Wallace and Brewer stalemate in Alabama runoffs set
In Alabama the Democratic gubernatorial primary ended without a majority for George C. Wallace and incumbent Albert Brewer, prompting a runoff on June 3. Alabama totals showed Wallace 295,909 to Brewer 294,713 with 2,950 of 4,353 boxes counted. Ohio results had Taft defeating Rhodes for the GOP Senate nomination, Taft 467,866 to 464,701, while Metzenbaum won the Democratic governor nomination over Gilligan. The Kent State shootings loomed over campaign concerns amid national guard tensions on campuses.
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Albert Brewer
Alabama
Ohio
Robert A. Taft
James A. Rhodes
Senate
Taft
Howard Metzenbaum
John H. Glenn
Wallace
Brewer
Rhodes
Metzenbaum
Glenn
John J. Gilligan
Roger Cloud
GOP
Robert Taft J.R
Cleveland
Stephen M. Young
National Guard
Kent State University
FBI adds H. Rap Brown to Ten Most Wanted list
The FBI expanded the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives to eleven to include H. Rap Brown, a 26 year old black militant who failed to appear for a riot and arson trial in Maryland. A warrant was issued for interstate flight to avoid prosecution as Brown remains missing since March 9. The case followed bombings tied to his Cambridge and Bel Air, Maryland, hearings and the trial move to Ellicott City.
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FBI
H. Rap Brown
Brown
Maryland
James Earl Ray
Martin Luther King Jr
SNC
Student National Coordinating Committee
Ellicott City
Cambridge
Howard County
James MacGill
Bel Air
Minnesota campuses erupt as Nixon action sparks protests
Thousands of Minnesota students protest Nixon Cambodia policy and Kent State shootings. At the University of Minnesota thousands boycott classes while others attend rallies. Across the state, campuses like Augsburg, St Olaf, Macalester and St. John’s witness strikes, teach-ins, and peaceful demonstrations with some disruptions and vigils.
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Associated Press
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Cambodia
Ohio
Minnesota
Studers
St. Cloud
Mankato
U.S
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National Guard
University of Minnesota
Twin Cities
College of Liberal Arts
Custavus Adolphus College
St. Peter
Frank Barth
University of Minnesota At
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Richard Teske
St. Paul
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St. John’s University
Collegeville
James A. Rhodes
Kent State
State College
St. Benedict’s
St. John’s
Augsburg College
Minneapolis
Agnew
Mitchell
Marshall
Augsburg
Oscar A. Anderson
Moorhead State College
MSC
Roland Dille
Macalester College
Hamline University
Asia
Winona State
Robert du Frense
St. Mary's College of Winona
Carleton College of Northfield
Morris Branch
Southwest State College
Ron Stock
United Theological Seminary of
Southeast Asia
Rochester State Junior College
Nicholas Coleman
DFL
Charges against NSP are rejected
The Minnesota Conservation Department dismissed charges from MECCA claiming Northern States Power violated a Monticello plant water-use permit. Commissioner Jarle Leirfallom said NSP has not begun operation, so no violation occurred. MECCA argued the permit lacked compliance with radioactivity standards.
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ST. Paul
Northern States Power Co
Monticello
Minnesota Conservation Department
Minnesota Environmental Control Citizens Association
MECCA
NSP
Jarle Leirfallom
Eastern U S faces tighter power supply and dimouts
Federal report warns the eastern United States faces another summer of tighter power supply with voltage reductions and interruptions. In Cambodia, 20,000 to 25,000 American and South Vietnamese troops push fronts, seizing bases and tons of munitions, while reporting over 2,500 enemy dead. Kent State begins phased National Guard withdrawal, halving 800 troops on campus after deadly antiwar shooting.
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Washington
New York City
Chicago
St. Louis
Minneapolis-St. Paul
United States
President's Office of Emergency Preparedness
Saigon
Cambodia
Kent, Ohio
National Guard
Kent State University
Robert H. Canterbury
Minneapolis plasterers strike expands with 200 workers
About 200 Minneapolis plasterers and 150 plaster tenders joined the strike in Minnesota on Tuesday, while construction sites in Minneapolis remained unpicketed and other trades with expired contracts continued work on active projects. A Duluth AP report notes most Canadian border lakes and some Superior National Forest lakes stay ice-clogged, with several lakes free of ice after an aerial survey.
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Minnesota
Duluth, Minn
Superior National Forest
Federal
Shagawa
Fall
Knife
Kekeabie
Bruntside Lakes
Bailey Bay
Weather outlook fair and warm with possible thunderstorm
The forecast calls for fair to partly cloudy and warm conditions tonight and Thursday with a slight chance of thunderstorm activity late tonight or Thursday. Highs today expected around 65 to 70 degrees.
Nixon Pledges Cambodia Troop Exit by July 1
President Nixon promised U S troops would be out of Cambodia by July 1 at the latest and limited incursions to 21.7 miles with prior congressional approval. Critics remained skeptical while supporters backed the policy as lawmakers pressed questions in separate briefings.
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Nixon
U.S
Cambodia
Capitol Hill
Sen
J. W. Fulbright
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Arkansas Democrat
South Vietnam
Fulbright
Thomas E. Morgan
Pennsylvania
House Foreign Affairs
Indiana
Ross E. Adair
Adair
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Armed Services Committees
Nationwide student strike spreads across campuses
Students nationwide respond to calls for a strike over Nixon policy in Cambodia and Kent State killings. Some campuses shut down, rally, or vigil while clashes with police occur. National Guardsmen patrol Wisconsin Madison after window smashing and vandalism. At Seton Hall about 500 students protested with a bonfire and were dispersed by police.
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America
Nixon
Kent State
Cambodia
University of Wisconsin
Madison
Kent
Seton Hall University
South Orange
N.J
Buffalo
N.Y
Buffalo State University
Guardsmen say they were doing their job at Kent State
Maj Gen Winston P. Wilson Jr. defends Ohio National Guard actions in the Kent State shootings, stating guardsmen were carrying out orders to restore law and order. He cannot judge responsibility as he was not at the scene. The Pentagon adopts a hands off stance, leaving probes to local and state agencies and the Justice Department. No new hearings are planned despite past investigations into Detroit and Newark incidents.
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Pentagon
National Guard
Ohio Guardsmen
Kent State University
Winston P. Wilson Jr
National Guard Bureau
Wilson
Justice Department
House Armed Services Committee
Detroit
Newark
Fed Cuts Margin on Stock Purchases to 65 Percent
The Federal Reserve Board voted unanimously to lower the margin requirement for stock purchases on credit from 80 to 65 percent, the lowest in seven years, with margin on convertible bonds dropping to 50 percent for new transactions. The move aims to ease credit and boost stock buying amid a sharp drop in broker credit from June 1968 to last March.
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Washington
Federal Reserve Board
Wall Street
Fed
Schedule of Pages for Editorial to Classified
The edition lists page allocations: Editorial four, Area News seventeen, VS.Mkts fifteen, Comics eighteen, Society twelve to fourteen, Sports twenty to twenty two, and Classified twenty six to twenty seven. It outlines section groupings for the newspaper sequence and page planning.
Fewer Farms Forecast as Numbers Shrink by 1980s
The editor notes a projected drop from 2.8 million farms to under 1 million by the 1980s. It urges readers with a farm dream to act now and explore Farms for Sale in today’s Austin Daily Herald Classified Ads.
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Austin Daily Herald
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