Calley Receives Life Sentence For My Lai Slayings
FT Benning Ga AP Lt William Calley Jr was sentenced to life imprisonment by the same jury that convicted him of murdering My Lai villagers three years ago The verdict underscores the case that has divided the nation Calley urged the court to consider the broader toll while prosecutors urged a sentence that reflects the crime and its impact on society and military discipline
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FT. Benning, Ga
William Calley Jr
My Lai
William L. Calley Jr
Calley
Reid Kennedy
Lt. Calley
George Latimer
Latimer
Kennedy
America
Aubrey Daniel
Daniel
Pay Increases Hinge On Budget In Ohio Finance Debate
State Finance Director Harold Hovey warns $500 million for education and state employee raises would vanish if the 109th General Assembly blocks Gov. Gilligan’s tax plan. He urges $1.6 billion in new taxes to fund education aid and a 16 percent across the board raise, while lawmakers seek deep budget cuts. A separate measure proposes a two percent county income tax for education. A House bill to subsidize police and sheriffs with 1500 per officer was to be introduced.
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Columbus
Ohio
Harold Hovey
109Th General Assembly
Gilligan
Hovey
Senate Finance Committee
John J. Gilligan
David D. Albritton
Columbus, Ohio
Ohio House
Geauga County approves hospital bond issue
Geauga County voters approve by 1 218 votes a 2 800 000 bond to expand Geauga Community Hospital. The plan adds 66 beds a new wing an occupational therapy dept and an out patient clinic with total expansion cost 4 66 million funded by donations and government aid.
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Chardon, Ohio
Geauga County
Geauga Community Hospital
Market Little Change as Stocks Edge Forward
New York trading saw modest gains with the noon Dow up 3.09 to 906.48. Advances outweighed declines on the NYSE by just under 2 to 1 as analysts noted ongoing consolidation and investor caution awaiting clearer signs of economic improvement.
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New York Stock Exchange
Two Boys Die Crossing Railroad Trestle Near Wakefield
WAVERLY Ohio AP Two young boys were killed Tuesday while trying to outrun a Norfolk and Western train on a railroad trestle near Wakefield. A third boy escaped by leaping into Big Run Creek as the train approached. Pike County sheriff's office said they were fishing from the trestle when the northbound train neared.
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Waverly
Ohio
Norfolk & Western
Big Run Creek
Pike County
Sympathy Surges For Calley After My Lai Verdict
Widespread petitions protests and pleas for clemency followed Army Lt. William L. Calley Jr. murder conviction Many citizens officials and media voices argued Calley was unfairly singled out The response spanned Cincinnati New Orleans and national outlets with calls opposing the verdict and demanding justice for the broader actions at My Lai.
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Army
William L. Calley Jr
Calley
My Lai
Herb Haas
Cincinnati
Reds Attack Burn Big South Viet Town Council OKs Final Allocations
City Council approved final 1971 appropriations of $926,131.87, up $76,823 from 1970, with emergency status and attention to overlapping figures in income tax. The meeting discussed Weis-Front sewer project funding and an emergency contract up to $3,000 for water well repairs.
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Virginia Gano
Gano
Fritz Huls
Finance Committee
Sandy Hand
Front St
Weis Ave
Hand
Ed Dalton
al Ganoey
Merril Haney
Council
Robert Schultz
Lawrence Ellinger
Haney
Weis-Front St
Ellinger
Roy Loomis
Citizens Urged To See City Schools In Action
Logan district conducts six week building tours to show schools in session. George M. Sarbalas announced parents and patrons are invited to visit to view facilities and instructional programs. Tours run April 5 to May 14 with student guides at the senior high.
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Logan City
George M. Sarbalas
Mike Page
Ohio University
Ohio State Fairgrounds
Mike
Barbara Leonard
Susan Oberlin
George Shaw
Steve Goss
Christy Mathias
Jim Crow
John Wesselhoeft
Graduation Set At LHS For 1971 Logan Seniors
Logan High School announces the 1971 graduation for 227 seniors with Baccalaureate at 3 p.m. and commencement at 8 p.m. on Sunday May 30. Address by Sen Oliver Ocasek. Baccalaureate by Rev Clyde Miller. Events at the LHS stadium if weather allows else the auditorium.
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Logan High School
George M. Sarbalas
LHS
Saribalas
Oliver Ocasek
Akron
Clyde Miller
St Matthew Lutheran Church
Nations, bills, and pollution in brief from Washington and beyond
AP briefs cover union legal win over Nixon wage order and vows to fight in court C J Haggerty AFL CIO president says they will comply with law Truth in News Broadcasting bill introduced by Rep William I Minshall to require identification of staged edited or altered reports EPA moves to set nationwide air pollution standards targeting industrial emissions mercury beryllium and asbestos Soviet Congress backs North Vietnam Hanoi party chief Le Duan addresses delegates Boston apartment fire kills four injures 12 missing others and suspected origin House Democrats back a plan to withdraw U S troops from Indochina by January 3 1973
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Washington
Nixon
C.J. Haggerty
Building and Construction Trades Department
Afl-Clo
Wallington
William I. Minshall
Ohio Republican
Environmental Protection Agency
Moscow
Communist Party Congress
North Vietnam
United States
Hanoi
le Duan
Vietnamese assault hits district capital southwest of Da Nang
North Vietnamese troops entered South Vietnam via the Ho Chi Minh Trail and burned a district capital southwest of Da Nang. Due Due suffered heavy shelling with at least 200 civilians killed or injured, 18 militiamen killed and 36 hurt, and about a thousand houses burned. A U.S. observer described the town as looking like an ash tray. In Saigon, U.S. helicopters ferried South Vietnamese commandos into Laos for Operation Lam Son 719, with 200 to 300 elite troops launching a raid on base area 611 alongside Huey insertions and Cobra gunships.
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DA Nang
Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh Trail
South Vietnam
Due Due
Saigon
U.S
Laotian Panhandle
Dong Ha
Laos
Nguyen van Thieu
Hac Bao
U.S. 101St Airborne Division
Fair Skies Dominate Nation's Weather Report
Weather overview notes fair skies and warm temps across the nation. The Rockies and Eastern Seaboard show lingering winter conditions with frost and cool nights. Forecasts call for cloudy and warm weather with highs near 70 and a chance of showers in the Hocking Valley. Temperatures reach 50 at Lacm under clear skies after a low of 16.
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Rockies
Seaboard
Hocking Valley
Ilacm
Freeze Warnings Span South to Rockies as Temperatures Rise
Overnight freeze warnings extended into northern Florida with cold rain turning to snow in the Rockies. Warnings and watches covered stockmen in Wyoming Colorado parts of Nebraska and the Dakotas while readings near dawn ranged from 13 at Bradford Pennsylvania to 79 at Phoenix Arizona.
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Florida
Rockies
Wyoming
Colorado
Nebraska
Dakotas
Great Plains
Midwest
Bradford
Phoenix
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