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Newspaper
Troy Record
Location
Troy, New York, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1971
Page
3
In a push to reach the sea from Phnom Penh, Lt. Col. Lon Non leads Cambodian troops along Highway 3 toward Kompong Som. The mission aims to secure the corridor and rally villagers living under North Vietnamese and Viet Cong rule.
In Baltimore a 25 year old son of a Massachusetts Republican general counsel gouged out his eyes with his fingers while in a jail cell after taking a powerful animal tranquilizer. Police said Charles Innis Jr faced the incident Thursday.
U.S. Customs agents seized 12 pounds of opium and 33 pounds of hashish valued at 250000 at an undisclosed location in Rochester. No arrests were made. Albany action reports pass broad phosphate bans for cleaners by 1973 with limits starting next January.
In Joao Pessoa Brazil a rancher Salvador Targino showed officials beans that reportedly fell from the sky during a recent storm. Delmiro Maia a federal agriculture official speculated the beans were carried from West Africa and dumped over Northeastern Brazil. Targino boiled some beans and said they were too tough to eat.
New York reports that from 1961 to 1969 the United States sold more goods and services to Latin American nations than it bought, according to Harold B. Scott director of the Bureau of International Commerce in the Commerce Department.
Housing Secretary George Romney says mass produced modular housing could transform the homebuilding industry within a decade. The first modular unit built under Operation Breakthrough rolled out and will be assembled near Kalamazoo. Levitt Building Systems produced the units.
Syracuse report says Carol A. VanBramer age 18 of Liverpool died at St. Joseph's Hospital after sustaining injuries in a two car collision on Electronics Parkway Wednesday. She lived in suburban Liverpool and died early Thursday.
The Hoosick Falls Aerie of the Fraternal Order of Eagles will present a $1,000 check to the Pinewoods Center for the Retarded in Troy at its Jimmy Durante Children's Fund Benefit. Charles Straub, the Aerie president, will make the presentation during the event.
Filipinos urge renaming the country to shed colonial echoes. Suggested options include Perlangan meaning Pearl of the East, with some arguing the current name honors Spain and King Philip II.
A Sydney television station aired a special Mother's Day program followed by the film How to Murder Your Wife. The action combined a celebratory broadcast with a feature comedy, appealing to a broad audience in the region.
A lone gunman robbed a Chemical Bank branch on Rockaway Turnpike in North Lawrence and fled with 10700 dollars. Police recovered the getaway car about half a mile away. no injuries were reported. Frances Burton, the branch manager, provided the details.
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