Rapid City flood toll hits 208 in worst US disaster in 44 years
Rapid City South Dakota reports 208 dead as it endures the nation’s deadliest flood in 44 years. Officials fear many more bodies in streams from the Black Hills. about 500 missing and 3,000 homeless amid $100 million in damage. Major Gen. Corning leads 2,500 guards. curfew imposed. extensive daylight searches continue.
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Rapid City
U.S
S.D
Black Hills
Duane L. “Duke
Corning
National
Donald Barnett
Canyon Lake
George McGovern
Richard Kneip
McGovern
Congress
Pennington County Health Department
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Ellsworth Air Force Base
Office of Emergency Preparedness
Small Business Administration
Office of Economic Opportunity
South Dakota
Johnstown
Florida
Justice Douglas Linked To Mobster
Dayton Journal Herald reports that about 200000 dollars from the Albert Parvin Foundation funded payments to mobster Meyer Lansky via a Beverly Hills bank account. Douglas denied knowledge. bank officials declined comment as the 1961 to 1967 payments relate to the Flamingo sale proceeds and foundation aims.
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Dayton, Ohio
Justice Department
Dayton Journal Herald
U.S. Supreme Court
William O. Douglas
Meyer Lansky
Bank of America
Beverly Hills
Calif
Douglas
Lansky
Andrew Alexander
Keith McKnight
Albert Parvin Foundation
Las Vegas
New
Florida
Morris S. Lansburgh
Sam Cohen
Cohen
Lansburgh
Israel
Miami
Colony Sporting Club
London
Journal Herald
Parvin Foundation
Parvin
Los Angeles
William J. Campbell
Northern District of
Illinois
Hotel Flamingo, Inc
Bank of America of
South Logan Water To Be Off Tuesday
Water service will be off from 8 30 a m to about 11 30 a m Tuesday as crews tie in a new six inch line with the existing two inch line on Wilson and Mohican Aves at the first alley intersections west of Walhonding Ave.
Two School Boards Meet Tonight On Important Issues
The Hocking County school board convenes a 7 pm special session to finalize transfer plans for Laurelville district areas into Logan Elm and Logan city districts. Starr-Washington board meets at 7:30 pm to discuss the State Board of Education's afternoon action revoking the Starr-Washington charter, with local members seeking injunctive relief.
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Hocking County School Board
James Frey
Laurelville
Logan Elm
Logan City
Starr-Washington School Board
State Board of Education
S-W
Goodyear Workers Walk Off Over Small Wage Rise
About 45 members of Local 744 United Rubber Workers walked off the job for 1% hours at Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co the Logan plant on Sunday night. John Molzer the personnel manager said the stoppage followed a 3.1 percent rollback in wages, with an 8.6 percent pay increase agreed in 1971. The company believed the increases exempt from a 5.5 percent wage price freeze and has applied for board approval of the added raise worth about eight cents an hour.
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United Rubber Workers Union
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co
Logan
John Mojzer
Goodyear
Molzer
U.S
Judge Tague Acquits Sappington in Hocking County Case
Judge Robert G. Tague of New Lexington acquits John Sappington three years after hearing the trial in Hocking County Common Pleas Court. The not guilty verdict cites Supreme Court and Fourth District findings, faulting state evidence and confrontation issues.
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Robert Tague
Acquits
Sappington
John Sappington
Hocking Valley Community Hospital
Robert G. Tague
New Lexington
Tague
Hocking
Ohio Supreme Court
Libby Lewis
Lewis
Fourth District Court of Appeals
Sterling Lewis
Ralph Voelker
Auditor of State
Bar
Hocking Hills Park Manager Promoted To District Post
Everett Rheinscheid, longtime Hocking Hills State Park manager, is promoted to supervisor of the Southwest Division of state parks. He will split time between Hocking Hills and district headquarters at Cowan Lake State Park. He previously led Pymatuning and also worked at Rocky Fork Lake and Stone Lick. Rheinscheid is a Mt. Pleasant native with three children.
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Hocking Hills Park
Everett Rheinscheid
Hocking Hills State Park
Southwest Division of State Parks
Hocking Hills
Cowan Lake State Park
Wilmington
Rheinscheid
Five Year Old Girl Killed In Brush Hog Accident
Laura Lynn Leftwich age five daughter of Mr and Mrs Robert A Leftwich Columbus was killed when she fell into the path of a brush hog on a summer farm near Laurelville Ohio. The coroner said she died at the scene and sheriff and deputies reported the accident occurred about 1130 a m with a 1218 p m call. She was riding on a tractor with her father who brushed her causing her to fall into the brush hog. Surviving are her parents a sister Lisa A maternal grandparents and paternal grandparents with other relatives. Services were set for 730 p m Tuesday at Beechwold Church of Christ.
