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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1970
Page
1
A TWA 747 losing a wheel during takeoff from Kennedy Airport landed safely at Los Angeles International after a six hour flight from New York. The wheel struck Frank Gargano Jr.’s car, damaging it. FAA investigates. TWA will cover the car damage.
Patrolman William Miscannon was killed in his car in a ghetto. A teenage gunman wounded. police surrounded a Black Panther headquarters and arrested six others as snipers fired from nearby buildings. One suspect, John Melvin McCellan, is charged with murder. Officers faced tear gas and crowd unrest as the siege unfolded.
Dale F. Helsel, 43, named city manager effective Oct. 19 at a salary of 22,500 while Robert K. Johnson, 46, named school superintendent starting Sept. 26 with 24,000 first year pay and 25,000 second, both chosen as officials finalized. Helsel is a former Bellefonte borough manager and Yale graduate with a Berkeley public administration masters, and Johnson has 14 years as a Middletown administrator and a doctorate from Indiana University.
Washington officials view the Viet Cong eight point plan presented by Nguyen Thi Binh in Paris as a rehash of earlier offers. It demands a U.S. troop withdrawal by June 30 and replacement of Thieu Ky, with prisoner releases discussed later. U.S. and Paris authorities will scrutinize for new openings but see no real shift. Ky to attend March for Victory rally in Washington Oct 3. Minh confirms trip with Paris stopover.
Washington reports President Nixon plans to offer Israel extensive new aid and continued military backing while urging Golda Meir to end her boycott of preliminary peace talks. Officials note Israel seeks rectification of Egypt missile deployments near the Suez, potentially limiting cease-fire leverage. A package valued at 400 to 500 million dollars over several years is under consideration but not finalized.
Tonight will be cool with possible showers and a low in the 60s. Saturday starts partly sunny with temperatures slipping from mid 70s to the 50s by evening. Sunday looks fair and mild with thundershowers possible in the afternoon. Yesterday’s high was 88 and this morning’s low was 72.
In midtown Manhattan at 42nd Street near the Public Library, Steve Toske, 47, a widow, was robbed of his Seeing-Eye dog, wallet, and papers during evening rush hour. Witnesses said two youths punched him, pulled money from his pocket, and fled with the dog Bruno. Toske agreed to ride to the station after officers promised the dog would be brought if found. this follows a prior complaint of a missing guide dog a month earlier.
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