Ohio lawmakers plan study on campus problems
Ohio House Speaker Kurfess and Senate President Gray back a joint House Senate study committee to examine campus disorders through the summer. Lawmakers debate immediate legislation to crack down on student dissenters amid volatile protests tied to Kent State era events.
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Lee Leonard
UPI
Statehouse
Columbus
House
Senate
Ohio
Charles F. Kurfess
Bowling Green
Theodore M. Gray
Piqua
General Assembly
Kurfess
Gray
Senate Rules Committee
Ronald M. Mottl
D-Parma
Acheson Reluctant to Back Nixon War Move
Former secretary of state Dean Acheson urged caution on expanding the Indochina war and warned withdrawal would pose diplomatic problems. He compared disengagement to a cat entering a screen door, saying the exit must be managed to avoid problems.
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Granville
Ohio
UPI
Dean Acheson
Nixon
Indochina
Acheson
Southeast Asia
Dangerous inner tube sport turns violent in Monroeville
Six boys using large innertubes on the Huron River faced danger when a man on shore fired a bullet at 13 year old Donald Parrish in Monroeville. Parrish was treated at Fisher Titus Memorial Hospital for a .22 caliber bullet in the ankle and is listed in satisfactory condition. Sheriff investigators questioned the youths. no arrests reported as the shooter fled with a woman.
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Monroeville
Huron
Fisher-Titus Memorial Hospital
Don
Rex Parrish
Duane J. Burris
Peter J. Platte
Michael
Steve Frank
Peter
Orville Platte
Norwalk
Huron County
John Borgia
Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation
Don Parrish
John Gregory
HEW Secretary Finch Ill Delays Civil Rights Talk
Secretary Robert H. Finch of HEW was hospitalized at Walter Reed with numbness and weakness in his left arm and hand delaying a planned address to HEW staff on civil rights and Vietnam policy. Doctors found no vascular involvement and initial tests did not indicate a stroke or heart attack.
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Washington
UPI
Robert H. Finch
Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare
Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Finch
Nixon
HEW
Southeast Asia
Army
Agnew Subpoenaed in Draft Records Burn Trial
Chicago reports that Vice President Agnew has been subpoenaed to testify in the trial of 11 defendants charged with burning draft records. Attorney Frank W. Oliver said he seeks an explanation of Agnew's remark that some demonstrators are criminally insane. A court official noted Agnew would likely claim executive immunity.
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Chicago
UPI
Spiro T. Agnew
Frank W. Oliver
Agnew
Oliver
Taft backs Kent probe call for Presidential Commission
U S Representative Robert A Taft Jr R Ohio co sponsors a congressional resolution urging a Presidential Commission to investigate the Kent State killings and campus disturbances The May 4 Kent State confrontation with National Guard troops sparked the call Taft said the voices of students must be heard but violence must be turned aside He urged examining the causes of the demonstrations not replying with force.
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Rep
George V. Voinovich
R Cleveland
Voinovich
Kent State University
Washington
UPI
U.S
Robert A. Taft, Jr
Ohio
Congress
Kent State
National Guard
Taft
Sunny Warm Day Weather With Light Winds Toward Week
Sunny and warm today with a lower 80s high and fair tonight. Wednesday is mostly sunny and warm with near 80 degree highs, then continued warmth Thursday. Near zero to 20 percent precipitation chances with southwest winds 10 to 20 mph shifting. Norwalk highs 73 lows 45 note humidity and moon times. Births list Norwalk Monroeville Willard and Deat
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Norwalk
Timothy Sheldon
Jack Brogan
Alfred Kimball
Monroeville
John Stackhouse Heads Huron County GOP Committee
John Stackhouse, Ohio director of agriculture, was elected chairman of the Huron County Republican Central Committee. He farms near Wakeman and succeeds John R. Gerken Jr., who stepped down to remain active on the central committee. Bernard Freeman was re elected executive committee chairman.
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John Stackhouse
Ohio
Huron County
Republican Central Committee
Stackhouse
Wakeman
John R.gerken
Norwalk Township
Gerken
Henry E. Young
Bernard Freeman
Central Committee
Howard Ver Burg
Greenwich
Joseph Niedzwiecki
Freeman
John Borgia
Norwalk
Kenneth Earl
Edward Moyer
Bellevue
Earl
Ver Burg
Doris Hillis
New Haven
Ohio high school football playoffs rejected by principals
The Ohio High School Athletic Association reversed an earlier plan and rejected playoffs after a principals vote. Fifty-five percent opposed, with 723 football schools voting against a three-class playoff format leading to a final championship. Norwalk High School principal George Perry opposed. St Paul’s principal William Bodart did not disclose his vote.
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Columbus
UPI
Ohio High School Athletic Association
OHSAA
Norwalk High School
George Perry
William Bodart
St. Paul's
Senators Say U.S. Advisers Violated Laos Ban
Senate leader Mansfield charges Nixon administration with violating a congressional ban by allowing American advisers to accompany South Vietnamese troops on Laos incursions. Defense Secretary Laird defends as protective missions and not ground combat. Mansfield says it violates the spirit of Congress.
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Washington
Defense
Melvin R. Laird
U.S
Congress
Laos
Thailand
Administration
Laird
White House
Mansfield
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