Retracing Lord Dunmore Route Along Hocking River
An afternoon walk traces Lord Dunmore’s Dunmore War march along the Hocking River from the Lower Falls at Logan toward Rockbridge and Enterprise. The account describes the Weed Road, wildlife, and plant life including marchantia liverwort, pink petaled wild geraniums, sleepy catchfly, and Traill’s fly catcher, with notes on the Blackhand formation and surrounding marshes.
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Lord Dunmore
Hocking River
Virginia
Hockhocking
Falls Mill
Logan
Pickaway Plains
Dunmore
Simon Kenton
Simon Girty
Clear Creek Gorge
Pick Plain S
Rockbridge
Erprise
Hocking
Enterprise
Rempel’s Pond
City Fireman Lightfoot Resigns Over Work Schedule Strain
Dan Lightfoot resigns as city fireman citing a tough 56 hour week plus a 64 hour week due to a interim schedule. Assistant Chief Ralph Courter on sick leave. Chief Robert Courter says only Richard Donahey can grant leaves. Lightfoot’s last day is June 26 with vacation request for June 13–.
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Dan Lightfoot
Ralph Courter
Lightfoot
Robert Courter
Courier
Richard Donahey
Donahey
Don Schultz
Epidemic Birth Defects Baffle Doctors in Atlanta
A December 1961 to 1962 birth defect outbreak in Atlanta produced 16 affected newborns with meningomyelocele, a ballooning of spinal tissue. Researchers from the U S Public Health Service and Emory traced mothers’ histories but found no single cause, noting 14 deaths and a spike to 421 per 100 000 births before rates returned to normal.
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Washington
Atlanta
Marvin Boris
U.S. Public Health Service
Richard Blumberg
Emory University
Europe
Rious
Southeast Ohio Golf Assn Tournament Heads to Hocking Hills
Ninety top LEC golfers from nine clubs compete in the SEOGA district tournament at Hocking Hills Country Club with pro-am on Friday and team play on Saturday and Sunday. Clubs include Logan Athens Jackson Gallipolis Marietta Lancaster Cambridge Chillicothe Circleville. Roundtowners join for first time.
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Hocking Hills Country Club
Southeastern Ohio Golf Association
Logan
Athens
Jackson
Gallipolis
Marietta
Lancaster
Cambridge
Chillicothe
Circleville
Roundtowners
R. B. Perkins
India seeks U S Britain aid for oral contraceptive research
London AP report says M C Chagla India's high commissioner appealed to the United States and Britain for research on an oral contraceptive to help India's large population.
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London
M. C. Chagla
India
United States
Britain
Moscow
Congo
Africa
Izvestia
U.S
Joseph Mobutu
Don Roop Named New City Electrician
Don Roop of Rockbridge Rt 1 was appointed by Service Director Richard Donahey as the new city electrician replacing C M Beery. Roop, with 16 years as an electrician, will work on a monthly wage basis while remaining employed by Community Cable Service Inc. He and his wife Juanita have two children, Terry and Vicki.
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Don Roop
Rockbridge Rt. 1
Richard Donahey
New City Electrician
Roop
C. M. Beery
Community Cable Service, Inc
Logan
Beery
Juanita
Terry
Vicki
Community Cable
Zazu Pitts Dies At 63 In Hollywood
Hollywood mourns Zasu Pitts 63 actor comedian with a career from silent films to television ending with cancer death on Friday.
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Zazu Pitts
Hollywood
Zasu Pitts
Doctor Ward Arrest Ties Profumo Scandal To Government
London AP reports Dr Stephen Ward 43 osteopath arrested after disclosures about a red haired party girl Christine Keeler and War Minister John Profumo. Ward custody at Marylebone Lane police station. likely charges to be filed. The affair has provoked calls for a parliamentary security debate as Sir Alec Douglas-Home era tensions rise.
