Canadian Red Cross team leaves Vietnam after ceasefire dispute
A Canadian Red Cross mission to inspect prisoner camps leaves Saigon in disgust after 12 members cite sabotaged access by North Vietnamese forces and Viet Cong. Ret. Maj. Gen. Arthur Wrinch says the move violates cease-fire aims and reflects a broader commitment to abandon the Paris peace oversight.
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Saigon
Red Cross
Arthur E. Wrinch
Canadian
Provisional Revolutionary Government
Paris
Joint Military Commission
Wrinch
Military Commission
Sube
International Commission of Control and Supervision
Six year old struck by car on Yankee Road scene
A 6 year old girl was treated at Middletown Hospital yesterday morning after being hit at Yankee Road and Fourth Avenue. Lillian Fender of 502 Crawford Street lost several teeth and was bruised. Police said she ran from between parked cars into the path of Edward Fletcher, 62, of 601 Windsor Street. He was not cited.
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Middletown Hospital
Yankee Road
Fourth Avenue
Lillian Fender
Crawford St
Edward Fletcher
Windsor St
Stolen Car Involved In Collision Near Post 83
State patrol investigated a crash on U S 42 near Post 83 headquarters in which a stolen car was involved. The condition of occupants in the other vehicle was unavailable. Two stolen car occupants fled. one youth returned and was being questioned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lebanon
U.S. 42
Post 83
Abernathy criticizes Nixon and Democrats in Ohio speech
Dr. Ralph Abernathy of the SCLC condemned both major parties in Middletown and Oxford remarks. He criticized the Nixon administration for health and housing cuts and warned of a drift toward dictatorship if Congress fails to act. He urged unity to push the SCLC spring offensive starting April 4 toward state capitals then Washington.
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Ralph Abernathy
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
SCLC
Middletown
Nixon
Dale Helsel
Manchester Motor Inn
City Commission Chamber
Oxford
Miami University
Patten Hall
Martin Luther King
Deaths and Funerals in Middletown and Surrounding Areas
Helen Dodds Jones 77 of 1507 Manchester Ave died at Middletown Hospital. She is survived by two daughters, a brother, seven grandchildren, and five great grandchildren. Services will be at Wilson-Schramm Memorial Home with burial at Woodside Cemetery. Victor Lackey 88 of 600 N Verity Parkway died in Middletown Hospital. Myrtle M Johnson 68 of 1234 Shaker Road died in Grandview Hospital Dayton. Services set for Franklin area Myrtle Johnson burial Woodhill Cemetery. H B Morgan 54 of 614 Hudson Ave South Lebanon died Friday at Clinton Memorial Hospital. Funeral at First Baptist Church South Lebanon with burial at South Lebanon.
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Helen Dodds Jones
Manchester Ave
Middletown Hospital
Ashland
Earl
Richard Grubbs
Middletown
Gilbert Kohr
Andersonville
N.C
Forest Crawford
Wilson-Schramm
Eugene Frazier
Woodside Cemetery
Victor Lackey
N. Verity Parkway
Kate
Joseph R. Baker and Sons Funeral Home
Franklin
Myrtle M. Johnson
Shaker Road
Grandview Hospital
Dayton
William H. Johnson
Missionary Baptist Church
William Kirby
Springboro
Charles
John Kirby
Kirby Knob
Sarah Johnson
Sand Gap
Maude Powell
Rose Wilson
Anglesby
Woodhill Cemetery
South Lebanon
H. B. Morgan
Hudson Ave
Clinton Memorial Hospital
Wilmington
Joyce Barrett
Lebanon
Mary Centers
Doris Black
William
Walter
First Baptist Church
Oswald Funeral Home
Country composer Red Hayes dies after Manchester concert
American country and western composer Red Hayes collapsed and died after a Friday concert in Manchester England. The 47 year old Nashville Tennessee native performed as a fiddle player for Faron Young. Details were not immediately available Saturday.
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Manchester
England
Red Hayes
Hayes
Nashville, Tenn
Faron Young
Financial experts discuss dollar drop
In Brussels an emergency session of the European Common Market monetary committee met to address the falling U S dollar. Representatives from the Executive Commission member governments and central banks attended a 52 hour meeting with results not disclosed. The ministers travel to Brussels to craft a common solution as major European exchanges aim to reopen.
