19 Feb 1976
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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1976
Page
1
In Cincinnati an AP report says Gary Foster of the CIA refused to start his University of Cincinnati talk until all recorders were turned off. He called Ford’s intelligence reforms a move to increase director accountability and criticized prior committees for lacking formal meetings and decision records.
Donn B. Parker of the Stanford Research Institute reports on 380 cases of computer abuse. He describes a new environment with few precedents and calls for ethics codes. The study, drawn from interviews with 17 perpetrators, highlights financial motive, data manipulation, and a tendency to view acts as a game.
Justice of the Peace Earl Leonard faced punishment after presiding at a nude wedding in Newport Kentucky The ceremony involved a local stripper and her operator and drew court scrutiny Judge Lambert Hehl ordered a public apology and barred Leonard from marrying anyone for 30 days Hehl said Leonard claimed he did not know what he was walking into when summoned two hours before the event
The Postal Service designates a Postal Consumer Protection Week after reports show U S mail fraud losses reaching 395 million dollars in fiscal 1975, with schemes from diet tonics to love potions and work at home promises. Two Los Angeles men received 90 year sentences after 18 counts of mail fraud.
The Ford administration seeks penalties up to five years in prison and a $5,000 fine for leaking intelligence information and for those with access to classified sources and methods. Analysts say the bill could compel reporters to reveal sources and expose many Americans to new sanctions.
Fourteen Republicans joined 56 Democrats to override Gov. Rhodes veto of a nursing home probe measure. The one member commission bill now heads to a Democrat-controlled Senate where a similar vote could pass into law. It marks one of the few Rhodes vetoes cracked by House Democrats in over a year.
Senate Democrats who backed the bill switch to support of governor Rhodes as his veto stands. Rep. William Mallory urges House override citing Dayton Cincinnati and Cleveland reports on patient abuse in Ohio's nursing homes as proof of reform needs.
Skies clear tonight in Middletown with a low near 30. Friday brings sunny skies and a high in the 50s. Yesterday’s high reached 57 with a 36 degree overnight low and 3 inches of rain. The extended outlook shows a chance of rain Saturday and Sunday, then fair skies Monday.
In Long Beach California, 69 year old Jack Somppi known as The Guesser bets with visitors at the Nu-Pike amusement park for 50 cents per guess. He guesses weights and everyday facts, usually wrong, while noting the deteriorating park plans for urban renewal and its uncertain timing.
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