FBI Report Attacks by Black Extremists Topped Police
FBI Director J Edgar Hoover said Black extremists including the Black Panther Party carried out more than 100 attacks on police officers in the last six months of 1969. He cited seven police deaths and over 120 injuries in clashes, plus ongoing violence against law enforcement as part of a broader upsurge of revolutionary activity by New Left groups and the Weather Underground.
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FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Hoover
all-Ne
Gro
Black Panther Party
Black Panther
Justice Department
Department
Ku Klux Klan
Robert M. Shelton
Imperial Wizard
United Klans of America
Shelton
Congress
New Left
Students For A Democratic Society
United States
Weatherman
SDS
Particu
New Mobilization Committee
Vietnam
Arnold Johnson
Communist Party
USA
North Vietnam
National Liberation Front
South Vietnam
Nixon vows urgent antipollution push at year start
President Nixon warns major cities New York Philadelphia and Los Angeles face becoming unfit to live unless action is taken. He calls it literally now or never and signs the decade’s first law to create within his office a Council on the environment.
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San Clemente
Calif
Nixon
New York
Philadelphia
Los Angeles
California White House
Council
Congress
Laguna Beach
C.G. “Bebe” Rebozo
Key Biscayne
Fla
San Diego
America
Nixon Forecasts Close Bowl Games From California White House
President Nixon, watching New Year bowls at San Clemente, urged close contests as major games stayed within a touchdown. He praised Texas and Penn State rallies and noted environmental quality plans involving a three member council to be approved by the Senate.
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Nixon
California White House
University Park
Arkansas
Texas
Raymond Shafer
Pennsylvania
Shafer
Penn State
Longhorns
Notre Dame
Dallas
Missouri
University of Southern California
Pat Nixon
Michigan
Mississippi
ABC
Dunham Hospital Trustees Reject Hamilton Co Merger
Dunham Hospital trustees in western Cincinnati reject merging with Drake Hospital amid TB care concerns and bed shortages. Trustee Alfred B. Katz cites Dunham's suitability for TB patients and CORVA designation potential. The board also requests a .44 mill renewal on the November ballot.
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Alfred B. Katz
Dunham Board
Katz
Dunham
Cincinnati
Drake
Millcreek Valley
Association of Central Ohio River Valley
CORVA
Cleveland
Columbus
Veteran climber conquers Grand Teton on New Year
Paul Petzoldt and 21 companions reached the 13 766 foot Grand Teton summit New Year’s Day after four years of failed attempts. He radioed from camp 500 feet below the top saying a repeat weather bid would be made if conditions remained similar. The group endured 40 degree wind chills and high winds, with Petzoldt noting the climb as hazardous and praising his team after reaching the summit around noon.
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Moose, Wyo
Paul Petzoldt
Grand Teton Peak
Jihad
Wyoming Mountain
Park Rangers
Petzoldt
Rangers
Polar Bear Club Braves Frigid Lake Michigan Swim
Milwaukee AP report on the Polar Bear Club New Year swim in Lake Michigan with Garth D Gaskey and son Steven joining about a dozen others. Air around the low 20s water 35 degrees, club tradition stretching since the 1920s with a dip on New Year’s Day.
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Milwaukee
Garth D. Gaskey
Steven
Polar Bear Club
Lake Michigan
Gaskey
YMCA
Baby Born After Flood Boat Ride in West Virginia
Donna Evans of Logan County delivered a six pound eleven ounce girl at Logan General Hospital after a floodborne boat ride to the hospital. Two unnamed young men ferried her through the swelling Guyandotte River in a canoe type craft, as floodwaters loomed near her home.
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Logan
W. Va
Donna Evans
Logan County
W.va
Guyandotte
Police Chief Resigns Again Over Cairo Turmoil
Cairo Illinois police chief William H Petersen Sr resigns a second time in four months citing racial tension violence and guerrilla tactics. He warns legal means fail and reports an armored station and a radios room window smashed amid ongoing clashes involving the NAACP united front and National Guard involvement.
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Cairo, Ill
William H. Petersen Sr
Cairo
Petersen
Illinois
Alton, Ill
Carl Clutts
Paul Simon
R.S. Abel
Ohio Nursing Home Group seeks constitutional amendment
The Ohio Nursing Home Association proposes an elected commission to oversee all elderly regulation, Medicaid and Medicare, fund via cigarette tax, and offer a homestead exemption. 300000 signatures needed for ballot, with Jan 8 meeting in Columbus to discuss the plan.
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Columbus, Ohio
Ohio Nursing Home Association
Ohio
Gary G. Shepherd
The
Association
Commission
Ohio Nursing Home
Association of the Ohio Philanthropic Homes For the Aged
Velma Evans
Ohio Nursing Home Council
Nursing Home
Shepherd
John J. Gilligan
Guilty Plea in Pot Case In Lebanon Township
Thomas H. Klaber an 18 year old Middletown youth pleads guilty to possession of marijuana and is referred for pre sentencing in Warren County. He appeared on a bill of information with attorney Stanley Kolb. co defendant David Shibley also 18 remains free on bond awaiting January grand jury action.
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Lebanon
Thomas H. Klaber
Middletown
Klaber
Stanley Kolb
Franklin
David Shibley
Franklina
Shibley
Warren County
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CY BO Pound
Finders Keepers
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Albert Thomas
Preston Ewing
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Ohio Board For Elderly Sought
Robert Taft Jr
U.S
Rhodes
Cipation
John Dobrozsi Jr
Ins., Inc
First Ave
U.S.D.A
Chuck
HAM
Chuck Roast
Nancy Martin
Morton
Salisbury
Hunt
Central Ave
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