Astronauts prepare for lunar touchdown on Taurus Littrow
Astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt separated Challenger from the command ship America and began final checks for a three day moon mission. Ronald Evans remained aboard America to conduct lunar orbit experiments as the duo set course for Taurus Littrow with plans to travel over 20 miles.
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Associated Press
Winter Space Center
Houston
Eugene A. Cernan
Harrison H. Schmitt
Cernan
Schmitt
Ronald E. Evans
America
Evans
Challenger
Misson Control
Moon
Lunar
Craters
Taurus Littrow
Mission Control
Truman in serious condition as heart irregularities persist
The 88 year old former president Harry S Truman remained in serious condition at Research Hospital after his heart showed irregularities. Doctors reported he felt all right when asked and spent a restful night while medical staff monitor rhythm and blood pressure.
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Kansas City
Harry S. Truman
Truman
Research Hospital
Cialist
Issae
Five Soviet troops killed in Chinese border raid
A Western-diplomatic report says Chinese bandits crossed into the Soviet Union with a large flock of sheep and killed five Soviet soldiers. One Chinese captive prompted a Kremlin protest rejected by Peking, which called the raiders bandits and outside Chinese government business.
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Moscow
Soviet
Peking
Kremlin
Siberia
Soviet Far East
Tax apportionments from last half real estate taxes
The County Auditor reports apportionments totaling 3,158,984.31 to governmental units. Townships, villages and Austin receive 1,165,230.54. schools 1,927,056. others 66,697.33. Austin City gets 899,512.60, plus 100,000 advanced.
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City of
Austin
Austin Township
County Library
Agricultural Society
Turtle Creek
For Sale Ads Urged in Herald Classifieds
Advertisement note listing miscellaneous items for sale including all wool carpet and a Mind Ram drill. The ad was scheduled for two days but canceled after one day with payment due only for the run time. Call 433 8851 for quick results.
Tanaka Wins Japanese Election Amid Communist Gains
Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka's Liberal Democratic Party secures a mandate in the general election, winning 271 of 491 Diet seats with 14 conservative independents boosting the majority. Socialists gain to 118 and Communists rise to 38 as opposition voices warn of the plan to relocate industries and people spreading pollution across Japan. Tanaka vows to push ahead, planning a new administrative agency to oversee the program.
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Kakuei Tanaka
Tokyo
Tanaka
Liberal- Democratic Party
Japan
Liberal Democrats
Houss
Gas buildup blamed for Clinton explosion and deaths
Investigators determine natural gas accumulation caused a blast and fire in Clinton Missouri that killed eight people and destroyed half a block of the town square. Five rescuers died attempting to free a mother and daughter trapped in debris. Seven others injured, four hospitalized.
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Clinton
Clinton, Mo
Clinton Town Square
Probe continues in Chicago crash
Investigators sift through charred debris of United Airlines Boeing 737 that crashed in a Chicago residential area near Midway Airport. Forty five victims identified by dental charts and fingerprints. 12 of 18 survivors remain hospitalized, including stewardess Margarite McCausland. NTSB engineers inspect wreckage and plan to move chunks to Midway hangar. officials say reconstruction not intended at this time.
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Chicago
United Air Lines
Margarite McCausland
Midway Airport
Aeronautic
National Transportation Safety Board
Midway
Edward T. Slattery
NTSB
Public Afairs
Prisoner Recaptured After Thin Ice Escape At Desoto
Rudolph Sear, 46, slipped away from Mower County Sheriff Carmen Halstenson at a Desoto service station in Iowa. He fled toward Interstate 80 before falling through the South Raccoon River ice and was caught by Trooper Dale Ward after authorities mobilized a large patrol response. Sear had been held for larceny of a motor vehicle and over $100 prior to the escape and possible new charges may follow.
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Desoto
Iowa
Mower County
Minn
Carmen Halstenson
Iowa Highway Patrol
Raccoon River
Rudolph Sear
Wyoming
Minnesota
Halstenson
Sear
South Racoon
Dale Ward
Winterset
Mower
Bush named to replace Dole as party chairman
Republican National Chairman Robert Dole resigns and George Bush of Texas is chosen to replace him. The move comes as Bush, serving as United Nations ambassador, moves into a top party leadership role.
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Bush
Dole
Washington
Robert J. Dole
United Nations
George Bush
Texas
N.Y
Miami
Associated Press
New York
Kissinger
PARIS
Henry A. Kissinger
Hanoi
le Duc Tho
Vietnam
Nixon
Neuilly
Sdes
President Nixon to keep wage price controls
President Nixon plans to extend the economic stabilization law, asking Congress for continued wage and price controls. Treasury Secretary George Shultz announced the decision.
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Washington
Nixon
Congress
Treasury
George Shultz
Revenue Sharing Figures Released for Mower County
U S Treasury final figures show Austin will receive 387 818 in revenue sharing this year with total Mower County at 870 602 Checks totaling half the entitlement were mailed with the remainder due in January The county list names Austin Adams Brownsdale Dexter Elkton Grand Meadow LeRoy Lyle Mapleview Rose Creek Sargeant Tappi Waltham Racine and townships in amounts from 99 to 193 903 for first installments adjusted by updated local tax effort formulas.
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Richard J. Maloy
Herald Washington Bureau
Washington
Austin
U.S. Treasury Dept
Mower County
Treasury Dept
Adams
Austin City
Brownsdale
Dexter
Elkton
Grand Meadow
LeRoy
Lyle
Mapleview
Rose Creek
Sargeant
Tappi
Waltham
Racine
Austin Township
Benningtown
Packers Rout Vikings 67 to Win
The Green Bay Packers defeated Minnesota 67 to secure a decisive victory while Vikings target Buchanan with Ed White, aged 62, in pursuit.
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Minnesota Vikings
Buchanan
Vikings
Ed White
Packers
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