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Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Jul 22, 1971

Page

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Ohio House approves residency welfare rule despite Supreme Court limits

Ohio lawmakers pass a bill requiring public assistance seekers to reside in the state for one year or face relocation funding to another state or country. The 53-43 vote links welfare costs to a plan aimed at prompting a federal court review, with funding safeguards tied to federal aid.

Columbus Ohio U.S. Supreme Court Ohio House High Court Hughes

Buckley Confesses Hoax On Secret Viet Papers

William F. Buckley Jr says National Review fabricated Vietnam war papers to show plausible forgeries could be mistaken for genuine. He notes ethical vacuums and suggests real documents may exist in archives. The hoax aimed to challenge media and imply honest assessments of policy were overlooked.

NEW York (Ap William F. Buckley Jr The National Review Vietnam Buckley Dean Rusk CIA

Ohio Senate Votes For Lottery Legislation Amid Debate

The Ohio Senate approved a constitutional amendment to legalize lotteries by 17 to 13 and then 23 to 8 on reconsideration, closing with 21 to 10. Sponsor Mott said a Legislative Service Commission study estimated up to 50 million dollars in year one. Republicans Gray Gillmor Collins shifted yes. Turner and Kilpatrick voted yes on second vote. If House passes, issue heads to November ballot. mechanics to be set by General Assembly. A separate bill to lower age of maturity to 18 was introduced, potentially affecting contracts, drinking, and marriage without parental consent. public office eligibility would need a separate constitutional amendment. Ohio already ratified the 18-year-old voting age nationwide last month.

Columbus Ohio Ohio Senate Ronald Motts Parma Mott Legislative Service Commission Theodore Gray Piqua Paul Gillmor Fin Oakley Collins Ironton Robin Turner Marion Bishop Kilpatrick Warren Donald “Buz” Lukens Middletown Gillmor Tiffin Gray Collins House General Assembly Harry Meshel Youngstown Stanley Aronoff Cincinnati Dayton South Lyndhurst

Hippies Dropped From Federal Food Stamp Rules

Washington AP report says Agriculture Department plans revised food stamp proposals to limit hippies and job shy adults while expanding aid to the poorest families. New rules would raise limits on some recipients and require work and related-household definitions to exclude communes and many students.

Washington Agriculture Department Nixon Administration Capitol Hill United States Congress Regu

Agnew Renomination Favored by GOP Leaders in Denver

A survey of Republican state chairmen and national committee members at a three day Denver conference shows broad support for Spiro Agnew's renomination in 1972. Some dissenting voices urge change. Party sources favor San Diego for the convention, Aug. 21–24, 1972, while Nixon remains noncommittal and open to Miami.

Denver Spiro T. Agnew National Committee Associated Press GOP Agnew Nixon San Diego Calif Miami

Agnew Viewed as Nixon Campaign Running Mate

The article notes 35 GOP leaders expect Agnew will be chosen to run again with Nixon, 15 say the decision lies with Nixon, while 70 party leaders respond. Eight favor Agnew's replacement and four see a possible removal from the ticket amid 1972 convention context and China mission talk.

GOP Agnew Nixon

Libyan landing in Benghazi brings Sudan junta leaders off plane

In Benghazi the Libyan government forced a British airliner to land, and Col Babikr el Nur Osman and Mohammed Magoub, new Sudanese junta leaders, disembarked with their baggage seized. Ohio Bell workers in Akron Canton Kent and Alliance kept striking despite union calls.

London Khartoum Benghazi Britsh Overseas Airways Corp Babikr el Nur Osman Sudan Mohammed Magoub Akron Ohio Bell Telephone Co Canton Kent Alliance

GE Cutback Looms Over Cincinnati Evendale Plant

A nationwide 7,000 job cutback at General Electric in its aircraft engine group is expected to hit the suburban Evendale plant in Cincinnati where half the division’s jobs are located.

Cincinnati General Electric Evendale

Copter Crash Kills 21 In Viet Nam Warfront

A U S helicopter carrying South Vietnamese rangers developed mechanical trouble and crashed near Fire Base Mary Ann. Twenty one South Vietnamese troops were killed and 31 Vietnamese and five American crewmen were injured.

Saigon U. S Mary Ann

Vaccine May Spread Disease in Horses

Washington reports Dr. Frank Hardy a virologist with the FDA warns that a vaccine shipped to Texas and nearby states to fight Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis could in theory become a virulent agent. He calls for controlled vaccination studies as the disease has killed 1,132 horses and others are sick.

Washington Texas Frank Hardy Food and Drug Administration

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