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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1973
Page
5
The Senate voted 82 to 8 to approve a new Federal Elections Campaign Act of 1973 aiming to curb the influence of wealthy contributors and private interests in campaigns for federal office. The bill targets campaign financing reductions amid an estimated $500 million cost for elections every two years.
A congressional hearing panel forecast food prices will keep rising next winter as recession broadens. They project unemployment to climb to about 6 percent by end of 1974 and real output to grow only about 1 percent this year.
Mrs. Elliot L. Seeherdeen wife of the U S Attorney General will assist at Groton Connecticut next Friday for the commissioning of a new submarine named Gretee. The ceremony will involve keel weldings rather than a champagne break and Groton is the town where the Nautilus was built.
Mery Vecchio, photographed kneeling at Kent State shootings in 1970, says publicity shaped her life after a recent Miami arrest. She pleaded no contest to a charge of offering to commit prostitution in the AP Wirephoto note.
New York health officials caution Saratoga Springs mineral waters may pose cancer risk. After radium levels were found to exceed limits, authorities advise drinkers to limit intake to one glass per week as further studies suggest dangers at lower radium levels.
EPA grants U S auto makers a delay from 1976 to 1977 for nitrogen oxides standards. Acting administrator Robert W Fri says no firm can meet 1976 goals and discusses catalyst devices and fuel consumption. Senate Watergate hearings note Herman Talmadge allegedly flew to the Caribbean on Rockwell sponsorship.
A surge in export demand pushed wheat corn and new crop soybeans to their daily limits on midwest futures. Cattle hogs broilers and eggs rose. pork bellies closed mixed. Government stocks on hand were revised up 84 million bushels to 1.884 billion, following a prior report correction. In a separate note a trooper uses a scent dog in an Adirondacks camper slaying case.
The White House rejected compromise talks on access to presidential Watergate tapes. President Nixon stood firm, refusing to comply with subpoenas from the Senate Watergate Committee and Archibald Cox. Cox sought a show cause order from Chief Judge Sirica to force turnover next month.
Sen. John C. Stennis of Mississippi was discharged from Walter Reed Army Medical Center after a six month stay recovering from gunshot wounds suffered in a January holdup in Washington. Three men were arrested in connection with the assault. His progress toward full recovery was described as excellent by a hospital spokesman.
Local clubs list July activities including an Altrusa program at Mrs Doyle Roberts home and call for Moulton students for 1973 74 schedules. Other items note meetings at Summer Manor First Bible Church West Morgan Youth League football parent meeting and community singing at multiple churches with no admission charge. Proceeds from a Salvation Army fundraiser are pledged. An aviation crash report references Logan Airport and past 1960 incident.
United Way board approved a large grant list totaling tens of thousands to agencies such as American Red Cross and Salvation Army along with $34,165.14 in operating expenses and pay raises for city workers. The article notes Decatur’s salary hikes compared to Florence and discusses city recruitment challenges and a state safety striping project on 6th Ave with synchronized traffic signals.
Athens continues report of an attack on a school administrator. Weizenecker said two men in a car shot him before dawn, firing a .32 pistol and a .38 into his thigh. He drove to a house, then woke in a hospital the next morning.
Former White House aideH R Haldeman testifies before the Senate Watergate committee disputing John W Dean III and John N Mitchell accounts of meetings with President Nixon. He says he learned of three “White House horrors” only recently and authorized returning a $350,000 campaign fund to the Nixon committee without knowing it funded payments to wiretappers.
The report urges selection by medical priority rather than social worth, with lottery used only in shortages. It questions how death is defined for patients with mechanical pumps that keep circulation after other organs fail and calls for early legal guidance on these issues.
Auditions for You're A Good Man Charlie Brown are tonight at St John s Episcopal Church directed by Ron Jones. Cast and crew sign up at 6 30 p m with roles, costumes, props, sets, lights and sound help needed for performances August 16 and 17 at Harold Watkins Stage Point Mallard sponsored by the Parks and Recreation Department.
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