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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1976
Page
1
After an hour hearing the council sent the East State Street widening ordinance back to committee. Administrative changes unfold in the Ping Administration as one administrator stays and another departs. County officials raise reservations about the CMHR board tax levy.
A reader laments living together without marriage as a bummer and cites benefits missing in such arrangements. Abby offers guidance in the Women's page column, addressing relationship expectations.
The Logan City Board of Education may run out of classrooms at West Elementary as 100 students would be affected when the annex lease ends. The district also studies phasing out some buildings as part of its space plan.
Miami Beach report says the AFL-CIO backs any Democratic nominee but George Meany favors Senator Hubert H. Humphrey as the most likely to defeat President Ford. Weather notes warn rain tonight and Wednesday with highs in the 60s.
Gov. Rhodes blocked a measure easing residence requirements for voters who move. The bill would have let people vote temporarily in their new precinct if not yet registered there, instead of the current rule allowing voting in the old precinct for 30 days after moving.
In Lawrenceburg Indiana a 6 foot 2 inch 160 pound Rhea nicknamed Boomer, valued at 500 dollars, escaped three days ago after tearing down a fence. The bird was found Monday apparently from exposure and tangled in a fence. William Brasier the owner received the bird’s body. Sheriff James B. Wismann noted mating season made the bird more aggressive and officials feared an attack.
About 40 Marion Harding High School students took an unauthorized day off to visit the home of Warren G. Harding. The home was closed for a holiday. A spokesman said the group skipped school to protest police sick leave rhetoric calling it the blue flu while they used a patriotic twist the red white and blue flu.
Italian authorities issued arrest warrants for a prominent attorney and a businesswoman over the sale of Lockheed Aircraft to Italy. The firm faced a threatened loss of a $950 million Canadian order and a reported cancellation of a $1.3 billion order by Japan.
An expelled Palestinian student Najim Najim opened fire at AUB killing Dean of Students Robert Najemy 56 and Dean of Engineering Raymond Ghosn 55. He held six officials hostage for three hours before surrendering. Najemy was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, with Lebanese roots.
Secretary of State Kissinger told Venezuelan leaders not to expect a rapid restoration of U.S. trade preferences. Officials said trade was a major topic at a working breakfast with President Carlos Andres Perez and other Venezuelan leaders.
Washington reports that Anatoly Dobrynin will carry new U S proposals to Moscow as Kissinger outlines U S terms for a nuclear weapons pact. The plan centers on Backfire bombers and cruise missiles with a 2400 delivery-vehicle cap and equal limits on drone systems.
Patricia Hearst returns to court planning to resume her account of captivity as she and the jury toured the SLA hideouts in Daly City and San Francisco. Defense says she will testify all day while jurors inspect the cramped closets where she says she was held and assaulted.
WASHINGTON AP Ford administration to announce a compact intelligence panel chaired by CIA Director George Bush with power to direct budgets of agencies such as Defense and NSA. Bush may face Senate Intelligence Committee on names of journalists on CIA payroll while House oversight limits are debated.
Ohio senators consider a House-passed bill defining students rights in suspensions and expulsions. The measure requires written notice and a hearing before discipline, allows appeals to local boards, and permits emergency removal if a threat is shown. Speck says it protects constitutional rights while aiding educators.
Rep. Clarence Miller announced that the U S Railway Association approved adding the 125 mile Corning to Hobson line from Perry County to Meigs County and Hobson to Charleston West Virginia to ConRail. The Chessie System declined to acquire the Penn Central track prompting its inclusion to safeguard coal and regional transport.
President Ford meets with Republican leaders to plan an override of his veto on a 6.1 billion public works measure. The House passed it 321 to 80 with 62 Republicans for and 67 against, despite Ford’s claim the bill would not significantly create jobs.
Italian researchers report CMF chemotherapy with prednisone after breast surgery for node positive disease drastically lowers recurrence. In 27 month study 5 percent relapse versus 24 percent without treatment. Side effects included hair loss appetite loss conjunctivitis and menses cessation but reversible in most patients.
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