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Newspaper
Danville Register
Location
Danville, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1972
Page
1
Washington AP report says Senate Finance Committee chair Russell Long aims to finish work on the Social Security and welfare reform measure within about two weeks. The plan is to push a committee vote and advance the bill through the Finance panel as the package shapes up.
The Berlin pact hinges on Brandt's treaties ratification by the Bundestag and Bundesrat as Germany faces a pivotal vote. A vote tally showed 248 for Moscow pact, 10 against, 238 abstentions. Warsaw pact had 248 for, 17 against, 230 abstentions. A coalition split looms as one ally resigned and another faced expulsion over support for the treaties.
A 21 year old former inmate in Billerica Massachusetts will be buried Friday after funeral services in the jail gymnasium. He had been held most of two years in Georgia prior to transfer. Inmate officials say Harmon's relatives could not be located. Harmon reportedly hanged himself in his cell last Saturday while awaiting trial on armed robbery. He had earlier been released from the jail about six weeks prior after an 18 month heroin possession sentence. His parents were reportedly killed in a Philadelphia gas explosion about ten years ago, leaving a sister and brother who are reportedly in foster care in Pennsylvania.
Plans approved Wednesday to combine the Presbyterian journals, one the oldest and the other the largest in the nation, into a new joint venture. The merger aims to revolutionize publication of church journals and expand reach across denominations.
The Ear Homograft and Temporal Bone Research Laboratory will operate from Wesley Memorial Hospital under Northwestern University Medical School. Funded by the Mid-America Hearing Research Foundation, it will create the first ear tissue bank and transplant program in the Midwest, with several hundred thousand Americans potentially benefiting. Transplants avoid typical heart or kidney rejection and tissue can be stored for months, though inner ear and nerve deafness remain untreatable.
Wallace faces uncertain recovery after gunfire with aides cautioning campaign plans only if he improves. Doctors differ on nerve damage, with surgery to assess walking prospects and a possibility of permanent paralysis. The case involves statements from Galbraith, Dr. Berman, and hospital officials amid conflicting reports about spinal injury and prognosis.
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