Rock Fest Fans Hold Ground at Powder Ridge Ban
Thousands of young concertgoers ignore a court order at Powder Ridge in Middlefield Connecticut where an injunction labeled the event a public nuisance. Police report about 15,000 on site with dozens more arriving. several arrests of owners and a promoter official as conditions raise health and safety concerns.
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Middlefield
Powder Ridge
Louis
Herman Zemel
Zemel Brothers
William Hanley
Jacob Belford
Belford
Middleton Arts International
Middleton
Army plans to dump obsolete nerve gas rockets into Atlantic
Congress notes say the Army planned to ship more than 3000 tons of nerve gas rockets to Sunny Point North Carolina for scuttling in deep Atlantic waters. Critics argue lack of international consultation and short notice. Army says safety clearances exist and routes avoid major populations.
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Atlantic
Nassau
Bahamas
Arthur Hanna
U.S
Anniston
Ala
Lexington
Sen
Claiborne Pell
D-R.i
United States
Pell
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Richard McCarthy
Dn.v
United Nations
Pentagon
Congress
Army
State Department
Southern
Seaboard Coast Line
Atlanta
Sunny Point
OKI Faces Finacial Crisis as $200000 Sought
OKI employees risk a final payday as the Ohio Kentucky Indiana regional planning authority seeks $200000 from nine counties. The finance committee aims to secure loans with county shares, arguing the agency may fold if funds aren’t raised.
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Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Regional Planning Authority
OKI
Middletown
Ray Brown
Finance Committee
Cross-Florida Canal May Be Studied Again
The Army weighs alternatives to halting the Cross Florida barge canal project while environmental effects are assessed. Governor Kirk urges a new route, while Congress members and scientists warn of ecological damage and water table impacts. The moratorium decision may come within a month as a new environmental report is prepared.
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North Carolina Arsenal
Cape Kennedy
Florida
Claude Kirk
Paul Rogers
D-Fla
William C. Cramer
R-Fla
J. Hebert Burke
Laird
Rogers
Hanna
Washington
Army
Cross-Florida
Robert EB. Jordan
Secretary of the Interior
Walter J. Hickel
Jordan
Army Corps of Engineers
Okalawaha
Kirk
Nixon
Environmental Quality Council
the Army
Stanley R. Resor
Hickel
Resor
Atlantic Coast
Gulf of Mexico
New Bond Rate Schedule Adopted by Municipal Court
Franklin County's Municipal Court in Columbus adopts a new bond schedule for riot related offenses. Judge William T. Gillie says judges approved changes after Columbus Mayor Sensenbrenner proposed them. Bond for sniping rises from 5000 to 10000 and for throwing missiles and assault on police from 500 to 1000. The schedule applies during a city state of emergency.
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Columbus
Ohio
Franklin County
William T. Gillie
M. KE. Sensenbrenner
Jury Recommends Mercy for Two Burglary Suspects
In Hamilton County Ohio a jury recommended mercy for Jerald Johnson Gordon Pieratt saving them from life imprisonment for a dwelling burglary. Judge Louis J Schneider sentenced Johnson to the Ohio Penitentiary and Pieratt to an indeterminate term at Mansfield Reformatory. Dock Mason Gibbs was ill and confined, to be tried later. The men allegedly broke into Paul Middleton's home on January 21 near 10088 Sturgeon Lane. a neighbor alerted police and they were captured inside.
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Jerald Arthur Johnson
Goldman Ave
Gordon Bush Pieratt
Wayne Ave
Mercy
Hamilton County Common Pleas Court
Cincinnati
Hamilton County Pleas Court
Louis J. Schneider
Johnson
Ohio Penitentiary
Pleratt
Mansfield Reformatory
Dock Mason Gibbs
Pieratt
Paul Middleton
Sturgeon Lane
Hamilton County
Ronald Panioto
Pantoto
FHA 235 program linked to slum housing scandal
Congressional investigators report that the FHA 235 home program funded by the federal government has been used by speculators to profit from substandard housing. In Washington and Philadelphia inspectors found cracked plaster, faulty wiring, rotten wood, and other code violations in numerous sold properties.
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Washington
FHA
George Romney
House Banking Committee
Patman
Philadelphia
Banking Committee
Crime Committee
Congress
Romney
Tne
Kunstler Files Appeal In Wiretap Case From 1968 Conspiracy Trial
Chicago attorney William M. Kunstler said a motion has been filed in the 7th Circuit asking to overturn convictions and contempt citations for seven defendants amid alleged government wiretaps. The tapes reportedly covered conversations between Bobby Seale and attorney Charles Garry while Seale was jailed. Five defendants were convicted of crossing state lines to incite riots during the week of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
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Chicago
William M. Kunstler
Kunstler
Bobby G. Seale
Black Panther Party
Charles R. Garry
Seale
Cook County
U.S. 7Th Circuit
Xavier U To Try For Its Own FM Station
Xavier University plans to begin broadcasting from its own FM station if FCC approval comes through. The two hour daily schedule will feature monologue dialogue interviews sports and news with students handling most broadcasting from a tower two miles from campus on 91.7 megahertz within a six mile radius.
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Cincinnati
Xavier University
Federal Communications Commission
Xavier
John Maupin
Youth Stabbed In The Back By Accident At School Yard
Hamilton—18 year old David Davies of Layhigh Road was treated at Fort Hamilton Hospital for a back stab wound. He said the knife he and three companions threw into a tree glanced and struck him in the back, a one inch wound two inches from the spine.
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Harold Agee
Geo. Perry
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Wright Patman
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