Drink Drugs Involved In 11 Air Crashes
The National Transportation Safety Board survey ties 11 light-plane crashes to alcohol or drug impairment in pilots. It cites failure to maintain speed, uncontrolled descent, and visual flight into bad weather by pilots not instrument-rated, with all pilots tests showing alcohol in blood and one case barbiturates. Asterazolidin and fibrium were found in one crash alongside alcohol in the pilot.
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Washington
National Transportation Safety Board
Controversial study says Hue killings were planned
Douglas Pike reports in The Viet Cong Strategy of Terror that during the 1968 Tet siege of Hue about 2,810 bodies were exhumed and 1,946 missing are unaccounted for. He argues killings were preplanned by roughly 150 Viet Cong cadres rather than by panic, with orders possibly originating outside the local command.
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Douglas Pike
U.S
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Imperial
Marshall in Hospital for Treatment
Washington AP reports Supreme Court's first and only Black justice, 61 year old Thurgood Marshall, remains in Bethesda Naval Hospital for an acute upper respiratory infection. He was admitted Friday from his Lake Bancroft, Virginia home after attending a justice conference and is expected to be discharged in about a week.
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Washington
Thurgood Marshall
Supreme Court
Bethesda Naval Hospital
Lake Banncroft
Marshall
Nixon family weekend in Florida aboard Coco Lobo
President Nixon and family vacation at Biscayne Bay with Pat Nixon, Julie Eisenhower, David Eisenhower, and C. G. Rebozo aboard the houseboat Coco Lobo. Tricia Nixon stayed ashore. The president plans to return to Washington by Sunday or Monday after a crisis period.
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Nixon
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Julie
David Eisenhower
C. G
Bebe’ Rebozo
Tricia
Nixons
Washington
Evangelistic Crusade Set For Nazarenes in Monroe
The new Church of the Nazarene in Monroe will host a week long evangelistic crusade led by Rev. David Prater starting Monday May 18 through Sunday May 24. Services begin at 7 p.m. each night with evangelist singer Wayne Gallup providing music. all events are open to the public.
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Church of the Nazarene
Monroe
Claude H. Nicholas
David Prater
Wayne Gallup
Heritage Sunday Observed at Faith United Methodist
Heritage Sunday will be observed with a congregational dinner meeting at Faith United Methodist Church on May 24 after the 10:30 a.m. worship service. George Crout, local historian and Mayfield Elementary principal, will show slides about the city’s old church buildings. Special recognition will honor recent joiners and long time members.
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Faith United Methodist Church
George Crout
Mayfield
Arraignments Set May 22 In Butler County
In Butler County, 118 indictments returned by the May term grand jury lead to arraignments scheduled for Friday May 22 at 9 a.m. before Common Pleas Judge Arthur J. Fiehrer. Indictments include burglary, larceny, possession of narcotics, and wounding a police officer. One late indictment charged the late Dr Ezra W. Washington with selling barbiturate drugs without a prescription. Several Middletown cases list multiple defendants for burglary and narcotics offenses. three suspects from Knoxville, Tennessee face related charges. Some cases, including James Waddell Twyman, Texas Fannin, and Calvin Griffith, were ignored by the jury.
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Butler County Grand Jury
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Arthur J. Fiehrer
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James Ray Tallon
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Robert Verdell Smith
Knoxville
Donald Oggy
Federal Savings & Loan Co
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James Glenn Collins
Eli William Caylor
Hamilton Ptl
Jerry Weisbrodt
Ezra W. Washington
S. Main St
Middletown
Robert Ruodus
James C. Young
Dave Ingram
Ercel Anders
Virgil Baker
Harry Payne
Jerry Edward Reichstein
John Howard Pettit
Michael Patrick Pettit
Danny Ray Blanchard
Joseph E. Lindsay
Michael T. Harrison
Edward Dean Jones
Larry Birch
Charles A. Williams
Robert Eugene McQuinn
George Brown
Five Months Jail For Embezzlement Suspect In Middletown
A 30 year old California man Earl E King formerly of Middletown was ordered to serve five months in Butler County jail by Judge J T Lamb after three 30 day terms were suspended on condition he leave Ohio permanently by 5 pm Tuesday and avoid the state. He was later arrested for intoxication and abusing a police officer after spending the night at a Central Avenue tavern. Frank Elkton Wilson saw embezzlement charges dropped. David's Car Wash owner David Conrad had accused Wilson of taking 1672 dollars between March 15 and April 22. Other defendants faced various penalties including suspended sentences and fines for weapons possession, loitering, disorderly conduct and theft. Charles Childs pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct and faced 30 days in jail. Steve Bogan received a suspended 30 day jail term for disturbing the peace after a loud post midnight party. Wallace Goff was found guilty of disorderly conduct with a 100 dollar fine and cost, condition to stay out of Butler County.
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Butler County
J.T. Lamb
Municipal Court
Earl E. King
Wilmington
Calif
Ohio
Central Avenue
Germantown
David Conrad
David
Frank Elkton Wilson
Germantown Rt. 1
Robert Cartwright
Mason Rt. 1
Douglas MacArthur Hatfield
Montgomery Ave
Carlisle
Kenny Zornes
Baltimore St
Thomas Brook
Garfield St
Pearance
Wanda Lewis
Beaumont
Tex
Charles Childs
Thomas Read
Steve Bogan
Riverview Drive
Wallace T. Goff
Dayton
Armco to Raise Several Steel Product Prices in June
Armco Steel Corp will lift prices on carbon and high strength hot rolled sheets and strip, galvanized, long tennes and enameling steels with June shipments. A base price increase for cold rolled sheets will also be made, plus a modification in cut length extras for heavier gauges. Aluminumized sheets rise by about $8 per ton, reflecting base price changes and extras, and a density table correction to better reflect coating weight.
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Armco Steel Corp
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