New York Hotel Heist At Pierre Brings $1 Million Loot
A sleek limousine delivered a band of robbers to the Pierre on Fifth Avenue where they bound 16 staff with handcuffs and tape. They emptied 14 safe deposit boxes and fled with more than $1 million in cash and jewels as police were alerted minutes later.
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New York
Pierre
Albert A. Seedman
Fifth Avenue
61St Street
Central Park
Seedman
J. W. Bennett
Haelio Fragga
Rio de Janeiro
Fragga
Would-Be Burglar Slugs Jack's Manager With Bat
Police investigate an attack on Harold Blacet manager of Jack's Surplus City at 975 W. Hunter St after nine p.m. Friday. He was struck from behind with a baseball bat, knocked unconscious, and hospitalized with a mild concussion. No items reported missing this time.
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Jack
Jack’s Surplus City
W. Hunter St
Harold Blacet
Blacer
BCI
Herman Henry
Jack’s
Viet Cong shell Da Nang Air Base as cease-fire ends
Viet Cong shells Da Nang air base for the first time in three months and launches a mortar attack along the DMZ after a 72 hour New Year cease-fire ends. Four 100 pound rockets wound one American and damage three planes and ground equipment. Nixon hints at faster Vietnam troop withdrawal toward 25 000 to 35 000 by soon.
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Saigon
U.S
North Vietnam
da Nang
Demilitarized Zone
Washington
Nixon
Vietnam
Logan Hospital Fund Donations Reach Record Total
Barton A. Hall, campaign head, announced Logan Hospital Fund reached 23 496.25 dollars this morning with 10 new checks totaling 1 265 dollars and a 500 dollar donation from a McArthur contractor. Funds aid Hocking Valley Community Hospital facing debts since its 1966 opening.
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Logan Hospital
Hocking Valley Community Hospital
Barton A. Hall
McArthur
Hocking County
Hall
Nixon Outlines 1972 Economic Plan With Controls Easing
President Nixon said wage price and rent controls will be sharply reduced in 1972 if inflation slows, with only possible limited continuation beyond the year. He aimed to lower unemployment below 5.8 percent as the economy shifts from war to peace.
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Washington
Nixon
Herbert Stein
CBS
Dan Rather
Paul W. McCracken
McCracken
Stein
ABC
New City Council clears way for two housing projects
Logan city officials swore in Merril Haney and council members including Robert Gosnell and Eugene Davis. The new council set 1972 committees, elected Dunigan as president pro tem, and approved a 1380 dollar council clerk. Mayor Haney pushed for HUD funding changes to enable two housing projects Elm Court with 86 units and 75 elderly units, noting FHA guarantees and private financing.
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Harley Meyer
Logan
New City
Eugene Davis
Louise Smith
George Dunigan
James Stewart
Russell Rice
Ed Dalton
Charles Gambrel
Fourth Ward
Common Pleas
Merril Haney
Robert Gosnell
George Dunigan Jr
Edward Dalton
Virginia Gano
Edwin Johnston
Gosnell
Smith
Albert Blick
Council
Dunigan
Stewart
Dalton
Haney
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Columbus
HUD
Elm Court
Rice
Tom Grey
Fergus Theibert
Grey
Logan Metropolitan Housing Authority
Federal Housing Authority
Glouster Woman Held In Slaying
Ka ren Lee Cain, 22, of Glouster, was to be arraigned in Athens County Municipal Court on a first degree murder charge in the death of her husband Lloyd Sonny Cain Jr. 24, shot seven times with a .22 caliber pistol during a domestic argument on Saturday.
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Athens, Ohio
Karen Lee Cain
Glouster
Athens County
Lloyd
Sonny” Cain Jr
Frasch Honored in Columbus as Top Ten Man of 1971
Logan native Joseph F. Frasch, a Logan High School graduate, is named one of the Top Ten Men of 1971 by the Columbus Citizen Journal. He has led Franklin University in Columbus for two decades, growing from 600 students in 1951 to over 3,500 in a five story campus.
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Joseph F. Frasch
Logan
Logan High School
Columbus
Columbus Citizen- Journal
Frasch
LHS
Alice Frasch
N. Walnut St
Franklin University
Citizen- Journal
Franklin
YMCA
mid-Ohio
Multiple Global Briefs Spark Unease Amid Dispersed Thefts
AP dispatches report diverse items from Brisbane to Cincinnati. A Brisbane outbreak scare follows the theft of four golden staph cultures from Mater Hospital. Indiana Senator Hartke announces presidential bid with NH primary campaigning planned. Ohio lawmakers consider 10 percent pay hikes for state workers. Indira Gandhi calls regional unity to curb domination by affluent nations. In Portsmouth, 2000 steel workers strike at Empire Detroit. 200 workers in hot strip and blooming mills participate. King Frederik IX of Denmark suffers a heart attack and is hospitalized. Forest Hills in Cincinnati shuts schools due to vandalized buses.
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Brisbane
Australia
Mater Hospital
Portsmouth, Ohio
Empire-Detroit Steel Division
Groundbreaking Set For New Farmers & Merchants Bank
An informal groundbreaking ceremony is planned for 10 a.m. Thursday at the Farmers & Merchants Bank site next to Worthington Park where the Ambrose Hotel stood. Bank president Ralph O. Moorehead invites the community to attend.
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Farmers & Merchants Bank
Worthington Park
Ambrose
Ralph O. Moorehead
Stock Market Opens New Year With Moderate Gains
New York AP reports stock prices rose on opening day with moderate gains. The Dow Jones industrial average climbed to 892.69 as trading stayed fairly active.
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New York
Nixon hints Agnew running mate for 1972 bid
Nixon says he plans to seek reelection with Spiro Agnew as running mate and will announce by January 14. He argues the public still supports a “winning combination” and details a campaign built on peace moves and a healthier economy. Gallup names Nixon the most admired man as Graham Kennedy Johnson and Humphrey also in top five.
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Washington
Spiro T. Agnew
Nixon
Agnew
CBS
Dan Rather
White House
Oval Office
Peking
Moscow
Soviet Union
Egypt
Mideast
Israel
U.S
Vietnam
Princeton
N.J
Gallup
Billy Graham
Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
Lyndon B. Johnson
Hubert H. Humphrey
D-Minn
Weather Dips to 17 Degrees in Hocking Valley
The mercury dropped to a frosty 17 degree low early today in the Hocking Valley. By 11 a.m. the temperature stood at 36 under sunny skies, compared with Sunday's high of 40. A chance of snow or rain with highs in the 30s is forecast for Tuesday.
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Hocking Valley
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Copenhagen
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