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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1970
Page
2
Sears highlights a January clearance event at its local store with prices reduced on appliances and home goods. Shoppers are urged to act quickly as limited quantities and doorbuster specials attract bargain hunters across town.
Bearded poet Allen Ginsberg, backed by a federal court order, returned to a Miami stage Friday night to finish reading a poem begun December 22. City official Manuel Costa had halted the earlier reading, but a U.S. district judge ruled the performance was not obscene and required the stadium to be available for Ginsberg or a comparable venue. About Lidl, persuss attended.
Eugene Cernan, aboard Apollo 10 with Vice President Agnew on a Asian tour, lauded Nationalist China leader Chiang Kai-shek as one of the great statesmen of our time. He presented Chiang with moon rocks and space photographs, saying the lunar samples symbolize a new era for mankind and that moon travel could become common by decade's end.
Dr. Benjamin E. Mays, 73, elected president of the Atlanta Board of Education by a 6 to 4 vote to succeed Bil C. Wainwright. Mays is president emeritus of Morehouse College and former United Negro College Fund president, with a long record as an educator and author.
The national forecast calls for rain in Florida on Sunday and snow in the Rocky Mountains Plains and Great Lakes. It will be colder in the Ohio Valley with highs near 33 and a low around 22 by Friday and Saturday. Precipitation readings show 0.04 inches Friday and a yearly total near 0.01 inches, with temperatures and humidity noted for Friday and Saturday.
Barbara McBride, held at Athens Mental Health Center, is charged with two counts of first degree murder in the deaths of her three year old son and three month old infant. Prosecution says she killed them Tuesday. bodies found New Year's Day after a two day search amid snow. The case follows a review criticizing center handling of her discharge, with officials defending the open door policy as generally safe.
Police pursued a racing dog that escaped its cage and fled through town after a call from Calvin Purdue Fleming. An officer spotted the yellow greyhound on South King Street around 1:15 am but did not capture it. The dog was later seen on Carpenter Street by Dwight Robinson but remained at large. Reports urged anyone seeing the dog to contact the police department.
Weekend visits featured Chauncey area families with Earich Darby and Abdella households among Converse Street hosts. Penn State student Sharon Abdella returned from holiday visit to State College. A sheriff report corrected Loren Russell as the man who led Barbara McBride to The Plains at 3:30 pm Tuesday. The search party for the McBride children included the aviation unit omitted earlier. First motor vehicle to transport passengers was Richard Trevithick’s steam car, first run in 1801 in England.
The Army's Aviation system plans to fit over 11,000 military helicopters with a crash resistant fuel system. The safety device will be first used in spring 1970, primarily for Army helicopters but possible for civil aviation, designed to prevent post crash fires with self sealing tanks and breakaway fuel lines. Universal quantity among many peoples notes multiples of five or 19.
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