Government lifts wage and price controls for small businesses
Washington AP reports the Cost of Living Council exempted small businesses and small government units with 60 or fewer employees from wage and price controls. The move excludes health industry construction and rent regulations while expanding scrutiny on construction and health firms and boosting Pay Board and Price Commission staff.
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Washington
Donald Rumsfeld
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Cil
Pay Board
The
Price Commission
Internal Revenue Service
Four youths held on vandalism charges near Thayer
Three teens were jailed and one released on bond after vandalizing a vacant house south of Thayer on Friday. Two of the arrestees are juveniles. Tony Hibbs 18 and Fred Koenig 19 face destruction of property counts.
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Thayer
Tony Hibbs
S. Evergreen
Fred Koenig
N. Evergreen
Richard Ashley
Hibbs
Koenig
Ray Radford
Intercepted Letters Lead to Night Arrests in Thayer
In Thayer two strangers were found at a tavern and later two more youths were detained. By early Saturday morning the remaining pair were located on a highway and brought to the Chanute police. In Kansas Eureka Downs cases four men were fined for placing bets on quarter horse races. They pled guilty in Eureka court, each paying 100 and receiving 30 days suspended.
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Kern
Thayer
Hammans
Chanute
Topeka
Kan
Vern Miller
Fred Howard
Kansas Bureau of Investigation
Eureka Downs
Eureka
FBI Memos and Secrecy Roil Washington Hearings
A House hearing on government secrecy features Jack Anderson charging FBI director Hoover with compiling intimate memos on prominent Americans. Anderson cites secrecy gains under Nixon and urges automatic declassification after two years. In Kansas, Michael C. Manning, KU graduate student, announces his Democratic bid for secretary of state with stops in major cities.
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Washington
Jack Anderson
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
High and Mighty
Lyndon B. Johnson
Anderson
House
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Nixon
Pentagon
Spiro Agnew
Lawrence, Kan
Michael C. Manning
University of Kansas
Fall of Quang Tri Marks Hanoi Victory in Saigon War
Quang Tri, a 27 000 population provincial capital, fell to North Vietnamese forces after five days of fierce assaults as South Vietnamese troops abandoned the city. The loss enhances Hanoi's 38 day offensive gains including rice crops and Highway 1 disruption near Da Nang. American advisers evacuated by helicopter. defense plans for Quang Tri were scrapped.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
Hanoi
Quang Tri
Demilitarized Zone
da Nang
U.S
Kontum
Highlands
Appointed Lawyers Also Serve Well
A Kansas lawyer notes Law Day observations and defends using court appointed counsel as beneficial to the indigent. Coombs says appointed defense can be rewarding and not financially burdensome for lawyers. He describes rotating appointments and ongoing reforms in bond and disclosure rules.
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Bill Coombs
Neosho County
Coombs
Kansas Supreme Court
Area Forecast: Cooler Tonight Then Mild Tue
Fair and cooler tonight with lows in the lower 40s and westerly winds 5 to 15 mph. Partly sunny and a touch cooler Tuesday with a high in the 60s and only a 10 percent precipitation chance tonight and Tuesday.
May Day Demonstrations Across Nations Spark Tensions
Millions of workers joined traditional May Day marches in foreign cities. East European capitals staged large events while East Germany displayed a parade of modern Soviet missiles in East Berlin, deemed illegal by Western allies. In Moscow a May Day speech condemned the United States by name, a first since 1968.
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Labor Solidarity
East Germany
East Berlin
Soviet Bloc
Moscow
United States
Lenin
Docker named assistant KBI director in Kansas
Fred Howard announced that Fred Docker has been appointed assistant director of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation. The position is new, created last Friday by the state Finance Council. Docker began as a KBI agent in Johnson and Wyandotte counties and later moved to Topeka to serve at KBI headquarters while acting as assistant director without the title. London gold rises above 50 dollars per ounce.
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Topeka
Kan
Fred Howard
Kansas Bureau of Investigation
Howard Docker
KBI
State Finance Council
Docker
Johnson
Wyandotte
Howard
Vietnam War Stance Split as Hanoi Denies Border Invasion
North Vietnam radio declares the DMZ is not an international border and that moving tanks and troops across it does not count as invasion. In Texas, President Nixon says no U.S. ground forces will be remitted to Vietnam and pledges limited bombing targets.
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Hong Kong
North Vietnam
North
South Vietnam
South
Vietnam
Radio
Hanoi
Floresville
Tex
Nixon
U.S
Apollo 16 astronauts study lunar highland rocks
Space Center Houston reports scientists begin examining moon highland rocks as Apollo 16 astronauts undergo postmission debriefings on the lunar mission.
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Space Center, Houston
Moon
Earth
Riots Roar in Belfast as Protests Turn Violent
Police report a Protestant backlash may be forming as crowds in Belfast stoned, burned and looted in a three hour fight on Newtownards Road. Shops and pubs were set ablaze while 112 police and 13 civilians were injured in the weekend violence.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Newtownards Road
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