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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1971
Page
1
Gilligan asserts no compromise on a flat tax, calling it regressive. He cites Speaker Ku and Kurfess, says Kurfess lacks 50 votes to pass the Republican proposal in the 99-member Ohio House. Gilligan says the issue reflects the will of Ohio voters.
In a third city ambush in three days, two patrolmen Waverly Jones and Joseph Piagentini were shot from behind as they left a Harlem apartment after responding to a sick person call. Police Commissioner Patrick V. Murphy called the attack organized, deliberate and unprovoked, warning that no citizen is safe while the suspects remain at large.
Eleven women, wives daughters and mothers of American servicemen missing or held by enemies, carry petitions to the North Vietnamese embassy in Paris. If rejected, they proceed to Geneva for the Geneva Convention then relay via a neutral country to Hanoi. Project Freedom chairwoman says the aim is release and survival of POWs. Seven departed Columbus for Washington. four others already there joined before Europe trip.
Thirty Americans were killed and 50 wounded in three shelling attacks in the northern South Vietnam region. A 100 pound rocket pierced a fortified bunker used as a club at Charlie 2, four miles south of the DMZ, killing or wounding most inside as others fled to nearby mess halls. The strike marked a high daily American death toll and included Soviet made rockets and multiple mortar rounds affecting other bases nearby. South Vietnamese forces reported deaths and clashes in the central highlands and Cambodia with additional enemy casualties.
Northwood America fades as the last major whitewater sawlog drive ends in Idaho. Potlatch Forests Inc. shifts to truck and rail moves while Dworshak Dam nears completion halting the upper Clearwater drive. Fifty one million board feet started the 90 mile journey with a 21 day operation ending the era of floating logs.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports that in nine years 26 inmates at Lima State Hospital died by hanging in Ohio. Autopsies were not performed in most cases per coroner Dr William E Noble. Noble ordered autopsies in two exceptional deaths. The Ohio Highway Patrol was alerted in three cases.
In Belfast and across Northern Ireland British troops hunted terrorists after a soldier was killed and a village dance was bombed wounding 20 revelers. Rioting flared in several districts as patrols faced withering crossfire near Cromac Square and other hotspots.
Forecast calls for warmer conditions in southwestern Ohio tomorrow with a 40 percent rain chance. Tonight's low in the 40s rises to mid-70s tomorrow as clouds increase.
Police report 20 arrests on Friday night near Kent State University as crowds gathered in the tavern district blocking Main Street after midnight. Officers had urged students to move along on the previously quiet three nights. Approximately 200 to 400 youths joined the blockade as patrols dispersed the group.
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