United Fund Drive to Begin In Chanute Monday
Chanute will launch its United Fund drive Monday with about 130 volunteers canvassing business and commercial accounts for employee contributions. The campaign aims for a 30 230 budget with 11 agencies including American Red Cross Boy Scouts of America Cedar House Child Care Inc and Salvation Army sharing the goal.
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Chanute United Fund
American Red Cross
Boy Scouts of America
Cedar House
Child Care, Inc
FISH
Kansas Children’s Service League
Love, Inc
Meadowlark Girl Scout Council
Neosho County Mental Health Association
Salvation Army
United Cerebral Palsy
Lawyers Prepare Agnew Strategy
Lawyers for Vice President Spiro T. Agnew worked on a motion for a temporary injunction to block further grand jury evidence in the Maryland corruption probe. Agnew left Washington with his family for a Palm Springs weekend at Frank Sinatra's home as the Baltimore grand jury heard its first witnesses.
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Spiro T. Agnew
Agnew
Maryland
Palm Springs
Calif
Frank Sinatra
Federal Grand Jury
Federal
Baltimore
Vice Presi
Internal Revenue Service
William J. Muth
Baltimore City Council
Muth
Docking asks federal disaster aid for Kansas tornado flood damage
Gov. Docking sent a request to President Nixon seeking federal disaster designation for extensive Kansas tornado and flood damage. Tornadoes caused at least five deaths and damaged over 320 homes while floods persist across numerous counties. aid amounts are requested for Clay, Rice, Saline, and Washington counties with other counties to be named for flood relief.
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Peka
Kan
Kansas
Nixon
Robert Docking
Docking
Clay County
Rice County
Saline County
Washington County
Franklin
Harper
Kiowa
Leavenworth
McPherson
Marshall
Miami
Osage
Ottawa
Pawnee
Pratt
Reno
Saline
Sedgwick
Stafford
Wabaunsee
Washington
Red Cross
Clay Center
Greenleaf
State of
Soviets Loan India Grain In Major Food Aid
India announces a two million ton grain loan from the Soviet Union after Brezhnev offered aid in a letter. Indira Gandhi's government says the concessional loan will help India bridge shortages until the next local harvest in November.
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New Delhi
Soviet Union
India
Indira Gandhi
G.C.L. Jonesa
Leonid I. Brezhnev
ITT Offices Bombed in New York Explosion Shocks City
An explosion rocked ITT offices in New York early today, injuring employees and damaging the building. Police and fire crews swarmed the scene as investigators arrived to determine the blast’s source and motive.
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New York
Inter
Bomb blasts hit ITT building in San Francisco early morning
An explosion damaged a basement storage area of a federal office near ITT World Headquarters in San Francisco. Police say another device was dismantled and no injuries reported. A separate Rome attack targeted ITT Standard S.A. offices with minor damage.
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San Francisco
Clyde Blount
National Telephone and Telegraph Corp
Manhattan
ITT American
Rome
ITT Standard S.A
Floods Miss Salina Region Amid Kansas Storms and Flooding
Driving rains caused rivers to rise across central and eastern Kansas with Saline Smoky Hill and Solomon rivers flooding Saline and Dickinson counties. Hundreds evacuated from Salina area towns including New Cambria and Solomon after tornadoes left five dead in north central Kansas. Water covered streets, crops damaged, and additional high water reported in Reno County near Hutchinson as Arkansas River topped flood stage.
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Salina
Saline
Smoky Hill
Solomon Rivers
Dickinson
New Cambria
Solomon
Smoky Hil
Saline County
Dickinson County
Jim Hague
Beloit
Reno County
Arkansas
Hutchinson
Contributions List Released In Nixon Campaign Case
The Nixon campaign committee prepared to release a list of 20 million in secret contributors under court order. Common Cause fought for disclosure, with a 60 day waiting period set by U S District Judge Joseph C Waddy, covering donors from 1971 to March 9 1972 including W Clement Stone and Richard Mellon Scaife.
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Nixon
Common Cause
U.S. Dist
Joseph C. Waddy
W. Clement Stone
Chicago
Richard Mellon Scaife
Pittsburgh
Funnel cloud damages trailers near Elsmore
Allen County sheriff's officers report a small funnel cloud touched down near the Allen Bourbon County Lake near Elsmore. A couple of trailers and one cabin were damaged. The funnel was sighted shortly before 5 p.m. Thursday.
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Allen County
Allen-Bourbon County
Elsmore
Intercepted Letter Dear Cha Crand Jury Note
A clipped intercepted letter shows a cryptic exchange with a phrase about a grand jury aiming to strike at a target. The fragment hints at tension but provides no clear names, dates, or events. The tone resembles a private correspondence with an oblique accusation.
Weather data summary for today and week forecast
Today's conditions show 61 at 1 pm with 66 percent precipitation and 1.66 inches so far. The area forecast calls for partly cloudy to cloudy skies with a rain chance through Saturday and highs in the 50s. Winds southeasterly 8 to 15 mph with a 30 percent tonight and 20 percent Saturday rain probability.
Prisoners Return as Repatriation Intensifies at Wagah
Reports from New Delhi say hundreds of Pakistani prisoners of war cross into Pakistan from Indian camps at Wagah, leaving 195 of 90,000 POWs to be repatriated next month. In Saigon, South Vietnam accuses Viet Cong and North Vietnam of mass violations of the Paris peace accords and signals possible renewed fighting after the Sept. 22 Le Minh ranger camp capture near the Cambodian border.
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New Delhi
Pakistan
Wagah
Saigon
South Vietnam
Paris
Mondale Signals Possible 1976 White House Bid
Washington Sen. Walter Mondale a Democrat of Minnesota says he is taking preliminary soundings for a possible 1976 presidential bid. He concedes he is not as well known as other potential candidates and will need to decide sooner than rivals.
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Washington
Walter F. Mondale
D-Minn
Mondale
Senate approves 23 percent cut in U S troops abroad
The Senate voted 48 to 36 to reduce American troop strength abroad by 23 percent. President Nixon opposes the cuts, arguing they would impede negotiations with the Soviet Union on mutual reductions.
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Washington
Senate
Nixon
Soviet Union
Nixon Trade Bill Advances With Emigration Clause
The House Ways and Means Committee tentatively approved a large trade bill. It would grant the president broad power to strike deals with Japan and Europe while linking concessions to the Soviet Union to Soviet emigration conditions and exit fees.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Nixon
Japan
Europe
Soviet Union
New Orleans Man Arrested Over Bomb Plot Cite Target
Byron De La Beckwith, claiming segregationist views, was arrested for driving from Mississippi with a ticking time bomb and weapons. Federal sources say A. I. Botnick of the Jewish Anti-Defamation League in New Orleans was the apparent target and Botnick went into hiding after the alleged plan became known.
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New Orleans
Byron de la Beckwith
Mississippi
A. I. “Bee
Botnick
Jewish Anti-Defamation League
Beckwith
Plane missing over southwestern Arkansas flight from El Dorado to Texarkana
Authorities search for a Texas International turboprop jet that vanished late Thursday on a 75 mile route from El Dorado Arkansas to Texarkana Texas. Eleven people aboard include three crew members. Severe thunderstorms hinder aircraft search efforts.
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Arkansas
Texas International
Here
Texarkana
Tex
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