Opening Day Sets Tone for 89th Mower County Fair
The 89th Mower County Fair opens Monday with no carnival on the midway as Sonny Myers Shows arrive Tuesday after Collins Shows merged with Murphy. The event features 4-H and FFA judging, free grandstands, a Gospel Festival, stock car races, and a $100000 in premiums across 30 departments, with daily parades by 11 horse hitches and a full Farm Page schedule.
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Herald City
Mower County Fair
Sonny Myers
William T. Collins
Murphy
Collins
Mower County
Herald Daily
Apollo 15 astronauts near Earth after lunar mission
Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott James Irwin and Alfred Worden sped toward Earth on a 12 day voyage with rock and film from the moon. They prepared for a 4:46 p.m. EDT splashdown about 285 miles north of Hawaii aboard Okinawa amid perfect weather. They described primeval rock samples and praised the lunar rover while recounting sights from Hadley and Spur Crater explorations and the dramatic transearth injection.
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Howard Benedict
AP Aerospace Winter Space Center
Houston
Earth
David R. Scott
James B. Irwin
Alfred M. Worden
Pacific Ocean
Hawaii
Okinawa
Scott
Irwin
Falcon
Hadley Base
Apennine
Spur Crater
Bomb hoax payoffs tied to $224000 recovered in Sydney shop
Police, with sledgehammers, opened a bricked fireplace in a suburban Sydney shop and recovered $224,000 from a total $556,000 paid by Qantas in a bomb hoax. Detectives say $392,000 has been accounted for. two men, Peter Pasqual Macari and Raymond James Poynting, are charged with extortion after a spending spree following the payoff.
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Sydney
Qantas
Annandale
Raymond James Poynting
Fulbright presses request for Pentagon five year plan
Sen. J W Fulbright renews demand to view the Defense Department's latest five year military aid plans as the Senate Foreign Relations Committee votes to withhold funds from the $3 3 billion foreign aid package until the Pentagon provides the documents or Nixon invokes executive privilege. Melvin R Laird states no current plan exists.
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Fulbright
Pentagon
Carl P. Leabsdorf
Washington
Nixon
Sen
J.W. Fulbright
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Department of Defense
Nixon says war reports almost killed China talks
President Nixon told visitors that publication of the Pentagon papers nearly jeopardized talks with Communist China. The Washington Post cited White House sources noting fear of a secrecy breach but offered no confirmation from Beijing. The disclosure affected Kissinger’s planned Peking visit and underscored the need for secrecy.
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Nixon
Pentagon
China
Washington Post
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Peking
U.S
Southeast Asia
Henry Kissinger
Post
New call letters assigned to Austin station
Washington reports the Federal Communications Commission has given Austin educational television station new call letters. KAVU V now identifies Independent School District No 492. the former designation NEW-TV of Austin is retired.
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Washington
Federal Communications Commission
Austin Educational Television Station
KAVUV
New-Tv
Austin
Education official rejects claim of school funding crisis
Minnesota deputy education commissioner Farley Bright said public schools can operate through December or January without difficulty despite the governor and legislature failing to pass a new school aid plan. He outlined borrowing options and ongoing aid sources while noting Oct. 12 legislative adjournment.
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Bright
Rolland F. Hatfield
Val
U.S. Reserve Position Falls to 1937 Low in IMF Deal
The United States will reduce its international reserve assets by about 1.053 billion, drawing 862 million from the IMF in francs and guilders and exchanging them for dollars. The move lowers the reserve level to the lowest since 1937, amid ongoing dollar weakness and dwindling gold stocks.
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Washington
United States
Treasury
International Monetary Fund
IMF
Lars
France
Britain
Driver shot by British troops in Belfast district
British troops killed a delivery truck driver in Springfield Road Belfast. Witnesses say the shooting was a mistake and an army investigation was ordered. Reports from Saigon note monsoon offensives in Cambodia and Laos and a mortar attack on a U.S. unit in South Vietnam. Minnesota DFL Chairman Richard Moe criticizes House Conservative leaders over tax bill timing. U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker to depart Saigon for Washington to confer with Nixon and officials.
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Northern Ireland
Springfield Road
Saigon
Cambodia
U.S
South Vietnam
ST. Paul
Ellsworth Bunker
Washington
Nixon
Area News Summary of Local Events
The page notes local happenings across society and editorials with brief items on markets, farms, and sports. It highlights community topics, upcoming events, and brief notices from various local organizations.
Congress Begins Month-Long Summer Recess
Washington shifts to a quiet lull as Congress starts August break. The Senate adjourned at 7:34 p.m. after the House finished at 1:19 p.m., with passage of an $18 billion higher education aid bill and three major appropriations measures.
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Congress
Senate
House
Four Die in Car Crash North of Virginia Minnesota
Four people died and one person was critically injured in a head on collision on U S 53 six miles north of Virginia Minnesota at 12 10 a m The victims included Teto Gianlorenzi his wife the Vanderblooms and Arthur Kontio The other driver was alone in a separate vehicle The accident increased Minnesota 1971 road toll to 534 The story also notes another fatal accident in St Paul involving Roger Weinke and Gerald Colaizy.
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Minn
U.S
Teto Gianlorenzi
Arthur Kontio
Cook
George Vanderbloom
Virginia Municipal Hospital
Gianlorenzi
Minnesota
St. Paul
Roger C. Weinke
Weinke
Gerald Colaizy
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