Riot Control Drill In Downtown Logan Draws Crowd
One hundred ten men from the Logan National Guard joined by city police and firemen staged a riot control drill from City Hall to the fairgrounds on Sunday. The exercise tested crowd control tactics with flour bags in place of bricks and water hoses to counter rioters aiming to disrupt fire equipment. Gale David Monk, 24, West Logan, was treated for a blow to the eye after being hit by water from a hose during the drill.
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Logan National Guard
City Hall
Fairgrounds
Michael Scaparrotti
Scaparrotti
Scapparrotti
James H. Harmon
Columbus
Robert C. Bacon
Athens
John F. Biddle
Fred W. Weber
Lewis Brown
Gary Hiles
Sgt
Gale David Monk
West Logan
Hocking Valley Community Hospital
Ohio National Guard
Open House At Hocking Hills Draws Big Weekend Crowd
The Hocking Hills State Park Open House attracted a large audience with 8 770 visitors registering at Old Man's Cave over the weekend. Saturday saw 2 534 attendees and Sunday 6 236. Eighty six Class A camping units were filled and 642 people in 18 units stayed in primitive camping.
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Hocking Hills State Park
Old Man’s Cave
Discrepancies in King Assassin Case Cause Confusion
Memphis officers acknowledge many discrepancies in official descriptions of the man sought in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. slaying. FBI updates tie Galt and Ray to the same suspect, though statements placed them apart, while Ray served a 20 year Missouri prison term in 1959 for a robbery.
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Memphis, Tenn
Memphis
Martin Luther King Jr
Bill Price
James Ear Ray
Missouri
Eric Starvoalt
King
Price
FBI
Galt
Ray
New Orleans
Jefferson City
Diamonds Missing After South African Air Crash
A $700,000 shipment of diamonds vanished with the wreckage of a South African Airways Boeing 707 near Windhoek after it crashed killing 122. Survivor Thomas Taylor, an American diplomatic courier, helped guide rescuers as authorities identified other passengers and noted the jet had only recently arrived from the United States.
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Windhoek
South-West Africa
Thomas Taylor
U.S
Johannesburg
South Africa
South African Airways
London
Taylor
Tahlequah
Okla
Dr. E. Fussenegger
M.R.P Roche
Benjamin Thomas Jr
Southeastern Engineers Inc
West Point
Roche
Thomas
Yorkshire
England
United States
Nicosia
Cyprus
Tokyo Bay
South Viets Alerted For New Assault On Saigon
North Vietnam accuses the United States of adding conditions for peace talks while rejecting Phnom Penh and Warsaw as conference sites. Hanoi repeats demand for two sites and criticizes Johnson’s assurances. Kosygin and Gandhi discuss Vietnam in New Delhi with no details. McCarthy urges a coalition government including the Viet Cong or a U.S. withdrawal.
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Tokyo
North Vietnam
United States
Vietnam
Hanoi
Communist Party
Nhan Dan
United State
Phnom Penh
Cambodia
Warsaw
Poland
Johnson
U.S
Matic
New Delhi
Alexei N. Kosygin
Indira Gandhi
Sen
Eugene J. McCarthy
Washington
Pact To Rescue Astronauts And Space Gear Signed
In Moscow the Soviet Union the United States and Great Britain signed a rescue pact for astronauts and space equipment that re enters foreign soil. Gromyko Swank and Dalton signed for their nations with Stewart Bruce and Smirnovsky signing the British copy in London. Additional signatories in Moscow included Austria Australia Czechoslovakia Bulgaria Iceland Italy Hungary Laos East Germany Norway Romania Ghana Sierra Leone Poland Finland Somali Nepal and Mongolia.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
United States
Great Britain
Andrei A. Gromyko
U.S
Emory C. Swank
Peter Dalton
London
Michael Stewart
David K. E. Bruce
Mikhail Smirnovsky
Naples' Return To Prison Ordered By Appeal
Cleveland AP reports Youngstown rackets figure Joseph Naples seeks to appeal an order sending him back to prison. Judge Kiennemary ruled a search violated his constitutional rights, overturning a 1964 conviction for receiving stolen property. The 6th Circuit reversed, and Naples remains free on bond pending the appeal.
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Cleveland
Youngstown
Joseph ‘Joey
Naples
U. S. Supreme Court
Dan W. Duffy
Ohio
U. S. District Court
Joseph P. Kienneary
Columbus
6Th Circuit Court of Appeals
Cincinnati
Weather outlook for Hocking Valley on Tuesday
Cloudy conditions with little temperature change and scattered showers forecast for the Hocking Valley on Tuesday. It was a pleasant 72 degrees at noon today under clear skies.
