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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1973
Page
1
Washington AP report says retail food prices will average about 12 percent higher in 1973 despite a 60 day price freeze and Phase 4 controls. Farmers may produce less meat milk and poultry with late planting and shortages of fuel and fertilizer. Corn and soybeans could be short next fall, risking higher feed costs and further food cuts.
At Camp David Brezhnev pressed for easing in U S Soviet trade amid White House talks with Nixon. Senators visiting Blair House voiced concerns over Jewish emigration as a condition for MFN status, while Brezhnev rejected a Jewish problem.
Ohio lawmakers push forward a measure to repeal the longstanding Sunday blue laws as the budget conference committee resumes work on the administration's 9.9 billion dollar budget. The plan, backed by Rep. John A. Galbraith, faces historic resistance but gains new momentum amid court rulings and discount retail growth.
Former White House Counsel John W. Dean III says Nixon was informed before a clemency offer was made in the Watergate case. Dean tells Senate investigators that Nixon asked for IRS special treatment for friends and proposed a list of troublesome reporters to be targeted after the election. Evidence against Dean was sealed in court as it surfaced before his Senate testimony, to which he has immunity. Senate hearings delayed to avoid Brezhnev-Nixon summit conflicts.
Dr. Joseph P. Kerwin reported Skylab 1 crew Charles Conrad Jr Paul J Weitz and himself are in excellent condition after 26 to 28 days in space. He said the score is man 3 space 0 but the assessment will come when they return home. The crew answered reporters questions via mission control during a televised briefing.
Commander Conrad says weightlessness caused selective body changes while exercising on a bicycle device kept him in good shape since launch May 25. He notes the crew will hand over a mostly functional space station to the next crew despite Skylab’s early troubles.
A House appropriations subcommittee approved 218 million dollars to run 977 community action agencies through July 1 1975, far below 330 million this year. The move signals continued efforts to terminate or reduce federal support for poverty programs nationwide.
President Nixon signed three authorization measures funding health care rural economic development and airport construction. He said the measures require more spending than he preferred but will not harm the overall fiscal position if Congress follows his budget recommendations.
The United Rubber Workers launched a nationwide strike at Firestone Tire & Rubber Co at 3 a.m. after Cleveland talks failed. Earlier Akron plants kept producing under union agreement during negotiations. Storms hit Ohio with heavy rain flooding parts including Columbus, Cincinnati, and Mansfield. a Price Hill apartment building faced a mudslide evacuation.
Cloudy tonight with a chance of showers and thundershowers. Cooler overnight with lows in the low to mid 60s. Thursday will be partly cloudy and cooler with daytime highs from 75 to 80. Details, Page 2.
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