Ford Boggs Chase Panda Photos With U S Leaders
Washington AP report notes Hale Boggs and Gerald Ford failed to get a smooth panda portrait at the National Zoo during a pretrip briefing. The pair will depart for a nine day China visit June 23 after briefings by Kissinger and Nixon. The pandas Hsing Hsing and Ling Ling amused spectators despite the photographers chase.
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California Voters Defeat Tough Anti-Pollution Law
In California the Environmental Initiative Prop 9 failed at the polls amid a strong business and labor opposition $1.4 million campaign. If approved it would have banned DDT and leaded gasoline, restricted offshore drilling, and paused nuclear construction. Backers vowed to try again while opponents warned economic harm and job losses.
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Collins Lands $650000 Ohio ETV Microwave System Pact
Collins Radio Co receives a $650,000 contract from the Ohio Educational Television Network to supply a turnkey microwave system. The project includes 21 sites across Ohio and six studio-to-transmitter links at Kent State, Youngstown State, Akron, Bowling Green, Ohio State and Miami. Additional two multi-hop links connect Columbus to Portsmouth and Athens to Cambridge, with equipment built in Dallas.
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Collins
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Athens
Cambridge
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McGovern Enthusiastic Victory Speech At Hollywood Rally
Joyful McGovern told cheering supporters in Hollywood that their spirit effort and vision would carry him to victory in Miami and then the White House. He joked he could not believe he won the whole thing while noting his new grandson was presented. He urged ending the Vietnam War and uniting the nation after thanking California voters and recalling Robert Kennedy's memory.
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Vietnam
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California
Robert F. Kennedy
Contracts Awarded By College District
The College Community school board awarded several contracts for construction work at its regular meeting Tuesday. Cedar Rapids Asphalt and Paving Co. received two contracts for grading and asphalting a new bus loading area at the campus for 73 791.45 and for asphalting a playground at Prairie Elementary for 5 716. Elview Construction of Cedar Rapids was awarded the remodeling of a science laboratory at the junior high school for 23 858.
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School System To Buy New Trucks In Oklahoma City
The city school board approved spending 54500 for new district trucks after September. Bill Lillard said many current trucks are 20 years old and drivers frequently receive warning tickets for failing to maintain 40 mph on interstate roads, which he called embarrassing.
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Okla
Bill Lillard
Army guardsman who escaped returns to MPs
Twenty years ago authorities announced an escaped GI guardhouse prisoner nicknamed a peace fighter by East German communists had fled the Soviet zone and surrendered to American military police.
Campers Warned About Moths on Their Equipment
Washington AP The agriculture department urges campers to inspect gear before leaving campsites in the Northeast to remove cater pillars brown pupae and tan egg masses to stop gypsy moth spread. Caterpillars now strip leaves. pupate in late June and lay eggs from early July to Labor Day.
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