Draft Lottery Sets Priorities For 1952 Births In 1969 Drawing
The Selective Service released the random draw results naming priority dates for 2 million men born in 1952. Dec 4 heads the list, Nov 21 the highest, with 366 days assigned due to 1952 being a leap year. Christmas Day births receive 135, while numbers above 150 or 160 lessen draft risk. Congress may extend the draft as Senate debates a related bill.
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Washington
UPI
Selective Service
Congress
House
Senate
U. S
Vietnam
Roofers Fight Over Wages Halts Work in Cedar Rapids
In Cedar Rapids a renewed labor dispute stops roofing work as the union rejects a craft board plan to scale back a Nov 1 wage rise. Roofers had been set for a 40 cent raise May 1 and an 80 cent raise Nov 1, with a later option of four nine hour days.
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Cedar Rapids News
Roofers Union
Cedar Rapids Roofing Assn
Roofers
Labor Department
Craft Board
Washington
Roofers Businss
Jerome Kriz
Kriz
Nixon Urges Senate Action On Draft Bill
President Nixon urged the Senate to act by Friday on a draft extension bill and endorsed a compromise to press Congress to set a final withdrawal date from Indo China. He expressed hope the Senate would adopt the report so he could sign before summer vacation, as Stennis planned to call up the measure.
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Nixon
Senate
Congress
U. S
Indo-China
John Stennis
D-Miss
Armed Services Committee
Stennis
House
Sen
Mike Gravel
Alaska
Cedar Rapids Receives Flood Insurance Under Emergency Program
The Department of Housing and Urban Development approved federally subsidized flood insurance for Cedar Rapids under the emergency flood insurance program. Beginning August 13, owners of existing single to four family homes and small businesses may buy at a low rate, with residential rates ranging from four to five dollars per thousand of coverage. Cedar Rapids qualified after agreeing to land use controls to reduce future flood damage.
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Washington, D.C
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Cedar Rapids
U.S
Jack Miller
Sen. Miller
Astronaut Worden Walks in Space During Apollo 15 Mission
Apollo 15 astronaut Alfred Worden ventured out of the Endeavour to retrieve film canisters from a rear camera bay. He tethered to the hull for a 15 foot hand over hand move while David Scott and James Irwin assisted. A TV camera broadcast a clear view of the spacewalk from 197,000 miles from Earth.
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David Scott
James Irwin
Irwin
Worden
Scott
Moon
Roger
Earth
Endeavour
Drop in Food Portion Of Spending In 1971
Agriculture department economists say Americans will spend a record amount on food this year but use a smaller share of take-home pay. Food prices may rise about 3.5 percent, with total food spending near 120.3 to 120.8 billion dollars and the income share at about 16.2 percent, down from 16.6 in 1970.
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Agriculture Department
SAS Denies Plan to Fly 187 POWs From Laos to Europe
Stockholm reports SAS says a Swedish newspaper story about U S military authorities seeking to charter a DC plane to airlift 187 prisoners of war from Vientiane to Rome via Bangkok is false. An unnamed private individual approached SAS in West Germany in mid July with a possible Laos to Rome charter. readiness to sign was called off.
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Stockholm
Laos
Europe
West Germany
Rome
SAS
Germany
Sweden
Dagens Nyheter
U. S
Vientiane
Bangkok
Curbing Poverty Hard, Taxes Piling Wealth Wins Says Cartoon
A political cartoon lampoons economic policy noting the struggle to eradicate poverty while high prices and taxes profit the wealthy, highlighting public frustration with tax systems and wealth gaps.
Jetliner Lands Safely After Air Collision
A Continental Airlines Boeing 707 arriving from Hawaii landed safely at Los Angeles International after colliding in the air with a light single engine plane. Eighty seven passengers and nine crew were aboard. the jet sustained wing damage estimated at 5000 dollars. The two men in the light plane were injured, one with a broken leg, as the Cessna 150 was being piloted by a nonlicensed passenger under supervision.
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Continental Airlines
Hawaii
Los Angeles International Airport
Continental
Federal Aviation Administration
Jetliner
Hal Ross
Arthur Wright
Compton
Leo Hopp
Hopp
Granada Hills
Art
Wright
FAA
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