High Rise for the Elderly Breaks Ground in Butler County
A dirt dump blocked ground breaking on the citys second high rise for the elderly on a 1% acre site between Clinton and Canal streets. Officials expect six to eight days before work starts on the seven story building, with completion target next April or May depending on winter weather. The Dillon Co. Akron holds the HUD contract for the $2 million turn key project comprising 125 units.
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David Driver
Clinton
Canal Streets
J. Ross Hunt
Butler County Metropolitan Housing Authority
Dillon Co
Akron
U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Dillon
Hunt
Butler Authority
Paradise
Mary Lord
Middletown
Public Health Nursing to Charge for Home Visits
After 40 years of free home care, Middletown Public Health Nursing Bureau starts charging those able to pay. The first charges apply September for per visit and other services with a $1 office visit token, $8.50 physical therapy, and $20 speech therapy for seniors under Medicare rules.
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Public Health Nursing Bureau
Laura Crist
Crist
John Bauer
Public Health Bureau
Medicare
Bureau
Mrs. Crist
Bauer
Middletown
Ohio
Civic Association
Riot at Idaho Penitentiary Leaves Inmates High on Drugs
About 50 inmates were high on drugs during a riot at the Idaho Penitentiary in Boise, where two inmates were stabbed and two buildings burned. Guards used tear gas on about 150 prisoners as a heat soaked uprising over clothing changes raged, with the warden and sheriff trading sharp words afterward.
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Boise, Idaho
Idaho Penitentiary
Raymond W. May
May
Ada County
Paul Bright
Bright
David Bortz
Burley
Idaho
Bortz
Chile Phased Out From U S Aid Program
Chile is quietly removed from the U S foreign aid development loan list for fiscal 1972 due to balance of payments concerns rather than a socialist government. No Allende loan requests have been received. Chile earlier had the highest per capita aid receipts among South American nations.
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Washington
Chile
United States
State Department
Salvador Allende
Allende
Agency For International Development
AID
Eduardo Frei
U.S
Cuba
Organization of American States
Terrace Collapse Fatal at Hotel Riviera Malaga
A terrace under construction at the 34-room Hotel Riviera in Benalmadena Costa near Malaga collapsed into the bar and lobby. Police reported six killed and several injured as firemen ambulances and police swarmed the scene. The cause was not known but recent heavy rains are suspected.
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Malaga
Spain
Riviera
Benalmadena-Costa
Clear and cool night with mild tomorrow
Forecast calls for a cooler night with low 60s. Tomorrow should be sunny and mild with a high near 80. Yesterday reached 8 for a high and this morning dipped to 68.
Gilligan Proposes Environmental Protection Cabinet Restructure
Governor Gilligan announced a bill from the Citizens Task Force proposing a new Department of Environmental Protection to replace boards and absorb health and natural resources duties. It would form the Council of Environmental Quality and an Environmental Trust Fund, raise fines, revise permit systems, and align with federal standards.
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Gilligan
Citizens Task Force On
Environmental Protection
Citizens’ Task Force
Departments of Health and Natural Resources
Council of Environmental Quality
Governor
General Assembly
Women’s groups urge high court to protect abortion rights
Seven women's groups and 47 notable women including Margaret Mead ask the Supreme Court to recognize reproductive autonomy and permit medical abortions nationwide. They argue for court jurisdiction and warn that legal, doctor-performed abortions in hospitals save lives, contrasting with unsafe illegal procedures.
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High Court
Washington
Supreme Court
United States
Georgia
Texas
Margaret Mead
New York City
Norma G. Zarky
Los Angeles
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Charles Rice
Evans City
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Heloise
Valley News
Wanternee Women’s News
American Association of University Women
National Board of the Young Women’s Christian Association of the United States
The
National Organization For Women
National Women’s Conference of the American Ethical Union
Professional Women’s Caucus
Unitarian Universalist Women’s Federation
Women’s Alliance
First Unitarian Church of
Dallas
YWCA
Miss Mead
Marian B. Javits
New York
Mary H. Lindsay
Maureen B. Neuberger
Oregon
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