16 Sep 1968
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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1968
Page
1
Shirley Landrey of Melrose Park joined the Sunday crowd in Chicago to hear Republican vice presidential hopeful Spiro Agnew. Her son Bill, though under 18, already displays Nixon-Agnew bumper stickers signaling early political leanings.
Gales and heavy rain lash southern England with rail disruption across Kent to Dorset. Hundreds homeless and thousands of Londoners unable to work as higher tides threaten the Thames estuary. A woman swept away in Sussex amid rising floods. other rivers breach banks and isolation grows in Kent, Essex, Surrey and Sussex.
Brig. Gen. Frederic Ellis Davison, the first Black Army general to command an infantry brigade in combat, says progress against segregation is real though incomplete. He arrived in Vietnam in November as deputy commander in Binh Chanh while Gen. Creighton Abrams Jr. pinned a Silver Star on his collar.
John Erler 24 a former Hollywood Florida officer who earned the nickname catch-me killer surrendered to an off duty Maricopa County deputy and family members after a 45 minute talk during which he threatened self harm He handed the .38 revolver to the deputy and was taken to the county jail for Florida authorities The case involves the killing of Marilyn Clark 12 in Hollywood Florida last month.
Eleven minimonorail cars derailed after a rear collision near HemisFair infirmary causing one death and forty nine injuries. Witnesses described a chaotic rescue as two cars fell into a lagoon and a bystander saved a drowning woman.
The forecast for Middletown calls for increasing cloudiness and warm temperatures with a chance of showers late this afternoon. Highs reach the upper 70s to 80s. Tonight stays cloudy and mild with scattered showers, and lows dip to the 60s to 70s. Yesterday’s high was 85 and the morning low 59.
New York AP reports student radicals led by the Students for a Democratic Society plan demonstrations at Columbia University as classes resume. SDS aims to disrupt campus operations with a noon victory rally over cafeteria workers pay and an evening torchlight service honoring Patrice Lumumba, targeting Acting President Cordier amid ongoing unrest after last spring’s clashes and police action.
An AP caption describes a heavily armed helicopter gunship on the ground in the Mekong Delta near Dong Tam. The pilot rests while the co-pilot sits by an ammunition rack trap door. The crew could be airborne within five minutes to aid U.S. or South Vietnamese troops in the area.
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