Viet Cong Delegation Refuses Credentials at Talks
The Viet Cong delegation declined to present its credentials at two sessions of the four party joint military commission. A source close to the talks says the stallhindered peacekeeping efforts as reports of cease fire violations rose across South Vietnam. A third meeting was scheduled for tonight to push for credential presentation.
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Saigon
Joint Military Commission
South Vietnam
Hanoi
U.S. Air Force
Tan Son Nhut
U.S
Ellsworth Bunker
United States
North Vietnam
Commission
Joint Commission
North
Conscription Ends as Vietnam War era Draft Ends
The United States ends conscription and moves to an all volunteer armed forces. Eighteen year olds will still register for the draft but no inductions will occur. Inductions were at a peak in 1966 with 383,626 draftees. last year 48,000. Some draft resisters fled the country. Nixon had resisted amnesty.
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Washington
Defense
Melvin R. Laird
Paris
Army
Nixon
Vietnam
Intercepted Letter Dear Cha Dissolution of the Draft
An intercepted letter discusses the dissolution of the draft and notes its impact on the line between professional forces and mercenary armies. The writer comments on blurred loyalties and shifting military roles in the conflict.
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Cha
Father Jerome Beat Receives Distinguished Service Award
The Safari Jaycees honored Rev. Jerome Beat assistant pastor of St Patrick's Church with the 1973 Distinguished Service Award during a banquet at Chanute Country Club closing National Jaycees Week. Nominated were John Aker Steve Kinney Charles Ross. Other awards went to John Willcott Cecilia Beuligmann Bank of Commerce Dale McCoy Glen Dormois Gene Schulze and Bill Coombs.
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Jerome Beat
St. Patrick’s Church
Jaycee
The
Safari Jaycees
Chanute Country Club
Jaycees
Chanute
John Aker
Kustom Electronics
Steve Kinney
Dale Hudson
Charles Ross
Bank of Commerce
Dale McCoy
KKOY
Glen Dormois
Neosho County
Gene Schulze
Humboldt
Bill Coombs
Call of Kansas Poem and Its disputed Authorship
On Kansas Day this piece recalls Esther Clark Hill born near Chanute who wrote The Call of Kansas, its publication history, a 1914 contested authorship claim by Mrs. T. J. Karr, and the Kansas Historical Society ruling in Hill’s favor. It notes Hill’s birth, marriage, and long association with Kansas and her poem’s enduring presence.
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Chanute
Esther Clark Hill
Lawrence Journal
Esther Mary Clark
Neosho County
Shaw
Chanute High School
University of Kansas
Call of Kansas
California
Long Beach
Kansas City Star
Joseph E. Hill
Lawrence
T. J. Karr
Girard
Emma M. Clark
Hutchinson
State Historical Society
Reader demands printed utility rate schedules
A reader urges printing the full schedule of gas, water, and electric rates on monthly utility bills. The city manager cites economics but offers that copies are available at the utility office for bill payers. The article lists current rate structures, minimum charges, and a short area forecast.
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Kenneth Sanborn
Sanborn
NATO Allies Plan Move to Vienna Talks on Reduction Plan
The United States and 11 North Atlantic allies decided to go to Vienna for talks with the Communist bloc on mutual and balanced force reductions in central Europe. Talks in Vienna begin Wednesday. France Portugal and Iceland will not participate.
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Brussels
Belgium
United States
North Atlantic
Vienna
Europe
NATO Group
North Atlantic Council
Alliance
France
Portugal
Iceland
Enderlin Mayor Steps Down Amid Public Complaints
Berenije Pohlman resigns as mayor of Enderlin citing obnoxious and overbearing public, saying she cannot afford to listen to the complaints for $25 monthly. The shift ends her tenure in the city leadership.
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Enderlin
N.D
Berenije Pohlman
Judge expects Watergate jury today after closing statements
U S District Judge John J Sirica said testimony would end today and the Watergate political espionage trial would reach the jury within hours. He noted remaining witnesses would be called before lunch and closing arguments by prosecutors and defense lawyers were set for the afternoon.
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Washington
U.S. Dist
John J. Sirica
Sirica
Lyons Salt Mine Dropped From Pilot Nuclear Waste Plan
An Atomic Energy Commission official states plans to use a Lyons Kansas salt mine for a pilot nuclear waste depository have been dropped for the 1979 80 period. Dr Frank Pittman says Lyons is not being used for the proposed pilot plant and the option remains only in doubt.
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Washington
Atomic Energy Commission
Lyons
Kan
AEC
Frank Pittman
Nixon to send State of the Union as detailed messages
President Nixon announces he will break tradition by delivering the State of the Union as a series of detailed messages on specific subjects rather than a single address. He spoke from a private Bahamian island retreat with two friends, outlining a new course for America with broader responsibility and funding.
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Grand Day
Bahamas
Nixon
Congress
Capitol Hill
America
Nixon asks Congress for 1974 budget of 268.7 billion
President Nixon sent the 1974 budget plan totaling 268.7 billion to Congress. He said it aims for a new era of progress, avoids tax increases, and urges overall spending ceilings. The proposal projects a 12 billion deficit, about half of fiscal 1973's projected gap.
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Washington
Nixon
Congress
Nixon budget cuts delay Weinberger nomination hearing
President Nixon plans deep cuts to multiple domestic programs likely delaying Senate consideration of Casper W. Weinberger for secretary of health, education and welfare as Democrats push to question him on budget slash specifics in the new budget sent to Capitol Hill today.
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Washington
Nixon
Senate
Casper W. Weinberger
Edward G. Robinson Funeral Planned in New York
The body of Edward G. Robinson, the film tough guy who died Friday in Hollywood at age 79, was to be flown to New York today for burial.
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New York
Edward G. Robinson
Tough Guy
Hollywood
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