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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1971
Page
2
British troops clashed with rioters in Belfast as bombs exploded across the city. An electricity tower was toppled near Omagh and a police station front was wrecked at Lisburn, injuring a constable amid a crackdown on suspected IRA terrorists.
Pathologists Dr Henry Siegel and Dr Michael Baden were summoned by New York officials to determine whether deaths at Attica prison resulted from gunfire or throat slitting. The toll rose to 42 with guards and inmates dead. more than 160 inmates reported beaten, per a Buffalo doctor on a seven man team.
AP report from Washington notes Supreme Court faces new term with two justices hospitalized. Hugo L. Black, 85, suffers an inflammatory vascular condition. John M. Harlan, 72, has a backache. Both have been treated weeks and kept illness private.
George William Himes and Robert Himes, former city firefighters, were each placed on five years probation after pleading to reduced charges in a series of arson-related fires in Lebanon. Their statements accused city officials of a dismissive attitude toward the incidents as the prosecutor plans further grand jury action.
A House Civil Service Committee vote on Nixon’s 1.3 billion federal pay raise deferral is seen as likely amid pressure from business and labor. Meany blasted the plan as outrageous while the Chamber urged blocking the veto to protect inflation controls. Congress has until late September to vote on a disapproval resolution.
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