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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1971
Page
1
Robert Foster received a plaque and certificate from the Daily Citizen for VFW Loyalty Day. The note thanks the VFW for recognizing community efforts by its members. The rest discusses nursery rhymes, water beds, consumer polls, and aging mortality studies.
North Vietnamese gunners pounded bases near the DMZ with 122 mm rockets Tuesday night and today. Viet Cong attacked a leper colony near Saigon, killing three, including a man U.S. command, as Cambodian forces reported 33 North Vietnamese killed in marsh lands east of Phnom Penh.
The House Appropriations Committee backed 17.1 million for GI drug addict rehabilitation and boosted veterans medical care funding by 120 million within an 18.1 billion bill supporting VA housing urban development space and small agencies. The package exceeds the president's request by 671 million, adding 32 rehab centers and linking to a Pentagon GI addiction initiative worth 40.5 million.
Washington action paves the way for a guaranteed minimum income system for poor families with President Nixon backing the bill. The House approved a plan to provide uniform federal payments across states, starting at 2400 for a four person family, with work or training required for adult recipients. Senate delays loom as Russell Long weighs postponement.
The Richland Creek Reservoir proposal in Greene County was rejected in the Wabash River Basin Comprehensive Study. High cost and a low flood-control value, plus a needed rail trestle relocation, led to the decision though officials expect reconsideration within seven years. Additional dams and reservoirs are proposed across Indiana.
The Senate urged President Nixon to withdraw U.S. forces from Vietnam swiftly with the release of all POWs as a condition. Nixon said the policy remains unchanged and not binding, while House action could make the nine month withdrawal policy official.
Three witnesses testified that they never threatened Sgt. Charles LaCroix or promised immunity to testify against Capt. Ernest L. Medina in the My Lai massacre case. The defense claims improper command influence led to Medina’s trial. Col. Henry Olk Col. Charles Curtis and Robert Miller confronted LaCroix’s earlier claims of threats.
The Greene County Sheriff’s Department investigates the theft of a battery and tools from Otho Inman’s tractor on Route One, June 2, valued at 125 dollars. Vandalism at Ogle Brady’s farm on Jasonville Road involves six tires and a hose slashed on a corn planter, with damage estimated at 250 dollars.
Three papers were barred from publishing more of a 7,000 page Pentagon Indochina study pending court action. The New York Times and Washington Post won rough permission to publish. Boston Globe faced orders to halt and surrender documents. Sun-Times cited a separate State Department report from 1963.
A baby, Bobby Jones eight months, died and his older brother Thomas Jones III three, was badly burned when explosions lit a one story frame house on Muncie Ind north side. Fire destroyed the home and Ball Hospital treated the injured boy. Witnesses reported several explosions preceding a flash fire.
Claude Vealey pleaded guilty in Washington County Pennsylvania to the murders of Joseph A Yablonski and his wife and daughter. He implicated Aubran Martin and Paul Gilly in the Dec 31 1969 killings at the Yablonski home.
The Chicago Sun-Times reports top secret State Department and Pentagon papers show President Kennedy and advisers involved in pressuring Ngo Dinh Diem’s regime. It prints memos declassified in 1966 and a portion of the Pentagon study, noting a September 17 1963 NSC meeting decision to apply escalatory pressure on Diem to remove Ngo Dinh Nhu.
President Nixon will speak at a black t ie banquet in Indianapolis honoring Purdue University president Frederick L Hovde and will visit Jennings County for a ceremony dedicating a plaque to his mother Hannah Milhous Nixon. The trip marks his third to Indiana in a year.
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