Coast Guard reviews Southern Railway bridge project at Decatur
The Coast Guard reports the Southern Railway System seeks approval to replace three fixed truss spans on the Tennessee River at Decatur with a vertical lift span. After completion the current swing span will be immobilized and river traffic will pass under the lift span. Work is scheduled to be completed.
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Southern Railway System
Coast Guard
Tennessee River
Decatur
Department of Transportation
St. Louis
O. W. Siler
Market St
Tennessee Valley Authority
TVA
Florence
Agnew Calls Bribe Reports Lies as Resignation Sought
Vice President Spiro T. Agnew denounces bribe allegations as lies and vows not to resign. A federal grand jury in Maryland reopens sessions in Baltimore amid a broader corruption probe, though prosecutors decline to say if Agnew is the focus.
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Washington
Spiro T. Agnew
Agnew
Maryland
Baltimore
U.S
Baltimore County
Nixon
Deer poaching and rustling surge in Texas and Pennsylvania
The Associated Press reports deer poaching rose 60 percent in Pennsylvania in the first half of 1973, with 435 illegal deer bills vs 269 in 1972, amid high meat prices. Texas also sees more poaching. officials urge tougher enforcement and reporting, with fines up to 100 dollars and hunting-privilege revocation.
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Texas
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Game Commission
James A. Brown
Commission
Brown
Grover Simpson
Austin
Tex
New York State
Malone
Pasadena youth kills Dean Allen Corll after all night party
Elmer Wayne Henley tells police he befriended Dean Allen Corll at Corll's Pasadena home after an all night party. He says Corll tried to handcuff him and bind two others, then announced he must kill them. Henley claims he grabbed a .22 pistol as Corll advanced and shot him, after learning of prior killings and burials.
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Pasadena
Breck Porter
Houston
Dean Allen Corll
Corll
Elmer Wayne Henley
On This Date 1945 Nagasaki Atomic Bombing
The notice recalls the U S dropping a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki in 1945 destroying more than half the city. It mentions contact numbers for placing ads and lists quick weather with near 90 high and 70 low, with rain probabilities. It ends with a Tennessee Valley theme as a privilege to live there.
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U. S
Japan
Nagasaki
Tennessee Valley
Watergate Inquiry Location Switched
The Senate Watergate committee moves operations from the Caucus Room to the New SOB auditorium on Capitol Hill as staff wrap three months of hearings Today the panel focuses on obtaining President Nixon's secret tapes and other key discoveries made under high pressure behind the scenes The fall agenda will explore dirty tricks and tangled finances while the TV spotlight shifts to a month-long recess.
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Washington
Senate Watergate Committee
Senate
All Business
Capitol Hill
Nances
Nixon
Watergate
Husband Charged In Wife's Death
Levi Miller 47 of County Line Road is charged with first degree murder in the death of his wife Rosetta Miller 38. Witnesses include two of seven children who saw the shooting and the body hidden beneath a bed wrapped in a quilt. Coroner ruled murder and toxicology confirmed a single .38 caliber head wound. Miller held without bond in Limestone County jail.
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Tommy Stevenson
Athens
Limestone
Madisoni
Gerald Bates
Levi Miller
County Line Rd
Rosetta
Bates
Miller
Limestone County
Defense officials deny knowledge of Cambodia bombing lie
Washington AP reports Deputy Secretary William P. Clements Jr. and former Defense Secretary Elliot L. Richardson did not know at the time that false U.S. bombing data was being sent to Congress. In space news, Houston AP notes Arabella the space spider spun a gravityless web aboard Skylab 2. Halifax AP says an American balloonist aiming for Europe from Maine was rescued after ditching off Newfoundland.
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Agnew
U.S. Atty
George Beall
Baltimore
Washington
William P. Clements Jr
Elliot L. Richardson
U.S
Cambodia
Congress
Halifax
Nova Scotia
Europe
Maine
Newfoundland
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Henley
THE
Associated Press
C. F. Penn Hamburgers
E. Moulton Street
Levi and
Rosetta Miller
Sheriff’s Department
Fanny
Sonny Turner
By Michael A. Lutz
Robinson Furniture
Second Avenue
Financial
Landers
Madison
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