Privilege and Watergate Touch Senate Confirmation Fight
The Nixon administration asserts executive privilege to block John Dean from testifying on Watergate and FBI Gray confirmation. Editorial notes the clash over privilege tests, legal rights, and the Senate Judiciary Committee's hesitance to pursue court validation.
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John W. Dean III
Senate Judiciary Committee
Gray
FBI
White House
Dean
Supreme Court
Judiciary Committee
Senate
Panama Canal Zone tensions rise over U S control
Brig Gen Omar Torrijos threatens violent changes over stalled Canal Zone settlement while the United States and Panama discuss a transition plan. U N envoy John Scali calls Torrijos remarks straw man as Washington weighs modernizing the treaty and preserving bases during transfer negotiations.
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Canal Zone
Panama
Letter responds to marijuana story with emphasis on understanding
An unsigned reader rebuts a recent Tribune piece recounting a marijuana smoker’s experiences. The letter argues the account was objective, urges knowledge over disgrace, warns against sensationalism, and likens addiction to issues of personal psychology rather than moral collapse. It compares marijuana and alcohol use and calls for measured discussion.
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Tribune
Soap Box
TV Schedule Changes Prompt Short Notice
Channels release advance schedules making last minute changes or substitutions difficult to publish. The note cites the impracticality of updating programming as schedules shift and viewers rely on advance notices for their viewing plans.
Television Log Listing Prime Time Weekday Schedule
TV guide entry enumerating daytime to late evening programs on multiple channels, listing shows, times, and featured series for Monday through Sunday with emphasis on children’s programs, cartoons, news, sports, dramas, and variety acts across stations in Chanute, WDAF, KCMO, KUHI, KOAM, KMBC, KTWU, KODE, WIBW, and more.
ITT scandal tied to Agnew and Connally alleges in confidential docs
Washington Merry-Go-Round reports confidential ITT materials implicate Vice President Spiro Agnew and ex Treasury Secretary John Connally in the ITT affair. SEC suppressed the documents while Congress and press seek access to 34 cardboard cartons of evidence. The piece notes ongoing battles over disclosure amid political fallout.
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Spiro Agnew
Treasury
John Connally
ITT
Securities and Exchange Commission
SEC
Justice
ITT linkage to Agnew Connally under scrutiny in 1971 digests
Confidential digest links Vice President Agnew and Treasury Secretary Connally to ITT while outlining fees from Connally’s law firm Vinson Elkins and possible delays in ITT Supreme Court cases. The document notes Geneen and Merriam praising Peterson for access and cites a 1970 effort to pressure DOJ antitrust chief McLaren, with Agnew denying direct involvement.
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Peterson
Erwin) Griswold
Supreme Court
Texas
Vinson, Elkins, Searls and Connally
John Connally
Geneen
ITT
Connally
Agnew
Edward Gerrity
Mitchell
McLaren
Richard McLaren
Justice Department
John Mitchell
Freete Construction lands Chanute electric plant contract
Twenty five years ago the Freete Construction Co of Pittsburg won the Chanute city electric plant addition project with a bid of 129595 as city commissioners awarded the contract. Fifty years ago in 1923 Central Milk Products Co received equipment for a milk condensery with 6000 to 8600 gallon daily capacity to serve dairy farmers within 20 miles as per manager James W Magee.
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Pittsburg
Chanute
Central Milk Products Co
E. Main
James W. Magee
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