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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1970
Page
2
Noel Coward the 70 year old playwright actor and composer was among 16 people named Sir by Queen Elizabeth II for services to the arts at Buckingham Palace after a ceremony. Coward called the Queen charming and noted she always is.
Nashville singer Marty Robbins aged 44 after a major heart operation last week says he hopes to return to performing by mid April. He is known for songs like El Paso Devil Woman and Running Gun.
In Rome the Mussolini family seeks surrender of late dictator’s personal effects, including medals, via a suit filed by Romano Mussolini, citing hereditary and moral interests. Mussolini’s widow Rachele received a $230 monthly state pension after litigation. In California, a jury will hear Jim Brown’s assault and battery trial in West Hollywood, with car collision details and a predicted week-long proceeding. Los Angeles also reports Michael Love of the Beach Boys and his wife divorcing over irreconcilable differences with a custody plan and a $14,000 settlement.
Becoming cloudy with a chance of light snow this afternoon and tonight. Lows near 20. Thursday cloudy with a chance of snow and highs around 30. Ohio five day forecast expects above normal temperatures through Monday with highs near 40s and lows in 20s to lower 30s while precipitation totals near 3 inches through Sunday or Monday.
Dr Harold Weisberg of Brandeis University remarks in Haifa that American Judaism is losing distinctiveness and becoming like Protestantism. He cites lifestyle over theology and notes worship defines American Jewishness just as it does Protestantism, contrasting with traditional Judaism.
In Bali, a dying or deceased resident is not cremated until teeth are removed to prevent gods from confusing the deceased with a demon. The belief holds that intact fangs might lead to misidentification by divine beings.
Tina Marie Saxton an eight year old from Streator Illinois was chosen from about sixty thousand students as the first national anti litter letter contest winner. Her entry urged cleaning up America like she cleans her mother’s house and noted not to litter as that would be America’s floor. Tina and her mother win a trip to California. brother Eddie Saxton, nine, won a silver dollar as a runner up.
Ohio Department of Liquor Control announces a 56 day suspension of VFW Post 9866 license in Jacksonville. Suspension from noon March 2 to noon April 27 follows agents finding spirituous liquor sold without a proper license on July 26, 1969.
Mr. and Mrs. Owen Wallace and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Angie visit relatives in Pompano Beach Florida. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Miller and Mrs. Anna Newman of Rushville attend funeral services for Mabel Stoltz with others from Akron Columbus and Cuyahoga Falls.
Mr and Mrs William Bartels and Mitchel Michiel and Martha Jo of Bremont visited their grandmother Mrs Bessie West on Front Street in Glouster.
The ovenbird earns its name from a domed nest with a side opening resembling an old oven. The unique nest design explains the species' distinctive moniker and suggests its behavior and habitat preferences.
In Bratsk Siberia a city of about 134000 residents the population averages around 30 years old making it one of the world’s youngest communities according to current demographics.
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