Byrnes Receives New Year Phone Message From Nixon
South Carolina's 90 year old Byrnes and wife received a New Year’s Day telephone call from President Nixon. Byrnes, a former secretary of state and governor, is convalescing after a heart attack. The article also notes a nationwide interstate rate cut lowering late night one minute calls and extending DDD periods.
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Perot urges letter campaign to aid POWs in North Vietnam
H Ross Perot, returning from a failed food drop mission to U S prisoners of war, calls for a mass letter-writing effort. He tells reporters he cannot do the task alone and asks supporters to send personal letters to him to pressure North Vietnam and the Russians, planning to use the letters dramatically.
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Emperor Hirohito greets 110000 at Imperial Palace
Emperor Hirohito and members of the imperial family appeared before about 110 000 Japanese and visitors at the Imperial Palace grounds to receive New Year greetings on Friday.
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Office computer prints unusual message on New Year day
Henry Niblock, a police statistics officer, visited Albuquerque data center to run a yearend crime report. The computer unexpectedly dumped yards of paper and printed a crude line about him. He suspects a colleague in the data center sabotaged the machine before leaving.
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Polar Bear Club Keeps New Year Swim Tradition Alive
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National Weather Forecast Appeals Snow Across Large Region
A Friday snow event is forecast from the Rockies to the Great Lakes and the Ohio Valley with Maine under snow in the Northeast. Showers stretch from eastern Texas along the Gulf Coast to eastern Florida. temperatures show a cold trend with high 33 yesterday and 27 today.
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Be Blamed For Crash Driver Cited
Police cited Paul Linscott a 20 year old Millfield man for unsafe operation after an icy road crash on North Lancaster Street. He lost control turning from a side street at high speed striking two parked cars causing damage estimated at 1200 to Jeff Bowers car 69 feet onto the sidewalk and 150 to Donald Craig vehicle plus 850 to Linscott's car.
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Nelsonville Man Jailed For Assault Plea Deal
Nelsonville man Jerry Newton, 29, was sentenced to seven days in the county jail after pleading guilty in Municipal Court to assault and battery. He was fined 50 dollars plus court costs after his wife Donna charged him with striking her. In other court action, Robert
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Mother Faces First Degree Murder Charges
Barbara McBride 26 of Marietta is expected to face first degree murder charges after two young sons Bryan 3 and Christopher 3 months were found dead near Athens. Autopsies in Columbus planned with results expected Saturday. The case involves a long search by 200 police and volunteers after her disappearance with the children.
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Thieves Break Into Meigs County Homes
POMEROY The Meigs County Sheriff's Department investigates two break ins during the holiday. A vacant home on Bear Wallow Ridge Road was entered on New Year’s Eve and a summer cabin in Orange Township owned by Harry Herdman was broken into. No thefts have been confirmed.
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