County Youth Held As Murder Suspect
A 16 year old youth is being held in the Neosho County jail pending formal charges in the death of Robert B. Ehler 71 Parsons on May 22. County attorney Raymond W. Radford said the youth is being held by permission of Juvenile Judge Alberta Gough and a petition will charge delinquency for a premeditated murder. Ehler was found shot three times on a Neosho County road near Parsons with three cooperating agencies aiding the investigation.
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Neosho County
David Kern
Robert B. Ehler
Parsons
Alberta Gough
Radford
Ehler
Committee Wants Nixon to Testify
Washington prosecutors press for President Nixon to testify on Watergate coverup while noting subpoena risks. Justice Department sources say Nixon's role remains the pivotal issue in the grand jury probe. AREA FORECAST shows variable clouds, cool with scattered showers tonight and Wednesday. highs in the upper 60s to upper 70s.
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Washington Post
Justice Department
Reversal WAT Suggests Women Liberate Themselves at Home
Washington AP report notes the Women's Action Taskforce composed of Agriculture Department workers circulated a new letter titled WAT's Happening. It urges women to start their day by making coffee and kids lunches, tell their husbands their new secretary is sexy, interpret daily stock market returns for him, wash half the dishes, and compliment his cleverness. The piece labels the advice as part of a domestic liberation concept.
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Washington
Women’s Action Taskforce
Agriculture Department
Hudson Has Hope For Balkan Area
State Sen. Dale Hudson told Chanute Safari Jaycees in Chanute that southeastern Kansas can unite to promote Kansas in transportation and commerce. He credited Safari Jaycees with his election and urged active civic involvement. Steve Markley was installed president. other officers and directors were named. 68 Jaycees and guests attended the inaugural banquet and dance at Chanute Country Club.
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Kansas
Dale Hudson
Chanute Safari Jaycees
Chanute Country Club
United Effort
Hudson
Steve Markley
Safari Jaycees
Bill Coombs
Jim Chappell
Paul Kennedy
Richard Fisher
Craig Williams
Charles Eaton
Joe Nole
Ed Kirkman
Joe Smith
Jaycee Direc
Dean Denning
Erie
Denning
Spoke
Markley
Jaycee
Jaycees
Clifford Broeder
Jaycee Jaynes
Chappell
Jaynes
Broeder
Elmer Thorn
Dreary Beef Picture Painted By LOUISE MOULTON
Larry Haley of Buffalo Haley buys cattle for Iowa Beef Processors comments on beef price ceilings and supply demand. He warns that lower prices could shrink cattle supply and trigger a beef black market this fall, noting high costs and the need for profits to sustain production. The Kansas crop and livestock report flags rising cattle fed for slaughter but fewer replacements. Haley fears many feeders may fail if prices drop further.
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John Q
Larry Haley
Buffalo
Kansas Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
Haley
Intercepted Letter Seeks Nixon Call Confirmation
An intercepted letter to Cha conveys that calling Nixon would only confirm what has long been known: he knows nothing. The message stresses the recipient's view of Nixon's lack of knowledge and implications for to-be-posed inquiries.
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Nixon
San Clemente spending for Nixons security details
The White House says over 100000 dollars in San Clemente improvements over four years were requested by the Secret Service for the Presidents protection. Projects include an electric heating system a 3360 dollar storage shed brick and redwood fences a 13000 dollar bulletproof windscreen near the pool and about 70000 dollars of government funded permits. The rest appears to have been done without permits and adds to prior disclosed Nixon home spending of 123514 dollars.
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Washington
White House
Nixon
San Clemente
Calif
Secret Service
City of
Associated Press
Court Rules Against Broadcasters On Ads On Public Issues
The Supreme Court, in a split ruling, overturned a lower court decision that broadcasters must accept some paid public issue ads. The FCC and networks like CBS and ABC, along with WTOP, contested limits on accepting or rejecting paid announcements on public issues. The case traces to a 1970 request by the Democratic National Committee and a challenge by Business Executives Move for Vietnam Peace regarding WTOP’s antiwar ads.
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Washington
Supreme Court
U.S
Federal Communications Commission
Columbia Broadcasting System
Democratic National Committee
FCC
Business Executives Move For
Vietnam
Wtop Radio
Gas Tax Studied by Nixon Admin Plans Changes
Treasury Secretary George P. Shultz said the Nixon administration is studying a proposal to raise gasoline taxes and other tax-increase measures to cool the rapidly expanding economy. In Houston, Skylab astronaut Dr. Joseph P. Kerwin used a suite of telescopes to observe the sun hoping for new insights into how it drives the solar system.
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Washington
Treasury
George P. Shultz
Nixon
Shultz
NATO urges restraint in cod war with Britain and Iceland
In Brussels the United States and 12 NATO allies urged Britain and Iceland to exercise utmost restraint amid the cod war. The council noted Iceland’s demand that NATO press Britain to withdraw warships guarding British trawlers outside Iceland’s claimed 50 mile limit after an Icelandic gunboat shelled the trawler Everton within the territorial sea.
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Brussels
United States
North Atlantic
Britain
Iceland
Council
NATO
Everton
Tornado Toll Rises Across Midwest and South
The Associated Press reports a record number of tornadoes over Memorial Day weekend across the Midwest and South, leaving at least 48 dead and vast destruction. About 160 tornadoes turned the long weekend into a horror show as small towns were devastated and the National Weather Service noted unprecedented 72 hour totals.
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Midwest
National Weather Service
Former POW leader charged over aiding the enemy
Washington reports Pentagon officials expect Air Force Col. Theodore W. Guy to file aiding the enemy charges soon against a small group of soldiers and Marines he commanded in a North Vietnamese prison. If filed, it would mark the first such action against any of the 566 returned POWs, with possible counts of disobedience of orders and disrespect to superior officers.
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Washington
Pentagon
U.S
Air Force
Theodore W. Guy
Guy
Ford to supply food packs to Buenos Aires shantytown
Residents line up for 3000 food packages provided by Ford Motor Co Argentina as the first installment of a million dollar protection payoff to the People's Revolutionary Army. The handout comes after two Ford workers were wounded during a kidnapping attempt last week.
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Buenos Aires
Argentina
Ford Motor Co
Ford
People’s Revolutionary Army
South Vietnam Hints Modifications in Paris Peace Talks
The government of South Vietnam has agreed in principle to proposals to halt fighting in Vietnam but seeks changes and has offered counter proposals. The ideas were drafted in Paris during talks involving Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho of North Vietnam.
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