Adviser Questioned About Failure of Price System
Lawrence Knutson reports from Washington as Herbert Stein faces a congressional panel assessing Nixon administration inflation rules. Senator William Proxmire believes wage-price controls should end, targeting big corporations and unions to curb price hikes. Proxmire's inquiry questions system durability without labor. secrecy of the Price Commission. and the complexity of guidelines. Meany and wage and price board heads will testify next week.
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Lawrence L. Knutson
Associated Press
Washington (Ap
Nixon
Joint
Congressional Economic Committee
Herbert Stein
Council of Economic Advisers
Cost of Living Council
Sen
Wiliam Proxmire
D-Wis
Proxmire
Stein
The
Price Commission
Afl-Cio
George Meany
Few Arkansans Under-Withheld From 1971 Taxes
AP report from Little Rock notes B Mack Lindsey says surprisingly few Arkansans owe under-withheld taxes for 1971 as refunds remain similar to prior years. Withholding charts lagged after a retroactive rate increase, causing mixed expectations about under or over withholding. Early refund averages hovered around $33, about $2 more than prior years, with May 15 filing looming.
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Robert Shaw
Associated Press
Little Rock
Arkansans
B. Mack Lindsey
Legisla
Ture
Lindsey
Letter to the Editor praising film program at Boocan School
A Boocan School civics class letter thanks Mr. Washburn for enabling student participation in WEC News Service. They note the filmstrip Parochaid: Issue for 70s aided understanding of government aid to church schools and commend the service provided to the school.
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Washburn
WEC
Naomi] Butler
Boocan School
Merchants of Hope
Evasiveness of ITT official roils Senate hearing
Senators Kennedy and Tunney pressed ITT antitrust observer John Ryan for clearer answers at a Judiciary Committee hearing on Kleindienst nomination and ITT ties. Ryan, under lawyer advice, remained silent as Republicans sought to summon White House aide Peter Flanigan for further discussion. The piece notes the committee's probe into ITT dealings and the San Diego convention link in a memo.
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Tom Seppy
Associated Press
Washington
Edward M. Kennedy
John V. Tunney
ITT
Richard G. Kleindienst
John Ryan
International Telephone & