Suits Prevented Mercury Disaster, UPI Report
Assistant Attorney General Shiro Kashiwa said civil actions against eight mercury polluters and voluntary industry agreements cut daily discharges from about 40 pounds per plant to roughly one half pound. He compared the potential Japan Mina mata disaster of 1953 to averted harm in U S waterways, noting 60 plants involved and lists several corporations and affected rivers.
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UPI
Japan
U.S
Shiro Kashiwa
Department of Justice
Land and Natural Resources Division
Minamata
Kashiwa
Justice Department
Oxford Paper Co
Rumford
Maine
Georgia-Pacific Corp
Puget Sound
Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp
Niagara River
Savannah River
Weyerhauser Co
Colum
Ramsey Clark attacks Hoover over FBI leadership
Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark accuses J. Edgar Hoover of self centered dominance that hinders crime control. In his book Crime in America Clark says the FBI delayed recognizing La Cosa Nostra and clashed with Robert F. Kennedy over organized crime, arguing personal credit trumped public safety.
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Hoover
FBI
Johnson
America
Clark
la Cosa Nostra
United States
Robert F. Kennedy
Kennedy
J. Edgar Hoover
Riverrun shines as Korty film with local star debut
John Korty crafts a restrained drama about an idealistic couple and a rigid father. Louise Ober, a Williams town local, stars in Riverrun in a College Cinema engagement. The Bird With the Crystal Plumage plays at Harte Theatre with GP rating.
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John Korty
Korty
Williamstown
Louise Ober
Nixon to Attend Ford's Theatre Show Commemorating Lincoln
President Nixon plans to attend a star studded musical review at Ford's Theatre Wednesday night the first such visit by a president since Lincoln's assassination there. Mrs Eisenhower and most Cabinet members were to attend with host Andy Williams and narrator James Stewart. The program includes readings from Lincoln works and features Pearl Bailey Tennessee Ernie Ford Robbie Gentry the Supremes and Dionne Warwick. A NBC telecast is planned Thanksgiving night. The piece also touches on inflation era retail sales trends and October provisional figures with mixed changes in current and constant dollars citing Commerce Department estimates and CPI context.
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UPI
Nixon
Ford
Abraham Lincoln
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Andy Williams
James Stewart
Lincoln
Pearl Bailey
Tennessee Ernie Ford
Robbie Gentry
the Supremes
Dionne Warwick
Nbc-Tv
Commerce Ent
Commerce Department
Fox escape stalls hunt as men rally to save trail
In Collingham England, a fox dodged a 12 foot mud filled dyke while Thundreing Tom the horse and rider Gordon Benton stayed with the pack. It took two hours 12 men a tractor and the local fire brigade to resume the Blankney foxhunt. The fox escaped sluggishly. Citizens note Americans saving 7.5 percent of income vs 6.5 percent last year and slower retail sales amid unemployment. If the economy continues to expand, real retail sales could rise.
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Collingham
England
UPI
Thundreing
Tom
Gordon Benton
Blankney
Benton
WHDH loses appeal. FCC license for channel 5 upheld
The U.S. Court of Appeals ruled against WHDH Boston, upholding the FCC decision granting Boston Broadcasting, Inc. the right to operate channel 5, ending a 16 year ownership dispute with rivals Charles River Civic Television and Greater Boston Television Corp. The ruling supported FCC standards on diversity and control in broadcasting.
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Greater Boston Television Corp
FCC
WHDH
Robert Choate
George C. McConnaughey
Choate
Harold A. Leventhal
Commission
Edward A. Tamm
George E. Mackinnon
Harold E. Clancy
Boston Herald Traveler
Family of five killed in Minnesota farm slaying
A 23 year old former mental patient was taken into custody in connection with the deer rifle killings of James Fremberg 40 his wife Gloria 29 and their three children Patricia 8 David 7 and Douglas 4 on their West Central Minnesota dairy farm five miles northeast of Sunburg. Bodies were found Sunday morning by a milkman. The suspect’s father once owned the farm and a deer rifle was found in the suspect’s home. The suspect had served seven months and spent time in the Veterans Hospital at St. Cloud for mental trouble. Police say charges await grand jury action next week.
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Sunburg, Minn
UPI
James Fremberg
Here
Fremberg
Kandigochi
Ron Schneider
Schneider
Sunbury
Minnesota
Delbert Peterson
Sunburg
Peterson
Gloria
Patricia
David
Douglas
Harvey Spalding
Veteran’s Hospital
St. Cloud
Foe captures airfield northeast of Phnom Penh in Cambodia
Communist forces seized part of Kompong Cham and its airfield about 50 miles northeast of Phnom Penh. Gov In Tham said the situation is terribly critical with three days of food and looming ammunition shortages. Clashes persist in and around the city as government troops, aided by air support, fend off attacks while casualties mount in other nearby areas.
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UPI
Kompong Cham
In Tham
Kompong
Tang Kauk
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