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Hocking Valley
New Minister Is Named At Presbyterian Church
The Rev W Jackson Beverly named pastor of Logan Presbyterian Church delivering first sermon May 5 He comes from Sardinia Ohio where he served since 1964 Beverly a Chillicothe native earned a BS in business administration from Ohio State 1961 and a BD from McCormick Seminary 1964 He helped merge two churches into Mowrystown Sardinia area ministry and works on eight church regional plans He is married to Martha Newton and has a 15 month old son Bruce Andrew pulpit nominating committee members listed
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W. Jackson Beverly
Logan Presbyterian Church
Logan
Sardinia
Robert W. McQuilkin
Logan Church
Central Presbyterian Church
Dayton
Beverly
Chillicothe
Ohio State University
Mowrystown - Sardinia
United Presbyterian Church
Brown and
Adams County
Brown County
Anti
Scioto
No Phone Strike Settlement Faces Court Injunctions
In the fifth day of a nationwide telephone strike the AFL-CIO Communications Workers defied court orders in Alabama and Kentucky and blamed injunctions for blocking an early settlement. Beirne condemned the actions as anti union as AT T reports continued service nationwide.
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Washington
AFL - Cio
CWA
Joseph A. Beirne
Southern Bell Telephone Co
Alabama
Kentucky
Beirne
Bell Telephone System
American Telephone and Telegraph Co
At&t
Ben Gilmer
Gilmer
Enemy POW Turns Over Commie Plans
Saigon and 11 surrounding provinces were placed on full alert amid intelligence reports of a major attack near the capital. A U S mission spokesman said no warning was issued to American personnel while troops remain at alert levels. Allied forces reported 135 enemy killed in six clashes near Saigon as air strikes resumed over the southern panhandle.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
U.S
Cho Ray Hospital
Cholon
3Rd Corps
North Vietnam
Panhandle
Bon Homme Richard
Vinh
Demilitarized Zone
19Th Parallel
Johnson
Substitute Teachers Step In Amid South Amherst Strike
In South Amherst Ohio fifteen substitute teachers taught at South Amherst Elementary School as teachers strike over the firing of a basketball coach.
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South Amherst
Ohio
Three Reds and an American Die in Korea Clash
In the U S sector of the Korean front three North Koreans and one American were killed with three Americans wounded after a two hour exchange. The U N Command called for a joint observers investigation while North Korea rejected the meeting proposal. The incident followed Easter ambush deaths of two Americans and two South Koreans and another American wounded in the buffer zone.
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Seoul
U.S
U.N
Demilitarized Zone
Daiduksan
Panmunjom Armistice Conference
Chung Hee Park
McCarthy Seeks Ohio Demo Support in Cleveland
Senator Eugene J. McCarthy arrives in Cleveland for a series of public appearances including a private meeting with uncommitted Democratic National Convention delegate candidates at Burke Lakefront Airport and a $10-a-plate fundraising banquet at the Statler Hilton. He plans to address economic policy and the urban crisis.
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Cleveland
U. S
Eugene J. McCarthy
McCarthy
Burke Lakefront
U.S
Robert F. Kennedy
Nixon outlines budget crisis as new campaign theme
In Cheyenne Nixon argues the budget is hurtling toward a crisis and urges President Johnson to cut spending by eight billion dollars. He met with Wyoming Governor Stan Hathaway for 32 hours to discuss the budget, Vietnam, and other national issues, charging five years of fiscal mismanagement by the Johnson administration. He says the budget crisis will be a lasting campaign message amid Democratic divisions.
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Johnson
Nixon
Cheyenne
United States
Wyoming
Stan Hathaway
Vietnam
British Conservatives Split Over Race Relations Bill
Britain’s Conservative Party is split after leader Edward Heath ousted right winger Enoch Powell from the shadow cabinet for a racially charged speech. Reginald Maudling and Alec Douglas-Home assume Powell’s former duties as Labor debates a race relations bill banning housing and job discrimination.
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London
Britain
Edward Heath
Enoch Powell
Powell
Heath
Defense
Conserva
Tives
Labor
Reginald Maudling
Alec Douglas-Home
John Jennings
Laborites
House of Commons
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Rev. Jackson Beverly
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