Tight GOP race as delegates split in Mississippi drive
United Press International notes Mississippi's 30 GOP delegates go uncommitted at the weekend meeting. Reagan aides trumpet Schweiker as running mate choice while Ford supporters seek momentum. statewide tallies show Reagan 25, Ford 3, 2 uncommitted, with unit-rule hopes.
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United Press International
Ronald Reagan
Ford
Mississippi
Kansas City
Reagan
Richard Schweiker
R-Pa
California
Schweiker
Clarke Reed
GOP
Gil Carmichael
Richard Cheney
UPI
Bearded gents win Erie beard contest
The Erie event crowned beard winners led by the Old Soldiers and Sailors Reunion bicentennial celebration. Leon Corbett and Gordon Harding earned 25 U S savings bonds for best beards, with Jim Carlson nearest trimmed and Harold Dunning scragliest.
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Erie
American Legion
Jim Denton
Old Soldiers and Sailors
Denton
U. S
Leon Corbett
Gordon Harding
Jim Carlson
Harold Dunning
Alva Steinberg
Charles Huffman
First Christian Church
First Baptist Church
Eager Beaver 4H
Rainbow Girls
Grady Helping Hands Club
White House intruder shot to death
A cab driver climbed a fence at the White House Sunday night and was shot by a police guard as he ran toward the executive mansion with a steel pipe in his hand.
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Washington
UPI
White House
Executive Mansion
Weather and White House intruder incident report
Area weather shows hot conditions with highs reaching near 100 across several gauges and a 20 percent chance of isolated storms. Separately an intruder at the White House, Chester Plummer Jr., age 30, was shot after climbing the fence near Pennsylvania Avenue. he died later at George Washington University Hospital.
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Federal Aviation Administration
Martin Johnson Airport
Humboldt
Iola
Secret Service
Jack Warner
Executive Protective Service
Pvt
Charles A. Garland
Oklahoma gas company seeks six percent rate hike nationwide
Cities Service Gas Company of Oklahoma City filed with the Federal Power Commission for a six per cent rise in natural gas prices to local distributors serving 502 towns across Kansas Missouri Oklahoma Nebraska and Texas. The $13.5 million annual increase aims to cover higher pipeline and operating costs and provide a reasonable return on investment. The request seeks an August 23 effective date pending the commission five month suspension shifting to January 23. purchased gas costs are excluded under a purchased gas adjustment method.
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Cities Service Gas Company
Oklahoma City
Okla
Federal Power Commission
Kansas
Missouri
Oklahoma
Nebraska
Texas
Chanute
Humboldt
California peach crop hit by cannery worker strike
Ronald Reagan urged President Ford to invoke the Taft Hartley Act as California orchard owners report losses of 15,000 tons of peaches daily during the cannery strike. Negotiations paused in Washington with economic issues blocking a settlement while a federal panel weighs losses to agriculture and food prices. West Virginia miners stage wildcat walkouts affecting 20,000 workers and costing $13.5 million in coal output as disputes widen.
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United Press International
Ronald Reagan
Ford
California
West Virginia
United Rubber Workers
Reagan
Norman Walker
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
James F. Searce
Sacramento
United Mine Workers
West Virginia Coal Association
Owners and Employers Group
SEK Planning Commission to meet Thursday in Erie
The Southeast Kansas Regional Planning Commission meets at 7 30 p m Thursday in the Erie courthouse. Richard H Dykes of the Kansas Department of Economic Development speaks on the new structure and future directions while Mike Bailey explains a regional policy guide. Officers are to be elected and several grant requests and projects are reviewed.
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SEK Planning Commission
Erie
Richard H. Dykes
Kansas Department of Economic Development
Southeast Kansas Regional Planning Commission
Mike Bailey
Planning Commission
Toronto
Parsons
Environmental Protection Agency
Economic Development Administration
The
Ozarks Regional Commission
Columbus
Intercepted Letter Containing Weather Note to Cha
An intercepted letter includes a line about heat records being unbroken and ends with a signing note. The fragment shows a casual remark on weather records and a closing with Yours.
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Oakie
Jeff
Calif
Santa Fe Park
Record
Shriner Units
Antique Cars
Club of
Pittsburg
Area Classic Chevy Club
EPS
Plummer
Warner
Oklahoma Gas Company
Lawrence Newsom
Chicago
Ill
Park Bench
City
Newsom
Apple Lines
Churchill Inc
la Harpe
Gas City
Southeast Kansas Community Action Program, Inc
Sek-Cap
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
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Cherokee
Crawford
Labette
Linn
Montgomery Counties
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Alma
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