Nursing home annexation discussed by Planning Commission
The Planning Commission tabled Ottis Autry's request to annex his home, antique shop, and five acres on West Main for a nursing home. Autry's son said the facility would need city utilities. a next meeting in April was set, with a special session planned next Wednesday. Also rezoning was approved for two new business areas and an amendment allowed LP gas for mobile homes.
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Planning Commission
Ottis Autry
Autry
West Main
William Autry
Humboldt
Commission
Plummer and
Cherry
Microlite, Inc
Intercepted Letter Discusses Offset of Disadvantages
An intercepted letter indicates a plan to offset existing disadvantages. The note is signed with a casual closing Dear Cha and reflects a strategic mindset rather than a public statement or official action.
Chanute Tribune to switch to offset printing this October
The Chanute Tribune plans a modernization project worth over $200000 to convert from letterpress to offset printing. General manager Mike Harris announced the change at the Profit Sharing Trust dinner at Chanute Country Club, highlighting improved quality and color capability for 6000 subscribers and advertisers. The job replaces five hot metal linotype machines and the Duplex press with three computerized typesetting units and a new five unit Goss Community offset press. Twenty five percent of the company stock is employee owned.
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Mike Harris
The
Tribune
Chanute Country Club
Goss
Harris
Chanute
Chanute Publishing Company
Stark Raritan Club Brings Community Skating to Chanute
The Stark Raritan Club rents the Mar te ky Skating Rink in Chanute each month from October through March, drawing about 120 residents aged 3 to 63. Ex-president Oolin Dunham calls it a top community recreation, with teenagers forming the largest group and families joining in. The club also sponsors summer baseball with four boys teams, three girls teams, a men's team, and a women's team, funded by popcorn sales.
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Stark
Dunham
Raritan Club
Raritan
County hears ambulance shift and waste plan concerns
Roy Lane resigns from Thayer Volunteer Ambulance Service and Gary Brown will take over. Erie Mayor LeRoy Priess asks about county solid waste plan as small towns face a July 1 1973 burn ban cutoff. Commission opens bids on bridge planking from Thummel Lumber and St Paul Lumber. Patrol car bids opened from Earl Whitley Chevrolet and Merle.
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LeRoy Priess
Erie
Priess
Thummel Lumber Company
Chanute
St. Paul Lumber Company
Sheriff's Office
Earl Whitley
Chevrolet
Merle
Highland Park Improvement Plan Seeks Voter Backing
Recreation officials outline a $18,516 Highland Park upgrade with $9,258 city cost after BOR matching. Plans include resurfacing two tennis courts, eight synthetic benches, ten picnic tables, new playground equipment, better lighting, a toddler area, a bicycle rack, and underground power lines to meet safety rules.
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Highland Park
Paul Keller
Recreation and Parks Commission
Keller
Bureau of Outdoor Recreation
BOR
Weather Area Forecast Tonight and Friday
Cloudy with scattered showers and thunderstorms tonight and Friday. Cool tonight with lows in the mid 40s. Mild Friday with highs in the upper 50s to lower 60s. Southerly winds 10 to 20 mph tonight. Precipitation chances 40 percent tonight and 30 percent Friday.
U.S. Repudiates Pact on Vietnam POW Release
The United States repudiated a proposed exchange of American prisoners in Vietnam signaling delays to POW transfers. Washington sought full names of Americans held in Laos and specifics of release dates while suspending troop withdrawals until first groups are handed over.
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Saigon
United States
North
South Vietnam
U.S
Joint Military Commission
Laos
North Vietnam
Viet Cong
Vietnam
Hanoi
Gia Lam
Fetlock Fillet: Portland Horsemeat Market Closes
Jad Carroll's J&H Market in Portland, the city's sole horsemeat supplier, shut after diners bought large quantities. The surge followed a front page Oregonian report about Mrs. Edward Rooney feeding her husband horsemeat for three years without his knowledge.
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Portland
Ore
Jad Carroll
J&h
Carroll
The
Oregonian
Edward Rooney
United States vetoes UN canal treaty resolution
The United States uses its third UN veto to block a Panama canal treaty resolution. At a Security Council meeting in Panama City, John Scali vetoed the measure with Britain abstaining as 13 members vote yes and one votes no.
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Panama
United States
United Nations
U.S
U.N. Security Council
Washington
John Scali
Council
Britain
Latin American specialists deny aiding Chilean foes in 1970 bid
International Telephone & Telegraph officials testified before a Foreign Relations subcommittee that they did not offer money to anti Allende forces in Chile during the 1970 presidential campaign. The aides had previously acknowledged offering assistance to political foes of President Salvador Allende.
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Washington
International Telephone & Telegraph Corp
Salvador Allende
Chile
Gray Nomination Faces Senate Tie Over FBI Chief
The nomination of L Patrick Gray III to lead the FBI may be blocked by a Senate Judiciary Committee deadlock. Senator Edward J Gurney said the panel is evenly split and a tie would defeat a confirmation motion amid questions about Gray's handling of the Watergate investigation.
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Washington
L. Patrick Gray III
FBI
Senate Judiciary Committee
Gray
Edward J. Gurney
Gurney
R-Fla
Suspected U S Air Force C130 Came Under Libyan Attack
Official secrecy fuels questions after a four engine C130 transport reportedly on an electronic intelligence mission was attacked by Libyan jets over international waters 83 miles from Libya. Libyan officials denied notice of the incident and provided few mission details.
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Washington
Mediterranean
U.S
Libya
Soviet and U.S. Watch for Toxin Threat to 1972 Corn
Government officials report vigilance over two natural poisons in the 1972 U.S. corn crop and Soviet imports. One fungus toxin, T-2, is linked to wartime Russian deaths from moldy corn during the Nazi occupation.
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Washington
U.S
Soviet Union
Commission urges new antidrug agency to curb use
The National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse says government efforts may perpetuate drug use and urges a time-limited federal agency to take over antidrug law enforcement. It calls private citizens to lead prevention and ranks alcoholism as the nation’s top drug problem, with marijuana minor by comparison.
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Washington
Federal Drug Commission Today
Congress
Nixon
National Commission On Marijuana and Drug Abuse
America
Commission
Pennsylvania
Raymond P. Shafer
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Parks
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