Swim Club Bias Right Overturned
The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that a suburban Washington segregated swimming club cannot deny membership to Negroes based on nearby residency. The decision reversed the Richmond federal court which allowed the Wheaton Haven Recreation Association to bar Black members, noting that residency linked benefits become part of a property purchase bundle.
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Harry Blackmun
Wheaton-Haven
Court of Appeals
High Court
Supreme Court
Harry Press
Howard University Medical School
Murray
Rosalind Tillman
Johnson County Faces Road Crisis Strands Farms and Schools
Johnson County Engineer O J Gode calls the secondary road system critical as county residents fear being stranded on farms. Supervisor Robert Burns urges a self imposed embargo on traffic and heavier loads only during early hours to keep roads passable amid limited diesel fuel and $200000 planned gravel resurfacing for 1973.
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Iowa City
Johnson County
O. J. Gode
Gode
Robert Burns
Burns
City Manager Ordinance Dies in First Reading
OELWEIN The first reading of an ordinance to hire a city manager died for lack of a second. About 35 residents attended the council meeting and voiced opposition to the plan. The motion was made by Bob Carnaday and backed by Wayne Liebe, but Liebe withdrew after objections.
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Oelwein
Bob Carnaday
Wayne Liebe
Liebe
Chuckle Teenager Quips On Awkward Parking Phase
A joke line frames a teen boy at the awkward age who parks yet struggles with the why behind it. The gag relies on a simple misdirection about growing up and interest in car culture.
Governors Attack Nixon Budget Cuts At Governors Conference
Democratic governors condemned Nixon budget cuts as harming the poor elderly and unemployed while at the National Governors Conference they criticized federal priorities. Governors Bumpers Ford Curtis Carter cited impoundments and shifting costs, with Carter hinting at a suit to challenge fund impoundment.
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Washington
UPI
Nixon
National Governors Conference
Senate
Dale Bumpers
Arkansas
Bumpers
Kentucky
Wendell Ford
White House
Jimmy Carter
Georgia
Congress
Supreme Court
North Urges Allies to Honor Cease Fire
Washington accuses Hanoi of delaying prisoner releases and orders Secretary Rogers to press North Vietnam for immediate freedom of at least 120 American POWs. Nixon demands clarification of the delay and cites the Paris cease fire obligations while North Vietnam suspends POW releases.
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North
Talks Hit Impasse on Prisoners
Paris AP secretary of state Rogers halted all Vietnam talks Tuesday awaiting clarification of North Vietnam’s move to delay further prisoner releases. Nixon ordered awaiting an appointment with Nguyen Duy Trinh to explain the stall, as U.S. officials condemn the North’s conditions on POW releases and seek to preserve the peace conference.
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Ziegler
Rogers
Nixon
Paris
Vietnam
North Vietnam
Nguyen Duy Trinh
United Nations
U.S
Robert McCloskey
United States
McCloskey
Freed POW Risner cites antiwar protests as prolonging captivity
Air Force Colonel Robinson Risner says protests kept U S POWs in Hanoi camps an extra year or two. He credits Nixon decision to intensify bombing and B 52 raids for release and states antiwar movement angered him while POWs watched propaganda and feared broken promises by North Vietnam.
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Ziegler
United States
South Vietnam
Hanoi
Bui Tin
Saigon
Joint Military Commission
U.S
Laos
Cambodia
Oklahoma City
Air Force
Robinson Risner
North Vietnam
Risner
Nixon
Hanoi- Haiphong
Voice of
Vietnam
Food Prices Soar After Devaluation
Wholesale prices of many food commodities rose sharply in the first full week after the dollar devaluation. Broilers up 10 percent, pork bellies 8.5 percent, whole hogs 4.4 percent, cattle carcasses 2.3 percent, wheat 12.1 percent, flour 6.5 percent. Brookings economist Lawrence Krause cited export demand as the link and warned of more disappointing figures ahead.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Lawrence Krause
Brookings Institution
Krause
Philly School Pact Reached
Mayor Frank Rizzo announced that the Philadelphia school board and the striking teachers union reached contract terms to end an eight week public school strike.
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Philadelphia
Frank Tizzo
Standby Draft Lottery Set for March 8 Drawing
Washington AP The standby military draft lottery will occur March 8 for men turning 19 in 1973, i e born in 1954 The lottery numbers will not lead to induction in 1973 but could affect 1974 A processing ceiling number will determine who enters a standby pool of readily inductable men
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Washington
Selective Service
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UPI Telephoto
G. William Whitehurst
D-Va
Jack Harris
The
North American Association For Preservation of Predatory Animals
Rayburn House
Jethro
Whitehurst
Canada
Johnson
Blackmun
District Court
Wash
Board of Supervisors
Sheriff's Office
Midwest
Maine
Kenneth Curtis
Ohio
John J. Gilligan
Office of Economic Opportunity
Ronald Ziegler
Henry Kissinger
Provisional Revolutionary
U. S
Govern
Daily Oklahoman
McGovern
Sen. McGovern
Eisner
New York Times Service
Philly
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