Early April Completion Likely For Hocking Hills Lodge
The multi million dollar Hocking Hills Lodge at Old Man's Cave in Hocking County nears completion with an early April target. Delays from labor strikes weather and roof timber delivery pushed back a September timeline. Forty cabins and a resort pool await the lodge before openings, with exterior nearly complete and the site offering sweeping gorge views.
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Hocking Hills Park
Hocking County
Hocking Hills Lodge
Old Man’s Cave
State Park
Bruce Larrick
Public Information Section
Ohio Department of Natural Resources
Cedar Creek
Ohio
1972 Crucial Year For Indochina War
AP reports North Vietnamese gains in Laos and Cambodia and troop buildups near the DMZ signal a pivotal year. U.S. officials fear coordinated offensives during Tet and ahead of Nixon's Peking trip while South Vietnam withdraws troops and shifts bases.
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Saigon
Laos
Cambodia
South Vietnam
U.S
Washington
Central Highlands
Demilitarized Zone
Nixon
Vietnam
Dmz
Peking
Red Attacks Escalate in Vietnam War
Communist forces mounted a third assault on a U S air base in two weeks and shot down an American helicopter killing four crewmen. Attacks across South Vietnam reached their highest level in three months as a Viet Cong ambush struck a platoon of 30 government militia in the Mekong Delta.
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Saigon
U.S
South Vietnam
Laotian Panhandle
Sepone
Mekong
Hefty Pensions May Lure Elder Solons Into Retirement
Washington AP reports that hefty pensions and redistricting uncertainty may trigger retirements among senior House members. Some may retire after March 1 to receive up to 34 000 dollars yearly, based on service years and salary history.
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Washington
Congress
Richard H. Poff
R-Va
Poff
William C. Wampler
Virginia
House
Ohio Senate set to vote on 23 congressional districts
Ohio Senate prepared to vote on a bipartisan redistricting plan reducing 24 districts to 23 after House approval. The plan preserves GOP control of 16 seats and Democrats seven, with five districts altered including Mercer, Darke, Putnam, Seneca, Wyandot, and parts of Greene, Warren, Crawford, and Love land counties.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ohio Senate
House
Senate Elections and Retirement Committee
Stanley Aronoff
Cincinnati
U.S
Senate
Michael Maloney
R-7
Mercer County
Darke
Putnam Counties
Wyandot County
Seneca County
Fostoria
Seneca
Wood Counties
Putnam
Xenia
Greene County
Warren County
Crawford
Greene Counties
Butler
Preble Counties
Darke County
Butler, Harrison, Liberty, Monroe
Neava
Twin
van Buren
Montgomery County
German, Jackson, Jefferson, Madison
Miami
Perry
Loveland
SALT Talks Tackle Submarines and Missiles Hit Snags
American and Soviet negotiators pressed through a 24 hour SALT session at the Soviet Embassy in Vienna. It marked the 109th meeting as disputes over nuclear submarines and antiballistic missiles persisted. The next session was set for Friday at the American Embassy.
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Vienna
Florida primary race tightens as candidates campaign in Florida
The AP reports Democrats in Florida press ahead on day two of campaigning with Humphrey visiting St Petersburg and Hartke in Miami, while Kennedy withdraws and Mills may drop out. In New Hampshire Nixon backers plan campaign HQ openings in Concord led by Volpe.
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Associated Press
Florida
Hubert H. Humphrey
St. Petersburg
Vance Hartke
Miami
Tallahassee
New Hampshire
Indiana
Richard Stone
Washington
Edward M. Kennedy
Massachusetts
Stone
Wilbur D. Mills
Arkansas
Alabama
George C. Wallace
American Independent Party
Concord
N.H
Nixon
Transportation
John A. Volpe
Lane Dwinell
Logan mayor pushes 2-mill levy for cemetery and fire dept
Mayor Merril Haney urged Logan City Council to place a ten year 2-mill tax levy on the May ballot with half a mill to Oak Grove Cemetery and 1% mills to the fire department. Revenue funds cemetery land, walls, roads, and equipment and a new fire station with gear. He urged careful spending and changes to tax splits to boost capital improvements.
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Merril Haney
Logan
Oak Grove
Logan Fire Department
Haney
South Logan
General Fund
Ohio
South
Vine
Raging Wind and Snow Hit Great Plains and Midwest
A storm of hurricane force winds and heavy snow lashed the western mountains and northern Great Plains with travel warnings posted from Washington to Nebraska. Clouds and cooler air were forecast for the Hocking Valley with morning showers turning to snow flurries, as 11 am temperatures reached 41 degrees and overnight fell to 22.
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Associated Press
Mountains
Great Plains
Washington
Nebraska
Hocking Valley
Arctic storm strands residents as heavy snows hit Montana region
Blizzard warnings covered Montana while heavy snow warnings extended into Minnesota and Wisconsin. Seven Idaho counties closed schools as roadways froze. In Swan Valley, over 100 people near the Wyoming border were cut off by drifts. An arctic air mass followed, bringing bitter cold into the upper Mississippi Valley and Great Lakes region.
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Montana
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Idaho
Swan Valley
Wyoming Line
Mississippi Valley
Great Takee
Slain Woman Found in Home Freezer in Toronto
Toronto police say Grace Evelyn Todd was shot in the head on August 4. Her husband David Wilfred Todd, 38, is held without bail on noncapital murder charges. The body was found by youths under frozen food trays after neighbors observed the freezer being moved into the Cassidy home. Georges Cassidy's group learned of the case after a TV program about a body in a trunk.
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Toronto
David Wilfred Todd
Todd
Burlington
Ont
Charles Cassidy
Catherine
John Moore
Layne Jackson
Cassidy
Grace Evelyn
Cassidys
John
Mrs. Todd
Safer cigarette possible says NIH researcher
Washington AP reports Dr Gio Gori of the National Institute of Health National Tobacco Working Group says a 100 percent filter could remove all smoke from tobacco but would be hot air. He notes safer cigarettes require less nicotine and may not satisfy smokers, with trials expected in two to three years to yield low or zero nicotine strains for commercial use.
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Washington
Gio Gori
National Institute of Health
Gori
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John W. Byrnes
Ways and Means
Byrnes
William L. Springer
Illinois
Commerce Committee
Charles Raper Jonas
R-N.c
Appropriations Committee
Thomas M. Pelly
R-Wash
Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee
Carson
Logan Goodyear
John Mojzer
Haning’s, Inc
Lancaster
Fire Dept
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