Brush Creek Award Honors Dr Daniel Hale for Watershed Success
Dr Daniel Hale of Princeton will receive the Brush Creek Watershed Award at the National Watershed Congress in Louisville next Tuesday. The project, named Americas Watershed of the Year for 1969, reshaped Mercer County by taming floods and boosting industry and land values, with Bluefield’s Edison Hollow Dam planned to further secure water supplies.
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Daniel Hale
Princeton
Louisville
National Watershed Congress
Hale
Brush Creek
America
Federa
Bluefield
North American Rockwell
Dean Co
Glenwood Recreation Park
Mercer County
Edison Hollow
Farm Subsidy Disgrace Spurs House Budget Debate
Congress debates waste in farm aid after Rep Silvio Conte questions 3 billion paid to farmers not to plant. An amendment to cap single payments at 20000 passes in the House, opposing administration and Senate trends. Senators Eastland and other large landowners face scrutiny as critics call for abolition of idle-acre subsidies.
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Silvio Conte
Massachusetts
House Appropriations Committee
Conte
Paul Findley
Illinois
House
Senate
Nixon
Congress
James
Eastland
Mississippi
Senate Agriculture Committee
Sen
Mendel
Rep
Mendel Rivers
South Carolina
Washington
Harry Byrd
Harry F. Byrd
Shenandoah Valley
Byrd
Harry Flood, Jr
Charleston
House Armed Services Committee
Buckley urges disciplined Black leadership against violence
Buckley reports on a cross country tour with Whitney Young and Moynihan, urging Black leaders to denounce violence, defend authority, and foster prudent, economically minded strategies to reduce poverty. He praises Black achievement while critiquing rhetoric and police distrust in cities like Cleveland, Chicago, and San Francisco.
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Cleveland
Detroit
Chicago
San Francisco
Oakland
Los Angeles
Atlanta
Washington
Whitney Young
Patrick Moynihan
Richard Nixon
Forest Park
Paul Goodman
Goodman
Ivy League
Surprising Breaks in Major Trials Across History
Ernest Cuneo notes that pivotal case turns emerge from unlikely sources and frightened insiders. He cites Teapot Dome, Seabury, Judd Snyder, Goering, and Murder Inc as examples of how anonymous tips and internal betrayals expose criminals and drive legal outcomes.
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Washington
Teapot Dome
New Mexico
Albert Bacon Fall
Seabury
New York
Damon Runyon
Judd-Snyder
Judd
Syracuse
Pullman Railroad
Mrs. Snyder
Herman Goering
Goering
FBI
Kefauver
Lepke
Murder, Inc
J. Edgar Hoover
FDR
N. Y. State
Volpe Takes Over Coast Guard As Paris Trip Funds Debate Roils
Secretary Volpe, new Coast Guard head, uses the Gulfstream III to attend the Paris Air Show while 39 congressmen and 20 aides travel there on tax funded terms. Nedzi opposes Rivers ABM push, with eight Rivers allies from the Armed Services panel joining a Nedzi-led opposition. Congress debates ABM timing and U.S.-Soviet negotiations.
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Coast Guard
Volpe
Paris
Nixon Opposes Sweden Refuge for U.S. Deserters
Rep John Rarick and Assistant Secretary of State William Macomber clash over Sweden sheltering around 300 American deserters. Macomber urges patience and warns sanctions could backfire while maintaining relations. Rarick accuses Sweden of subsidized sanctuary and cites alleged Biafran bombing reports linked to Swedish pilots.
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Washington
Nixon
Sweden
U.S
U. S
John Rarick
D-La
William Macomber
Rarick
Macomber
Vietnam
Stockholm
Biafra
Carl Gustaf von Rosen
Paul Harvey on Hershey Draft Clash and the Army Plan
Paul Harvey argues Gen Hershey opposes Nixon plan for an all volunteer army calling compulsory mobilization an American anomaly. He says future warfare will rely on skilled technicians and weapons of the tech era, not mass conscription, and predicts a nuclear-armed restraint and plentiful volunteers for specialized roles.
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Hershey
Gen. Hershey
Southeast Asia
Havana
New York City
Nixon
America
Uncle Sam
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Bertrand Russell
W. F. Buckley Jr
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Sirhan Sirhan
Ernest Cuneo
Drew Pearson
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Transportation
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Rivers
John Sparkman
Alabama
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Nedzi
River
Jim Byrne
Philadelphia
Otis Pike
Riverhead
N. Y
Charles Wilson
Bob Leggett
Vallejo
Calif
Charles Whalen
University of Dayton
Ohio
Robert Stafford
Vermont
Stafford
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Leggett
California
Robert Allen and
John Goldsmith
Heath
North Vietnam
Hanoi
Paul Harvey
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