Inmates at LCI Reach Home For Christmas Calls
Lebanon Correctional Institution inmates join a 1,200 person program to make collect Christmas calls home. United Telephone Co along with volunteers and area churches set up five long distance extensions for the calls, aiding inmates who seldom receive visits.
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Lebanon Correctional
United Telephone Co
Cooperatin
Citizens
Lebanon Lutheran Church
Middletown
First Baptist
Church of the Ascension
St. Paul’s United Church of Christ
Pleasant Ridge United Methodist
First United Methodist
Blue Ball United Presbyterian. A
Dallman
Metzenbaum chosen to replace Saxbe in Senate
Gov. Gilligan selected Howard Metzenbaum a Cleveland businessman to succeed U S Senator William Saxbe Ohio as Saxbe becomes attorney general designate. Gilligan said the choice was difficult and consulted with Democratic party elements and the public before deciding.
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Columbus
Ohio
Cleveland
Howard Metzenbaum
John J. Gilligan
U.S
William B. Saxbe
Gilligan
Saxbe
Democratic Party
Metzenbaum Loses Senate Bid. Glenn Re-enters Race
In the 1970 Ohio Senate race Robert Taft defeats Inside Metzenbaum. Saxbe serves until January 1975, with Metzenbaum seeking the full six year term. Metzenbaum faces John Glenn in the Democratic primary, Glenn rejoining the race after a 1970 loss and vow to stay if Metzenbaum is governor's pick.
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Metzenbaum
Sen
Robert Taft
Ohio
Saxbe
Acte
Senate
John Glenn
Glenn
Fire in Florida kills six including mother and five children
Orlando authorities say a candle started a blaze that destroyed the second floor of a two family house. The six victims were Elizabeth Forest 23 and her children Isaac 8 Cathy 7 Little Mae 6 Lorine 4 and Michael 3. Bodies were found piled under a bed. Electric power was off at the residence.
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Orlando, Fla
Elizabeth Forest
Issac
Cathy
Little Mae
Lorine
Michael
Richard King
Orange County Sheriff’s Office
Ship sinks in Pacific near Victoria B C
A Liberian freighter with a crew of 40 sank about 520 miles northwest of Victoria B C, with flares seen from lifeboats and a rescue plan under way. The Japanese freighter Golden Arrow was at the scene attempting to reach two lifeboats and a liferaft.
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Victoria
B.C
Pacific
Here
United States Coast Guard
Rembrandt Theft at Taft Museum Sparks International Search
Two Rembrandt paintings valued at 330000 were stolen at 2 a.m. from the Taft Museum in Cincinnati. Police described it as the largest armed robbery in Cincinnati history. The FBI and INTERPOL joined the case as investigators consider extortion, sale to dealers, or private collection as possible outcomes.
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Rembrandt
Cincinnati
Cincinnati, Ohio
Taft Museum
National Crime Information Center
Interpol
International
Carl Goodin
Panel proposes local law changes on unions transit and administration
Gov. John J. Gilligan met with Commission chairman Robert H. Rawson to hear on the 51 member panel's recommendations. They include allowing police unions and strikes, using state highway revenues for mass transit, mediating police disputes, and shifting county officers to administrative status under county commissioners. The plan also urges regional sewage panels and tighter cooperation between the Ohio Water Development Authority and the EPA.
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John J. Gilligan
Robert H. Rawson
Commission
Gilligan
Citizens’ Panel
John M. Hunger
Ohio Water Development Authority
Ohio Environmental Protection Agency
Middletown Areas Sees Snow Forecast Through Weekend
Snow is forecast for the Middletown area tonight and Thursday with lows around 20s and highs near 30. Yesterday’s high reached 26 and overnight low 24. extended outlook shows snow flurries through the weekend with teens to near 30-degree highs.
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Middletown
Midwest Braces for Blizzard like Winter Deepens
A midcontinent storm dumps six to eight inches of snow across Nebraska and South Dakota while Minnesota reports 60 inches in five days at Silver Bay. Officials warn heavy snow and near blizzard conditions with winds up to 45 mph from Kansas to Illinois and Colorado to New Mexico as power outages continue in the East.
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Associated Press
Midwest
East
Nebraska
South Dakota
Silver Bay
Minn
Kansas
Missouri
Illinois
Colorado
New Mexico
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LCI
Citizens Advisory Committee
Robert Q. Millan
First National Bank of Middletown
Imon Mobley
Quinton J. Everest
Blue Ball United
Jaycees
Millan
William Dallman
Bethlehem Bells
Bethlehem
Israel
Basilica
St. Franciscan Church
Kuwait
Rome
Athens
Lufthansa
Kuwait Hilton
Fiumicino
Robbie Haggard
Lebanon
Hans-Helmut
Freundt
United States
Randall Kirby
Ramona Jane
Harding College
Searcy
Ark
Rome’s
Ramona
Randall
Saudi Arabia
Ann Landers
Area
Florida
Rembrandts
Gene Hebel
Federal Bureau of Investigation
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