Tornado Slashes Erie Area Causing Severe Damage
Sheriff David Kern reported two small tornadoes hit Thursday night, first touching ground at Galesburg around 8 10 p m. The storm blasted roofs at a grade school and Shaw Manufacturing, toppled a box car, and caused extensive damage near Erie including two destroyed trailers at Meadows Mobile Park and a damaged St Patricks School in Walnut. Don Edwards was injured by flying glass, while residents aided by county workers, police, and volunteers.
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Weather Today Showers Likely Tonight Into Saturday
Area forecast calls for occasional showers and thunderstorms developing tonight and continuing Saturday. Lows tonight 45 to 50 with highs Saturday in the 50s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph this afternoon becoming southeast 10 to 20 mph tonight. Precipitation chances 80 percent tonight and 90 percent Saturday.
Surprise ending in Piccolo biography edition apology issued
A limited edition of The Short Season about Brian Piccolo includes 244 chapters of The Sensuous Woman bound into under 100 copies. Western Publishing confirmed the misbind was found when two Fairfax County students bought copies via the school system and discovered explicit chapters.
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White House urges patience amid rising prices
Washington reports higher prices for food and fuel in the latest wholesale index while the Nixon administration defends policy, warning consumers to expect more hardship before relief. A Cost of Living Council official says the coming months will be "really tough."
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IRA asserts London bombing squad linked to Belfast group
In a Belfast statement IRA members say 10 questioned by Scotland Yard over London blasts are part of the Belfast unit that planted the explosives. They say eight others returned to Ireland safely after seven men and three women were arrested at Heathrow before gelignite blasts at the Old Bailey and Whitehall. One person was killed and 243 injured.
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Headstart Funds Authorized for Unified School District 413
Senators Pearson and Dole announced that the Department of Health Education and Welfare provides 9480 dollars for a Headstart program at Murray Hill School for 30 children this summer. The two month program will hire staff including a director two teachers two aides a secretary a family counselor and a cook and cook's assistant. It will cover salaries eye dental and physicals meals transportation and follow ups. Douglas McDonald is expected to direct pending school board approval. An extra 561 dollars will aid medical needs for children.
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Hudson Switches Vote On Train And Plane Liquor Bill
Kansas Senate passed bills liberalizing abortion rules and allowing liquor by the drink on trains and airlines. Sen. Cale Hudson changed his vote to break a 21-19 margin, sending the liquor bill to the House where Gov. Docking would review it amid constitutional questions raised by Atty. Gen. Vern Miller.
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Intercepted Letter Dear Cha Appears in Brief Note
A fragment mentions an intercepted letter with a playful phrase about sport and sensuality, noting it as a brief, cryptic reference. The text hints at light innuendo or metaphor without details.
Mailer proposes Fifth Estate to complicate American life
Norman Mailer argues for a privately funded Fifth Estate of investigators and citizens to scrutinize government and curb apathy. He spoke at Kansas State College Pittsburg urging participatory democracy and a more engaged public.
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Senate Panel backs one year oil and price control extension
Gasoline rationing authority for President Nixon is included in a Senate Banking Committee recommendation for a one year extension of his powers to control wages and prices. The bill directs the President to report quarterly on steps to hold down food prices.
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Media presses Nixon on rapid declassification drive
News media representatives urged the Nixon administration to accelerate declassification of classified documents. The appeal came in a meeting this week with government officials including John Eisenhower, chairman of the Inter Agency Classification Review Committee.
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Ginzburg Faces New Probes Over Social Security Manual
Magazine publisher Ralph Ginzburg, after eight months in federal prison for obscenity, faces discussions by the Social Security Administration and state authorities into his new manual Stake Your Claim How to Work the Social Security Gold Mine. The agency cites misleading references and innuendo in ads and says the campaign cost about 1 million dollars.
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Speculators Blamed as Dollar Crisis Prompted Global Talks
Paris AP Valery Giscard d Estaing, France's finance minister, blames speculators for the international monetary crisis and urges a united defense of post devaluation exchange rates. He spoke at an emergency finance ministers meeting with the United States Canada Japan Indonesia and 11 Western European nations seeking to restore the dollar above its floor.
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