Truman Rail Car Fetches Seventy-Seven Thousand Dollars
Vernon California AP report recounts the auction of a private, 1 year old midnight blue and gold railroad car tied to Harry S. Truman. Bidders pushed the price from $20,000 to $77,000 as Thomas F. Baker of San Francisco sold the car to a Kansas City group for a Missouri tribute.
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Aspen
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Hoste
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Bryams Ford Park
Fork River
San Diego
Thomas F. Baker
San Francisco
Alex Barket
Koste
Missouri
Joseph Ellis
Truman Library
Robert F. Koste
del Mar
Calif
Independence
Metropolitan Con
Nixon to Talk With Bunker on Withdrawals
President Nixon planned to discuss possible South Vietnam troop withdrawals with Ellsworth Bunker during weekend consultations. Officials say no policy decisions will be made, as the war’s end remains a long process and actions will be weighed against potential effects on Paris peace talks.
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San Clemente
Calif
Washington
U.S
Dent Nixon
South Vietnam
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Con
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Europe
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William P
Rogers
Tajor
Bunker
Gen. Andrews
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Laird
Saigon
Vietnam
Paris
Russell to Work During Cancer Treatment in Senate
Senator Richard Russell, 71, diagnosed with an operable lung tumor, will continue Senate work during six weeks of cobalt therapy as doctors say his condition is inoperable due to emphysema. He plans to complete his current term and remains unlikely to seek re election.
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Washington
Gia
Richard B. Russell
Senate
Aon
Fung
Appropriations Committee
Lyndon Johnson
Russell
Nixon
Congress
Appropriations
Ee Senate
Caveman Worms Linked to Ancient Utah Wastes
Washington AP reports Utah scientists found evidence that prehistoric North American cavemen suffered intestinal infection from a thorny headed giant worm. Researchers John G. Moore and colleagues published in Science noting eggs of Moniliformis clarki in ancient human wastes from Danger Cave Utah, tied to diet including crickets grasshoppers and beetles.
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Science
Danger Cave
Utah
North Carolina lawmakers push tax hike and legal reforms
In Raleigh AP report lawmakers propose a 4 percent sales tax boost to aid cities and counties plus a wine tax rise and tax on soda syrups to fund schools. Senate passes a wrongful death damages bill authorizing juries to consider companions and affection. Other measures create a legislative comptroller, expand voting assistance, allow mail ballots for farmers, and fund UNC alcohol studies center.
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Legisla Iis
D-Lenoir
Rae Rae
North Carolina
Martha Evans
Mecklenburg
Worth Gentry
Stokes
Charles Lark
House
Bendis
Cot House
Legislative Comptroller
Potato Legislative
State AFL-CIO Pushes Tax Overhaul in North Carolina
Raleigh AP report shows Millard Barbee of Durham proposing replacing sales and income taxes with a state income levy tied to federal taxes. He argues current taxes are unfairly regressive and progressive, citing 1967-68 data to claim potential state revenue would rise slightly if tax shares mirrored federal obligations.
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Afl-Cio
N.C
Raleigh
North Carolina
Barbee
Bob Scott
Senators Get Trip To Austria
Washington AP Senators B Everett Jordan DN C and Strom Thurmond R 5 C have been chosen to attend sessions of the Interparliamentary Union in Vienna Austria April 7 13 They were among 24 senators named by Vice President Spiro Agnew to two delegations traveling abroad during Easter recess The other delegation plans to attend the 9th Mexico U S Interparliamentary Conference in three Mexican cities April 29 There will be no Carolinians in this delegation.
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Washington
B. Everett Jordan
DN. C
Strom Thurmond
Vienna
Austria
Spiro Agnew
United States
Learning to Live: A Fellow’s Paradox and Habits
A reflective line about a life spent learning and the irony of good intentions. It contrasts continuous learning with practical living and hints at the writer’s critique of habitual behavior and self awareness.
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