Austin State Bank contracts set for new Main Street facility
Contracts awarded for the Austin State Bank building at Main Street and 4th Avenue NW with work starting immediately. Major bids go to Joseph Construction Co Schammer Electric Co and JWR Co plus R D Elevator Co of Minneapolis. Completion set for May 1 1970. Architect Warren Kane notes design places building back from Main St with trees landscaping and easy traffic to tellers and customers. The 15 500 square foot facility stresses function low maintenance and local construction.
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Austin State Bank
Main St
4Th Ave
Carl Beireis
Austin State
Austin
Joseph Construction Co
Schammer Electric Co
JWR Co
R&d Elevator Co
Minneapolis
Beireis
Kane
Warren Kane
NSF official says no proof marijuana harms or addicts
Washington AP report quotes NSF board chairman Dr. Philip Handler disputing evidence of harm or addiction from marijuana. He argues current data are inconclusive and compares decision to alcohol policy, amid 1967 controversy and a federal anti drug campaign.
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Washington
National Science Foundation
Philip Handler
Handler
House Appropriations Subcommittee
Ered
Johnson Administration
James L. Goddard
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Gerald N. Kurtz
National Institute of Mental Health
Goddard
Allies honor dead on 25th year of D-Day landings
The report marks the 25th anniversary of the June 6 1944 Normandy landings. Generals Eisenhower and Gavin are cited, paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne returned to Sainte-Mere-Eglise, and Omaha Utah Juno Sword Gold beaches saw heavy casualties. Allied forces include Americans British Canadians and Free French.
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France
John Vinocur
Associated Press
Sainte-Mere-Eglise
Eisenhower
Ernest Dupuy
London
Hitler
Europe
Free French Army
Diers
U.S
82Nd Airborne Division
Sainte-Merc-Eglise
82Nd
James M. Gavin
Gavin
Omaha
Utah
Juno, Sword and Gold
1St
Namath quits football over midtown lounge stake dispute
Broadway Joe Namath, Jets quarterback, announced he will retire unless he divests his one third stake in Bachelors Three at 62nd and Lexington. Commissioner Rozelle gave two days to exit the restaurant or face suspension, amid reports the lounge hosted bookmakers as baseball investigations swirl.
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NEW York
Joe Namath
New York Jets
Rozelle
Pete Rozelle
University of Alabama
Namath
62Nd
Lexington Avenue
Phil Iselin
Jets
Weeb Ewbank
FBI
District Attorney's
Iselin
Major League Baseball
Las Vegas
Baltimore Colts
NFL
Miami
Commies step up South Vietnam shelling and casualties
Reports from Saigon say Viet Cong rockets and mortars struck over 100 allied bases and towns in the last 24 hours. Official tallies indicate more than 464 enemy killed, with at least 40 Americans dead and over 100 wounded. South Vietnamese losses are described as light amid the broader spike in hostilities ahead of the Nixon Thieu Midway conference.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
Nixon
Nguyen van Thieu
Midway Island
Midway
U.S
Nixon to hear draft views from 10 young panelists
President Nixon invited ten youths to his Newport Beach villa to share opinions on military conscription. Nine men and one woman from Oklahoma, Iowa, Michigan, Mississippi, and New York City serve on pilot advisory committees for the Selective Service System.
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San Clemente
Calif
Nixon
California
Oklahoma
Iowa
Michigan
Mississippi
New York City
Office of Economic Opportunity
Newporter Inn
Newport Beach
Ronald L. Ziegler
Selective Service
Bernard R. Blackwell Jr
Jackson
Miss
Marvel Long
Bay Springs
Harold Studley
Jesse Green
Protesting Son Triggers Probation Officer's Ouster
Albert Lea officials pressured juvenile probation officer Victor McCoy to resign after his 17-year-old son led student protests against the high school dress code. McCoy, 40, asked the state corrections department to transfer him to another county amid pressure from the school board and Freeborn County Commissioners. Superintendent Lorie Ward said David McCoy was a leader in opposing the dress code, while Otis Olson questioned whether a probation officer can counsel others if unable to enforce rules at home.
