Hocking Valley Delegation Backs Clear Creek Project
An 18 member delegation from the Hocking Valley backed the Logan Reservoir project in Cincinnati with Gen Willard C Roper and Corps staff. Spokesman Don Johnson led Logan Athens and Nelsonville support. state officials present included Richard Midden Clarence Foust and Richard Moseley. The corps outlined status and steps to begin construction as part of Appalachian water resources study.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hocking Valley
Logan Reservoir
Willard C. Roper
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Corps
Cincinnati
Logan
Athens
Nelsonville
Don Johnson
Hocking Conservancy District
Richard Midden
Department of Natural Resources
Clarence Foust
Corps of Engineers
Richard Mosely
Clear Creek
Appalachian
Congress
Ohio
Hocking Hills
Bureau of Outdoor Recreation
Salt Creek
Hocking
Ben Het Camp Under Fresh Sweep by South Vietnamese
Fresh 1500 South Vietnamese troops moved into central Highlands to clear the Ben Het area and relieve pressure on the besieged camp. Viet Cong warned of Ben Het’s doomed fall, while U S air strikes and B52s pounded bunkers and reinforcements near the Laos border. In Bardstown Kentucky four guardsmen were killed in Vietnam prompting a county mourning period through July 4.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saigon
Ben Het
United States
U.S
Strategic Air Command
Laos
Highlands
Bardstown
National Guard
Vietnam
Spec
David B. Collins
Ronald E. Simpson
James T. Moore
Joseph R. MedIlrey
Willisburg
Washington County
James A. Sutherland
Gus Wilson
Nelson County
Central
Kentucky
RCA To Build Glass Plant At Circleville Ohio
RCA announces a $19 million glass plant near Circleville Ohio to produce components for color TV tubes. The 325000 square foot facility on 162 acres will operate 24 hours on three shifts and employ up to 1200 people, with construction starting immediately.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Circleville, Ohio
Radio Corp. of America
Circleville
RCA
Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric Co
G. C. Brewster
Rockbridge Marine Receives Purple Heart
Lance Corporal Timothy W. Hansley of Rockbridge is listed in good condition at Da Nang Naval Hospital after sustaining grenade fragment and shrapnel wounds to his arm and sides on June 7. He earned the Purple Heart, is a 1967 Berne Union High School graduate, enlisted last August, and has served in Vietnam since January. His address is 24 59272 K Co 31 Mar Div 2nd Plt Wpn FPO San Francisco CA 96602.
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Timothy W. Hansley
Lawrence Hansley Jr
Rockbridge
da Nang Naval Hospital
Marine Corps
Vietnam
L Cpl. Hansley
Berne Union High School
K” Co
FPO
San Francisco
Calif
Nixon Liberals Revolt Over Voting Rights Plan
Senator Hugh Scott signals a possible GOP liberal rebellion against President Nixon’s voting rights proposal. Dirksen plans to introduce the administration bill, while Scott backs a five year extension of the 1965 Act and may support Nixon’s measure as a separate bill.
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Washington
Hugh Scott
Senate
Nixon
Pennsylvania
Scott
Everett M. Dirksen
Dirksen
John Knowles
Charles McC. Mathias Jr
Maryland
Deep South
Sam J. Ervin, Jr
N.C
Senate Judiciary Committee
Richard B. Russell
D-Ga
Russell
Ervin
Benny the 14-pound pigtail monkey heads for 30 day space flight
In Cape Kennedy a 3 year old Thai monkey named Benny begins a 30 day orbit aboard a Delta rocket as part of a flying laboratory study to guide future manned missions. The biological test subject will ride strapped in a couch 11 10 p m EDT for the longest live creature space journey to date.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
Benny
Thailand
Two Projectors and Record Player Stolen From Church
The Rev. Jackson Beverly of Logan Presbyterian Church reported to police that two movie projectors and a record player worth about $900 were taken from the church office between June 19 and 21. The church is normally left open and no forced entry was found.
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Jackson Beverly
Logan Presbyterian Church
Beverly
Violence Flows in Kokomo as Curfew Enforced Citywide
Violence flared again in a Kokomo Indiana Negro neighborhood with an ear lier cross burning leading to 14 arrests including four armed whites. State police aided city officers as a Friday curfew ran from 10 30 p m to dawn. In Omaha gunfire reports subsided after three days of unrest and Cairo Illinois kept a curfew with no new incidents. The violence followed the fatal shooting of Vivian Strong by a white patrolman and her father urged calm.
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Associated Press
Kokomo
Ind
Omaha
Neb
Cairo
Ill
John Miller
Dave Levendowski
Vivian Strong
James Loder
James Strong
Winnie Ruth Judd Captured Seven Years After Escape
Winnie Ruth Judd, once known as the tiger woman, was captured near San Francisco after seven escapes from Arizona State Hospital. Authorities say the woman, now calling herself Marian Lane, matches Judd by fingerprints and a distinguishing scar, with extradition planned to Arizona.
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Winnie Ruth Judd
Martinez
Calif
Arizona
San Francisco
Robert Lang
Phoenix
Los Angeles
Lang
Marian Lane
Arizona State Hospital
Sgt
Joe Walsh
Danville
John Bremer
Europe
California
The
Tiger Woman
Guard Unit Heads For Summer Camp
Ninety five members of the Logan National Guard unit left at shortly after 5 a m for fourteen days of summer camp at the Grand River Wildlife Area near Akron and at Camp Perry in Ottawa County. They will be at the Grand River preserve through July 3 and at Camp Perry July 4 12.
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Logan National Guard
Grand River Wildlife Area
Akron
Camp Perry
Ottawa County
Grand River Preserve
Nixon to become first U.S. leader to visit Communist Romania
President Nixon announced plans for an August trip that will start after visits to five Southeast Asian capitals and include a mid Pacific stop aboard the Hornet to greet Apollo 11. He will then proceed to Manila, Indonesia, Thailand, India and Pakistan before Bucharest.
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New York
Nixon
U.S
Romania
Ronald L. Ziegler
mid-Pacific
Hornet
Manila
Indonesia
Thailand
India
Pakistan
Bucharest
William P. Rogers
Philippines
Japan
Korea
Taiwan
Australia
New Zealand
State Council
Nikolai Ceausescu
Washington
Soviet Union
White House
Ziegler
Asia
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Logan Trade Club
Max Davidson
Hocking Community Improvement Corp
Howard Blum
Hocking Commissioners
Bill Miller
Logan Daily News
Raymond Shepard
John Cline
Athens County Commissioners
Martin Hecht
Ohio Univer
Sity
Allan Geiger
Paul O’brien
OU Board of Trustees
B. T
Tad) Grover
Athens National Bank
Athens City Council
Kenner Bush
Athens Messenger
Athens Chamber of Commerce
Dien Bien Phu
Rockbridge Marine
Purple Heart
United Nations, N.Y
U.N
Middle East
France
Britain
Chapel Hill
Luther Hodges
North Carolina
U.S. Secretary of Commerce
Hodges
Mildred
Arlis Hiles
Bowen St
Blackjack Lake
Mrs. Hiles
Lake Logan
Alamo
Z. Alexander Aarons
Agnes Ann Lerio
Hedvig Samuelson
Phoe
Nix
Egeburg
U.S. Health Post
Roger O. Egeberg
University of Southern California Medical School
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