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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1970
Page
3
Washington AP reports American casualties in Vietnam are nearing parity between combat deaths and nonhostile deaths from accidents illness or disease. Over two weeks 41 nonhostile deaths vs 38 combat deaths. last week 46 combat and 37 nonhostile. Pentagon notes deaths occur in large forces of 380000.
The 25th Infantry Division is being pulled from Vietnam with two brigades leaving by Christmas. The 3rd Brigade has been moved to the 11th Armored Cavalry near Saigon and likely will be deactivated next year. The division headquarters and remaining units will return to Hawaii.
Cleveland’s Fraternal Order of Police calls for public backing with a ballot in the Cleveland Plain Dealer. It urges residents to vote for action against attacks on policemen, citing 1970 murders and a claimed 1971 target, and promises to share ballots with state and local officials.
President Nixon signed a $3.1 billion transit bill to aid mass transit projects in U S cities. The measure aims to spur subway and bus system development with federal grants and loans, totaling a pledge of $10 billion over the next 12 years to reduce congestion and pollution.
The report notes Connecticut New York and Maine possess less than 1 percent of land under federal ownership. It also mentions Mars revolves around the Sun in an eccentric orbit and that it is the only other planet known to have seasons.
Harding-Jones Paper Co and Fantasy Farm Park oppose the Conservancy’s Phase Four plan on methods used to assess discharges. They argue the formula is unfair and that fees are excessive, while examiner Pfarrer gathers recommendations for the board.
Interior Department announces 22 new additions to the U S endangered list bringing total to 101. New mammals include Hawaiian hoary bat Morro Bay kangaroo rat and salt marsh harvest mouse. Birds added include brown pelican Arctic peregrine falcon and several Hawaiian species. Fish additions include Lahontan cutthroat trout Mohave chub and Pecos gambusia.
Shreveport police say a report from the FBI lists Bernardine Dohrn on the run in the city. The 28 year old Weatherman leader was seen near Interstate 20 traveling in a 1966 Cadillac, with federal officials declining to comment.
Atty. Gen. John N. Mitchell says the FBI has heard rumors of plots to kidnap U S government officials but no alert has been issued. He notes Saxbe may refer to a GOP briefing where Hoover mentioned revolutionary activities including kidnapping plots, but Justice Department and FBI are not guarding officials and have not disclosed likely victims.
In Nome Alaska male musk oxen reach up to five feet at the shoulder and weigh about 800 pounds yet consume only one sixth the food of cattle and require no barns.
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