Nixon to address nation on Vietnam policy tonight
President Nixon will speak in a national television and radio address from the Oval Office at 7 30 p m CST to discuss foreign policy amid signals of a possible troop withdrawal and prisoner release in Vietnam peace talks. White House aides provided few specifics and avoided confirming reports of a Vietnam trade offer.
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Ronald Ziegler
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Counties Plan Joint Juvenile Detention Center and Bridge Repair
Neosho and Crawford County boards meet in Girard to share costs for a jointly used juvenile detention home in the Crawford building and to split bridge repair costs on a county line. Crawford to cover about 60 percent of the bridge cost, Neosho about 40 percent, based on tax bases.
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Crawford County Boards of Commissioners
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Kenneth Casper
Ray Coder
Ivan Shafer
Neosho County
Crawford
Casper
Crawford County
Mt. Carmel School of Nursing
Craword County
County Health Department
County Mental Health Group
Charles Ingles
Weather forecast for the region turning cloudy with light southeast winds
The area expects increasing cloudiness and milder air tonight with southeasterly winds of 5 to 15 mph. Mostly cloudy and continued cold Wednesday with a chance of snow. low tonight in the mid teens, high Wednesday in the upper 20s to lower 30s. precipitation chances 5 percent tonight and 30 percent Wednesday.
District 415 Spring Enrollment Shrinks by Nine
Total district enrollment falls to 2,562 for the spring semester, with kindergarten junior high and high school enrollments down while grades one through six rise. Elementary grades gain 13 students as Alcott Hutton Fairfield and Roosevelt elementary schools report small increases.
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Superintendent of Schools
Alcott
Hutton
Fairfield
Roosevelt
Water rate plan could raise typical bills significantly
A proposed rate schedule by Wilson and Company would lift most charges from $3.75 to $4.38 monthly, with large users facing a 50 to 115 percent rise. The plan aims for debt control, capital reserves, and potential bonds only for rare city-wide needs, and includes a sewer charge proposal not pursued now.
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Wilson and Company
Salina Engineers
Wilson
Sanborn
State Board of Health
Salina
Kansas
Bob Crawford
Chanute
Intercepted Letter Sees City in Bath Debate
A mocked intercepted note hints at forthcoming accusations that city commissioners oppose Saturday night baths, signaling a political jab amid local governance chatter.
Kansas Club Network Tangles IRS Exemption and Bribery Risk
Mr. X, a Kansas businessman, describes paying for an IRS tax exemption to join Class A clubs amid a sprawling, opaque system. The piece details non profit corporations, spin off schemes, caterers earning profits, and ABC scrutiny, with prices around 1500 dollars and up.
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Topeka
Mr. X
Kansas
Internal Revenue Service
IRS
Trol
ABC
Vern Miller
Alcoholic Beverage Control Agency
E.V.D. Murphy
Jungle Survivor Yokoi Emerges After Decades in Guams Jungle
Shoichi Yokoi, a former Japanese army sergeant, surfaced near his Guam care home after hiding in the jungle since 1944 with two others. He said eight years ago the remaining companion died, leaving him alone. Weighing about 90 pounds at five feet four inches, he survives on fish coconuts and wild plants and fears rejoining society.
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Agana
Guam
Shoichi Yokoi
Yokoi
U S Agency for International Development plans 25 percent staff cut
AID announces a major reorganization that cuts more than 3 000 positions as part of an efficiency and modernization drive. Administrator John A. Hannah says the move aims to align the foreign aid program with current needs.
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Washington
Agency For International Development Today
John A. Hannah
Trade Deficit Reaches Historic High in 1971
The 1971 U S trade deficit totaled 2.047 billion dollars, the largest in history, with imports up 14 percent and exports up 2 percent. This marked the first balance-of-trade shortfall since 1888.
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Washington
Commerce Department
Department
Hughes denies autobio book deal as probe widens
New York AP report says Howard Hughes attorneys filed an affidavit denying agreement to Clifford Irving's autobio project while authorities pursue a mystery brunette who cashed 650000 dollars in checks for the book.
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New York
Howard Hughes
Clifford Irving
Judge warns secrecy in Berrigan antiwar trial jury selection
U S District Court Judge R Dixon Herman threatens to bar newsmen from jury selection in the Philip Berrigan conspiracy trial and to seal all names questions and responses until the jury is sworn to protect impartiality.
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Harrisburg
Philip Berrigan
U.S. District Court
R. Dixon Herman
FTC moves to break up major cereal makers
The Federal Trade Commission proposed a complaint against Kellogg Co General Mills Inc General Foods Corp and Quaker Oats Co alleging a highly concentrated market through false advertising and price fixing.
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Washington
Federal Trade Commission
Kellogg Co
General Mills, Inc
General Foods Corp
Quaker Oats Co
Chisholm Declares Run for Democratic Presidential Nomination
Rep. Shirley Chisholm of New York, the nation's first black congresswoman, formally announced her candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination. She has campaigned since late last year and made it official at a Brooklyn news conference.
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Shirley Chisholm
New York
Concord Baptist Church
Brooklyn
Gene Austin dies at 71 former singer of My Blue Heaven
Palm Springs California reports the death of Gene Austin a 71 year old composer and singer famed for My Blue Heaven In the 1920s RCA Victor sold 86 million of his records He also wrote lyrics to When My Baby Walks Down the Street Lonesome Road and Wedding Bells Are Breaking Up That Old Gang of Mine
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Calif
Gene Austin
Blue Heaven
RCA Victor
Austin
Lonesome Road
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