Pomeroy Mail Survives Landslide Hit on Post Office
The Pomeroy post office suffered heavy damage from a landslide that dumped rock onto the building causing an estimated 75 000 to 100 000 dollars in damage. No injuries were reported as the mail moved through makeshift basement facilities. United States Army Corps of Engineers officials were called to survey the site and assess the risk of further slides while blasting on a nearby bypass was noted as a possible contributing factor.
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Beulah Jones Meigs
Pomeroy
Second Street
U. S. Corps of Engineers
James Soulsby
Army
Soulsby
Edith Sisson
Tax Bill Advances With Checkoff Delayed to 1976
A Senate House conference completed a tax bill cutting 15.8 billion over three years and delaying the presidential campaign checkoff until 1976. The White House signaled Nixon would sign but reserved right to seek repeal. The measure would boost personal exemptions and remove the automobile excise tax. The plan faces House debate with opposition over the checkoff.
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Washington
Senate House
Nixon
White House
Conference Committee
Finishing Touches Put On Tax
Finishing touches were to be placed today on a compromise tax proposal by House-Senate conferees and sent for a House floor vote early next week. The plan would modify a failed 5 to 4 per cent personal income tax bill and may include changes to taxes on natural resources, banks, and financial institutions.
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Nixon
John W. Byrnes
Wisconsin
Ways and Means Committee
House
Senate
Washington
Senate House
Columbus
Ohio
House-Senate
John Gilligan
Gilligan
John McDonald
Calabrese
McDonald
Seen For Joint Flights OK Seen For Joint Flights
American and Soviet scientists plan to sign a joint manned space flight agreement within two months. The third NA SA and Soviet Academy of Sciences session in Moscow focused on hardware compatibility and a joint mission.
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Moscow
U.S
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Soviet Academy of Sciences
Jack Tecin
Cleveland deficit figure revised to 11 million
The Cleveland general fund deficit is about 11 million, not 21.5 million, per the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Fiscal experts cited economy and tax shortfalls as causes, while a private Price Waterhouse audit showed 5.6 million more for a 1971 total of 27.2 million.
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Cleveland, Ohio
City of
Cleveland
Ralph J. Perk
Cleveland Plain Dealer
the Plain Dealer
Carl B. Stokes
Price Waterhouse & Co
Pakistan Jet Hijacked Over Bengali Refugee Relief Demand
Air pirates seized a Pakistan International Airlines Boeing 720B at Orly Airport demanding 20 tons of medicine for Bengali refugees. They threatened to destroy the plane and its 28 passengers if police intervened, signaling ties to Bangla Desh guerrilla support.
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Paris
Pakistan International Airlines
Bangla Desh
Orly
East Pakistan
India
Humphrey sees farm aid boost from Butz fight
Senator Hubert H. Humphrey predicts the agitation over Earl L. Butz becoming secretary of agriculture will unlock impounded federal funds and lift farm income by up to a billion dollars. Nixon commented on the Butler case in a separate petition in Mason County seeking I Brooks Smith’s reinstatement as county superintendent of schools.
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Washington
Hubert H. Humphrey
Earl L. Butz
Nixon
Point Pleasant
Daniel B. Taylor
I. Brooks Smith
Mason County
Smith
Larry E. Logan
Action Adt Offers for Sale Widely Promoted
A playful ad copy mimics a telephone ring the moment a sale offer is heard. It underscores how a simple ring signals items no longer used are wanted, prompting quick responses from buyers.
Shoe Firm Founder Schiff Dies in Columbus
Robert Schiff 85 former SCOA Industries president and board chairman died Wednesday. He founded Schiff Shoe Co. in 1920 after immigrating from Lithuania. funeral services scheduled today at Temple Israel in Columbus Ohio.
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Columbus, Ohio
Robert Schiff
Scoa Industries
Temple Israel
Schiff
Schiff Shoe Co
Lituania
Recovery Effort Slowed by Rain in Vietnam Helicopter Crash
Heavy rains and rugged terrain slowed a 200 man South Vietnamese patrol inching toward the crashed CH 47 Chinook wreckage. Rescue helicopters spotted debris and 10 bodies from the air but could not land amid winds and fog. All 33 American crew and passengers are presumed dead, the worst crash in four years.
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Saigon
U.S
Vietnam
Dong Ha
Pay Board limits pause on construction contracts
The Construction Industry Stabilization Committee suspended further approval of union contracts after the Pay Board capped its retroactive increase authority. The CISC may send a delegation to the Pay Board next week to seek clarity on policy administration procedures, a board spokesman said.
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Washington
Construction Industry Stabilization Committee
Pay Board
CISC
Harriet McCormack 87 Wife of John W McCormack Dies
Harriet Joyce McCormack 87 wife of former House Speaker John W McCormack D Mass died Thursday. She left a Metropolitan Opera career when she married him 51 years ago and had been an invalid for more than a year, hospitalized last year.
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Washington
Harriet McCormack
John W. McCormack
D-Mass
Connally Sees Possible Settlement To Economic Crisis
Treasury Secretary John Connally said he is optimistic a settlement to the world economic crisis could come by year end 1971 after talks in Rome with major trading partners. He warned against raising false hopes while noting a very large step by the United States at the Group of Ten meeting.
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Washington
Treasury
John Connally
Connally
Rome
America
United States
Group of Ten Financial Powers
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