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Brussels
European Common Market
U.S
Monetary Committee
Executive Commission
Norman Gatti Named Chief of State Mines
Gov. John J. Gilligan appointed Norman M. Gatti 50 of St. Clairsville chief of the State Division of Mines succeeding Arnold F. Snowden who retired. Gatti, employed by Hanna Coal Co. at St. Clairsville, takes over duties in the Department of Industrial Relations.
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Columbus
Ohio
John J. Gilligan
Norman M. Gatti
St. Clairsville
State Division of Mines
Gatti
Arnold FE. Snowden
Department of Industrial Relations
Hanna Coal Co
Fire at two city sites causes minor damage
Fire reports list yesterday at 5 p.m. two separate incidents. At 1411 Jacoby Avenue a car owned by Carl Guthrie caused by a faulty carburetor sustained $25 damage. At 1300 First Avenue a truck owned by Harold Kennedy damaged by a backfire through a car carburetor with $25 loss.
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Jacoby Ave
Carl Guthrie
Garden Ave
First Ave
Harold Kennedy
Mohawk St
Ex POW Byrne prepares for first normal day back home
Ex POW Col Ronald E Byrne returns to his Peru Indiana Kokomo Indiana and Long Island New York homes after eight years in North Vietnam prison camp He expressed no regrets about his service and supported Nixon reconstruction of North Vietnam He plans a 90 day convalescent period at his three hometowns and said POWs had few major altercations at the Hanoi camp Wright Patterson Base hosted returnees and noted others would be released soon
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Dayton
Ohio
Ronald E. Byrne
United States
North Vietnam
Air Force
Peru
Ind
Wright- Patterson Air Force Base
Byrne
Nixon
Hanoi
Kokomo
Long Island
N.Y
Robert B. Purcell
Louisville
Edward J. Mechenbier
Donald Heiliger
Madison
Wis
Burton W. Cambell
Lorain
Wright-Patterson
U.S
Former Iowa Senator Guy Gillette Dies at 94
Guy M. Gillette, born February 3, 1879 in Cherokee Iowa, died early Saturday at age 94 after years of hospitalization. Once an isolationist he turned into a strong UN advocate, serving in the House from 1932 and in the Senate until 1944 and again after a 1948 return until 1954.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cherokee
Iowa
Guy M. Gillette
U.S
United Nations
Gillette
Franklin D. Roosevelt
State Department
U.N
Congress
Drake University
House of Representatives
Senate
Thomas E. Martin
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Plates Still Reserve Open at BMV Through March 10
The Bureau of Motor Vehicles at 1364 Central Ave. continues accepting reservations through March 10. John Pantel, registrar, says applicants may keep last year's plate number for a $1 extra. Plates cost $15.50 and payment is due with the reservation. Office hours are 9 to 5 weekdays and 9 to noon Saturdays.
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Bureau of Motor Vehicles
Central Ave
John Pantel
Franklin court jails four on traffic charges
Franklin Municipal Judge John B. Tracy disposed of over 160 cases. Four defendants were ordered to jail on traffic violations including six days for Roy Spicer for driving while suspended and three days for Robert Cerwonka, Gregory Riley, and Charles Bledsoe on DWI charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin
John B. Tracy
Roy Spicer
N. Main St
Robert Cerwonka
Cincinnati
Gregory Riley
Shaker Road
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Miami
Washington, D.C
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Dale Hessel
Sheckler
Helen Jones
Myrtle Johnson
H.B. Morgan
Your Heart Association
Oscar Koeppel
Butler Co. Heart Association
Verity Rail
McKnight Drive
Britain
Italy
Washington
Meatkeeper
Melampy
Norman Gatti
Darrell Hill
Western Auto
Stern Auto Store
Breiel Blvd
Franklin Court
Charles Bledsoe
Miamisburg
Richard Pearson
Sycamore St
Carl Collins
S. River St
Gary Herman
Jacksonville, Fla
Triple TV
Ewithade
Ad Ben Ligon
Gulf Service
Iles
Union Sanitary
William C. Jackson
Aberdeen
Trenton
Union S
Middletown’s Finest Cleaners & Launderers
Park St
2Nd Ave
Grand Ave
Gideon Rd
Poasttown
Mobile Home Court
Trenton Shopping Center
Carlisle Shopping Center
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