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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1969
Page
2
Hollywood reports Andre Previn has avoided comment on marriage to Mia Farrow who is expecting his child. Dory Previn, his wife, issued a statement saying he can have a divorce if he wishes, adding she would not block his freedom though he has never asked for one.
South African surgeon Dr Christiaan Barnard says a scalpel mistake in a University of Minnesota operating room cost a 7 year old boy his life. He quoted chief surgeon Dr C Walton Lileh al saying such errors are made by all. The boy remains unnamed.
Art Linkletter postpones congressional crime committee testimony to attend a White House conference on drug abuse. The entertainer will testify Friday about the influence of drugs on his daughter Diane who died after a fall from her Hollywood apartment, which he linked to LSD.
A belated local forecast calls for clearing skies and colder temperatures tonight with lows in the low to mid 30s. Thursday will be mostly fair and cool with highs in the 50s. Nationally, showers fair Wednesday night across the Southwest Plains to the Carolinas, a hurricane watch in effect, snow in the north lakes and Dakotas, rain in the Pacific Northwest, and a colder trend in the north central and eastern U.S. Continuous observations note yesterday's high 66 and low 46, with precipitation 0.89 inches this month and 23.61 inches year to date, behind normal by 10.63 inches.
Dist Atty Edmund Dinis says he will press for an inquest into Mary Jo Kopechne's death even if the body is not exhumed for postmortem analysis. Judge Brominski reserved judgment after a hearing on the request to disinter the body in the Chappaquiddick case.
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