Linn County Parks Face Closure Over Tax Revenue Shortfall
Linn county conservation board may close its park system for the rest of the year and possibly not operate the first four months of 1972 due to financial woes. State Auditor Lloyd Smith is involved as the board weighs other funding and debt obligations including a $7,000 condemnation judgment and $4,500 attorney fees.
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Nixon Labor Showdown Signals 1972 Campaign Clash
Nixon bluntly pressed wage price controls before about 2000 AFL CIO delegates at the Miami Beach convention facing sharp rebukes from Meany and others. Labor leaders expressed mixed views on politics with McGovern favored by some and Jackson Kennedy discussed. officials denied inviting Nixon to speak. Nixon left after Meany halted his handshake bid amid a tense, televised fracas signaling a major pre election clash.
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George Meany
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Meany
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Block Return of Czech Children Behind Curtain
An appeals court blocked a lower court order to return Vlasta Gabriel eight and Fritz seven to their mother in Czechoslovakia. The children fled with their father in 1968 after crossing the border. their father died soon after in the United States. Foster parents in Yucaipa hid the pair as the case awaits further appeal.
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Vlasta Gabriel
Fritz
David Leavitt
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Roy Smith
Yucaipa
Prague
Los Angeles
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Commerce Secretary In Moscow Eyes U S Soviet Trade Shift
Secretary Maurice Stans met with Premier Kosygin in Moscow for about three and a half hours to discuss U S Soviet trade. Kosygin expressed hope for a positive shift in relations, while noting no momentous decisions were expected immediately.
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Stans
Nikolai Patolichev
Soviet Union
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Two kinds of families hoarding antique furniture
Witty quip notes that households with money and those with children both end up with a house full of antique furniture. The line plays on class and family life with a light, humorous tone from a Chuckle column.
101st Airborne Begins Vietnam Pullout Ahead Of Schedule
The 101st Airborne Division began phased combat withdrawal six weeks early as part of Nixon’s Vietnamization plan. One thousand five hundred eighty five troops left combat, with many reassigned or discharged. the unit will complete its departure from the northern battle zone while others remain in South Vietnam. Agent Orange stockpiles in South Vietnam will be shipped home and destroyed, a move linked to a 1970 NCI study on civilian health effects.
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Back Retroactive Pay Rise If Severe Wage Inequity Found
The Pay Board approved retroactive pay raises in cases where the wage price freeze created severe inequity by blocking fair wage hikes. The 9 to 5 vote allowed back pay for workers earning under two dollars an hour and for fringe benefits that would have risen without the freeze. Teachers were not excluded but back pay for teachers will be revisited next week.
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Pay Board
George Boldt
Unions Raise Meany Salary to 90 000 At AFL-CIO Convention
The AFL-CIO convention raised President George Meany’s pay from 70 000 to 90 000 a year in a 28.5 percent increase, exceeding the Pay Board limit and signaling a challenge to Nixon’s wage controls. Lane Kirkland’s secretary treasurer pay also rose from 45 000 to 60 000.
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Miami Beach
UPI
Afl-Cio
George Meany
Guidline
Communications Workers
Joseph Beirne
Beirne
Meany
Frank Fitzsimmons
Teamster
Teamsters Convention
Joseph Curran
National Maritime Union
Lane Kirkland
Time To Freeze Tuition at Macalester College
Macalester College will keep 1971-72 tuition unchanged, as President James Robinson warns that annual increases have become a reflex to rising costs. He says maintaining high educational standards requires restraint in passing costs to students and parents.
Boy 10 Fatally Struck by Ambulance in Garland
A Garland boy, 10, was killed when an ambulance carrying a 6-year-old girl injured in a separate crash struck him at an intersection on Friday night. The girl was not seriously hurt.
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Garland
Texas
Barry Johnson
Governor Preston Smith to Seek Third Term in Texas
Governor Preston Smith announced on Friday his plan to run for a third term. He frames the bid as a continuation of his administration’s policies amid Texas political debates.
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Austin
Texas
Preston Smith
Johnson Sheriff Blasts Audit Inaccuracies
Johnson County Sheriff Maynard Schneider criticized the 1970 Johnson County audit claiming many aspects were unclear. State Auditor Lloyd Smith urged the county board to review sheriff expenses for oversight, stewardship, and social accountability as costs rose.
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Johnson County
Maynard Schneider
Lloyd Smith
Smith
County Board of Supervisors
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