Apollo 14 passes halfway to moon as docking fix clears
Apollo 14 astronauts Shephard Mitchell and Roosa reach the halfway point on their 250000 mile voyage toward the moon. NASA engineers say the docking mechanism problem resolved itself and a lunar module descent to Fra Mauro is planned for Friday.
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Paul Reder
Aerospace Winter Space Center
Houston
Alan B. Shepard Jr
Edgar D. Mitchell
Stuart A. Roosa
Spe
Shepard
Mitchell
Earth
Moon
Power Service Propulsion
Chester Lee
Fra Mauro
Alan B. Shepard
Space Center
North Vietnamese forces seen amassing in Laos border areas
Saigon sources report Monday a buildup of North Vietnamese and Pathet Lao troops near northern and southern Laos with potential attacks anticipated on key locations. Page 3.
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Saigon
Pathet Lao
Laos
Regional airport plan discussed before the Legislature
Charleston reports an attempt to build a regional airport to serve southern and central West Virginia was presented to the 60th Legislature on Monday. The day also carried news of a penitentiary guard firing review and a jury service decision by Virginia lawmakers.
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Charleston
West Virginia
State Supreme Court
Judge orders Logan High reinstatement over hair length
In Bluefield US district Court Judge Sidney L. Christie ordered the Logan County Board of Education and Logan High School principal to reinstate a 16-year-old student suspended last October because of the length of his hair.
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Bluefield
Sidney L. Christie
U. S. District Court
Logan County
WV House Beckons Death Penalty Bill in Debate
West Virginia House leaders and Senate leaders held a news conference to discuss restoring the death penalty for certain murder and rape crimes. Senate sponsor Si Galperin Jr. aims to outlaw strip mining, while House Speaker Ivor F. Boiarsky questions capital punishment.
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Charleston
House
Ivor F. Boiarsky
D-Kanawa
West Virginia
Senate
Hans McCourt
D-Webster
Capitol
Boiarsky
House Judiciary Committee
Si Galperin Jr
D-Kanawha
Senate probes Moore fund sources for 32 million needed
The West Virginia State Senate directs its finance committee to ask Gov Arch Moore Jr to propose sources for 32 million in new money to balance his general revenue budget. Leaders plan further talks on taxes to offset the deficit while noting funded items include teacher raises and education boosts. A separate measure would shift four holidays to Mondays and a rules bill on university accreditation advances.
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Charleston
State Senate
Arch A. Moore Jr
Senate
J. Frank Deem
R Pleasants
Deem
Moore
Department of Welfare
Washington
State Board of Regents
House
Divorce Rate Up In U S Says Census Bureau
Census Bureau survey based on 50 000 couples shows 47 divorced persons per 1000 married couples last year up 33 percent since 1960. Men remarry faster than women and nonwhites have higher divorce rates than whites. Metropolitan areas higher. farm areas lower at 20 per 1000. 86 percent of children ages 10 to 13 lived with both parents.
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Bill Neikirk
Associated Press
Washington
United States
Census Bureau
Nixon Promises Inflation Cut and Prosperity Plan
President Nixon pledges to Congress a sharp inflation reduction and full prosperity by mid 1972 without wage price controls. He cites an unemployment target around 4.0 to 4.5 percent and inflation near 3 percent, plus an $88 billion output rise to $1.065 trillion, urging private sector help.
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Washington
Nixon
Congress
Council of Economic Advisers
Governor Honors Bluefield Citizen in West Virginia
Gov Arch Moore praised industry growth and urged local agencies to boost manufacturing investments in West Virginia. At a West Virginia Industrial Development Association event he honored Forrest Jackson Huntington Jack Lloyd Bluefield and John Lough Clarksburg with Distinguished West Virginian awards. He noted 130 firms announced plans for new or expanded plants over the past two years, totaling over 155 million dollars and 10 000 jobs.
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Charleston
Arch A. Moore Jr
West Virginia
West Virginia Industrial Development Association
Moore
West
Field
John Lough
Clarksburg
Pollution Plague Strains Mercer Area Rivers
Government pollution experts describe water contamination in southern West Virginia and Southwest Virginia. Sewage, sedimentation, and garbage dominate the streams, with untreated waste and soil erosion reducing dam capacity and harming wildlife spawning areas.
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Mercer County
Robert Speich
Mountain - Dominion Resource Conservation and Development
U.S. Soil Conservation Service
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John B. Connally Jr
Texas
Treasury
Finance Committee
Richmond
Virginia General Assembly
Senate House
Oanawha
U.S
Billy Graham
National Press
Southwest Virginia
By Mike Stater
Oakvale High School
Pigeon Creek
East River
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