Congress Faces Heavy Schedule On Return from Break
Congress returns from a 10 day Memorial Day break to consider extending the Voting Rights Act with debate on duration. The Senate weighs a 30.3 billion weapons bill amid foreign policy questions while a big energy tax bill moves through the Rules Committee. A potential veto override on a 5.3 billion jobs bill and a strip mining clash loom. The energy and unemployment programs funding bill also requires quick resolution.
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Soviets plan month long missile tests before SALT talks
The Tass news agency announced nearly a month of Pacific missile tests starting Tuesday and running to June 30 in a 150 mile wide zone northwest of Hawaii. Western experts say the tests signal Soviet capability growth ahead of the June 23 SALT talks in Geneva.
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White House to close drug abuse office
The White House moves to abolish the Special Action Office on Drug Abuse Prevention, effective June 30 unless Congress acts. Officials say the fight continues, while heroin use grows from cities to towns as crime linked to addiction rises nationwide. Congress considers extending the office for three years amid rising drug costs and deaths.
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Call Tribune Carrier If He Misses You
Instructions for contacting the Tribune carrier if delivery is skipped. Provides phone number 431-4100 and hours 5:30–6 p.m. weekdays and by 9 a.m. Saturday for missed deliveries.
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Controls placed on tranquilizers to tighten rules
The U S federal government will place Valium Librium and four other drugs under Schedule IV starting July 2. Valium accounts for 4 percent of new prescriptions with nearly 3 billion tablets sold last year for 550 million dollars. Librium is a 120 million dollar top seller. The move tightens prescription limits, record keeping and penalties for violations, with up to three years in prison and fines up to ten thousand dollars.
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Rioters killed in Rhodesia clash in Salisbury
Police shot 13 rioters dead and wounded 28 as black Nationalists fought each other in Rhodesian townships near Salisbury. Three officers hospitalized, townships quiet by mid morning, shops damaged, and authorities cleared wreckage as parties urged restraint.
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Farm fatalities drop to 31 in 1974 report
Kansas Department of Health and Environment figures show 31 farm work death in 1974, with 11 tractor related deaths the largest single cause. Five lives were lost to other machinery incidents and to fires and explosions.
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Juvenile Arrested in Altoona Break-Ins
A Montgomery County juvenile was taken into custody at the Juvenile Ward for break-ins at three Altoona businesses Troutman’s Service Station Dairy Queen and Gentry’s Grocery. Gentry’s was broken into twice with most losses recovered, according to Wilson County Sheriff Hubert Harris.
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