Five Men Arrested in Canal Winchester Narcotics Bust
Franklin County sheriff deputies and Columbus police arrested five men including two from Logan and Lancaster after undercover agents bought LSD, sopers, and cocaine for 300 dollars. The suspects face multiple narcotics counts and bond ranges from 72 000 to 82 225 dollars with court dates in March.
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Hocking
James R
J. R.) Strausbaugh
Logan Rt
Randall
Randy) Worthman
Richard Dale Cotterman
Lancaster
Walter G. Young
Gary E. Allen
Canal Winchester
Rt. 33
Bowen Rd
Sam Powers
Gender Rd
Powers
Cotterman
Strausbaugh
Worthman
U.S. Secret Service
Columbus
Allen
Cotterman and Young
Ohio
Franklin County
Ohio State University
James I. Cottrill
University Hospital
Airliner crashes into Albany home killing 17
An Mohawk Airlines Fairchild F27 on an instrument approach to Albany Airport crashed into a two story home in a residential area. Seventeen people died including the pilot and copilot. Aboard were 33 hospital admissions including the stewardess and residents of the home. The wreckage displaced the house several feet and damaged the surrounding area. Investigators recovered the flight data and cockpit voice recorders for analysis.
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Albany
N.Y
Joseph Rosen
Marcia
Lawrence
Roger
Mohawk Airlines
Sandy Segir
Rosen
Peter Sargent
Washington Avenue
Federal Aviation Administration
National Transportation Safety Board
Judiciary delays Kleindienst AG nomination as witness vanishes
In Washington the Senate Judiciary Committee stalls final action on Richard G. Kleindienst's attorney general nomination due to ongoing witness questions. A key witness, Dita Beard, lobbied for ITT, has vanished with FBI agents scouring the Denver area for her.
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Washington
Senate Judiciary Committee
Richard G. Kleindienst
Dita D. Beard
International Telephone & Telegraph Corp
FBI
Denver
Russians See America’s Seamy Side On Moscow TV
State television in Moscow aired an hour long report about the United States highlighting poverty crime and drug use along with praise for highways and the New York twin towers. Narrator Valentin Zorin contrasted both wealth and hardship noting slums sex scenes and unemployment while ending with a West Virginia miner’s child saying she wants to eat.
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Moscow
America
Valentin Zorin
U.S
Zorin
New York City
Times Square
West Virginia
Winter Storm Sweeps Across Nation From Plains To East
A series of winter storms bring snow and rain across the nation. Snow covers the upper Great Lakes region while travel warnings issue for Wisconsin and Minnesota. Northern California endures floods and fatalities as storms move toward New England and the Mid-Atlantic.
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Associated Press
Upper
Great Lakes
Great Plains
Dakotas
Indiana
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Illinois
Oklahoma
Plains
Rockies
Wyoming
Colorado
Nebraska
California
New England
Rhode Island
Maine
Lalorida
Court Order Delays Tax Petition Processing
A common pleas court delayed state income tax repeal petitions as Atty. Gen. William Brown must pause until a March 13 hearing on a Democrats led suit. Judge Clifford Rader issued the order after a motion by Brown, a defendant, delaying petitions from Republicans seeking a November ballot on a constitutional repeal.
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Columbus
Ohio
William Brown
Common Pleas Court
Clifford Rader
Florida
Brown
Ted Brown
George Jenkins
Joseph Tulley
Expect Increase In Beef Imports Quota
The Nixon administration is expected to announce a higher voluntary restraint level for 1972 beef imports under an eight year quota formula. Officials anticipate a modest rise from 1971, with estimates ranging from one to seven percent as the government weighs market pressures and aims to avoid mandatory cuts. Australia and New Zealand supply about 70 percent of the meat, with other nations also involved.
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Washington
Nixon
U.S
Agriculture Department
Australia
New Zealand
Hiss Wins Government Pension Right
Alger Hiss, 67, living in New York, wins a federal court ruling that he is entitled to a government pension and that the government acted unconstitutionally by denying retirement benefits for six years after his 1950 perjury conviction. The decision follows the long spy scandal that helped launch Richard Nixon’s early fame.
