Solons Quiet Draft Expires At Midnight
Two flag pole painters earned 75 dollars for painting 65 foot poles at Mercer County Courthouse and Memorial Building in Princeton. The work took about ten minutes to climb and 30 minutes to descend. A 115 dollar check was issued, including 40 dollars for Mercer Airport pole work. The painters travel the country for hazardous work as Mercer's poles had not been painted in two years. The draft will halt at midnight Wednesday unless Congress acts, with leaders saying action by then is unlikely. A provision to call men with expiring deferments requires presidential authorization, and a compromise on withdrawal timelines remains unsettled.
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Mercer County
Memorial
Princeton
Erwin
Tenn
Leonard Miller
Mercer
Selective Service
Nixon
William C. Holmberg
Holmberg
Congress
House Armed Services
F. Edward Hebert
D-La
House
Senate
U.S
Indochina
Alvin E. O'Kenski
Rwis
Nixon vetoes public works bill and resists stimulus
President Nixon vetoed a 5.6 billion public works measure and rejected wage or price controls tax cuts or higher spending to spur growth. The draft will stop unless Congress passes a compromise bill, with unlikely conference committee agreement. The 1972 Democratic National Convention is slated for Miami Beach the week of July 9.
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Washington
Nixon
Miami Beach
Fla
West Virginia High Court to rule on repealed drug law validity
The State Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to hear Cabell and Wood County cases challenging whether West Virginia narcotics laws repealed earlier remained constitutional while effective. The decision centers on the legality of enforcing repealed drug statutes and their application to defendants. The cases raise broader questions about statutory retroactivity and constitutional limits.
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Charleston
State Supreme Court
Cabell
Wood County
West Virginia
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Bluefield Resident Sues Over Two Car Eligibility Policy
A Bluefield resident sues in Mercer County Circuit Court to change or abolish the West Virginia Welfare Department's two car ineligibility rule begun about a year ago. A Bluefield State College student alleges Bluefield City Director Leland Carter refused to rent an apartment due to the student being Nevro.
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Bluefield
Mercer County
West Virginia
Department of Welfare
Leland Carter
Bluefield State College
Carter
Draft Halt Ordered For State
West Virginia local draft boards were ordered to halt all examination drafting and classifying for July with doctors exempted. The move follows a national headquarters telephone directive as Congress has not extended the draft law. Brown notes July quota may be 110 to 125 men, and June saw drafting up to random number 175.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Harold FE. Brown
Selective Service
Washington
Brown
National Headquarters
Congress
Kanawha
U S Signals Cautious Openness at Geneva Disarmament Talks
In Geneva the United States said it would welcome China and France to join other nuclear powers in disarmament efforts. James Leonard framed a possible path around the Soviet proposal for a five-nuclear-power conference, stressing consent of all states and consideration of nonnuclear interests. Both sides cited ongoing hopes for a summer session draft to outlaw bacteriological weapons amid competing proposals from Britain and the Soviet Union.
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Geneva
United States
China
France
James Leonard
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Leonard
Alexei A. Roshchin
Brezhnev
Roshchin
Mine Yields More Bodies In Consol No. 9 Blast
Officials of Consolidation Coal Co report two more bodies recovered from the Consol No. 9 mine in Farmington West Virginia. The fourth body recovered Monday was identified as Dave Cartwright a mechanic from Carolina Marion County. Seven other victims have been identified in previous reports with ages given for Parsons Tolar and Stoneking.
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Farmington
W.va
Consolidation Coal Co
Dave Cartwright
Marion County
Carolina
Cartwright
Raymond Richard ‘Buck’ Parsons
Mannington
Dennis Lee Tolar
Monongah
Jerry Lee Stoneking
Fairmont
Leonard Gross
Consolidation
Parsons
Tolar
Stoneking
Princetonian stabbed after local dispute on Mercer Street
A 27 year old Princeton resident was stabbed on Mercer Street during a night quarrel. Police arrested 20 year old Paul J Thompson Jr of Princeton for felonious assault after the attack at about 825 pm. The victim remained in serious condition at Community's hospital.
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Princeton
Mason Dewey Hall
Mercer Street
Paul J. Thompson Jr
C. H H. Fralick
Sammy Barker
George Carver
Thompson
East River District
Justice of the Peace
James
Nixon vetoes public works bill over unemployment aid clash
President Nixon vetoed a 5.6 billion public works measure citing a 2 billion local-unemployment project section and said no new tax cuts would be pursued. Treasury appointee Connally defended the policy stance, urging emergency employment legislation to sustain job creation and curb inflation.
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Nixon
Congress
Appalachian Regional Commission
Economic Development Administration
Connally
Treasury
John B. Connally
Texas
White House
Mob Boss Joseph Colombo In Coma After Shooting At Rally
In New York a renowned mob boss Joseph Colombo remained in a coma after being shot at a Columbus Circle rally. Doctors warned the next 48 to 72 hours are critical as police investigate motives amid possible lone gunman or mob involvement.
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New York
Joseph Colombo
Colombo
Roosevelt Hospital
Albert Seedman
Columbus Circle
Jerome Johnson
New Brunswick
N.J
Appalachian coal operators sue over Federal Mine Safety Act
A group of small Appalachian coal operators filed suit in Pikeville challenging the 1969 Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act as discriminatory and unconstitutional The docket cites due process and equal protection concerns and targets ventilation dust limits and mine closure provisions The action names Interior Secretary Rogers Morton and Bureau of Mines director Elburt Osborn as defendants Nearly 10 000 operators employing 1 835 workers mine 5 3 million tons annually with operations in Kentucky West Virginia and Virginia The suit seeks an injunction and a three judge court to hear merits while penalties and orders are protested
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Frankfort
Pikeville
Kentucky
Robert Holcomb
Farmington
W. Va
West Virginia
Virgina
Interior
Rogers (.B. Morton
Elburt Osborn
Bureau of Mines
Interior Department
North Vietnamese 10,000 Troops In Dry Season Offensive Planned
South Vietnamese Maj. Gen. Pham Van Phu said 10,000 North Vietnamese troops are deployed for a dry season drive against allied bases along the DMZ. He warned of heavy fighting to defend Hue and Da Nang while noting three North Vietnamese regiments infiltrated since May and that large artillery remains north of the DMZ.
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Saigon
Pham van Phu
Hue
da Nang
South Vietnam
Phu
Dmz
North Vietnam
Fuller
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Associated Press
Tag LP
Aeadles
Ankara
Turkey
Eyt
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Gross
Princetonian
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Ronald L. Ziegler
Paul W. McCracken
Council of Economic Advisers
George Shultz
Office of Management and Budget
Mob
Justice Department
Cosa Nostra
Civil Rights League
Central Park
Anthony Colombo
Joseph Colombo Sr
Appy Coal
National Assembly
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