Mills Says Shotgun Fired Accidentally In Struggle After Sheriff Grabbed Barrel
Oliver Mills testified in his defense that a 12 gauge shotgun went off during a struggle with Sheriff Harold Steele and Deputy David Wilbur as they entered Mills's home. He said he did not pull the trigger and that the sheriff grabbed the gun as they wrestled.
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Mills
Harold Steele
Vinton County
Oliver Mills
Steele
David Wilbur
Electric Company
Waldron
Waldron’s
County Rd
John Peck
Peck
Hocking County
Swan Twp
Columbus
Ash Cave
John Connor
David Kessler
Vinton
U S Planes Hammer Reds In Laos And Vietnam
Up to 400 U S B 52s and other warplanes pressed heavy bombing in Laos Panhandle and at the northwest corner of South Vietnam as Secretary Rogers said the U S will use airpower as needed to protect withdrawing troops. He ruled out ground troops outside South Vietnam.
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Saigon
U.S
Panhandle
Laos
South Vietnam
William P. Rogers
Washington
United States
Indochina
Rogers
North Vietnam
Kachelmacher Clinic Off To Good Start
The Kachelmacher Memorial varicose veins clinic opened January 8 at Hocking Valley Community Hospital and saw 88 patients with 103 visits in its first month. Friday's clinic examined 28 patients, 21 new and seven follow-ups.
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Kachelmacher
Nixon budget faces Democratic doubt on full employment aim
House Speaker Carl Albert and Sen. Edward Kennedy praised the $229.2 billion budget as a shift by a Republican toward Keynesian ideas but questioned whether it meets the full employment target. Sen. William Proxmire urged a lower total and reallocating funds to pollution control and social programs amid calls for wage and price restraints.
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Washington
Nixon
House
Carl Albert
D-Okla
John Maynard Keynes
William Proxmire
Wisconsin Democrat
Albert
Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
Byrd urges tax cuts over revenue sharing plan
Senate Democrat leader Byrd says cutting federal taxes offers better aid to states and cities than Nixon's $16 billion revenue-sharing proposal. He expects a tough path in Congress but will consider the idea, preferring a leaner federal tax take to free up local revenue.
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Washington
Robert C. Byrd
Senate
Nixon
West Virginia
Congress
Byrd
Authorities Push Search For Clues In Girl s Slaying
In Palmdale California a team of forty five sheriff s deputies conducted door to door interviews of neighbors of five year old Jennifer Ann Flowers who was stabbed to death while walking to Tamarisk Elementary School. The autopsy found no sexual assault. Her father resides in Lancaster Ohio.
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Palmdale
Calif
Sheriff’s
Jennifer Ann Flowers
Tamarisk
Joan Flowers
Lancaster
Ohio
Unbelievable Weather Range Grips Hocking Valley
The Hocking Valley saw a dramatic weather swing Friday from eight degrees at dawn to 52 by 11 p.m., with two inches of snow and heavy rain. Hour by hour, temperatures fluctuated from 28 at 5 p.m. to 50 by midnight, then 43 at 2 a.m. and 27 by 7 a.m. Snow redeveloped around 10 a.m. and a forecast calls for cloudy, windy, cold weather with near zero by Sunday.
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Hocking Valley
Snow Adds Hazard Amid Northeast Ohio Snowstorm
Heavy snow and gusty winds disrupted travel across Northeastern Ohio as a front drives 4 or more inches in the region and up to 2 inches elsewhere while a 100-foot radio tower collapsed in Cambridge cutting patrol communications for an hour. In Cleveland area two inches fell in a three hour span and traffic on Rt. 664 paused for about an hour after a truck slid into a ditch. Silting snow caused two Hocking County crashes with no injuries.
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National Weather Service
Highway Patrol
Cambridge
Ohio
Cleveland
Rt. 664
Peter Eckrich & Sons, Inc
Columbus
Treb M. Layton
Blacklick
Layton
State Highway Patrol
Hocking County
Rt. 180
Laurelville
Henry R. Young
Tarlton
Old Rt. 33
Frederick J. Woltz
Logan Rt. 1
Gosnell Announces Run for President of Council
Robert I Gosnell of 194 Mound St files for Republican primary to become president of the Logan council. He cites long interest in politics and a push for a lively Logan campaign. Other GOP nominees include James Johnson for Third Ward councilman and Sheldon Johnson for at large council seat.
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Robert Gosnell
Robert I. Gosnell
Mound St
Council On the
Gosnell
Logan Glass
General Electric Co
Logan
James Johnson
Walhending Ave
Council
Johnson
Essex Wire
Zanes
Clarence Blosser
GOP
Llocking County
Jack Moorehead
Virginia Lf Gano
William
Bill) Evans
First Ward
Tom West
George Dunigan
David Roberts
Fourth Ward
Apollo 14 Moon Launch Set for Sunday Flyoff
Cape Kennedy Fla AP the countdown continued for Apollo 14 with astronauts Alan Shepard Edgar Mitchell and Stuart Roosa to lift at 3 23 p m EST Sunday aboard a Saturn 5. Families arrived including wives Louise Shepard and Louise Mitchell. The mission follows Apollo 13 near disaster and could affect all remaining moon landings if it fails.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
Alan B. Shepard Jr
Edgar D. Mitchell
Stuart A. Roosa
America
Houston
Louise Shepard
Shepard
Louise Mitchell
Joan Roosa
Mrs. Emma Reedy Mast Dies at 89 Former Logan Resident
Emma Reedy Mast 89 died Thursday at Westerville Convalescent Center after living at 211 N Home St Westerville She widow of James Mast and co ran Mast's Restaurant in Logan with son Harold of Columbus She survived by a grandson three great grandchildren a Logan niece Mrs Wilbur Stout and a Worthington United Methodist Church member Funeral services set for Monday 10 a m Rutherford Corbin Chapel Worthington Burial Elmwood Cemetery Lancaster Visitation Sunday 2-4 and 7-9 pm
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Emma Reedy Mast
Logan
Westerville Convalescent Center
N. E. Hlome St
Westerville
James Mast
Mast’s
Harold
Columbus
Wilbur
Mabel) Stout
Worthington United Methodist Church
Rutherford-Corbin Chapel
High St
Worthington
W. Edge Dixon
Elmwood Cemetery
Lancaster
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