Who Shares Pie Blame For Higher Food Prices
AP report analyzes rising grocery costs in an election year with breakdowns of price shares for beef lettuce bread and the roles of farmers processors and retailers. It notes farmers gain slightly more of the food dollar while retailer margins shrink and major chains face price reductions after regulatory findings.
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Earl L. Butz
S. Kent Christensen
National Association of Food Chains
Christensen
Kissinger to Visit South Vietnam for Vietnam Review
President Nixon sends Henry Kissinger to Saigon for a general review of the Vietnam problem including Paris negotiations. He will meet Thieu Bunker Weyand and U.S. officials and return before the Republican National Convention. His exact post Saigon plans remain undecided.
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Nixon
Henry A. Kissinger
South Vietnam
Vietnam
Paris
White House
Kissinger
U.S
Saigon
Nguyen van Thieu
Ellsworth Bunker
Frederick C. Weyand
Ronald L. Ziegler
Ziegler
Hanoi
North Vietnam
Switzerland
Emergency Divorce Granted To Wife Of KU's Chancellor
The Kansas Board of Regents will hold a special Topeka meeting to discuss University of Kansas chancellor E Laurence Chalmers Jr after his wife Mary Ann was granted an emergency divorce in Olathe. Judge Harold Riggs cited incompatibility. Chalmers, 43, became chancellor in 1969.
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Kansas Board of Regents
E. Laurence Chalmers Jr
University of Kansas
Chalmers
Regents
Mary Ann
Olathe
Harold Riggs
Max Bickford
Robert Docking
Hames Shaffer
Mary Chalmers
Chalmerses
Tom
Chip
University of Colorado
Ohio State University
Groups seek space as city session considers requests
City Commission heard multiple groups request use of space in the Memorial Building third floor amid renovation plans. Veterans of World War I and auxiliary want Central Park Building space monthly. Rainbow Division seeks a monthly meeting room. Gem and Mineral Society asks for a room. Burns & McDonnell reports on a 545000 electrical upgrade while bonds for water and gas projects were approved. Streets protests arise over Ashby and 10th paving with new petitions needed.
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City Commission
Barbara Kihm
Memorial Building
Commission
Keneath Sanborn
C. A. Anderson
Central Park
Bob Pennington
Pennington
Urgent Power System Upgrades Proposed for City
Burns & McDonnell recommends urgent electrical distribution improvements to expand circuits drive power southwest and add a second tie-in with KG&E. estimated costs total 545000 dollars for new circuits a transformer and high voltage line improvements to prevent outages and strengthen reliability.
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P. R. Shafer
Burns & McDonnell Engineering Company
Shafer
George Eaton
Kg&e
Intercepted Letter Mentioning Vietnam Figures
An intercepted letter references Cha and mentions Henry Kissinger, North Vietnam, and Ram Sey Clark in South Vietnam, with a brief note suggesting a visit.
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Cha
Henry Kissinger
North Vietnam
Ramsey Clark
South Vietnam
Weather Area Forecast for Wednesday and Tonight
Mostly sunny and hot Wednesday with highs in the upper 90s. Tonight will be fair and mild with lows in the low to mid 70s. South to southwest winds 10 to 20 mph this afternoon diminishing tonight. Precipitation probability near zero percent tonight and Wednesday.
East German jetliner crash kills 156 on charter flight
An East German Ilyushin 62 charter jetliner crashed shortly after takeoff from East Berlin killing all 156 aboard. The flight carried vacationers to the Black Sea and was operated by Interflug. It ranks as the second worst disaster in commercial aviation history.
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Berlin
Black Sea
East Berlin
ADN
Interflug
McGovern launches Midwest swing with AFL CIO support
Sen George McGovern begins a four day Midwest tour with stops in Ohio Wisconsin and downstate Illinois amid talk he will temper tax reform plans. Chicago Mayor Daley is among the anticipated encounters. 25 AFL CIO unions form a National Labor Committee to back his candidacy.
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Washington
George McGovern
Midwest
Ohio
Wisconsin
Illinois
Chicago
Richard J. Daley
Aflcio
National Labor Committee
Oscar Levant Dies at 65 in Beverly Hills
Oscar Levant pianist and entertainer dies at 65 in Beverly Hills after a period of professional inactivity. He reportedly died in his sleep Monday afternoon and an autopsy was ordered, with authorities citing natural causes and his long battle with edema arthritis insomnia and other ailments.
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Oscar Levant
Levant
Emperor Hirohito Leads War Dead Observance in Tokyo
Emperor Hirohito addressed about 5000 relatives of war dead in Tokyo as he marked the 27th anniversary of Japan's surrender. He spoke in a tone recalling the surrender and expressed ongoing pity for those who died in the war. A separate dispatch from Topeka reports Kansas Attorney General Vern Miller invalidated a portion of the compulsory attendance law that restricts church based school programs while ruling the rest valid.
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Tokyo
Hirohito
Japan
Topeka
Kan
Vern Miller
Kansas
Nixon advisers urge curb on spending and inflation controls
The three members of the President's Council of Economic Advisers told GOP platform writers that federal spending must be cut and Phase 2 controls kept to prevent inflation and higher taxes. Nixon was at Camp David reviewing the policy on the anniversary of its initial reveal.
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Miami Beach
Fla
Nixon
Republican Platform
GOP
Council of Economic Advisers
Camp David
U S Jets Hit Seven Targets in Thanh Hoa Area
In Vietnam the U S Command reports Navy jets attacked seven targets in Thanh Hoa area while denying Hanoi claims a business center and cathedral district were bombed. A spokesman said he has no information on a North Vietnamese claim of civilian casualties and denied strikes inside Thanh Hoa city.
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Saigon
U.S
Thanh Hoa
North Vietnam
Hanoi
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