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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1971
Page
3
The telephone company says it helped the British stay punctual by providing the correct time 297 million times in 1970.
Mrs Queen Reed in Cincinnati seeks to deter youth from drugs after her son Jamie, 17, died of an apparent heroin overdose. The Hamilton County coroner awaits toxicology results as friends acknowledge drug use. Reed recalls his hospital stint after a prior overdose and says his gradual turn to addiction began as experimentation.
A Maryland family of five dies when a car crashes on U S 40 near Perryville. In Minnesota, five teens aged 17 to 18 perish when a crowded car enters Swan Lake near Silver Lake. A survivor says he urged the driver to slow down before the plunge.
The Associated Press reports Ohio recorded at least 34 deaths in a three day Memorial Day weekend, the worst toll this year but below the 40 predicted nationwide and short of last year’s 35 deaths in the same period. Nationwide, 521 lives were lost in three days as the National Safety Council projected 450 to 550 fatalities on streets and highways.
Former Lima State Hospital superintendent Dr Henry Luidens denies brutality allegations from 1957 to 1960. He recalls only one mistreatment incident involving a guard, says no evidence of beatings reached staff, and denies use of shock treatments as punishment. He notes policy-driven inmate transfers from other institutions to Lima complicated issues.
Senator Harrison A Williams Jr says he may introduce legislation to move mine health and safety duties from the Interior Department to the Department of Labor. He cites a GAO report faulting progress under the 1969 Coal Mining Health and Safety Act and calls for a massive, not bureaucratic, shakeup to bring safety functions under Labor.
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