Nixon vows to stay on job after hospital stay
President Nixon, released from Bethesda Naval Medical Center after a week with viral pneumonia, told White House staff in the Rose Garden that he will work at full tilt and not resign. He credited the Navy medical corps and Bethesda spirit for his recovery and dismissed resignation talk as poppycock.
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Washington
Nixon
White House
Rose Garden
Bethesda Naval Medical Center
Watergate
Bethesda
Navy
Hoax Telephoned Nixon Tapes Stir Senate Panel
FBI hunts the hoaxer after a fake call to Senator Sam Ervin's Watergate committee sparked claims Nixon would surrender. The phony broadcast prompted Ervin to condemn the trick as a dirty stunt while White House counsel Garment exposed the ruse. Nixon’s actual tape remarks were anticipated next week.
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Washington
FBI
Senate
Nixon
Sam J. Ervin Jr
D-N.c
Treasury
George Shultz
Ervin
Shultz
Annual Bean Feed Prepared for Tonight
Fourteen hundred pounds of beans were soaking and cooking on Erie courthouse lawn for the Old Soldiers and Sailors Reunion bean feed. About 25 workers prepped kettles, with 52 pots in use and 46 owned by the Legion, plus six loaned for the event. The meal serves from improvised pots, not a picnic setup, and residents take beans home or bring their own seating.
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Vern Bates
Erie
The
Legion
Area Librarians Hear of Films By Jane Blades
Chanute Public Library hosted a workshop on public film services with Wichita state film librarian Sandra Koontz. She highlighted preschool and nursing home use, noting projectors are rented or owned by larger groups. Public schools are excluded due to Title I funding.
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Thelma Marcenko
Eureka
Chanute Public Library
Sandra Koontz
Wichita
Jean Gray
Chanute
Alice Long
State Film Service
Southeast Kansas
Kansas
4-H
Scout
YMCA
YWCA
Nixon Asked Tapes Be Taken from FBI
Former assistant attorney general Robert C. Mardian testifies Nixon asked him to move tapes of White House bugging from the FBI to the White House. He says Sullivan told him about sensitive logs kept in the FBI official’s safe amid Watergate era tensions with J. Edgar Hoover.
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Nixon
FBI
Washington
White House
Robert C. Marchan
Senate
Watergate Committee
J. Edgar Hoover
National Security Council
John D. Ehrlichman
Mardian
William Sullivan
Hoover
Sullivan
Board Faults Skylab Shield Design and Communication
An investigative board blamed poor engineering and weak contractor agency communication for Skylab shield failure during the May 14 launch. Air pressure built in a tunnel beneath the shield, tearing the paper thin aluminum shield and loosening solar array tiedowns, causing lab temperatures inside the station to soar toward 125 degrees.
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Cape Kennedy, Fla
Space Agency
Weather outlook with scattered storms and warm highs
Area forecast shows partly cloudy to cloudy conditions with late day showers and storms. Tonight lows in the 70s. Saturday partly sunny with highs in the 80s and a 40 percent chance of rain tonight.
Intercepted Letter Describes Sheriff’s Suspected Release Plan
A rumor claims the sheriff will release unconfessed prisoners tonight to prompt them into spilling details. The note, addressed to Cha, hints at a staged move to force admissions.
Pentagon Revisions Tie Bombing Record Falsification to Washington
The Pentagon reversed to place responsibility for concealing B52 raids on Cambodia with Washington officials. Officials had earlier blamed SAC but clarified the special security measures were ordered from Washington. Laird acknowledged authorizing raids but denied ordering falsification.
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Washington
Pentagon
Cambodia
Jerry W. Friedheim
SAC
Strategic Air Command
Senate Armed Services Committee
Friedheim
Melvin R. Laird
Nixon
Earle G. Wheeler
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Laird
Water Line Installation Narrows U S 169 Traffic
One lane on U S 169 south of Chanute at 21st Street is blocked this week for a new eight inch waterline project tying into a 12 inch main 600 feet east of the highway. Foreman Charles Williams of the water and gas department says the line will cross the highway, go down 1st Street, bore under railway tracks, and connect with Brazil Grain Storage Co. and Western Petro Chemical Inc. Difficulties include solid rock and trenching eight feet deep to clear drainage tiles. Project completion is estimated for three weeks for the line and most of next week for the highway crossing.
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Chanute
21St Street
Charles Williams
Water and Gas Distribution Department
Brazil Grain Storage Co
Western Petro Chemical, Inc
Williams
Town meeting details gasoline shortage in Utah district
Rep Wayne Owens told a Salt Lake City town meeting that his car ran out of gas on the way to discuss the shortage. The freshman Utah Democrat held the session Thursday night to focus on gasoline supply concerns.
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Salt Lake City
Wayne Owens
Utah Democrat
Test delays at Mururoa nuclear site shift to Sunday
Winds veering against fallout direction delayed the French nuclear tests from Thursday at Mururoa Atoll to Sunday. Sources familiar with the schedule cited the lack of an east-southeast wind to carry fallout toward uninhabited Pacific areas.
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Papeete
Tahiti
Mururoa Atoll
Pacific Ocean
Senate OKs $2.20 Minimum Wage Bill Amid Veto Risk
The Senate approved a $2.20 minimum wage bill by 64 to 33, with Sen. Harrison Williams Jr. asserting a veto risk remains and expressing confidence in reconciling House and Senate versions and sending a bill to the President.
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Washington
Senate
House
Sen
Harrison A. Williams Jr
D-N.j
Prices Rise Across Sectors As June Costs Jump
The government reports a 0.7 percent rise in consumer prices for June driven by higher food, fuels, and household services. Groceries led the gains with a 1.7 percent increase, and fruits and vegetables surged 4.9 percent. The year over year grocery rise is about 16 percent.
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Washington
Nixon
Slow growth in second quarter curbs inflation goals
The AP reports U S economic growth slowed to a 2.6 percent annual rate in the April to June quarter, the smallest rise since late 1970, as Phase 4 planning details include proposed gasoline price ceilings that could trigger price rollbacks by August 12.
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Washington
Commerce Department
Palmby to be questioned over Soviet wheat sale
Senate investigators plan to question Clarence D. Palmby who arranged the U S sale of wheat to the Soviet Union and then joined the nation’s largest grain dealer. He may be asked if the Agriculture Department withheld information from farmers about the sale. Senator Henry M. Jackson criticizes the sale as fueling grain shortages and food-price spikes.
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Washington
Senate
Clarence D. Palmby
U.S
Soviet Union
Palmby
Agriculture Department
Sen
Henry M. Jackson
D-Wash
Subcommittee
IRA in Belfast Hit by Arrests and Attacks
The Irish Republican Army in Belfast is reported in disarray after the capture of its local commander and 16 of his men. Guerrillas retaliated outside the capital killing a militiaman and blowing up a tavern.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Irish Republican Army
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Ann Forsyth
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Erie Nursing Home
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John Jaedicke
Cold Packing Co
Midwest
Congress
IRA
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