Cable Cuts Disrupt Long-Distance Phone Service Nationwide
In Logan and across Ohio, long-distance service faltered after cables were cut around the Athens exchange. Logan General Tel has restored outgoing lines by Sunday noon, while hospitals and agencies faced delays. The strike by the Communications Workers of America, tied to wages and job security, has caused extensive damage and outages across 70 counties and prompted federal mediation efforts.
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Logan
Mike Castaldi
Athens
Gen-Tel
Castaldi
Hocking
Logan Exchange
Dave Arledge
Hocking Valley Community Hospital
Arledge
Sheriff’s Office
Columbus Blood Bank
Paul Diener
Circleville
Marion
Ohio
General Telphone Co
Portsmouth
Meigs
Albany
Meigs County
Communication Workers of America
Robert M. Wopat
John J. Gilligan
Wopat
Edmund Turk
Public Utilities Commission of Ohio
John Hanson
Gilligan
Columbus
Fort Wayne
Ind
Communications Workers of America
General Telephone Co
Indiana
Ray Stevens
CWA
Stevens
General Telephone
General Telephone of
World War I Ace Eddie Rickenbacker Dies at 82
Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, famed WWI flying ace and Eastern Airlines founder, died in Zurich at 82. He logged 21 aerial victories, led Eastern from 400 to 35,000 employees, and after a storied life ends his funeral is set for Columbus, Ohio.
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Miami
Fla
Eddie Rickenbacker
Eastern Airlines
Zurich
Switzerland
Eastern
Rickenbacker
Columbus
Ohio
Walter Mitty
Daytona Beach
United States
John J. Pershing
Flight Service
94Th
Aero
Adelaide Frost Durant
New York
David E
William F
Key Biscayne
Capt
Eddie
Strachan Denies Campaign Tapes Wiretap Links
President Nixon aide Gordon Strachan testified he was not told of wiretap proposals in the 1972 re election effort. FBI investigators backed his claim that campaign documents were not automatically sent to him. Strachan denied Magruder’s account that he showed him wiretap plans and logs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
White House
Gordon Strachan
FBI
Strachan
Jeb Stuart Magruder
Magruder
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Nixon
H. R. Haldeman
Haldeman
Atty
John Mitchell
Mitchell
Mt Carmel Martyrs Name Hijackers On JAL Jet
Hijackers aboard a Japan Air Lines jumbo jet with 143 people planned to take off from Dubai and demanded the group be known as the Mt Carmel Martyrs. A coded message from West Germany urged killing passengers or releasing them, while pirates said they would keep hostages alive.
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Dubai
Japan Air Lines
Mt. Carmel
West Germany
Air Pirates
Condi
Karachi
Weekend Rains Slash Park Crowds in Hocking County
Weekend rains reduced visitors to Hocking Hills State Park and Lake Logan in Hocking County. At Old Man's Cave Lodge pool only about 400 swimmers were recorded while camping areas and cabins filled. Lake Logan saw about 2,800 visitors with 1,500 swimmers and 120 fishermen among them. A group of Ohio University students entertained 200 to 250 campers, and anglers reported channel catfish bites with shrimp as bait.
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Hocking County
Wes Arbaugh
Hocking Hills State Park
Old Man’s Cave Lodge
Arbaugh
Ohio University
Charles Dalton
Lake Logan
Dollar And Pound Weaken In Early Markets
The U S dollar and the British pound slid again in European currency markets today while gold edged higher in early trading from London.
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London
Logan Weekend Rainfall and Hocking Valley Forecast
Rainfall in the Logan area over the weekend totaled 1.4 inches. Today at 11 30 a.m. the temperature was 77 following an overnight low of 69. Variable cloudiness and possible showers are forecast for the Hocking Valley on Tuesday with highs in the upper 80s.
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Logan
Hocking Valley
Ohio Youth Slain in Florida Torture House
Washington Court House Ohio relatives recall Mark Bernard Matson as a quiet, ordinary 16 year old after his body was found cemented inside a Florida torture house. Florida investigators report a girl from Frankfort Kentucky linked to the case and details describe a soundproofed dwelling with torture equipment. His parents traveled to Florida after he went missing from Ocala and later learned his body was being removed from the cement.
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H. J. Czaerniejewski
Washington Court House
Ohio
Mark Bernard Matson
Florida
Wally Matson
Mark
Dade County
Fort Lauderdale
Bruce
Ocala
Fla
Pamela Dolphin
Linda Lutz
Frankfort
Columbus
Fred Jones
Washington Senior High School
Gene Hughes
Pan Am Jet Crash Kills 76 Persons
A Pan American 707 with 79 aboard crashed into the sea north of Papeete Harbor after takeoff for Los Angeles. Four survived, one a stewardess died in hospital. three bodies recovered. Plane was Pan Am 816 from Auckland with stop in Papeete. Governor Angeli and French official Fould visited scene as search continued.
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Papeete, Tahiti
Papeete Harbor
Papeete
Los Angeles
Pierre Angeli
French Polynesia
Aymar Achille Fould
French Defense Ministry
Paris
Tahiti
Pan Am
Auckland
New Zealand
Soviet Union fires underground nuclear blast in Siberia
The Uppsala Seismological Institute logged an underground detonation in the Semipalatinsk area of Siberia at 2 29 55 am with a magnitude of 7 1 on the Richter scale. The event followed France's 1973 test start and sparked speculation it could trigger a hydrogen bomb.
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Uppsala
Sweden
France
Soviet Union
Uppsala Seismological Institute
Marcus Baath
Semipalatinsk
Siberia
Mururoa Atoll
Medicare Patients Pay More Than Before Program Began
Washington AP reports government data show Medicare patients, aged 65 plus, paid more out of pocket over six years. Avg annual out-of-pocket rose from 234 in 1966 to 276 in 1972, amid White House cost-sharing proposals and concerns over rising care costs and utilization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Medicare
Nixon Administration
Health and Welfare
Caspar W. Weinberger
Social Security Administration
Social Security
Senate Panel Poised to Issue Watergate Subpoena
The Senate Watergate committee plans to issue a subpoena for White House tapes and documents after President Nixon refused access. The panel aims to name the custodian and the tapes holder, while continuing its televised inquiry and hearing ex aide Gordon Strachan with Ehrlichman and Haldeman on deck.
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Washington
Senate Watergate Committee
Nixon
White House
Associated Press
Senate
Gordon Strachan
John D. Ehrlichman
H. R. Haldeman
Watergate Panel
Sam J. Ervin Jr
North Carolina Democrat
Duvalier Palace Hit By Blasts in Port-au-Prince
Explosions rocked the presidential palace in downtown Port au Prince with a fire igniting a large munitions storage area. No injuries reported and officials gave no word on the president Jean Claude Duvalier or the fire’s cause.
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Port AU Prince
Haiti
Jean- Claude Duvalier
White House
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Rickenbacker Motor Co
EAL
General Motors
Samuel Cash
Federal Republic of Germany
Mideast
Hughes
Sevenman Committee
Duvalier Palace
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