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Albert Lea
Minn
City School Board
Otis Olson
McCoy
David
Lorie S. Ward
Olson
Laird attacks Hanoi over contrived POW broadcasts
Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird denounces Hanoi for airing what he calls contrived broadcasts of alleged U S prisoners of war statements. He says the broadcasts are a feeble gesture and not a substitute for humane treatment guarantees. Hanoi has cited voices of imprisoned crewmen including John S McCain III.
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Washington
Melvin R. Laird
Hanoi
U. S
North Vietnam
Laird
South Vietnam
Navy
Cmdr
John S. McCain III
Weather outlook with clouds and scattered showers
Mostly cloudy tonight and Saturday with showers and thunder showers south tonight and most sections Saturday. Low tonight 55 to 62, high Saturday 72 to 77.
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Moss
Refugee grandmother found as 101st Airborne sweep probes area
An 85 year old South Vietnamese great grandmother sits outside her home 340 miles northeast of Saigon awaiting evacuation to a refugee center. She and others were found hiding in a dugout beside their house by troops of the 101st Airborne during a sweep in Tein Phuoc near Da Nang.
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Saigon
101 Airborne
Tein Phuoc
da Nang
Peking charges Soviet forces cross Manchurian border into Sinkiang
Chinese Foreign Ministry lodged a protest with the Soviet Embassy in Peking accusing Soviet troops of border fire and incursions into Sinkiang Uighur region. Beijing says civilians and guards were kidnapped, a river pilot blinded, and ships stranded, demanding halt to firing and the return of captives and property.
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Tokyo
Red China
Sinkiang
Moscow
Peking
Sinkiang Province
Sinkiang-Uighur Autonomous Re
Gion
New China
China
Wapalao
Heilung River
Heilungkiang
Heilung
Elderly farmer found dead beside moving tractor in Albert Lea
In Albert Lea Minnesota an elderly farmer Thomas N. Skophammer, 73, was found dead after the tractor he was operating moved without a driver. Authorities suspect a heart attack caused the man to fall from the tractor during field cultivation.
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Albert Lea
Minn
Thomas N. Skophammer
Cosmos 284 capsule lands softly in Soviet Union
The Bochum Space Observatory reported Cosmos 284, the Soviet unmanned space capsule, returned to earth today and made a soft landing in the Soviet Union.
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Bochum
Germany
Bochum Space Observatory
Soviet Union
Schedule of Pages VS Mkts Area News Women Sports Editorials Comics
The page index lists sections including Area News, Women, Sports, Editorials, Comics and Classifieds with page locations. It notes a TV Entertainment Tob segment and marks uncertain or missing items in the final listings.
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Mkts
Tob
Faribault teachers plan continuing contracts but no summer work
Faribault teachers council representing the Faribault Education Association and the Faribault Teachers Federation will consider themselves on a continuing contract but will withhold all summer services this year. The move follows ongoing contract tensions in the district.
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Faribault Teachers Nnx
Faribault, Minn
Faribault Teachers Council
Faribault Education Association
Faribault Teachers Federation
Simple folk mass set for Bobby Kennedy memorial
Memorial services mark the first anniversary of Robert F. Kennedy s death with a simple folk Mass at Arlington National Cemetery led by Terence Cardinal Cooke and attended by about 1 000 announcements sent by Sen Edward M Kennedy. Other services honored his memory in Washington San Francisco New York Boston Los Angeles and a stadium renaming in Washington D C with thousands of youths and notable figures participating.
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Associated Press
Robert F. Kennedy
Arlington National Cemetery
Ethel Kennedy
New York
Terence Cardinal Cooke
Kennedy
Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
John F. Kennedy
8Th
H Streets
Washington
Martin Luther King Jr
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Beniamino Bufano
New York City
St. Pat
Rick’s
Church of St. Vincent Ferrer
Harlem Youth Symphony
Revitalization Corps
Kennedy Brothers
Dag Hammarskjold Park
United Nations
Boston
Paulist Center
Boston Common
Assembly
Yvonne Braithwate
St. John's Episcopal Church
D.C
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