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Washington
Alger Hiss
Hiss
New York
State Department
Richard M. Nixon
GM Vega and Chevrolet plants shut by UAW strike in Ohio
In Lordstown Ohio at 2 am today GM Vega auto and Chevrolet truck plants were shut by a 7700 member UAW Local 1112 strike after talks failed over alleged assembly line speedups. Picket lines formed outside the plants with no incidents reported.
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Lordstown
Ohio
General Motors Corp
Vega Automobile
Chevrolet
United Auto Workers
Union Rejects Company Offer In General Hocking Walkout
The General Hocking Brick Co strike enters its third day as the plant shuts down with union Local 882 and company negotiators deadlocked. The company offered about seven percent, not meeting union demands for higher wages, more hospital and pension benefits, and job bidding rules. One tunnel kiln halted. another to shut Sunday. Baltic and Wadsworth plants also walked out after contracts expired. No further talks scheduled.
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General Hocking Brick Co
General Hocking
Local 882
United Brick and Clay Workers of America
U.S
Russell
Baltic
Wadsworth
United Brick and Clay Workers Union
Gilligan Leads Ohio Officials Over Belmont County Strip Mine Tour
Gov. John Gilligan led state officials and newsmen on an aerial inspection of the Hanna coal strip mine in Belmont County and urged passage of a strict strip mining bill with stronger land reclamation. He criticized Hanna Coal Co president Ralph Hatch and suggested a new president might be needed. Separately, the Sierra Club of Ohio filed an FTC complaint alleging Hanna Coal Co ads misled the public in opposition to the reclamation bill before the Ohio Senate.
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Columbus
Ohio
John Gilligan
Gilligan
Hanna Coal Co
Ralph Hatch
Hatch
Hanna
Belmont County
Con Solidation Coal
Pennsylvania
Cleveland, Ohio
Sierra Club
Federal Trade Commission
Club
Ohio Senate
Police Chief Cleared in Eastlake Burglary Case
An Ashtabula County jury found Eastlake Police Chief Wilson Kelley not guilty of grand larceny and burglary. Kelley, a 15 year veteran and head of the force for five years, faced charges over $1 000 in electrical power tools taken from an Eastlake firm on August 31 1969, after venue was moved from Lake County to Ashtabula County.
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Jefferson, Ohio
Ashtabula County
Charges Dismissed In Crofters Case
In Columbus Ohio Judge Robert Cook dismissed charges against Crofters Inc three officers after a key witness testified the firm gave a prime rating for loans. The ruling ends prosecution tied to the 1970 state treasury loan scheme involving PERS and several client firms.
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Robert Cook
Crofters, Inc
Gerald A. Donahue
Sidney Griffith
Harry A. Groban
James Lore
Public Employes Retirement System
PERS
Cook
Rudolph C. Merker
National Credit Office
New York City
Jack Chester
Merker
Robert Gardner
King Resources
Four Seasons Nursing Homes of America, Inc
Consolidated Gas & Oil of Oklahoma
Appar
Logan School Board Hires New Clerk
The Logan school board appointed Nadine K. Schultz of 596 W Second St as the district’s new clerk effective immediately through December 31 with a pro rated salary based on 5300 yearly and approved a 125000 bond. The board also authorized seeking a 100000 advance against February real estate tax settlement.
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Logan
Nadine K. Schultz
W. Second St
Joy Ginn
Schultz
Columbia Broadcasting System
Marietta Office Supply Co
Flood Devastates Buffalo Creek Hollow Leaving Thousands Homeless
Mrs Wayne Walls and 4000 residents displaced after the Buffalo Creek flood that swept through 16 coal camps along a 17 mile hollow. At least 88 dead with many missing and homes lost in Amherstdale. Walls recalls 1966 floods and dam concerns.
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W. Va
Buffalo Creek Hollow
Wayne Walls
West Virginia
Island Creek
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Manchester
N.H
New Hampshire
George McGovern
Cincinnati
Nicholas T. Elko
Dayton
Columbus, Ohio
Albert J. Kuhn
Hocking Valley
Attor
Ney
Tulley
Union
Franklin County Common Pleas Court
Ravenna
Gardner
State Treasury
John Herbert
Logan School Board
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