McGovern May Be Asked To Testify On Watergate News
A Senate Watergate probe may hear from Senator George McGovern while financier Robert Vesco fights extradition in Costa Rica. New grand jury activity targets Nixon campaign donations and political espionage concerns linked to the 1972 race.
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Lawrence L. Knutson
Associated Press
Washington (Ap
U.S
Senate
Watergate Committee
Robert L. Vesco
George McGovern
D.S.D
Washington Star-News
Thomas F. McBride
Archibald Cox
Finance Committee
Reform Lobby
Common Cause
Maurice Stans
Rose Mary Woods
White House
H. R. Haldeman
John N. Mitchell
John W. Dean
Senate Committee
Dean
McGovern
Besco
New York City
Costa Rica
Securities and Exchange Commission
SEC
Nixon
Vesco
Investors Overseas Ltd
Mitchell
Commerce
Maurice H. Stans
Charles E. Colson
United States
Colson
Haldeman
Nixon Brezhnev Move Talks to Western White House for Communique
Nixon and Brezhnev arrive in California continuing private discussions to finish a 20 page communique on arms control European security and force reductions. Kissinger notes the pact includes air travel ties and NATO related topics with a European tour planned. Brezhnev pledges to ease barriers for U.S. business leaders trading with the Soviet Union.
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San Clemente
Calif
Nixon
Leonid I. Brezhnev
White House
Brezhnev
Washington
California
United States
Henry A. Kissinger
Kissinger
America
NATO
Michel Jobert
NATO Council
Brussels
U.S
Soviet Union
New York
Moscow
Leningrad
Brezhnev Enjoys Western Trip as Summit Talks Highlight Trade
Brezhnev urged expanded U.S.-Soviet trade in a Friday session and faced questions on emigration. He mimicked a Western gunfighter gesture during a Nixon jetliner tour to the Grand Canyon as summit reporters observed.
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Brezhnev
Soviet Union
Nixon
John Wayne
Soviet Communist Party
White House
Grand Canyon
Editor Greer Dies in Texas Car Crash at 22
Charles H. Greer III, 22, named editor of the Sweetwater Reporter on May 10, died in a head on collision outside Sweetwater Texas. Four others injured. Greer, a Sylacauga Alabama native, was the son of Charles H. Greer Jr. editor of a local weekly.
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Sweetwater
Tex
Charles H. Greer
Texas
Greer
Sylacauga
Ala
Charles H. Greer Jr
Bond sale update shows Childress County in district lead
Childress County ranks high in Series E and H bond sales with 60 percent of its quarterly quota sold through May, second in the district behind Armstrong. May sales totaled 6,184 dollars, year to date 42,230 dollars, Texas statewide May sales 19,193,889 with a 10.8 percent rise from 1972. January through May combined reach 102,985,728 dollars toward a 217.6 million 1973 goal.
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Childress County
Gene Frisbie
Armstrong County
Carson County
State of Texas
City approves mobile home park development on air field land
The City Zoning and Planning Commission approved 40 acres at the air field for a mobile home park development if the project costs the city nothing. Developers must provide sewer water lights and roads. Land will be leased at a small rate. Rolling Hills Mobile Manor will operate with officers Alex Saied president John Robinson vice president Gene Merrifield secretary and Ross Smith treasurer.
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City Zoning and Planning Commission
Rowden Cordell
Cordell
Rolling Hills Mobile Manor
Alex Saied
John Robinson
Gene Merrifield
Ross Smith
Hog Producers Slashing Pig Crop On Feed Cost Woes
Hog producers cut back output as feed costs rise and prices falter. USDA reports the Corn Belt spring pig crop fell 3 percent from 1972, with March through May expected to stay weak. Severe weather and high feed costs reduced litter sizes and forced a cautious stance.
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Don Kendall
Washington
Agriculture Department
Corn Belt
USDA
Nixon
Mild Weather Over Texas Weekend
The Associated Press reports mild weather across Texas through the weekend with light coastal showers from Freeport to Corpus Christi and inland to Del Rio and Laredo. Skies beyond the shower belt are partly cloudy to clear with light rain possible in South Central Texas and highs reaching the 90s in Northwest Texas.
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Associated Press
Texas
Freeport
Corpus Christi
del Rio
Laredo
Galveston
Mercury
Dalhart
Panhandle
Childress
Brownsville
Mother of Local Woman Dies in Leavenworth
Funeral services for Mrs. Julia Schmania were held at 10 a.m. Saturday in Leavenworth Kansas. She was the mother of Mrs. George Morey of Childress. The Moreys were in Leavenworth for the services. Other details were not learned.
