Ford pledges fight to rev country with unity in diversity
President Ford in a joint address to Congress declares no honeymoon but a good marriage with the nation. He vows to revive economic policy, reactivates the Cost of Living Council, and chairs a domestic summit to tackle double-digit inflation while balancing the federal budget by 1976. He pledges no illegal surveillance, continuity in Nixon foreign policy, and stronger unity with Congress.
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Nixon
Cost of Living Council
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Capitol Hill
United States of America
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Asia
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China
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Cambodia
Vietnam
Laos
John Ehrlichman
Ehrlichman
Kelly
Betty Ford
Fords
Bell and Unions Reach Tentative National Contract
Bell Telephone System and unions, after reaching a $3 billion three year deal, finalize local issues and send the contract to members for ratification. Balloting on the national and local pacts to begin later this week with results expected September 1. The agreement boosts wages and benefits by 35.8 percent over three years, including immediate pay increases and cost of living adjustments, plus pension and dental plan enhancements and over $100 million for local job classification fixes.
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Bell Telephone System
American Telephone & Telegraph Co
Bell System
Communications Workers of America
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
IBEW
Western Electric Co
Bell
Western Electric
CWA
Richmond
Chespeake & Potomac Telephone Co
C&p
Infant Smoker Case Shocks Miami Family Services
Jamaica Naomi Russo, 21 months, is in Florida Division of Family Services care after mother Mary Katherine Russo confessed she allowed the child to smoke marijuana. Mary Russo, John Sidgwick, and Frank Busboom face cocaine possession charges in Miami. 2.2 pounds were found strapped to Mary Russo.
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Jamaica
Naomi Russo
Florida
U. S
Russo
Bogota
Colombia
Family Services
Humphrey aide pleads guilty to illegal political donations
Norman Sherman and partner Jack Valentine pleaded guilty in St Paul federal court to aiding illegal corporate donations to campaigns by milk producers. Each posted a 1000 personal recognizance bond and faces up to one year in jail and a $1000 fine.
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ST. Paul
Minn
Hubert H. Humphrey
Norman Sherman
Jack Valentine
U. S. District Court
Corn Crop to Be 12 Percent Below Pace Says Farm Office
Agriculture Department said the 1974 corn harvest will be 12 percent below last year, with drought and rains reducing yields. Earl Butz forecast possible 14 percent rise in food prices in 1975, influenced by wage rates in processing. Export demand for grains down 50 to 70 percent, and drought may trigger livestock liquidation while beef output stays mainly unchanged.
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Department
Dawson Ahalt
Earl. Butz
New Orleans
Ahalt
Crop Reporting Board
Butz
World Poultry Congress
Ahal
Ahab
Texas
Oklahoma
Adalt
Richard Bell
Bell
Great Plains
Department Car Reporting Service
Virginia crops show mixed gains after July rains
Virginia’s July drought hurt corn hay tobacco peanuts and soybeans but late July early August rains improved outlook for many crops. Wheat barley rye sorghum peaches and potatoes posted gains while overall 1974 production remains below 1973 yet above the 1951 low.
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Richmond
Virginia
State of Agriculture
AEP Pushes For Rate Hikes Amid Cost Pressures
AEP chairman Donald C. Cook says the American Electric Power System is stepping up efforts to seek prompt rate relief from regulators. While cutting costs, the system plans new rate increase requests and maintains coal mine development and two near completion power stations in Ohio and Michigan.
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American Electric Power System
AEP
Donald C. Cook
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Cook
West Virginia
Appalachian Power Co
Ohio
Michian
Memorial Soft-Coal Shutdown Scheduled
The United Mine Workers called a memorial shutdown of soft coal mines across the nation for a week starting Monday. About 110 000 to 120 000 workers would be affected 75 percent of the soft coal industry and around 1 200 mines would close. UMW President Arnold Miller framed the action as a tribute to miners killed by accidents and to families harmed by black lung and company violence.
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United Mine Workers Union
UMW
Arnold Miller
United Mine Workers
Miller
Sirica to Turn Over 17 Watergate Tapes
U S District Judge John J. Sirica announced he would deliver 17 more Watergate tapes to special prosecutor Leon Jaworski by Tuesday, bringing total released to 27 of 64 conversations under the Supreme Court order. The court also noted eight sought conversations were not recorded and one could not be found.
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John J. Sirica
Watergate
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Supreme Court
Richard M. Nixon
White House
Atty
John N. Mitchell
Nixon
House Judiciary Committee
Mitchell
Leon Jaworski
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