Tornado Rips Reading Area. Hundreds Reported Injured
A funnel cloud struck Reading and parts of northeastern Hamilton County near Cincinnati causing heavy damage and power outages. Up to 200 injured, no deaths reported. The Drake Motel and other businesses were heavily damaged as crews, ambulances, and police worked through the night.
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Cincinnati
Reading
Hamilton County
St. Gertrude Catholic Church
Lady of Mercy Hospital
Drake Motel
Reading Road
Galbraith Road
U.S. 42
Fury of Storm Strikes Cincinnati Area and Middletown
Middletown resident Hodges described unprecedented storm fury as poles bent and a Frischs roof blew off. CG&E reports widespread power outages and many repair crews in Middletown and Cincinnati as the Carthage Fair closes and winds topple tents.
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Middletown
Cincinnati
Chester Hodges
Ardmore Drive
Cincinnati Gas and Electric Co Northern Division
Galbraith Road
Frisch's
Hodges
The
Journal
Hartwell
Cg&e
Carthage Fairgrounds
Fairgrounds
Apollo 11 crew cleared for quarantine release
Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong Michael Collins and Edwin Aldrin pass final blood tests with no abnormalities as Atlanta committee may release them early from quarantine Doctors warn post release illness possible due to long isolation. Meanwhile a funnel cloud and storm strike Reading Ohio area prompting emergency response and 25 injured reported at General Hospital.
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Neil A. Armstrong
Michael Collins
Edwin E. Aldrin Jr
Charles Berry
Inter-Agency
Berry
Manned Spacecraft Center
Cincinnati Academy of Medicine
Reading
Madeira
General Hospital
Weekend Warmth Follows Rainy Patch
Temperature should reach the 80s today after heavy rains reduced humidity. It will clear and drop to the 50s overnight. Monday is forecast to be fair and mild.
A Glance Inside The North Woods Land Of The Past
A feature on Minnesota’s North Woods highlights its lakes rivers forests and sunlight. It notes fur trappers pioneers and the region’s true American spirit and history across pages 27 8 and 24.
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The
North Woods
Minnesota
America
Nixon Heads to California for Working Vacation
President Nixon flies to California aboard Air Force One for a month long working vacation at the new Span ish style summer White House on Cotton s Point San Clemente. Cabinet meetings and NSC sessions will be held with economic advisers as key aides accompany him. Apollo 11 astronauts and South Korea’s Park visit are on calendar, with Mrs Nixon and daughter Tricia aboard. Julie and David Eisenhower will join later by land.
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Washington
Nixon
Air Force
White House
California
Cotton’s Point
San Clemente
Cabinet
National Security Council
Eco
Nomic
Los Angeles
Chung Tee Park
South Korea
San Francisco
Tricia
Julie
David Eisenhower
Cincinnati
Hollywood Slayings Hit Bel Air in Ritualistic Killings
Actress Sharon Tate and four others were found slain in a Bel Air home rented by her husband the Polish film producer Roman Polanski. Police described the killings as ritualistic with a hooded victim, rope restraints, and all five victims shot. A 19 year old Lancaster, Ohio man, William Garretson, was arrested after the bodies were discovered by a maid. The case also involved Jay Sebring and Abigail Folger, both linked to Tate and her circle.
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Los Angeles
Bel Air
Sharon Tate
Honeyblonde
Beverly Hillbillies
Jay Sebring
Miss Tate
Hollywood
San Francisco
New York
London
Abigail Folger
Sebring’s
Sebring
France Devaluation Triggers Pressure on Currencies
France devalued the franc by 12 percent prompting warnings of pressure on the pound and other currencies. Labor leaders and leftists condemned the move as a failure of policies since 1958 under de Gaulle. Senegal quickly followed with a related devaluation as Pompidou prepared for vacation and possible austerity measures.
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Paris
France
Charles de Gaulle
Georges Pompidou
Pompidou
Bonn
Washington
Kurt Georg Kiesinger
Ment
Kissinger
Senegal
French Riviera
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Krust
Cincinnati Gas & Electric Co
Bevis
Greenhills
Milford
U.S. Weather Bureau
Bel-Air
David Brown
George R. Brown
Loretta Brown
Billie Staggs
Phoenix
Ariz
Eunice Shriver
U.S
Norman Peale
Valley News
Thomas Collins
James Shannon
Stanley Klorman
Lt. Klorman
Miss Folger
Europe
Polanski
Folger
Santa Catalina
Carmel
Calif
Radcliffe
Peter Folger
Woodside
Folger Coffee Co
Procter & Gamble
United States
Kiesiger
Britain
Jacques Chaban-Delmas
Valery Giscard d’Estaing
Henry Kissinger
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