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Laura Lynn Leftwich
Robert A. Leftwich
Columbus
Dry Run
Laurelville
Hocking County
Leftwich
Lisa A
J. A. Stilwell
C. W. Leftwich
Beechwold Church of Christ
Morris Rd
Nixon invites Hirohito for U.S. visit
President Nixon through Henry Kissinger invites Emperor Hirohito to visit the United States. Prime Minister Eisaku Sato says an appropriate time will be set through diplomatic channels. The invitation comes as tensions over China policy and import surcharges stir Japan-U.S. relations.
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Tokyo
Nixon
Hirohito
United States
Henry A. Kissinger
Japan
Kissinger
Eisaku Sato
Sato
Takeo Fukuda
Washington
China
U S Jets Down 2 MIGs Hit Railroads
U S jets destroyed two MIG jets and attacked a northeast Vietnam rail line to China leaving a 10 mile stretch of line in flames and 60 freight cars burning. A Navy A6 was lost and two crewmen reported missing as air forces carried out widespread strikes over North Vietnam near Hanoi.
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Saigon
North Vietnam
China
U.S. Command
Hanoi
Coral Sea
U.S
Air Force Phantoms
Lang Chi
Demilitarized Zone
South Vietnam
An Loc
Sinc
Ohio Supreme Court halts county official firings
The Ohio Supreme Court granted a writ of prohibition to stop the firing of two Republican members of the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections and set June 19 for a hearing on Secretary of State Ted Brown’s actions. The case centers on legality and due process claims.
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Columbus, Ohio
Ohio Supreme Court
Cuyahoga County
Board of Elections
Ted W. Brown
Ohio
United States
Brown
Honor Campers Rescue Girl At Conkle's Hollow
Debbie Smith a 12 year old from Centerville was rescued from the west rim of Conkle's Hollow after a 25 foot fall. Inmates Lloyd White James Hall Robert Rhodus Clarence Gahan and park official Pat Self participated with White lowering a rope to reach the girl. She sustained possible rib fractures and a sprained ankle but was not hospitalized.
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Debbie Smith
Centerville
Hocking
Conkle’s Hollow
Debbie
Lloyd White
James Hall
Robert Rhodus
Clarence Gahan
Pat Self
Hocking Hills State Park
White
Factory Damaged By Derailment Near Columbiana
At Olenick Manufacturing Co. plant west of Columbiana Ohio seven Penn Central freight cars derailed at the old Ohio 344 crossing damaging the plant corner. No injuries reported and police cited cargo shift as the cause. damage estimate unavailable.
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Columbiana, Ohio
Olenick Manufacturing Co
Here
Penn Central Transportation Co
Ohio 344
Killing Frost Damages Gardens Across Hocking County
A 30 degree killing frost Saturday night and Sunday morning damaged gardens in Hocking County. Tomatoes and tender vegetables died, several trees were nicked, and wild plants suffered. Bowers Farm escaped major harm to apples though peaches from prior winter are gone. Logan recorded a 30 degree low, then rose to 74 by late morning. Partly cloudy, with possible thundershowers and highs in the 80s, are forecast for Tuesday.
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Hocking County
Logan
Nelsonville
Hocking Valley
Laurelville-South
Ingville
Omato
Joe Pye
Greenbrier
Bowers Fruit Farm
Laurelville
George Bowers
Amherst man sentenced to Ohio Penitentiary
John H. Warren of Amherst was found guilty of breaking and entering and sentenced by Judge Harley Meyer to 15 years in the Ohio Penitentiary. An appeals bond of 5000 dollars was set, with Warren seeking release. He broke into Harley Ellinger’s residence on February 9 1970 and has prior larceny and burglary convictions in this county. He was ordered to pay court costs.
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John H. Warren
Amherst
Hocking County
Groundbreaking Set Thursday For Logan Housing Project
Groundbreaking ceremonies are planned for 11 a.m. Thursday at the Elm Court Apartment site on the old Hartmann farm facing E Front St in Logan. SKW Inc Newark is general contractor. project cost estimates reach 900000 and 86 apartments will be built in seven buildings over about 14 acres. The site dedication will be by Barton A Holl, president of Logan Clay Products Co which sold the land. Limited partnership papers list Elm Court Ltd Newark as principal business location with Realty Development Co No 6 Newark as general partner and Milton Knoll Earl Shurtz Robert K Weakley as partners. Dwight I Hurd of Worthington was the original limited partner.
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Elm Court
Hartmann
E. Front St
Logan
SKW, Inc
Newark
Barton A. Holl
Holl
Logan Clay Products Co
Hocking
Hall
Hocking County Clerk
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South Logan
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Joseph Collins
Lake Logan
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Vaw Sheriff's Deputies
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Northern Ireland
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William H. Rehnquist
Harrisburg
Lakeside
West Ohio
The
United Methodist Church
Associated Press
Dakotas
Gulf Coast
Bismarck
N.D
Dickinson
John Warren
Logan Housing Project
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