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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1968
Page
2
The article traces a rise in posthumous gifts through medical advances allowing organ and tissue transfers from dead donors. It notes legal hurdles, as burial law weighs the deceased’s wishes against surviving family preferences, complicating donation.
A National Conference on Uniform State Laws committee shapes a model statute to honor donor wishes, resolve disputes over relatives and doctors, and ensure swift organ transplantation. The project, supported by the Middletown Bar Association and the American Bar Association, seeks a modern mechanism for a new legal gift.
Albany lawmakers reach a midterm revenue compromise boosting income taxes on high earners, cigarette excise to 12 cents a pack, and gasoline tax to 7 cents a gallon. Governor Rockefeller's budget plan, seeking over five billion dollars, gains a victory amid a politically divided legislature.
King Hussein of Jordan pledged support for UN mediator Gunnar V. Jarring’s mission to advance an Arab Israeli settlement. In a 63 minute meeting with Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart Hussein also asked Britain for more jet aircraft. Britain promised eight Hunter fighters for Jordan. Hussein is in Britain on a private visit for a medical check.
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