Senate votes to kill supersonic transport funding
The Senate defeated a 51-46 amendment to continue SST subsidies and ended nearly a decade of federal SST spending. Environmental foes hailed the vote led by Sen. William Proxmire, while SST supporters warned of $1 billion in waste and up to 15,000 jobs lost. President Nixon called it distressing and a severe blow.
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Washington
Senate
Nixon
House
Ohio
William B. Saxbe
Robert Taft Jr
William Proxmire
D-Wis
Senate Rejection of SST Funding Tests Ideological Majority
The Senate rejected two year SST funding, voting 34 Democrats and 17 Republicans against restoring SST funds while 27 Republicans and 19 Democrats backed the $7.2 billion transport bill. The vote followed a tense climate in which labor and environmental concerns fueled the debate. In Cincinnati, GE announced about 1500 layoffs at the Evendale plant tied to halting the supersonic transport program. Edward Hood Jr. said the firm will try to reassign affected workers.
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Senate
Spiro T. Angew
Sen
Clinton P. Anderson
D-N.m
Lloyd Bentsen
D-Tex
David Gambrell
D-Ga
Hubert H. Humphrey
D-Minn
John Sherman Cooper
R-Ky
Margaret Chase Smith
Maine
Cincinnati
General Electric Company
Evendale
Edward Hood Jr
Bed set sells quickly in Athens after six calls
Eugene Wickstrom of Route 5 Athens received six calls about a child’s bed set and sold it to the first caller within thirty minutes. The quick sale follows other successful jobs by Wickstrom.
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Eugene Wickstrom
Athens
Vietnam Toll Rising in Laos Campaign
The 45 day Laos campaign inflicted about 10 000 South Vietnamese casualties including 3 800 killed 775 missing and 5 200 wounded officials say official tallies differ. Reports cite lagging communiques and a possible undercount of losses while North Vietnamese deaths are pegged near 14 000 with U S air operations contributing to the total. Marines were moved to prevent shelling as B 52s pounded the area with no reported casualties.
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Saigon
Laos
U.S
de Viet
South Vietnam
Associated Press
Michael Putzel
Co Roe
Ham Nghi
Co Roc
Nixon Distressed Yet Philosophical Over SST Defeat
President Nixon expresses distress over Congress ending federal financing for two SST prototypes. He had privately urged several uncommitted senators and signed a Navy yard closure rescission in Portsmouth New Hampshire amid a Senate vote 51 to 46 against continued SST funding.
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Frank Cormier
Associated Press
Washington
Nixon
Capitol Hill
Senate
Navy Yard
Nixon's bid for Carswell seat backed by SST defeat
The article notes Nixon's major public push to influence Congress on a key issue, citing last year’s campaign to confirm G Harrold Carswell to the Supreme Court. It details losses in both houses of Congress over the SST policy and political strategy.
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Nixon
Florida
G. Harrold Carswell
Supreme Court
Nixon seeks to consolidate cabinet into eight new departments
President Nixon urged Congress to merge 11 existing Cabinet agencies into eight, creating Natural Resources, Community Development, Human Resources, and Economic Affairs. The plan would absorb Agriculture, Commerce, Labor, Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, and Health, Education and Welfare as part of a broad reorganization.
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Nixon
Congress
Natural Resources
Agriculture
Commerce
Labor
Transportation
Housing and Urban Development
Interior
Knight Newspapers win Polk Award for Kent State reporting
Long Island University journalism department honors Knight Newspapers for a Detroit Free Press series on Kent State University student deaths after clashes with Ohio National Guardsmen. John E. Jones aims to sharpen Ohio Democratic image and boost fund raising as executive director. Louis Armstrong underwent a tracheotomy at Beth Israel Hospital due to pulmonary infection amid heart condition.
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Long Island University
Knight Newspapers
Detroit Free Press
Kent State University
Ohio National Guardsmen
Columbus, Ohio
John E. Jones
Ohio Democratic Party
Ohio Democrats
Jones
Columbus
Louis Armstrong
Beth Israel Hospital
Classified Page Fragments From an Unclear Notice
Fragmented OCR text lists sections such as Obituaries Sports Television and Theaters with scattered letters and unreadable strings. The readable portions hint at a newspaper contents page rather than a complete article.
Conflict Probe Is Promised
The Ohio attorney general’s office will investigate conflict of interest allegations at Ohio University with or without a gubernatorial request. Gov Gilligan plans to ask the AG and auditor to review the case to decide if a full-scale probe is warranted, say aides.
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Ohio Attorney General’s Office
Ohio University
John J. Gilligan
The
Messenger
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Gilligan
Robert Tennenbaum
Tennebaum
George Jenkins
Attorney General’s Office
Australian Miss Teen visits Murray City on globe trotting tour
Carolyn Dartnell of Sidney, Australia, staying with Miss Mollie Jackson in Murray City, discusses her Miss Teenage Australia title, her plans to tour England, and differences between Australian and American schools. Children ask about kangaroos and koalas as she tours the Southeast Ohio town.
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Ann Mulligan
Murray City
Carolyn Dartnell
Sidney
Australia
England
Ohio
Mollie Jackson
Celmentary School
Dartnell
Carolyn
United States
Manila
Hong Kong
Sidney College
Melbourne
Miss Jackson
Main Street
Britain
Caplyn
Messenger
Chuck Beckley
ARC Bill Extends Appalachian Commission Life
The House Public Works Committee approved a bill to extend the Appalachian Regional Commission for four more years and to renew five other regional development commissions. It also proposes an $2 billion accelerated public works program for areas with high unemployment, with 80 percent federal funding and 12 month completion. Governor Gilligan of Ohio cites $250 million in funds already spent in 28 Appalachian counties and pushes for revenue sharing as a better long term solution.
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Washington
Appalachian Regional Arc Commission
House Public Works Committee
Appalachian Commission
Ohio
John J. Gilligan
Congress
Appalachian
Gilligan
John A. Blatnik
D-Minn
House
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