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Newspaper
Logan Daily News
Location
Logan, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1971
Page
1
The Citizens Commission on Public School Personnel Policies in Ohio recommends ungraded classrooms and team teaching to tailor instruction. It highlights flexible staffing, teacher aides, and training to prevent promotion from leaving the classroom.
The May industrial output rose seven tenths of one percent, the sharpest gain since the General Motors strike, but a spokesman for the Council of Economic Advisors said the jump is only moderately encouraging and not cause for excitement. The remark comes as President Nixon’s advisers weigh the data amid ongoing economic concerns.
Appalachian coal miners launch a broad strike in protest of UMW President W A Boyle losing as a union trustee. About 40,000 idle workers across West Virginia Virginia Kentucky Ohio Pennsylvania and nearby areas halt 250 mines. The boycott costs wages utilities royalties and pension funds as Boyle resigns under a federal order.
Auditor Leonard Myers said court action will begin about July first to collect delinquent taxes on 30 to 40 house trailers in the county. Prosecutor Veidt advised all Ohio owners must register trailers and pay taxes by due date or face penalties.
A wartime study outlines how a new social security bill could tie benefits to costs of living and wages over 30 years. Example families show substantial increases from current law, with long term cash benefits potentially rising by well over 100 percent. The analysis notes higher payroll taxes and extended Medicare protection under the plan.
The weather report notes thundershowers persist from the Plains to the mid and south Atlantic coast with clear mild conditions elsewhere. A tornado was sighted near Imperial Texas with funnel clouds reported nearby.
Partly cloudy forecast for Wednesday in the Hocking Valley with a chance of thundershowers this evening. Temperatures ranged from 55 overnight to 65 at 11 a.m. today with a Monday high of 85.
Hail struck Charleston and Dickinson during the night while San Angelo saw hail and Eads Colorado reported four inches of marble-sized hail. High winds caused damage near Bristol Tennessee and Athens Georgia. Hickory North Carolina received nearly an inch of rain. Temperatures ranged from 35 at Houston Maine to 91 in Needles California before dawn.
Dwight C. Wetherholt, 68, longtime Gallipolis Tribune editor and veteran newspaperman, dies. Funeral services are set for Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. in Gallipolis. survivors include his wife, a daughter, two granddaughters, and his brother Harold Wetherholt, former editor and publisher of the Tribune.
Homicide detectives seek four men and motive in what police call the bloodiest Detroit crime. Seven youths aged 18 to 27 died in a dawn shooting at a narcotics center, with a wounded man. Investigators note cartridges in multiple calibers and possible gang links.
In Newburgh New York police guard sections of the city during sporadic looting and vandalism by roving groups. Police report a dozen arrests for disorderly conduct and related charges. St Luke s Hospital treated 25 people for injuries including two gunshot wounds.
New York Times reports a Pentagon study found President Johnson on April 1 1965 decided to shift U S strategy from air power to ground offensives in South Vietnam. The move, kept secret, aimed to begin rapid changes without public notice as U S troops rose from 27000 to 184314 by year end and bombings intensified March 1965.
The day saw very slow trading as blue chips edged higher while most issues moved lower.
The New York Times rejects a Justice Department request to stop publishing a secret three year study on U S involvement in Indochina. Atty Gen Mitchell warned of an injunction while the paper vows to inform the public and leave court decisions to resolve the dispute.
Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield said he is giving serious consideration to open hearings on how the United States became involved in Vietnam. He expressed shock at disclosures withheld from Congress and the public and noted his agreement with The New York Times publishing the details.
South Vietnamese forces will assume full defense of the demilitarized zone within three months as the last American troops withdraw from positions along the DMZ. The 1st Brigade, 5th Mechanized Infantry Division will pull out in the next weeks as part of Nixon’s withdrawal phases starting July 1, leaving SAIGOPOL forces to patrol the eastern DMZ and outposts.
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