Juneberry blooms brighten Hocking Hillsides in April
The article describes the juneberry or serviceberry tree in bloom during early April. It explains its many common names such as shad-bush shad-blow sarvis and sugarplum and notes botany texts debate the species name between amelanchier arborea and amelanchier canadensis. The plant grows as a small tree from New Brunswick and Quebec southward.
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Atlantic
Lucy Braun
Ohio
Canada
New Brunswick
Quebec
Juneberry Tour Through Florida's Panhandle and Nearby Hills
A sketch of the Juneberry tour along northern Florida slopes and ridges. It notes nineteen eastern Amelanchier species, their bloom light against sandstone outcrops, and differences from cherry flowers and leaves. The route passes Sugar Grove, Crawfis quarry site, and Midway junctions on routes 33 180 and 678 with panoramas of white bloom on rocky hillsides.
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Florida
United States
Sugar Grove
Midway
Indiana approves major overhaul of tax system
Indiana moves to a four bill package starting May 1 raising the sales tax to four percent and giving property owners 20 percent property tax relief in 1974. The plan keeps taxes on candy drinks and restaurant meals while expanding business taxes and enabling a 1 percent local option income tax with property tax levies frozen at 1973 levels. Governor Bowen says the plan creates a balancedTax structure and likely will be signed next week.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
Otis R. Bowen
Senate
Robert D. Orr
House
Bowen
Four accidents report injuries across Logan county area
A 14 month old girl, Jacqueline Flood, remains in critical condition after being struck by a car at the Lake Logan Trailer Court. Other crashes on Rt 664 Haydenville Rd and Main St Logan involve multiple injuries and ongoing investigations.
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Jacqueline Flood
Robert Flood
Lake Logan
Children’s Hospital
Columbus
Hocking County
Wess Ave
Hocking Valley Community Hospital
Logan
State Highway Patrol
Brenda Huston
Logan Rt. 4
Douglas Huston
Huston
Hillcrest
Edward Harris
Second St
Hocking
Haydenville
Main St
Ross A. Hunter
N. Orchard St
E. Main St
Hunter
Clarence Fetherolf
Friesner Ave
Fetherolf
Ruby K. Helber
Logan Rt. 2
Lancaster
Fairfield Hospital
Plaza Shopping Center
Helber
Norma J. Kessler
Bremen
FBI Breaks Up National Plot To Print Phony Disney Shares
The FBI says a nationwide ring planned to print counterfeit Walt Disney and Trans World Airlines securities and sell stolen blue chip stocks. Twenty three men indicted in Tampa. twelve arrested as undercover probe ends.
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Tampa
Fla
FBI
Trans World Airlines
Palm Sunday Services Mark Opening of Holy Week in Hocking Valley
Palm Sunday opens Holy Week with services across churches in the Hocking Valley. Logan United Presbyterian plans confirmation reception and a 6 p.m. soup supper for the one great hour of sharing, with Maundy Thursday service at 7:30 p.m. Trinity and Immanuel United Methodist churches host Palm Sunday messages and choirs. St John Catholic Church observes Palm Sunday masses with blessing of palms.
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Hocking Valley
Logan United Presbyterian Church
Jack Beverly
Disciples Club
Trinity United Methodist Church
R. W. Faulkner
Immanuel United Methodist Church
Conrad O. Diehm
Charles Gilbert
Mable Prather
Edgar Penrod
Diehm
St. John Catholic Church
Lipset Resigns as Watergate Probe Deepens
Harold K Lipset the chief investigator for the Senate Watergate inquiry resigns amid disclosure of a prior New York bugging conviction He says he resigns to avoid hindering the committee and denies harming its work Meanwhile James W McCord is accused by his attorney of guiding FBI to four Maryland sites where bugging gear was hidden while on bond in the Watergate case.
