Ohio State students die in swift Scioto River mishap
Four Ohio State University students died when their rented canoes capsized in the Scioto River near Prospect. Bodies were found along a three mile stretch south of the town. Identified victims were Michael B. Smith Charles F. Roessler Howard R. Banchek and Mark J. Silverman. Authorities said Silverman suffocated after being thrown into clay, others drowned. The river ran high swift and cold with strong currents.
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Prospect
Ohio
Ohio State University
Scioto River
Here
Delaware County
Michael B. Smith
Mount Sterling
Charles F. Roessler
Zanesville
Howard R. Banchek
Beachwood
Mark J. Silverman
Howard Beach
Columbus
Marion County
Robert Gray
Silverman
Griggs Dam
Ron Scheiderer
Nixon seeks broad tariff powers to push trade talks
President Nixon asks Congress for wide tariff and import authority to push international trade negotiations. House Ways and Means Chair Mills backs the idea, calling it a Fair Trade Act, with powers to raise or cut tariffs and to pace reductions over several years.
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Washington
Nixon
Congress
Wilbur D. Mills
D-Ark
House
Ways and Means Committee
U.S
Mills
Executive Department
Storm slows search for ship's crewmen
New York AP reports a fierce Atlantic storm hampered the hunt for 30 crewmen who radioed abandoning their sinking Norwegian freighter Norse Varian about 135 miles off the New Jersey coast. Distress messages said a hatch broke and 40-foot seas with 60 mph winds doomed the vessel southeast of Cape May. Coast Guard, Navy cutters, a tug, five merchant ships and a C130 plane scoured the area. no survivors found. The 541-foot bulk carrier en route from Norfolk to Hamburg carried coal and was owned by Odd Godager of Oslo. Lifeboats and signal devices were on board but heavy seas may have prevented launch and men used rubber life rafts.
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New York
New Jersey
Coast Guard
Cape May
N.J
Navy
Norfolk
Hamburg
Germany
Odd Godager
Oslo
Norway
Leo Tyo
Franklin man found innocent in driver license blanks case
A Warren County jury ruled Kenneth Ledford innocent of stealing about 600 driver license blanks from the Franklin deputy registrar's office last October. Ledford faced charges of possession of stolen property and carrying a concealed weapon tied to 149 license blanks. Richard Keaton, arrested with Ledford, awaits trial. Ledford remains jailed on a separate Miamisburg warrant. Veterans should seek VA OJT training under the GI Bill.
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Lebanon
Warren County
Franklin
Kenneth Ledford
Sixth St
Ledford
Richard Keaton
Miamisburg
Mrs Bedford enjoys brief White House visit with Nixon
Mrs. Bruce Bedford, 90, of Princeton New Jersey met President Richard Nixon at the White House. She shared stories of meeting ten presidents, from Harrison to Johnson, and recalled touring the Oval Office and being invited to sit in the president’s chair.
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Richard Nixon
White House
Nixon
Benjamin) Harrison
Oval Office
Bedford
Trenton, N.J
McKinley
Wilson
Harding
Coolidge
Hoover
Lyndon B. Johnson
New Jersey
Washington
Environmental talk by Cincinnati Gas official at Waldo's
George W. Peare director of industrial and governmental division at Cincinnati Gas and Electric Co will speak to the Butler County Environmental Study Council Tuesday at Waldo's Supper Club in Hamilton He holds an engineering degree from the University of Kentucky there.
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Hamilton
George W. Peare
Cincinnati Gas & Electric Co
Butler County Environmental Study Council
Waldo’s
Peare
University of Kentucky
Diamond ring valued at 1200 dollars reported missing
Harold Green of 6931 Franklin Madison Road reported to sheriffs deputies yesterday that a diamond ring valued at 1200 dollars is missing with no sign of forced entry.
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Sheriff’s Deputies
Harold Green
Franklin- Madison Road
Green
Equal GI Bill rights expand to husbands of disabled veterans
Under new law men whose wives die or become 100 percent disabled from military service gain equal GI Bill benefits with wives and widows of male veterans, extending eligibility to spouses regardless of gender.
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