Four Collum Children Fight Batten’s Disease Doom
Jacqueline Collum and her four children face Batten’s disease a hereditary brain and retinal disorder. Patricia Ann, 13, dies after a slow decline while siblings Kathleen 12 Charles 7 and Crystal 6 lose sight and speech. Doctors say incurable, family relies on welfare and rare aid as she seeks answers.
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Jacqueline Collum
Mrs. Collum
Patricia Ann
Neil Raskin
University of California School of Medicine
San Francisco
Batten
Kathleen
Charles
Crystal
Collum
Cost Council Opposes Army Pay Raise in Wage Freeze
Washington AP reports the Cost of Living Council opposes a 2.4 billion military pay raise taking effect during the wage price freeze. Pentagon officials foresee delay past the freeze end date and potential legal challenges, with Congress and Nixon weighing precedence and funding impacts on defense plans and manpower.
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Cost of Living Council
Nixon
Pentagon
F. Edward Hebert
D-La
House Armed Services Committee
Hebert
Council
Five Megaton Bomb Dangled in Alaska Deep Shaft
Congressional sources said a five megaton nuclear device was lowered at least 300 feet into an Alaskan underground test site last week without formal presidential approval. The Atomic Energy Commission furloughed a third of its staff as the weapon moved toward its blast area more than a mile beneath the surface, with the exact location withheld for security. The commission said it would take at least two weeks to lower the device into the testing zone.
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Washington
Nixon
North America
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
Amchitka Test Date Uncertain Amid Nuclear Debate
Official line says Nixon has not approved the Amchitka bomb test off Alaska and no date is set. Sources say researchers expect detonation between October 1 and 7, with October preferred if approved. Officials cite Hirohito's Alaska visit and Kosygin’s Canadian tour as possible factors influencing timing.
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Nixon
Aleutian
Amchitka
Alaska
AEC
Hirohito
Alexei Kosygin
Japan
Canada
Kosygin
Last Summer Ends with Clouds and Cooler Nights
The forecast calls for a cloudy cool evening with lows in the low 50s. Thursday will be mostly cloudy with little temperature change and highs in the low 70s. Today marks the last full day of summer 1971 and autumn starts officially at 11 45 a.m. tomorrow.
Interim Aid For Schools Gets The Ax
The Ohio General Assembly partly split over an interim $151.6 million appropriation to cover state spending through September. The House defeated Senate changes removing school aid and caps on college fees, with a joint conference to resolve differences.
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Tahlman Krumm
House
Senate
Robert Levitt
Canton
Donald Pease
Oberlin
Ohio
Oliver Ocasek
Oliver Ocasek, D
Akron
Akron Democrat
Pease
Norman Murdock
Cincinnati
House Health Education and Welfare Committee
Charles Kurfess
Perrysburg
Ohio Board of Regents
Assembly
Post-Freeze Costs and Wages Rise in August Report
Government reports that living costs rose three tenths of a per cent and wages increased two cents hourly and 1.43 weekly for about 45 million workers in August. Gasoline spikes pushed prices up, though many figures predate Nixon's August 15 wage-price freeze.
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Washington
Nixon
Labor
Bureau of Labor Statstics
School Prayer Bill Moves From Committee to House Vote
A school prayer constitutional amendment advances after a 218th signature to discharge from Judiciary, with a vote likely in November. The measure seeks to overturn Supreme Court limits on official school prayers, requiring two thirds in both chambers and ratification by 38 states within seven years.
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Washington
House
Supreme Court
Judiciary Committee
Senate
They're back at Oregon State University Corvallis
Students return to Oregon State University in Corvallis with features like a new bike rack donated by the power company as mass registrations begin this week.
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Oregon State University
Corvallis
Gilligan Drops Tax Plan After Columbus Meeting
Gov. John J. Gilligan and aides, with most state senators and labor leaders, decided last night not to press for a state income tax. A quick Republican move to push a higher sales tax to gain votes was anticipated as the budget path moves to a house senate conference.
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John J. Gilligan
Dayton Journal Herald
Bavaria Haus
Columbus
Journal Herald
Senate
House-Senate
Ohio House
State
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Defense
Appropriations
Congress
David Packard
Ann Landers
Eee
Eates
Heloise
Eaene Ouves
Vailey
House Environmental and Natural Resources Committee
Ohio Department of Insurance
American Civil Liberties Union
Aryeh Neier
ACL
Gilligan
Michael Maloney
Ohio Senate
Ways and Means
Maloney
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