Former POWs press for fuller accounting of missing U S service members
Dayton report on a news conference by four ex POWs led by Lt Col William J Breckner Jr of Columbus Ohio. They urged fuller accounting for Americans missing in North Vietnam noting personal items not returned and packages preferred. Henderson from Milwaukee and LaBeau from Kincheloe also spoke on camp conditions and treatment while stating the Hanoi camp was easier to escape but unfriendly.
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Dayton, Ohio
Ohio
U.S
North Vietnam
William J. Breckner Jr
Columbus
Hanoi
Henderson
Breckner
Two Suspects Held After Running Gun Battle on I 76
Police chased two men in a speeding car along I 76 and Ohio 43, they crashed and fled on foot. Officers fired shotguns as they closed in. both suspects were hospitalized in fair condition. The men, from Cleveland, reportedly armed with .38 revolvers, robbed Williams Gun Shop in Salem. Williams and staff were bound. only guns taken were from the shop. A customer alerted police by copying a license number, leading to the pursuit near Ohio 43 and I 76, south of Kent.
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Salem
Ohio 43
Ravenna
Cleveland
Williams
John Williams
Highway Patrol
I-76
Kent
Telephone group offers marigold seeds for Earth Week
Ohio Valley Chapter of Telephone Pioneers of America will distribute packets of marigold seeds in observance of National Earth Week. Seeds are available at Ohio Bell's public business office today through Friday from 8 30 a m to 5 p m.
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Ohio Valley
Telephone Pioneers of America
Ohio Bell
Battelle unveils $25 million energy research initiative
Battelle Memorial Institute announced a $25 million project to develop new energy sources, focusing on coal gasification and solar energy. President Sherwood L. Fawcett said findings would be shared for general use as the nation faces rising energy needs and air quality pressures.
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Columbus, Ohio
Battelle Memorial Institute
Battelle
Sherwood L. Fawcett
House Science and Astronautics Committee
U.S
Fawcett
Department of the Interior
Columbus
Turk's Ohio PUC chair confirmation may be delayed
The Ohio Senate considers delaying Edmund J. Turk's confirmation as Public Utilities Commission chair. The Cuyahoga County Board of Elections plans to resume a probe into accusations Turk tore up petitions for reducing Cleveland council seats. The investigation, closed for lack of evidence, was restarted after Republican Ted Brown vote.
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Columbus, Ohio
Senate
Edmund J. Turk
Public Utilities Commission of Ohio
Cuyahoga County
Turk
Cleveland
Ted Brown
Board of Elections
Commission
Paul Matia
Westlake
Ninth annual Herman J. Lawrence Memorial Scholarship Banquet
The ninth annual Herman J. Lawrence Memorial Scholarship banquet will be held at Middletown High School tomorrow at 6 30 p m. Eugene Swanger, a 1950 MHS graduate and now an assistant professor of religion at Wittenberg University, will speak. Invitations go to students in the top 10 percent of their classes per accumulated averages, per Principal Lewis Hill.
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Herman J. Lawrence
Middletown High School
Eugene Swanger
MHS
Wittenberg University
Springfield
Lewis Hill
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