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London
Stephen Ward
John Profumo
Ward
Watford
Marylebone Lane
Scotland Yard
Maidenhead
Viscount Astor
Lady Astor
Macmillan
Profumo
House of Commons
Christine
Aloysius Gordon
Gordon
Harold Wilson
Labor Party
Soviet Union
Wilson
Eugene Ivnov
Moscow
Ivanov
Britain
Profymo
Vatican City prepares for unprecedented cardinal conclave
Vatican workers scramble to house 82 cardinals for the June 19 papal election. Half already in Rome with more arriving, while Sistine Chapel preparations and strict secrecy measures are underway as the conclave tightens space and aides.
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Vatican City
The
Sacred College
Rome
John XXIII
United States
James Francis Cardinal McIntyre
Los Angeles
Joseph Elmer Cardinal Ritter
St. Louis
Albert Gregory Cardinal Meyer
Chicago
Francis Cardinal Spellman
New York
Richard Carinal Cushing
Boston
Pope
Pope John
St. Peter’s Basilica
Ohio Weather Outlook Cooler Air Drives South
Official Weather Bureau summary reports cooler drier air moving into Ohio Friday night with showers only in southwestern counties. Early Friday morning Youngstown 57, Columbus 62, and fog general over the state.
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Columbus
Weather clocks in near record heat and storms across Ohio
The day starts with 88 in Hocking County by 11 a.m and a 81 degree noon high at the state highway garage with the peak expected later. Forecast calls for warm humid conditions and scattered thundershowers Sunday especially in the south with 80s. In Cincinnati a violent thundersquall killed one boy and injured three as winds hit 70 mph and hail at quarter inch accompanied more than 20 fire calls.
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Mercury
Hocking County
State
Cincinnati
Hamilton County
Bull Connor Calls for White Merchants Boycott Amid Integration Fight
Segregationist Bull Connor urged a massive boycott of white merchants who back racial equality as Alabama braces for two Negro students to enroll at the University of Alabama. Gov. George Wallace plans stay at home appeals and a statewide broadcast while federal courts order access. Demonstrations erupt across the South with arrests in Savannah Nashville Jackson and Lexington as state troopers and police move to quell riots after a segregation clash in Lexington. Postmaster General Day warns Substations may lose contracts over discrimination as Kennedy era government rules tighten.
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Tuscaloosa
Ala
University of Alabama
Eugene (Bull) Connor
Birmingham
State Capitol
Montgomery
George C. Wallace
Wallace
University Extension Center
Huntsville
Citizens Council
Holt
Democratic National
Savannah
Nashville
Tenn
Jackson
Miss
Lexington
N.C
Washington
J. Edward Day
Day
Youngsters Tile Toss Shatters Windshields On Rt 33
Reports say youths threw pieces of tile from the Natco trestle over Rt 33S near Haydenville Friday afternoon. Tiles shattered windshields on a truck and a car. The Hocking County sheriff’s department passed the case to the state patrol due to patrol car shortages. No further details were available from the Athens post as the investigation continues.
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State Patrol
Natco
Rt. 33S
Haydenville
Hocking County
Abu Simbel plan splits temples for relocation
A commission of experts reportedly chose a piecemeal relocation of Egypt's Abu Simbel temples to high ground to escape Aswan Dam floods. The plan estimates 36 million dollars, cheaper than a French option to move entire temples from the hillside.
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Cairo
Egypt
Abu Simbel
Nile
Aswan High Dam
Looters target beer-filled derailed car in Somerset
Police said looters swarmed a derailed train car in Somerset as security was tightened after authorities found the car contained cans of beer.
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Somerset
North Korea Refuses Fate of Pilots Captured May 17
In Panmunjom North Korea again declines to disclose what happened to two UN command helicopter pilots taken prisoner on May 17.
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Panmunjom
Korea
North Korea
U.N. Command
Egyptian Planes Allegedly Raid Saudi Border Towns
The Defense Ministry in Jidda charged that three Egyptian aircraft attacked Saudi border towns Friday, causing casualties and property damage.
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Jidda
Saudi Arabia
Defense Ministry
Cleveland man dies after signing will in lawyer's office
Peder Rasmussen, 71, of Cleveland, collapsed in his attorney's office and died shortly after signing his will, authorities said.
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Cleveland (Ap
Peder Rasmussen
Cleveland
Collowe
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