13 Dec 1971
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Newspaper
Playground Daily News
Location
Fort Walton Beach, Florida, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1971
Page
1
Gov. Reubin Askew aims to overhaul three key areas after a taxing, reforming 1971 session. In the run up to Feb. 1 he plans proposals to reform education, the Public Service Commission, and environmental agencies while not overwhelming lawmakers with a massive agenda.
Seven year old Chris Melanson of Seattle required 25 stitches to repair a nerve tendon and damaged artery after a metal center snowball struck his hand. His hand and wrist were in a heavy cast Sunday.
The Niceville Valparaiso Chamber of Commerce will host a Tuesday meeting with Department of Transportation officials the county commissioners and Eglin AFB officials at Leonardo's On The Bay Niceville. They will discuss local road projects and the feasibility of a Choctawhatchee Bay causeway from White Point east of Niceville to Destin, ongoing for four years.
Washington opinion sees the 92nd Congress pressing to end its first session this week as war critics push for antiwar riders. Senate leadership warns Nixon may call a Christmas special session if foreign aid is not settled, while Mansfield and Fulbright press continued withdrawal demands within six months. Some lawmakers seek to extend the program through March via a second continuing resolution.
President Nixon lands at Lajes Air_base in drizzle after a nonstop 4 hour 41 minute flight from Andrews. He meets Portuguese Premier Caetano for a talks on the money crisis and other world issues, followed by a meeting with French President Pompidou amid rainy conditions.
Fort Walton Beach youth Michael Glen Bloodworth, 14, was taken to Eglin AFB Hospital after a bicycle rear-ended by Grover Cleveland Connor’s 1965 vehicle on Camp Pinchot Rd. No charges were filed. Damages were about 100 dollars.
Oakland district attorney Lowell Jensen weighs a fourth trial for Huey P Newton after a hung jury in the 1967 killing of Officer John Frey. The Panther co founder was charged with manslaughter as the panel deadlocked 6-6.
Rome Italy A Roman housewife 36 who bore Italy’s first sextuplets in August 1970 is back in hospital awaiting the birth of triplets. Doctors at University Obstetrics Clinic report three fetuses in good position and each expected to weigh over four pounds amid no delivery complications.
Attorney General Robert Shevin dispatches a ten point guide to legislators for redrawing state and federal districts next year. He urges one man one vote, warns against racial gerrymandering, and notes districts must be contiguous or identical, with deviations limited to legitimate state reasons.
Report notes 2 pm deadline expired with no room for Americans on the last flight and insufficient time for another. British evacuated 400 Britons from Islamabad to Masiran en route to Cyprus while 169 Russians fled on a Soviet Aeroflot liner. In New Delhi Indira Gandhi met Soviet deputy foreign minister Kuznetsov as Pakistan’s Yahya Khan cabinet discussed with China’s Chang Tung. Indian forces reported Pakistan Army collapses in East Pakistan with heavy casualties and aFailed Pakistani counterattack at Dacca beaten by airborne troops and guerrillas.
Air Line Pilots Association president Captain J J O Donnell urged reallocating 75 percent of 1400 sky marshals from planes to gate security at major airports and restricting luggage carried into cabins to a small briefcase. He backed continuing 25 percent on high risk routes and praised the psychological profile for hijacker detection though cited agent turnover as a limit.
Gen. David Sarnoff longtime RCA board chairman and "father of American television" died at age 80 in his Manhattan home after a long illness. An ear infection and related operations ended a six decade rise from modest origins in Russia to global leadership in radio and TV broadcasting.
Valparaiso City Commission will hold a public hearing at 7 30 tonight on a proposal to rezone four lots in plot six from R 1 to R 2. Ed Slown, a local realtor, requests the change. No new business on the agenda. items carried over include plat six street work fencing at the garbage site bowling center zoning violation water sampling and Teen Club status.
Fort Walton Beach police report an 18 year old woman Debra Brasher of 226 Brooks St was found at Eglin Parkway and Hospital Drive with a self inflicted stomach wound from a steak knife. Her husband Charles Brasher 24 says she left home after the stabbing. She was treated at Fort Walton Beach Hospital and transferred to Eglin AFB Hospital.
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