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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1971
Page
1
Volunteers of all ages fill burlap sacks with straw to create a boom across the Bolinas Bird Sanctuary mouth to stop bunker oil from San Francisco Bay. About 840000 gallons flooded the area after two tankers collided near the Golden Gate Bridge on Monday. A young helper, 2 year old Aaron Graves, assists with a rake, unfazed by the scene.
President Nixon planned to deliver a televised State of the Union address outlining new approaches to domestic problems with emphasis on expanded revenue sharing for states and localities, federal bureaucracy reform, and a modest national health insurance proposal. Black lawmakers boycott session. Sen. Edward Brooke to attend.
Reports from prison and Teamsters circles claim strong pressure on the Nixon administration to grant Hoffa clemency or a pardon so he can resume union leadership at the July convention in Miami. Hoffa, serving time for jury tampering and mail fraud, remains union president with Frank Fitzsimmons as acting head.
Paris based France Soir blasted the government after a military plane crash killed thirteen top nuclear weapons experts and eight others, wiping out much of France's civilian and military high command of the force de frappe. The paper faulted authorities for allowing so many key leaders to travel together, breaching a rule against joint air travel.
Rain shifts to snow late tonight with lows in the low to mid 30s and a weekend in view. Snow may fade to flurries tomorrow as highs reach the upper 30s. Yesterday's high hit 40 degrees while this morning opened cooler.
A humorous remark notes that today there are two kinds of women seeking husbands. Those who are single and those who have married golfers.
A 23 aboard Ethiopian DC3 on a domestic Bahardar to Gondar flight was hijacked at gunpoint and forced to land in Khartoum Sudan. Beirut airport said the plane landed safely at noon. The hijackers’ identity and number were unknown, with ELF suspected as the assailants.
Early today two ships rescued the German captain and 16 crew from a rubber raft after a tanker fire and capsized. Later six more were saved, and officials revised the total aboard to 22 previously reported. The tanker, with a large hole in its port side, lay about a mile and a half off Capo Pecora as Italian and international ships searched the area. The vessel is registered in Liberia and owned by Sea Tankers Inc of New York.
City officials unveil redesigned water bills showing usage, previous and current charges, and total owed as part of a broader move to computerize and streamline billing. The system shifts from manual posting to automatic tape-based processing, with a three-generation computer upgrading from payroll use to broader efficiency gains.
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