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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1971
Page
1
A U.S. helicopter vanished during a thunderstorm off the northern coast of South Vietnam with three Americans reported missing after takeoff from Da Nang en route to Pha Bai. The craft reportedly issued an emergency after departing Da Nang.
Washington AP report notes ten year old David Kissinger claimed Nixon would visit Peking in March during a playful exchange with reporters aboard Air Force One. President Nixon’s national security adviser Henry Kissinger said the White House questioned the boy’s credibility after the remark.
Sen Frank E Moss says 50 percent of U S nursing homes are substandard after 244 years of hearings. He proposes Medicare coverage of up to 100 days in a nursing home for all Americans over 65 and creation of a national institute to develop elder care programs.
Karyn Prestwich, seven, who was struck in the abdomen by a hunter mistaking her for a deer on November 5, 1970, returns to Pioneer Elementary School in Salmon Idaho with her left leg in a cast to the waist. Her family notes generous donations totaling about 17000 to help medical bills, including 2000 from an anonymous donor and 500 from the shooter Roy Wells.
Ralph Nader urged the government to tighten rules on hexachlorophene products, calling for warnings, extensive FDA studies, and tighter controls on deodorants soaps and creams. He cited reports of seizures in children from liquid cleaners and alleged brain damage in rats from fed supplies.
Washington AP says NEA survey of 1,819 public school teachers shows a median age drop to 35 from 40.9 since 1961, with more women, fewer lack degrees, and more masters. Sixty one percent earned college credits in the last three years. 76 percent of bachelor and master degrees came from public institutions in 1971.
Wasfi Tell, Jordan's prime minister and foe of Palestinian guerrillas, was shot outside the Sheraton Hotel in Cairo. Abdullah Salah was wounded in the leg as four Palestinians with Syrian passports were detained and admitted involvement. The attack sparks fears of renewed Jordanian-Palestinian violence and draws mixed regional reactions.
The weatherman forecasts scattered snow flurries and colder temperatures tonight with lows in the upper 20s. Tomorrow should warm to around 40 with yesterday’s high near 40 and this morning’s low around 36. A quarter inch of rainfall occurred last night and this morning.
A shoeless man pounded on the pilot’s cabin during a Los Angeles to Memphis jet discussion in flight. Passengers feared hijack as two servicemen, one Army and one Marine, argued about the war. The frightened man hid in first class restroom. upon landing, police and Shore Patrol detained both servicemen though no charges were filed.
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