Middletown Area Under Sixth Day Smog Alert
A six day air pollution danger remains in effect for Middletown and four surrounding counties. SWOAPC reports smog counts of 211 and 224 in the period, Gov. Rhodes orders a 10 percent cutback by carbon emitting firms and ends open burning with guidance for vulnerable residents to stay indoors or limit activity.
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Middletown
Southwest Ohio Air Pollution Control Division
Ohio
James Rhodes
Hamilton
Butler
Clermont
Warren
Swoapc
Carter Entwined With Begin Over Secret Middle East Plan
Israeli Prime Minister Begin arrives for talks with President Carter carrying a secret complete Mideast peace plan. Washington expects a Palestinian homeland approach but Begin aims to retain control of the West Bank and Gaza with calls for direct Arab-Israeli negotiations.
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Washington
Menahem Begin
Carter
Mideast
State Department
Begin
West Bank
Jordan River
Gaza
Moshe Dayan
Israel
Jordan
Jerusalem
U.S
Land of
Judea
Samaria
Golan Heights
Sinai
Promised Land
Dayan
Two Indian Tribes To Make Peace After 200 Years
Indian tribes the Southern Utes and Comanches gather in Ignacio Colorado for a four day peace ceremony. Leaders Buckskin Charlie and Quannah Parker will lead pipe smoking handshakes and dances. No signatures are required though rawhide scrolls will be exchanged.
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West Texas Panhandle
Buckskin Charlie
Quannah Parker
Perry Heath
Ute
Mesa
Colorado
Oklahoma
Don't reward draft dodgers, Legion told
A former VA director told 400 at the American Legion state convention that Vietnam draft resisters should not be rewarded for not serving. Donald Johnson criticized media and leadership for rewarding those who did not serve or served poorly and urged keeping the VA independent amid merger talks.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Veterans Administration
Donald Johnson
American Legion
Three Firefighters Die In Utah Forest Fire Blitz
Three firefighters died in Ashley National Forest Utah when winds surged and trapped them on the line as a 1 200 acre blaze roared. The Boise Interagency Fire Center planned to send 20 firefighters to Jackson Hole Wyoming to help against spreading fires and retardant drops.
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Associated Press
Utah
Ashley National Forest
Montana
Wyoming
Boise
Forest Service
Timber Canyon
Hanna
Horse Ridge
Duchesne
Nephi
Mt Nebo
Pattee Canyon
Missoula
Firebombing hits suspected Nazi war criminal villa in Netherlands
The thatched roof villa of Pieter Menten, a Dutch suspect tied to World War II crimes, sustained major damage from a firebomb. Firefighters and police saved much of the art collection valued in the millions as Meta Menten escaped unharmed. Menten, 78, awaits trial in Scheveningen Prison hospital wing.
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Blaricum
The
Netherlands
Pieter Menten
Menten
Meta
Poland
Scheveningen
Hague
Copter Pilot Left Ohio Quarry in 1970 to Join Army
CWO Glenn Schwanke, copilot of a U S helicopter shot down by North Korea, quit his Clay Center job in 1970 to join the Army. He had been assigned to White Rock Quarry as a maintenance welder to fill in for an ill worker, per Louis Siegel, quarry superintendent.
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Port Clinton
Ohio
CWO
Glenn Schwanke
U.S
Clay Center
Here
Schwanke
White Rock
Louis Siegel
Weather outlook: warm humid days with thundershowers
The forecast through Tuesday calls for partly cloudy skies and warm humid air with a 30 percent chance of thundershowers mainly in the afternoon and evening. Tonight's low near 70 and Tuesday's high in the mid 90s. Weekend precipitation 0.15 inches. Extended outlook remains warm and humid with fair skies Wednesday and a chance of thundershowers Thursday and Friday.
FBI undercover fencing houses trap purveyors of stolen goods
Federal agents ran a Troy Michigan fencing operation named Universal Distributing Inc to buy stolen items shipped from Ohio. Robert Lee Baer of Archbold was convicted for possessing and transporting stolen goods. 51 people faced federal charges and 23 faced state or local charges in Michigan led by FBI Michigan.
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FBI
Ohio
Robert Lee Baer
Archbold
Milan
Michigan
Robert Kent
Troy
Universal Distributing, Inc
Baer
Kent
Detroit
Chicago
Indianapolis
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