Time To Junk Chemicals
Pentagon officials say Nixon will order elimination of germ stocks with safety precautions that may stretch disposal over months. DoD hopes to complete elimination well within a year with HEW assistance. Main challenge is the toxic nature of agents like anthrax or plague, not volume.
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Washington
Pentagon
Nixon
U.S
Defense Department
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
American Chemical and Biological Warfare
CBS
United States
Department
New Castle Youths Smash Six Police Cruisers
Mayor Carl A. Cialella called an emergency council meeting after six police cruisers were smashed by youths from a housing project. The stoning lasted over an hour Monday night amid riot police response. Police linked the incident to a Friday clash in which 14 Negro youths were arrested.
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New Castle
Carl A. Cialella
Grant Street
Cialella
Army Puts Clamps On Viet Civilian Massacre Witnesses
A military judge restricted witnesses in Lt. William L. Calley Jr. court martial to discuss evidence only with trial principals. Army officials said they will brief the Senate Armed Services Committee on the My Lai massacre.
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Associated Preas
William L. Calley Jr
Stanley R. Resor
Robert Jordan
Senate Armed Services Committee
My Lai
South Vietnam
Reid Kennedy
Ft. Benning
Calley
Kennedy
Aubrey M. Daniel
George Latimer
Kenneth A. Raby
Melvin R. Laird
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Laird
Nixon
Gerald R. Ford
House
New York Times
Peter H. Dominick
R-Colp
Army
Paul Mendile
Dominick
Senate
Meadle
Tony Meadle
New Goshen
Ind
Meadie
CBS Radio
Saigon
Tran van Don
Nguyen van Thien
South Vietnamese
Defense Committee
Thien
Nixon Signs Bill Sets Up Lottery Draft Plan
President Nixon signed legislation and issued an executive order to implement new selective service procedures aimed at limiting each young man's draft exposure to about one year. The plan scraps a 1967 prohibition and creates a randomized birthday based call system for 19 year olds, with hearings promised next year on a broader overhaul.
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Washington
Nixon
Congress
Uncle Sam
Notice To Our Subscribers Price Increase Adopted
Effective next Monday The Corry Journal will raise carrier delivery by five cents per week. Carrier boys receive 20 percent of the increase while newsstands keep the ten cent single copy price.
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Corry Journal
Rioting Students Won't Receive Scholarships
Harrisburg AP report notes a House bill with Senate amendments to refuse state scholarships to students who disrupt classes or administration. The measure allows denial for felony or moral turpitude misdemeanors and lets graduates enter military service or Peace Corps before applying again. It also lowers scholarship minimum from 200 to 100 dollars, expanding eligibility.
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Harrisburg
House
Senate
Peace Corps
VISTA
Moon Rock Boxes Opened At Space Center
Apollo 12 moon rocks left Ocean of Storms are opened in a vacuum chamber at the Lunar Receiving Laboratory. The first box containing about 28 pounds of material is washed and prepared for study while aboard the USS Hornet and in quarantine. The second box will be opened soon as Captain Conrad Bean and Gordon maintain post splashdown checks aboard the recovery ship.
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Navy
Charles Conrad Jr
Alan L. Bean
Richard F. Gordon Jr
Deer Kills Under Way The Car Kind
Police investigated a likely deer hit on South Center street hill near Airport Road. Area reports say the deer carcass may be in a freezer or gone into the woods. The city faces multiple deer collisions as hunters prepare for the season with Corry Civil Defense arranging snowmobile searches and volunteers willing to aid.
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South Center Street Hill
Airport Road
George Gibson
East Main Street
Erie County Plastics Co
Game Commission
Corry
Clifford Holcomb
CD Here
Holcomb
Journal
Surtax Extension Appears Certain in 1970 Plan
The Senate voted 49 to 28 to extend the 5 percent income tax surcharge six months beyond December 31, 1969, in the big tax reform bill, backing Nixon's anti inflation push. The House earlier approved a similar extension, with oil depletion debates ongoing.
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Washington
Senate
Allen J. Ellender
D-La
House
Senate Finance Committee
Illender
Nixon
Congress
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