Ohio Flood Recedes as Ohioans Begin Cleanup Movement
As the Ohio River recedes after the worst flood in two decades, residents in towns from Marietta to Cincinnati return home to assess damage. More than 110000 people were affected, Red Cross tallies show 17631 homes and 12000 families impacted across four states, and officials projected federal aid.
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Seioto
Clermont County
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Flood Control Mammoth Task And Takes Years
Ohio faces recurring floods despite long efforts by state and federal agencies. C V Youngquist says flood prevention is a mammoth costly job that takes years, with housing booms altering risk and local regulation often shaping development on flood plains.
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Columbus, Ohio
Ohio
Ohio Division of Water
C. V. Youngquist
U. S. Geological Survey
Youngsquist
Youngquist
Reservoirs Cut Flood Damage In Ohio Valley
Army Engineers say reservoirs already built avoided about 290 million dollars in damages this week. They report water levels were lowered by 6 feet in Pittsburgh and Wheeling 6.6 feet in Wheeling WV 10.5 feet at Parkersburg WV and 2 feet in Cincinnati. Three reservoirs are complete in the Ohio basin with 30 more aiding flood control across Allegheny and Ohio rivers.
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Ohio Rivers
Inquiry closes on Panama charges in Canal Zone riots
The International Jurists Commission completed its inquiry into Panama's charges that the United States violated human rights during January riots on the Canal Zone border. U.S. counsel Joseph A. Califano Jr. argued Panama failed to halt violence, incited by radio and TV, and did not detain known extremists. The panel of Balinfante, Petren, and Vakil will report in about a month with findings that carry moral value only.
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Canal Zone
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Netherlands
Gustav Petren
Sweden
Navroz Vakil
India
Dean of Ohio Sheriffs Looks to Night's Sleep
Urbana AP report on Champaign County Sheriff Jay H. McKeever as he nears retirement after 30 years in office. He plans to resign in January 1965, ending a long run since his 1934 election and noting his daily rural-urban ties.
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Ohio Sheriffs
Urbana
Ohio
Champaign County
Jay H. McKeever
McKeever
Champaing County
Savings and Loan
Sheriff's Office
Ohio State to Run Free Smoking Withdrawal Clinic
The Ohio State University Committee on Health Education announced a free withdrawal clinic for quitting smoking. Dr J A Whieldon and F W Hudgins will lead five evening sessions starting March 22 in the auditorium of the Ohio State Museum.
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Columbus, Ohio
Ohio State University Committee On Health Education
J. A. Whieldon
F. W. Hudgins
Ohio State Museum
1000 Workers Laid Off at Euclid Fisher Body Plant
A GM spokesman says over 1,000 workers were laid off at the Fisher Body plant in Euclid due to its functional integration with the strikebound Flint Chevrolet plant in Michigan. Production workers were told not to report for work, with about one third of the 150-employee plant unaffected. The Flint Local 659 union represents roughly 5,000 workers there after a Thursday strike over production rates. Ethiopian population is about 20 million, a mix of Hamites, Semites and Negroics.
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Cleveland
General Motors Corp
Fisher Body
Euclid
Chevrolet
Flint
Mich
United Auto Workers Local 659
Girl with Tattoos Gets Show Business Offers
Rusty Field, a 20 year old WRAC private in London, has been deluged with offers to display her 62 tattoos in cabarets, circuses and fairs after the army banned visible ink. She plans to wait until June and notes she has spent most of her weekly pay on body art.
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London
Rusty Field
Rusty
Women’s Royal Army Corps
Anteater Goes Wild At Cleveland Pet Shop
A crate from Central America delivered to Melvin Albers and Gordon Nicol sparked a dramatic scene as Herman the anteater escaped inside the shop. The seven foot animal toppled items, terrified bystanders, and was eventually herded back into the crate before being sent to the Cleveland Zoo.
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Cleveland
Central America
Melvin Albers
Gordon Nicol
Herman
Albers
Nicol
Former Fremont Mayor Oscar J Stierwalt Dies at 81
Oscar J Stierwalt longtime Fremont mayor from 1952 to 1954 and former Sandusky County auditor died Saturday in Memorial Hospital. He was 81.
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Fremont
Ohio
Oscar J. Stierwalt
Sandusky County
Memorial Hospital
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