Mid-summer safety drive urged by Indiana official
Albert E. Huber of the Indiana Traffic Safety Council called for a mid-summer safety break urging motorists to inspect tires brakes lights and exhaust and to obey traffic signs. He warned against driving after drinking and emphasized seat belts and pedestrian awareness. The piece also covers insurance industry efforts to curb rising auto costs and notes high highway deaths and costs.
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Albert E. Huber
Indiana Traffic Safety Council
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Indiana
American Mutual Insurance Alliance
Mutual Property and Casualty Insurance Companies
The
Insurance Alliance
United States
Worden completes first deep space spacewalk aboard Endeavour
Apollo 15 astronaut Alfred Worden mingled with James Irwin and David Scott as Worden performed a film retrieval walk 196000 miles from Earth. He floated to the service module to extract a million square miles of moon footage, reporting cover jams on a mass spectrometer while confirming system integrity.
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Endeavour
Scott
Irwin
Mission Control
Bay Area
Edward White
Houston
SIM
Scientific Instruments
Ground Control
Heinze
Moon
New York
al Worden
James Irwin
Earth
New Administrator Named for Glenburn Rest Haven Home
William T Fisher has been hired as administrator of Glenburn Rest Haven Home during a special board meeting. He holds a comprehensive health facility administrator license and has experience at Wesley Manor Frankfort and district executive for the Boy Scouts of America. He will begin August 16 with interim administrator Miss Marie White and will relocate with his wife Kathleen and two children Laurie and Bobby to Linton.
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Glenburn Rest Haven
William T. Fisher
Frankfort
Fisher
Wesley Manor
Boy Scouts of America
Manual High School
Indianapolis
Indiana Central College
Indiana University
Rest Haven
St. Matthew
Woman Guilty in 1965 Sylvia Likens Slaying Second Trial
Gertrude Baniszewski is found guilty of first degree murder in a second trial for the torture slaying of 11 year old Sylvia Likens. Jury deliberated 24 hours before reaching the verdict in Peru Indiana. Paula Baniszewski awaits a future trial date after a prior conviction for second degree murder.
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Peru
Ind
UPD
Gertrude Baniszewski
Sylvia Likens
Baniszewski
Indianapolis
Paula
Lottery Draw Sets Draft Induction Order in 1952 Cohort
Washington UPI reports the Selective Service held a lottery to assign induction numbers to nearly 20 million men born in 1952. First drawn number was 1 paired with June 20. 70 paired with Sept 2. A bill to extend service another two years passes House but stalls in Senate amid Vietnam withdrawal debate.
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UPI
Selective Service System
Congress
House
Senate
United States
Vietnam
U.S. Commerce Department
SAS denies report on POW airlift from Indochina
Stockholm reports SAS was asked to fly 183 American POWs from Indochina to New York but the airline denied involvement and said a private inquiry, not a government contract, prompted the discussions. U S officials and Hanoi negotiators kept POW releases tied to troop withdrawal schedules.
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UPT
Scandinavian Airlines System
SAS
Indochina
New York
Ross Perot
Isionaing
Dallas Computer Tycson
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Vientiane
West Germany
Germany
U.S
White House
State Department
U.S. Command
Saigon
Ronald L. Ziegler
Paris
Xuan Thuy
Hanoi
Vietnam
Goeran Olausson
Bombers strike suspected Communist positions across Southeast Asia
U S B32 bombers pressed a lull in South Vietnam and hit suspected Communist targets in Cambodia near the Parrot's Beak as civilians fled fighting. Reports say 14 Americans killed and 71 wounded last week in Indochina, with 45 411 KIA and 30 111 WIA since 1961.
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South Vietnam
Cambodia
Saigon
U.S
Indochina
Toothpaste Study Links Brands to Gum Inflammation
Senator Pell releases Army Institute of Dental Research findings showing several toothpaste brands linked to gingival inflammation. The tests covered 10 brands including Colgate Crest Gleem Ultra-Brite McLean Vote and Plus White across 929 and 128 clinical patients and a 30 hamsters lab study.
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Army
Crest
Colgate
Senate
Pell
Masonry Work Starts On New Greene County Hospital
First concrete block was laid on Wednesday and the first brick this morning as masonry begins at the Greene County Hospital site on Lone Tree Road. The west end on the ground floor is being enclosed as framework rises.
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Greene County Hospital
Lone Tree Road
Vandeventer Named New Worthington Coach
Worthington-Jefferson school officials appoint Jim Vandeventer as head basketball coach starting next school year. A Bloomfield High School and Indiana State University graduate, he has coached at Worthington three years and led the 1970-71 freshman team to the SWIAC title. He will meet prospective athletes for physicals soon.
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Worthington-Jefferson
Jim Vandeventer
Stephen L. Campbell
Vandeventer
Bloomfield High School
Indiana State University
Worthington
School Budgets Uncertain Over Excise Tax Withholding
Greene County schools and other units face budget hurdles as excise tax money from car licenses is blocked by a court dispute. Budgets proposed for 1971 72 omit or include varying amounts of excise funds. Hearings on budgets are set for August 26 at board meetings and the state board will evaluate plans in the fall.
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General Assembly
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Bloomfield
Linton-Stockton
Coronation
Linton
Beech Crees
Center
Jackson
Richland
Stockton
Taylor
Sparsley
Shlivan
Shakamak
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