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Julia Schmania
Leavenworth
Kansas
Schmania
George Morey
Childress
Moreys
Nortex Commission Approves $420000 for Public Works
The Nortex Regional Planning Commission approved 420000 for Childress public works at a Thursday night meeting in Quanah. Projects include 222000 to pave air field runways over three years and 198000 for paving, landscaping, three tennis courts, barbecue grills and picnics in Fair Park, with further action expected from FAA in Albuquerque and Parks and Wildlife in Austin.
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Nortex Regional Planning Commission
Childress
Quanah
Air Field
Fair Park
Nortex
FAA
Albuquerque
Parks and Wildlife
Austin
Price to Seek Re election for Texas District 13
Congressman Bob Price announced to The Index that he will seek re election as U S Representative for Texas District 13. He addressed rumors about his future and stated he intends to continue his service and would announce when the filing date arrives.
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Bob Price
U.S
State of
Texas
Price
Jack Hightower
Vernon
Childress
Purcell
Washington
Congress
Skylab Crewman Dizzy After Pacifi c Splashdown
One Skylab crewman, Dr. Joseph P. Kerwin, returned to earth dizzy and unable to walk unaided after the 28 day mission aboard Skylab 1. Teammate Charles Conrad Jr. recovered quickly while Paul J. Weitz faced more difficulty adjusting to gravity.
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Uss Ticonderoga
Skylab
Earth
U.S
Joseph P. Kerwin
Pacific Ocean
Orbiting Laboratory
Royce Hawkins
Charles Conrad Jr
Hawkins
Paul J. Weitz
Conrad
Kerwin
Nixon
Leonid I. Brezhnev
San Clemente
Calif
Ticonderoga
Former Police Head Bowes Indicted in Federal Embezzlement Case
A federal grand jury in Lubbock indicted Joe Dean Bowes former head of the Potter Randell County Metro Intelligence unit on embezzlement and record falsification charges. Bowes is accused of misusing 1530 dollars in 10 transactions between July 1971 and June 1972.
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Lubbock, Tex
Potter - Randall County
Metro Intelligence
Joe Dean Bowes
Amarillo Canyon
Texas Panhandle
Bowes
Metro Intelligence Unit
Amarillo
Canyon
West Texas State University
Lubbock
FBI National Academy
Atty
Crawford Martin
Texas Organized Crime Prevention Council
Oklahoma City
U.S. Atty
Bob Slough
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Paul Hulsey
Metro Intelligence Board of Governors
Cops Fooled By Fat Boy
Denver officers misled by a radio alert about a topless flower seller at 26th and Sheridan. The man was Randall Peavler of Oakland City Indiana, 19, traveling to California with little money. He had started selling flowers for the first time, explaining he is overweight and had a scrape for weather, while police treated him kindly.
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Denver
Colo
Sheridan
West Side
Randall Peavler
Oakland City
Ind
Peavler
California
Pearler
Gardner Rites Set for Monday in California
Calvin Stella Gardner, 63, former resident, died at midnight Friday in Redondo Beach California. Funeral services will be held Monday at the McCormick Redondo Beach Chapel Redondo Beach California. Surviving relatives include sons A J Meadows Amarillo W R Meadows L C Meadows Tommy Clements all of Redondo Beach and Douglas Gardner Lawndale California. daughters Lena Reddick Englewood California and Faye Chapel Englewood California. nine grandchildren and one great grandchild.
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Calvin
Stella) Gardner
McCormick Redondo Beach
Redondo Beach
Calif
Faye Chapel
Englewood
Watergate Coverage Heralded as Shaky by MIT Study
An MIT and Wellesley study criticizes recent Watergate reporting for lacking balance and precision. It cites a surge of unverified stories after Nixon's April 30 address, noting denials often follow but less rigor than pre election coverage.
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New York
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nixon
Network News
MIT
Wellesley College
White House
Washington Post
Evening News
Install Tuesday for Childress Masonic Lodge Officers
Officers of the Childress Masonic Lodge No. 695 will be installed Tuesday night starting at 8 p.m. The City Council meets at 7 p.m. Tuesday in city hall. A grass fire on 600 Ave G NE was extinguished at 2 30 p.m. Thursday by the Childress Fire Department.
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Childress
Masonic Lodge No. 695
Childress Fire Department
Ave. G. N.E
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