Debbie Herdman Heads to National Spelling Bee
Debbie Herdman, Times District Spelling Bee champion from McKinley Middle School, heads to Washington D C for the National Spelling Bee next week. She will compete Wednesday through Thursday after a week of intensive study with words lists and dictionaries.
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Debbie Herdman
Times
Washington, D.C
Everette E. Parker
Debbie
Washington, D. C
United States
Washington
Scioto County
Harry Herdman
Grandview Ave
McKinley Middle School
Wain
Carol Tutt
Adams County
Mayflower Hotel
Perjury inquiry asked in Kleindienst hearings
Washington AP Archibald Cox was asked by Attorney General Elliott Richardson to investigate possible perjury by witnesses at Senate confirmation hearings for former Attorney General Kleindienst. The probe centers on ITT Hartford merger linked testimony and San Diego convention funding.
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Washington
Archibald Cox
Witneses
Senate
Atty
Richard Kleirdienst
Elliot Richardson
Cox
International Telephone & Telegraph Corp
Hartford Fire Insurance Co
Kleindient
Richardson
James O. Eastland
D-Miss
Senate Judiciary Committee
ITT
Kleindienst
Judiciary
San Diego
Department
Dita D. Beard
Fighting Escalates Across South Vietnam Amid Ceasefire Strain
Canadian observers with the International Commission of Control and Supervison are ordered to stay in barracks as fighting surges across South Vietnam. North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces are accused of 161 cease-fire violations in 24 hours, with Mekong Delta battles and Road 13 clashes ongoing. Government reports claim 45 Viet Cong killed, 26 wounded in eight hours at Route 13, while Saigon forces suffer 300 casualties and two helicopters in Chuong Thien.
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An Loc
Saigon
Mekong
United States
North
South Vietnam
Vo Dong Giang
Chuong Thien
New Trial Sought For Convicted Watergate Figure J. W. McCord
Bernard Fensterwald, attorney for James W. McCord Jr., asks U.S. District Court for a new trial or reversal of his conviction, alleging perjury by a government witness and prosecutorial information withholding. The filing comes as McCord’s case is tangentially tied to ongoing Watergate hearings and related testimony.
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J. W. McCord
Associated Press
Washington
Senate Watergate Investigating Committee
Bernard Fensterwald
James W. McCord Jr
U.S. District Court
Fensterwald
McCord
Los Angeles
Nixon
Daniel Ellsberg
Sen
Connecticut
Republican
Herbert L. Porter
Jeb Stuart Magruder
Porter
Magruder
PHS Class Of 1923 Golden Reunion Planned At Elllis Club
Portsmouth High School prepares for the Class of 1923 fiftieth anniversary reunion on Saturday June 16 at Ellis Country Club. More than 9 of 120 graduates will attend at 5 p.m. with Paul Steahly as toastmaster and Russell Hobbs delivering a memorial tribute.
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Robert Bass
Portsmouth High School
PHS
Ellis Country Club
Paul Steahly
Russell Hobbs
Roscoe Cooper
James K. Ray
Otterbein College
Westerville
PHS Library Book Fund
Astronauts Expand Skylab Research After Power Restored
SPACE CENTER Houston AP The Skylab crew Charles Conrad Jr Joseph Kerwin and Paul Weitz planned a heavy research day with medical studies solar telescope sessions and earth resources work from Washington state to northern South America They cleaned the station after Thursday space walk stowed gear and noted the solar panel now yields up to 3000 watts allowing full schedule for the remaining 13 days of the 28 day mission. Mission control pursues coolant loop issue in one lab compartment.
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Space Agency
Mission Control
Viet Peace Talks Reach Final Stage
In Paris Kis singer and Le Duc Tho met in the final stage of Viet Nam peace talks to tighten the cease fire. The document is described as not adding new terms and may appear as a joint communique signed by North and South Vietnam the Viet Cong and the United States.
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Paris
Henry A. Kissinger
le Duc Tho
Vietnam
Cambodia
United States
North Vietnam
South Vietnam
North
Thieu
Saigon
Nguyen van Thieu
Nixon
U.S
Washington
Ohio weather bulletin shows warm night and weekend heat
A weather observer reports fair and warm conditions tonight with low in the 60s. Sunday will bring mostly sunny skies and highs in the upper 80s. At 11 a.m. today the temperature is 82 with a 67 degree low noted earlier.
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Ohio Weller
Observer
Farm bill faces subsidy cap clash as Senate approves aid
The Senate voted 78 to 9 to pass a farm bill, despite Nixon administration opposition, adopting a 20 000 per farmer annual subsidy ceiling that would replace the 55 000 limit per crop. Supporters claim savings and protection for family farmers. critics warn it could derail the Thai program and raise costs.
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Washington
Senate
Nixon
House
W. R. Poage
Agriculture Committee
Rep
B. F. Sisk
Poage
Texas
Sis
Birch Bayh
D-Ind
Herman E. Talmadge
D-Ga
U.S
Magnet Used To Dry Up Tumors At Stanford
A Stanford Linear Accelerator Center team reports a small super conducting magnet can shrink certain cancer tumors and repair weakened vessels without risky surgery. It has already destroyed tongue and brain tumors and an adrenal tumor by cutting blood supply, potentially replacing in-body magnet approaches used to treat aneurysms.
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Stanford
Calif
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Steven J. St. Lorant
West Sider Killed in Route 52 Truck Crash
Keith N Peart 24 of 212 Poole St West Portsmouth died Friday when a Savory Foods truck he drove ran off Route 52 near Neville Clermont County He was pronounced dead on arrival about 1030 am at Cincinnati Hopital State patrol said no other vehicle was involved Peart is survived by wife Satana mother Mildred Peart and sister Sandra Services set for 2 pm Monday at Roger W Davis Funeral Home burial in McKendreerts may call at cale home after 7 pm
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Keith N. Peart
Poole St
West Portsmouth
Neville
Clermont County
Peart
Cincinnati
Batavia Post
Serille
Accidne
Roger W. Davis
McKendreerts
Cale
Commuter Express Crash Kills One, 140 Hurt in Mount Vernon
A packed Penn Central commuter express slammed into a local train at Mount Vernon station injuring 140 and killing one. 107 passengers, including former Senator John Sherman Cooper, were treated and released as investigators probe the cause. The crash occurred after reports the express did not slow down before the collision.
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Mount Vernon
N.Y
Penn Central Railroad
Express
John Sherman Cooper
Kentucky
Yale
New Haven
Conn
Heath to visit Red China later this year
Prime Minister Edward Heath announced during a 90 minute meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Chi Pengfei that he plans a visit to mainland China later in the year. The date will be arranged through diplomatic channels. no serving British PM has visited China, though Harold Wilson and Clement Attlee did in the past.
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London
Edward Heath
Red China
Heath
Chi- Peg-fei
Downing Street
China
Harold Wilson
Clement Attlee
Peking
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UCLA
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Rand
Eduard F
West Sider
Zurich
Pasadena
California Institute of Technology
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Earth
Mars
Huchra
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