Ohio City claims first auto and first wreck
Ohio City is staging a program to honor what residents say is America's first friction-drive gasoline powered automobile built in 1891 by John W. Lambert, who allegedly tested it in the village before the Duryea brothers. A 1891 wreck reportedly involved a single front wheel and a hitching rack without injuries.
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Ohio
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van Wert
United States
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Frank Duryea
John W. Lambert
America
Duryea Brothers
Elwood Haynes
Lambert
Charles Koogle
Koogle
Union City
Ind
Anderson
Ohio Historical Society
William Lambert
Dayton
Tax cut vote nears amid broad support and amendments
Sponsors forecast broad backing for a major tax reform bill as the House moves toward a late today vote. A 265-145 procedural win blocked amendments. two Ways and Means changes are expected, including a plan to ensure a 4% cut and a shift in oil shale depletion calculations.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Middletown Weather Forecast Cloudy Skies and Showers
The Middletown forecast calls for cloudy skies with possible showers and thunderstorms this evening. Lows will be in the 70s. Friday will be partly cloudy with a good chance of showers and highs in the lower 80s. Yesterday's high reached 86 and this morning's low was 62.
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Middletown
Viet Cong Hit Cam Ranh Bay and Saigon Language School
Viet Cong launched two coordinated attacks striking the Cam Ranh Bay Army hospital and an American-run language school in Saigon. Casualties included multiple Americans and Vietnamese civilians, with heavy damage reported to buildings and wards. The Cam Ranh Bay hospital, previously deemed secure, faced its first attack in three years.
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Cam Ranh Bay
U.S. Air Force
Associated Press
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Vietnam
U.S. Command
Lyndon B. Johnson
Tornadoes Kill 12 in Northern Minnesota Outing Area
AP reports at least eight tornadoes hit farms lakeside resorts in northern Minnesota. The death toll surpassed 12 with hundreds injured and fears of more missing. Outing and Emily areas were hardest hit with Roosevelt Lake cottages leveled and National Guardsmen deployed. Nine known dead and three missing near Outing, with two more deaths near Island Lake north of Duluth. The Weather Bureau called it the worst tornado loss in northern Minnesota history.
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Commanche
Iowa
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Minneapolis
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Duluth
National Guardsmen
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The
Weather Bureau
Ohioan Escapes Death At Assailants' Hands
A 34 year old Youngstown man, William Evans, was beaten and shot as six men tried to drag him to a grave site near a city dump. He escaped, with bullet wounds and head injuries, after fleeing to a nearby house. Four Akron men and two Youngstown men are held for questioning. Evans says thieves stole $10 from him. police suspect he was mistaken for an undercover agent connected to rioting before a grand jury.
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Youngstown
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William Evans
Evans
Grand Jury
Senate votes favor Nixon on ABM program
Washington AP reports two pivotal Senate votes narrowly backed the Nixon Safeguard program amid fierce debate. Senator Cliff Case doubts deployment and Senator Cooper foresees no rapid deployment while Pentagon plans about 120 million in 1970s anti ballistic missile research beyond Safeguard. The amendments to bar deployment failed 50 50 and 51 49, keeping $759.1 million ABM funding in the authorizing bill.
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Cooper
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Maine
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