Olson family seeks 1.25 million settlement over death by LSD
The Olson family asks Congress to approve a 1.25 million settlement for scientist Frank Olson who died after being given LSD by the CIA. Attorney Rudovsky says Ford administration promised support and release of the CIA file.
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New York City
Maryland
Rockefeller Commission
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William) Colby
Exon seeks 162 million in emergency farm loans for drought
Governor Exon asked Agriculture Secretary Butz to authorize Farmers Home Administration loans at 5 percent for up to seven years to counties hit by drought. The 27 counties total estimated losses exceed 162 million led by Gage 19.2 million and Cass 10.5 million.
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Knox
Nance
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Pierce
Thayer
Thurston
Valley
Wayne
Webster
Brown
Keya Paha
Rock
Boyd
Sherman
Nebraska study to measure deer crop damage in Sandhills pivots
The University of Nebraska warns deer eating alfalfa and corn under center pivots may raise rancher concerns. From January a two year study funded by the State Game Commission will use aerial photos and field counts in Rock Brown and Holt counties to gauge losses and test controls including electric fences and scare devices.
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Neb
Phil Gipson
Tom Hagemoser
Hagemoser
Rock
Brown
Holt
Sandhills
He Plains
Niobrara River
Extension club women hold Christmas party in Columbus
Twelve members of the U and I Extension Club and guests dined at a Columbus restaurant before moving to Mrs. Odelia Macken’s home for their annual Christmas party. Secret sisters were revealed, names drawn for the year, games entertained, and gifts exchanged. Door prize went to Mrs. Bill Leseke and the member prize to Mrs. Violet Humbd. Next meeting is January 14.
Philadelphia shoemaker Kallinger gets 30 to 80 years in prison
Joseph Kallinger was sentenced to 30 to 80 years after pleading for mercy. Judge Dowling called him evil and depraved and ordered extradition to New Jersey to face murder and burglary charges tied to the January slaying of nurse Maria Fasching and robberies at four suburban homes. His son Michael, 14, is delinquent and in a juvenile facility.
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Harrisburg
UPI
Philadelphia
Joseph Kallinger
Dauphin County
John C. Dowling
Kallinger
LeRoy Zimmerman
New Jersey
Maria Fasching
Unions and Life Insurance Firms Seen as Job Creators
A national survey finds Americans favor labor unions as most important in creating jobs through investments, with 34 percent. Close behind, 33 percent name life insurance firms as key job creators.
Smoking Ban Enters Pontiac Stadium Rules
Oakland County judge bans smoking at the new 55.7 million Pontiac Stadium home of the Detroit Lions on health grounds. The order, issued by Circuit Court Judge William Beer, will be permanent unless stadium owners prove at a Feb. 10 trial that smoking is not hazardous. The stadium seats 80,638. the ban excludes private boxes and offices.
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UPI
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William Beer
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Lawrence Stockler
West Bloomfield
Stockler
Los Angeles
Kansas student quits life of paid hitman satire
KU psychology student James P. Dillard says he abandoned work as a hitman after Douglas County dropped battery charges over a May incident in which a chocolate pie was thrown at professor Dr. David Holmes. Holmes criticized the disruption and warned of a potential snowball effect.
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Dillard
Springfield
David Holmes
Holmes
New York City Receives Federal Aid via Electronic Transfer
A $130 million federal relief payment was credited to New York City with funds moved electronically through the Federal Reserve Bank in New York. The program could provide up to $2.1 to $2.3 billion in loans if the city maintains fiscal discipline and repays existing debts.
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UPI
York
New York City
Federal Reserve Bank
New York
United States
Treasury
William Simon
Congress
Ford
Little Flushing National Bank
Treasury Secretary
Christmas Gift Theft Strikes Disabled Wendling Family
In Cincinnati, the Wendling family reports theft of $300 worth of Christmas gifts stored in a basement bin. Betty Wendling, confined to a wheelchair, says the four children were to receive gifts but now face a bleak holiday with no gifts until after New Year’s Day as police investigate a break-in through the boiler room.
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Cincinnati
UPI
Sedamsville
Wendling
Airline crashes claim 158 lives in 1974 fatalities
The National Safety Council reports 158 passenger deaths and 10 crew fatalities in 1974 domestic scheduled air carrier accidents. The passenger death rate per 100 million miles was 0.12, higher than 0.10 in 1973.
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National Safety Council
Coal gasification eyed as new multi billion dollar industry
Patrick J. Killen reports Stanley Noss of Coalcon says coal gasification could launch a hundred plant industry. The project is a $237 million U S effort with construction at New Athens Illinois to begin in 1977 and run through 1980 and beyond under a federal contract.
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Chicago
UPI
Stanley Noss
Noss
Coalcon
Union Carbide and Chemical Con
U.S
Ina
New Athens
Ill
Coalton
Concern 50
East St. Louis
RDA
Illinois
Ohio
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Indiana
Kentucky
Coulton
B and
Christmas Song Service At Immanuel Church
Immanuel Lutheran senior choir of Columbus will present a Christmas song service at 7 30 p m Sunday Dec 21 at the church. Dennis Wetzel directs the choir with selections including Veni Emmanuel Advent Carol As Lately We Watched O Little Town of Bethlehem Now Sing We Now Rejoice Infant Holy Infant Lowly Praise God the Lord Ye Sons of Men and Antiphonal Carol. Public invited.
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Immanuel Lutheran Senior Choir of
Columbus
Dennis Wetzel
Immanuel
Veni Emmanuel
Cubs Gift Drive Marks Christmas Meet at St Bonaventure
Cub Pack 115 held its annual Christmas meeting at St. Bonaventure Social Hall. Each Cub brought a gift for St Francis Mission in Bayfield Wisconsin and decorated the tree with items from ten prior meetings. Awards were given to Lippstreit Stuart Wolfgram Demuth Tiarks Simpson Reuss Preister and others for arrows and ranks.
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St. Bonaventure
St. Francis Mission
Bayfield
Wis
Tracy Lippstreit
Scott Stuart
Kevin Wolfgram
Doug Demuth
Wolf
Rodney Tiarks
Todd Simpson
Marty Reuss
Russell Preister
Webelos
Rose
Carol Stuart
Wolfgram
Charlie Stuart
Gascoyne River Sandbed Holds Flowing Freshwater
National Geographic notes the Gascoyne appears as a smooth sandy riverbed but freshwater flows just beneath the surface. Water is pumped to irrigation fields, supporting local agriculture.
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National Geographic
Gascoyne
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