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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1966
Page
1
Communists strike Saigon with grenade attacks and rail sabotage as South Viet Nam prepares to choose a 117 member assembly for a new constitution. Casualties rise to 12 wounded and one killed while security tightens and Buddhists protest.
Miss Central Ohio won Miss American Teen-Ager over 69 finalists at Palisades Amusement Park. Rebecca Alkire, 17, daughter of Harold and family of Circleville Ohio, will attend Ohio State University to major in speech. Contest judged on face and figure poise personality scholastic achievement community service and leadership. She is a skilled cook and seamstress who made her gown.
CAPE KENNEDY Fla AP The Gemini 11 mission to rendezvous and spacewalk was postponed again due to an Atlas Agena autopilot problem. Launch now targeted for Monday morning as astronauts Charles Conrad Jr and Richard Gordon Jr await clearance.
Miss California Charlene Diane Dallas 19 of Danville won the Friday swimsuit event and the Wednesday talent trophy as a late second-choice entrant. She pursues one of ten semifinalist spots as the pageant moves toward tonight’s final selection while Oklahoma’s Jane Anne Jayroe also claims a Friday talent trophy.
The Miami Valley will see fair warm weather with a low tonight in the upper 50s and a Sunday high in the mid 80s. A novelty tune performance features Miss Oklahoma conducting, while five contestants win talent and swimsuit preliminaries this week and earnings for evening gown remain undisclosed.
John H. Glenn Sr. died Friday at his home on Friendship Drive after a year of cancer. He was the father of astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. and operated a plumbing and heating business in Guernsey County. Funeral services will be Monday at Westminster Presbyterian church with burial at New Concord Cemetery. Survivors include his widow Clara, son John H. Glenn Jr., daughter Jean Pinkston, sister Jenny Ruby, and grandchildren Lyn, David, and William.
Alabama Governor George Wallace warned school boards that have assigned Black teachers to white schools to reassign them or risk invoking the state police power. He cited a 1963 pattern and said the action could involve state troopers to enforce desegregation orders or shifts in pupil assignments. He stressed concern from white parents over interracial teaching assignments.
The SNCC claims chairman Stokely Carmichael is a political prisoner and asks a federal court to strike down antiriot laws used in his arrest. He remains jailed on a $10,000 bond after disturbances in a poor Negro neighborhood. The suit challenges five Georgia code sections and Atlanta disorderly conduct ordinances, seeking immediate panel appointment with no date set.
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