Nixon expands price controls to fresh produce and seafood
President Nixon signed an executive order removing the exemption on raw agricultural products, bringing fresh fruits eggs vegetables and seafood under price controls after the first sale. The measure targets wholesale and retail levels and will not significantly affect meat prices already under controls.
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Nixon
Price Commission
Donald Rumsfeld
Cost of Living Council
Rumsfeld
Judge blocks fair games crackdown in Iowa carnivals
Polk County Judge A B Crouch issued a 20 day injunction barring Attorney General Richard Turner from cracking down on carnival games of skill at Iowa fairs. The ruling limits the injunction to traditional carnival games such as ring toss basketball shoot and shooting galleries while a July 5 trial will test the statutes' applicability.
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Des Moines
Polk County
A. B. Crouch
Richard Turner
Iowa
Crouch
Turner
Assn. of Iowa Fairs
Century 21 Shows, Inc
Assn., Inc
Egg Market Could Collapse Under Nixon Price Freeze
Jim Rich of Kalona an official with Country Lane Eggs division of Yoder Feeds warns President Nixon's order freezing egg margins could bankrupt the industry. He says retail price freezes would empty egg supplies within three to six months and bankers avoid credit on losses.
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Nixon
Jim Rich
Kalona
Rich
Country Lane Eggs
Yoder Feeds, Inc
Nixon on TV At 8 Tonight
President Nixon holds his first radio and TV news conference since June 1 1971 at 8 o clock Iowa time. The event will be open to questions on foreign and domestic issues.
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Washington
UPI
Nixon
Iowa
Calif. Delegates Stripped From McGovern by Credentials Panel
Democratic credentials panel voted 73 to 65 to strip Sen. George McGovern of 151 California delegates. The action shifts delegates to Humphrey and others, potentially depriving McGovern of the 1,509 votes needed for the nomination. McGovern blasted the move as a corrupt political deal while Wallace supporters weigh a third party bid after the convention.
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Democratic Credentials Committee
George McGovern
California
Bbid
Hubert H. Humphrey
McGovern
Humphrey
Edmund S. Muskie
Henry M. Jackson
Shirley Chisholm
Joseph A. Califano, Jr
United Press International
George Wallace
Charles Snider
Alabama
Wallace
Snider
Miami Beach
Holy Cross Hospital
Silver Spring
Planes Collide Over Wisconsin. 13 Dead Reported
Two passenger planes collided and sank in Neenah Wisconsin on Thursday. Authorities say 13 people were killed with eight aboard the Air Wisconsin craft from Sheboygan to Appleton and five aboard the North Central plane from Green Bay to Oshkosh.
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Wis
Air Wisconsin
Sheboygan
Appleton
North Central
Green Bay
Oshkosh
Supreme Court Rules Death Penalty Unconstitutional
The court held 5 to 4 that capital punishment as applied in the United States violates the Constitution and cannot be imposed. The ruling affects about 600 inmates on death row, with majority opinions from Douglas Brennan Marshall Stewart and White, and dissents from Burger Blackmun Powell Rehnquist.
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Washington
Supreme Court
United States
William O. Douglas
William J. Brennan, Jr
Thurgood Marshall
Potter Stewart
Byron R. White
Nixon Administration
Warren E. Burger
Harry A. Blackmun
Lewis F. Powell, Jr
William H. Rehnquist
Powell
Douglas
Brennan
Marshall
Road injunction dissolved by Linn District Judge in Mt. Vernon widening case
Judge William Eads dissolved an injunction halting Mt. Vernon road SE widening and dismissed the declaratory judgment petition. Cedar Rapids officials may pursue federal funds and begin construction while criticizing the planning commission as too closely tied to the city council. The ruling notes the commission’s limited authority and questions handling of project scope.
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William Eads
Dis
Mt. Vernon Road SE
Cedar Rapids
Eads
City Planning Commission
John and
Shirley Wolfe
Mt. Vernon Road
Planning Commission
Mt. Vernon
Commission
City Public Improvements
Richard Phillips
Nineteenth Street
T.o.p.lc.s
Fifth Avenue
F.A.M
Memorial Drive
T.o.p.1.cs
Victor Corp to Acquire Nissen Corp in Planned Merger
Cedar Rapids news: Victor Comptometer Corp. and Nissen Corp. announce an agreement in principle for Victor to acquire Nissen. Nissen will be organized as a Victor subsidiary but remain Iowa based. Exchange terms set by August prices with stockholder approvals as outlined.
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Cedar Rapids News
Victor Comptometer Corp
Nissen Corp
Nissen
Victor
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Victor Common
New York ‘Stock Exchange
Wilson Sporting Goods
London
Ertl Corp
Dyersville
Saigon Offensive Expands as 20 000 Troops Press North
US helicopters airlift more than 1 000 South Vietnamese marines to Quang Tri coast while over 20 000 government troops push north into Quang Tri province. Forward positions arc 6 to 12 miles from the provincial capital as heavy weapons dominate gains. Casualties total 165 North Vietnamese and six South Vietnamese killed with 34 government troops wounded.
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Quang Tri City
Quang Tri
Chuckle Says Parking Ticket Riddle on Space
A light humor piece notes the oddity of earning a parking ticket beginning with finding a space. The joke plays on the taut irony of the prerequisite task and the fee that follows.
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