17 Mar 1971
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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1971
Page
1
The New England Journal of Medicine notes a human case of horse encephalitis in 1970 Massachusetts, involving a Plymouth County boy aged six. The report marks the first such human case since 1956.
About 2 500 Americans joined the St Patrick’s Day celebrations in Dublin double last year’s turnout. The Irish Tourist Board lured them for a week long festival expected to boost tourism and spending 360 000 dollars amid mixed Irish criticism over exuberant displays. The Dublin Evening Herald urged tolerance noting New World exuberance but saying miniskirted majorettes clash with traditional Ireland.
In Fort Benning six Army officers deliberate over Lt. William L. Calley Jr. charged with My Lai murders. Judge Kennedy urged jurors to decide guilt or innocence based on March 1968 events.
President Nixon eulogizes civil rights leader Whitney M. Young Jr. at graveside rites in Lexington near his mother’s grave in Greenwood. A motorcade accompanies Young’s body from Lexton to the northwest Lexington neighborhood as thousands gather.
At a Tuesday night meeting City Disposal Corp. proposed a transfer station and landfill option for Monroe. Peter C. Abeles of Waste Management discussed costs 75 to 100 dollars per ton and a 3 to 5 year contract, with about 30 to 60 tons weekly and potential borrowing of the city incinerator building. A supporting film argued landfill as the natural, cleaner method, while Monroe plans $2,500 in repairs for the incinerator’s south furnace.
In a chaotic five day retreat, South Vietnamese bases south of Highway 9 in Laos have fallen or are under assault, with 100 to 150 North Vietnamese soldiers occupying Landing Zone Brown after Saigon pullouts. US pilots report continued heavy bombardment and airstrikes, while casualties mount for both sides. A separate note from Dallas prohibits keeping livestock on small lots and Elvis Presley seeks hospital treatment for an eye infection.
Thomas E. Dewey died of a heart attack in Miami Beach at age 68 while preparing to fly to Washington for a White House party. The former New York governor, who also sought the presidency three times, had been a prosecutor who busted rackets and ran for national office as a Republican. Funeral plans were pending with logistics to move his body to New York.
Stephen Midthun a 19 year old from Baileyville Illinois who had autos a accident in September and paralysis from the chest down underwent major parathyroid surgery at Wesley Memorial Hospital Chicago after four months at St. Clare Hospital and later the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago Doctors report the operation was successful and he may need further surgery by week end He celebrated his 15th birthday at the hospital with more than 200 cards gifts a color TV and a crossbow from relatives and friends Billy Williams Cubs outfielder visited the day before his birthday and his doctor also treats the Cubs as his physician He continues to improve feeding himself writing with a special device and holding paper with his right hand his mother Mrs Lyle Schulz says State records list 32 known cases of this rare disease and calcium excess prompted the surgery contact role details listed in his Chicago hospital care notes.
Payl Angerson of New Glarus publisher of The New Glarus POST has been biographically listed in Volume TIT of Two Thousand Women of Achievement set for September in England. The 1,000 page work will be published by Melrose Press Limited and held at Dartmouth Museum. Anderson also appears in The National Social Directory and Who's Who in the Midwest.
U S intelligence cites Chinese efforts to lease port facilities at Trincomalee in Ceylon to support naval and merchant ships in the Indian Ocean, signaling a strategic toehold for Peking.
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