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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1972
Page
8
Miami police said 68 year old George Harper killed himself on the first anniversary of his wife Margaret's death. A desk calendar at his home marked March 15 1971 with The day Margaret died. He had phoned funeral directors saying We made prearrangements and Please come pick up my body.
Anonymous Baltimore father Harry Morrison launches a nationwide effort to fund a multidiscipline laboratory for retinitis pigmentosa after his two young daughters are diagnosed. He pledges space at Harvard Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and $300,000 for equipment plus $375,000 for salaries, aided by Dan Freedman and film stars Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. The foundation has raised $100,000 so far.
In Richfield Utah an 81 year old Paiute, Eddy Wickers, lives in a dilapidated shack on the former Kanosh reservation reflecting the tribe’s shattered ties. Once education was blocked by anti Indian sentiment and federal termination in the 1950s left the Paiutes without aid or a path to assimilation. Eddy survives on $75 a month welfare and keeps company only by his dog Coyote. The Kanosh and Koosharem bands are among about 300 Paiutes in Utah, dispersed and struggling after termination policies severed federal support.
Princeton AP report says the Gallup poll shows 11 percent of Americans over 18 have smoked marijuana, up from 4 percent in 1969, while 81 percent oppose legalization. The spokesman noted the public remains against legalizing the drug despite rising use.
Oklahoma grocers denounce President Nixon for blaming grocers and food processors for rising costs. They call his charges political and note wholesalers set prices, not retailers. Local grocers Wayne Pursley and Russell Stone defend the industry and blame intermediaries.
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