natchez Mississippi as 650 troops arrived to secure the city after a dynamite bombing injured NAACP leader George Metcalfe. City officials rejected Negro demands and pledged equal treatment. Charles Evers urged civil rights actions while linking voter registration and school desegregation to the campaign.
An estimated 500 damage occurred early today when a truck driven by Mike Tonovitz 59 Clyde Ohio was struck by a switch on the Pennsyl vania Rail tracks at Wie coff Street at 2 40 a.m. He was unhurt.
In Plymouth North Carolina Negro leaders planned a permitless march to test constitutional rights and defy a local ordinance. About 100 law officers including 50 state troopers remained on duty as tensions followed two days of violence with injuries and arrests. Golden Frinks of the SCLC said the march would proceed Friday without permission.
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