McGovern and Muskie Hold Talks on VP Nomination
Senator George S. McGovern met for two hours with Senator Edmund S. Muskie to discuss the Democratic vice presidential nomination. Muskie’s office said he would make no further comment for now. McGovern expected a joint announcement later and noted other senators had turned down the post.
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Washington
George S. McGovern
Edmund S. Muskie
Muskie
Maine
Sen
McGovern
Senate
Bethesda
Missouri
Thomas F. Eagleton
Hubert H. Humphrey
Minnesota
Abraham Ribcoff
Connecticut
Edward M
Ballot Check Finds No Vital Change in Erie County
The Erie County Commission canvassed ballots and found no major changes though many ballots were spoiled by checks or blanks. The panel counted votes for Fred Holmes III for justice of the peace only on the attorney’s recommendation, but Holmes could not be elected as he resides outside the township.
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Erie
County Commission
Ray Coder
Coder
Fred Holmes III
Justice of the Peace
Holmes
Cotler
Chanute
Home Zoo Pets Mallard and Iguana at Hal Jones’s House
A 12 year old, Hal Jones, runs a miniature zoo at 1318 S Highland. He keeps a two foot iguana and a tame mallard duck among tanks of tropical fish and pets. The iguana adapts from green to gray and spends daylight on a screen above an air conditioner. Archie the duck, hatched April 30 in an incubator, acts like a human and follows Hal indoors.
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Hal Jones
S. Highland
Hal
Archie
Property tax rules explain school mill levy change
Officials explain that mill levy caps differ: the property tax lid uses a 1969-70 base year and cannot exceed that levy, while the five per cent budget limit restricts year to year increases. For School District 413, 36.08 mills include recreation and cooperative levies not covered by the lid, leaving the general fund increase within five per cent of 1971-72.
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Steele
Recreation Commission
Special Education Cooperative
Halt on hexachlorophene raises nursery infections
A CDC study shows infection rates in hospital nurseries rose six fold after halting routine hexachlorophene bathing of newborns. While 95 percent of US hospitals kept using handwashing with hexachlorophene, some switched to dry skin care or nonmedicated soaps.
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Washington
Food and Drug Administration
CDC
U.S
Coffeyville Seizes 115 Dogs and a Cat from Home
Coffeyville authorities, by order of Montgomery County Health Officer Bob Meeker, impounded 115 dogs and a Siamese cat from Hazel Coffey 67 after a search warrant. Most dogs were in poor health and moved to Lakeview Kennels as officials arrange care and determine their future.
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Coffeyville
Montgomery County
Bob Meeker
Mrrs
Hazel Coffey
Richard A. Medley
Lakeview Kennels
Walter Johnson Field Project Picks Pride Plan for Fund Drive
Humboldt residents learn Walter Johnson athletic field is the PRIDE Committee’s first improvement project. Donation containers sit in local businesses to raise funds as the program has no funds. Volunteers will be needed for labor.
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Walter Johnson
Humboldt
Humboldt — Walter Johnson
Pride Committee
FCC Allows Racist Campaign Broadcasts Despite Outcry
The FCC ruled that J. B. Stoner may continue campaign ads containing racist language, saying the Constitution protects such speech even if officials find it repugnant. Stoner runs in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate in Georgia amid a crowded field led by Gov. Gambrell.
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Washington
Federal Communications Commission
J. B. Stoner
Atlanta
Sam Massell
Stoner
National States Rights Party
U.S. Senate
David H. Gambrell
FCC
Intercepted Letter Dear Cha
A terse intercepted note questions a cat’s health amid blunt remarks about dogs. The fragment hints at concern for the animal's condition and contrasts it with the dogs' wellbeing.
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Cha
Neosho County plans near one mill levy increase for 1973
The proposed 1973 county budget sets the levy at 27.50 mills, 0.90 higher than 26.60 this year, raising 1,215,481.85 in ad valorem tax. Major shifts include eliminating the general fund levy to free 3903 funds for roads and bridges, boosting road and bridge levies to 9.09 mills and 1.23 mills for a special bridge fund. Total expenditures rise to 3,053,304.17 with a 1973 tax valuation of 44,227,442. The public hearing on the budget is August 14 at 9 a.m. in Erie.
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Erie
Neosho County
The
Tribune
County School Foundation
State Department of Education
Neosho
Crawford County
Agricultural Extension Council
Social Security
R.c.&d
Planning Commission
County Commission
Tribune Today
Board Blight Forces Draft Office Move in San Jose
San Jose draft board relocates to a new site near police headquarters after faced antiwar protests, bomb threats, and a $15,000 arson fire. Landlord Wes Martin says upgrade plans proceed without fear of destruction.
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San Jose, Calif
Wes Martin
Community Bank
Police Headquarters
Treaty Ratified on ABM Limits in Senate Vote
The Senate approved a historic treaty limiting anti ballistic missiles 200 per nation and two sites one at the capital and one in the interior. The move clears the path for a broader five year SALT accord on offensive nuclear weapons signed by Nixon and Brezhnev in Moscow May 25.
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Nixon
Communist Party
Leonid Brezhnev
Moscow
Nixon armored limousine rolls from Dearborn plant
A five ton Lincoln limousine built for President Nixon leaves Dearborn in a closed truck for Washington with a Secret Service escort. Workers quote the vehicle as extremely strong, with a bomb able to roll it over. Taxpayers pay only a small fraction of the cost through a lease fee of about five thousand dollars annually.
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Dearborn
Mich
Nixon
Washington
Secret Service
The
Detroit Free Press
Cuban air defense arms boost from Soviet boats
Cuban Armed Forces Minister Raul Castro says the Soviet Union supplied Cuba earlier this year with rocket firing boats. The boats reportedly double the firing and anti aircraft capacity of older models, according to a Radio Havana broadcast monitored in Miami.
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Miami
Fla
Raul Castro
Soviet Union
Radio
Havana
Castro
Fidel Castro
Bremer Found Sane and Convicted in Wallace Shooting
Arthur H. Bremer was found sane and convicted on all charges arising from the shooting of Alabama Governor George C. Wallace and three others at a Laurel Maryland shopping center. He had pleaded innocent by reason of insanity.
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Upper Marlboro, Md
Arthur H. Bremer
Alabama
George C. Wallace
Bremer
Laurel, Md
Independent delegates stay uncommitted to Nixon at renomination convention
Washington report notes 12 independents among 1,348 delegates who support Nixon yet seek freedom from presiding pressure. They favor rugged individualism and plan to attend the Miami Beach gathering unpledged, contrasting with the lone non-Nixon New Mexico delegate backed by Rep. Paul McCloskey.
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Washington
Nixon
White House
New Mexico
Paul N. McCloskey
California
Miami Beach
Senate approves boosted GI Bill benefits for veterans
The Senate narrowly passes a higher GI Bill for college and vocational schools by a vote of 89 to 0. The measure would raise monthly aid to 250 dollars from 175, surpassing the Nixon administration’s request, with a House-Senate conference to reconcile differences before the fall term.
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Washington
Senate
Nixon
House
House-Senate
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Jerry Steele
National Center For Disease Control
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