Hearings Set on Car and Steel Price Increases
Auto makers General Motors Ford Chrysler and American Motors seek hearings on price hikes Aug 28 under Phase IV while steel price increases begin Aug 21. Prices rise after controls lifted as analysts forecast a slow 1974 growth, with sectors like housing and autos expected to slow. Newsprint costs rise amid pollution control spending, and bread prices climb in San Francisco from next Monday.
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Deimingion Banner
United Press
Cost of Living Council
General Motors
Ford
Chrysler
American
University of Michigan
Saul H. Hymans
Sears Roebuck Co
Sears
Vancouver
D.C
Crown Zellerbach
Robert G. Rogers
David Fogel
Ulinvis Law Enforcement Commission
Finois
Fogel
San Francisco
Larraburu
Pisano
Brenda bears down on Mexican coast
UPI reports Hurricane Brenda driving 100 mph winds and storm tides toward the southern Gulf of Campeche coast near Carmen Mexico. A Greek freighter Yucatan with 25 aboard sent an SOS listing badly as rescuers coordinate with Mexican authorities.
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UPI
Mexican Gulf
Gulf of Campeche
U.S. Coast Guard
Yucatan
Hat
Coast Guard
Huey
Carmen
Mexico
Brenda
Interior Mexican Mountains
Gul
Yucatan Peninsula
Neil Frank
Parateo
Argentina imposes news restrictions amid Peron bid
In Buenos Aires the government ordered foreign news agencies to close national services, enabling Peronist leadership to control national news. UPI and AP would only provide international coverage while Telam remains state owned. Protests and bomb incidents accompanied ceremonies honoring 16 leftists killed in Trelew in 1972, with indoor observance mandated.
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UPI
Juan D. Peron
Argentina
United Press International
Associated Press
Telam
Povermient
Raw A. Lastiri
Peron
Justicialista Party
Hector J. Campora
la Plata
Bahia Blanca
Trelew
Offer
Marion Illinois city taxes cut by city council
The southern Illinois town of Marion with 13 000 residents drops property taxes entirely for the year. Mayor Robert L. Butler notes a history of seven tax cuts in nine years while investing in clock tower, fire station, fire truck, public toilets and reservoir upgrades. Despite no city levy, residents still pay county, school and park taxes.
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UPI
Illinois
Robert L. Butler
Marion
Butler
Water Department
Sewer Department
Pentagon Allows Enlisted Personnel as Officers Servants
The Pentagon issued a regulation permitting admirals and generals to use enlisted personnel as servants including valets cooks and social secretaries as long as volunteers. The directive also allows enlisted aides to be assigned to officers below general or admiral where representation requires. Senator William Proxmire criticized the move vowing to propose an amendment to bar such use.
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Washington
UPI
Pentagon
Defense Department
Defense
William P. Clements
William Proxmire
Dwis
Proxmire
Senate Armed Services Committee
Clements
Kennedy scion fined for negligent driving in Nantucket
Joseph P F Kennedy son of the late senator Robert F Kennedy was fined 100 dollars for negligent driving in Nantucket District Court. The 20 year old Kennedy, accompanied by family, received admonition to uphold his famous name as a duty, while a young woman suffered paralysis and a passenger was injured. The three hour trial drew about 250 onlookers as testimonies described a jeep accident near Altar Rock on Polpis Road with six passengers aboard. The judge noted concern over spinal injuries but imposed a modest sentence, citing sudden peril and responsibility.
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Mass
UPI
Joseph PF. Kennedy
Robert F. Kennedy
Kennedy
David
George
Hubert Kennedy
Washington
Stephen Smith
Joseph Kennedy
Nantucket Island
Altar Rock
Merrill Lindsay
Polpis Road
Lindsay
Joseph P. Kennedy II
Robert Kennedy
Nanmeker District Court
Ethel Kennedy
Sen
Edward M. Kennedy
Five men and six women finish 5000 mile raft odyssey Acali
The Acali expedition ends in Cozumel after 100 days at sea on a 22 foot raft from the Canary Islands. Skipper Maria Bjornstam leads ten crew from ten nations amid high winds and Hurricane Brenda while a team of psychiatrists monitors reactions. Channel 13 shields crew from reporters as they are debriefed in a hotel.
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Cozumel
Mexico
UPL
Hye
Yucatan Peninsula
Wurist Island
Maria Bjornstam
Canary Islands
Caribbean Sea
Brenda
Commnel
Santiago Genoves
At the Movies: Sheila and Paper Moon Lead a Patchwork Week
A star studded Last of Sheila and Paper Moon headline a mixed cinema week with Bogdanovich and O Nea l performances. Mary Poppins and Sound of Music remain family favorites at different theaters while Let the Good Times Roll offers a rock n roll night. The Legend of Boggy Creek, a faux documentary horror, follows with a Garner Brennan comedy at Bennington. Times listed in page ads.
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Manchester
Ryan O'Neal
Tatum
Grel
Bogdanovich
Mary Poppins
Cinema 1
Julie Andrews
Mary
Cinema IL
Meansyhile
Chuck Berry
Chubby Checker
Hathaway
Boggy Creek
Bennington
Delvern
Two Mexicans Arrested for Kidnapping U S Consul
Mexico City's attorney general said two men Francis co Campana Lopez and Ruben Ramirez Gonzalez admitted taking part in the May kidnapping of U S Consul General Terrance G Leonhardy. Leonhardy was held four days and freed after demands to fly 30 prisoners to Cuba and pay a ransom. He called the ordeal harrowing and praised Mexican officials.
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Mexico City
U.S
Terrance G. Leonhardy
Attorney General's Office
Sud
Francisco Campana Lopez
Ruben Ramirez Gonzalez
Leonhardy
Guadalajara
Mexico
Armed Revolutionary Forces of the People
Cuba
Teonhardy
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