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Washington
Harold K. Lipset
Senators
New York
FBI
James W. McCord
Nixon
White House
Senate Watergate Investigating Committee
GOP
Lipset
San Francisco
Angela Davis
Soledad Brothers
Plaza
Nassau County
N.Y
McCord
Maryland
Two Meat Boycotts Planned by National Consumer Congress and Inflation Group
In Washington the National Consumer Congress pledged a two week meat boycott in May unless Congress cuts food prices to the January 10 level. In Los Angeles Fight Inflation Together announced a further boycott April 30 to May 6 regardless of congressional action.
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Washington
National Consumer Congress
Congress
Los Angeles
New Traffic Lights Delivered Early For Logan System
Seventeen traffic lights for Logan's new system arrived ahead of schedule and will be installed next week. Peace Electric Co. spokesman said workers began laying signal cables Friday and expect about ten days to complete pole to pole wiring with two lights installed per day.
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Logan
Peace Electric Co
Canada Charges North Vietnam Infiltration Of South Vietnam
Saigon reports Canada’s peacekeeping delegation backed US claims that Hanoi has sent or infiltrated non-South Vietnamese troops into South Vietnam to support a side in the civil conflict. Indonesia warns it may withdraw as a ceasefire observer if the situation worsens.
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Saigon
Canada
United States
North Vietnam
South Vietnam
Michel Gauvin
International Commission For Control and Supervison
Gauvin
Ring
Hanoi
Maraden Panggabean
Indonesia
Hungary
Poland
Cambodia
Nguyen van Thieu
U.S. Pacific Command
U.S. Air Force
Phnom Penh
Dr Keith V Brown 44 Obituary In Nelsonville
Dr Keith V Brown 44 of Logan Route 3 died of a heart attack at his home Friday evening aged 44 Born Perry County son of Lillian and the late Dewey Brown He was a Crooksville High School and Ohio State graduate World War II veteran a lay reader and past president of Nelsonville Episcopal Church active in Kiwanis Elks and Masonic lodges Surviving are his mother wife two daughters two sisters Funeral from Nelsonville Episcopal Church Monday with burial in Green Lawn Cemetery Masonic services Sunday at Johnson Funeral Home Nelsonville.
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Keith V. Brown
Logan Rt. 3
Logan and
Nelsonville
Mount St. Mary Hospital
Perry County
Lillian
Dewey Brown
Crooksville High School
Ohio State University
Nelsonville Episcopal Church
Logan Kiwanis Club
Republican Party
William Black
Thomas Leckrone
Greenlawn Cemetery
Johnson Funeral Home
Two Reappointed To Hocking Board Of Visitors
Probate Judge Rhea Bangert Brown reappointed two members of the Hocking County Board of Visitors to new three year terms effective May 1. They are Mrs. Wilma O. Gan oey of 837 Betty Ave. and Dr. Thomas S. Price of 100 E. Hunter St.
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Rhea Bangert Brown
Hocking County
Stolen Car Leads to Capture of Two Escapees
Hocking Sheriff Paul Hartman said two walkaways from the Hocking Honor Camp were found Friday in a stolen car owned by Richard Mowrey. The vehicle had been taken Monday morning by Billy Gene Carter and Marion A. Matthews, both inmates at risk. Chillicothe Correctional Institute personnel moved to pickup the prisoners.
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Hocking
Paul Hartman
Anniston
Ala
Richard Mowrey
Rockbridge
Plan to abolish three Ohio elected offices proposed
Edmond Loewe chairs a proposal to end the coroner, engineer, and treasurer posts in Ohio counties and shift duties to administrators and the county auditor. The plan would give commissioners more power and allow creation of new departments, with final approval by the General Assembly. A State Boundary Commission idea also surfaced.
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Dean Schott
Associated Press
Columbus, Ohio
Ohio Commission On Local Government Services
Edmond M. Loewe
Columbus
Loewe
Citizens Commission
John J. Gilligan
General Assembly
Ohio Chamber of Commerce
State Boundary Commission
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National Earthquake ,Information Center
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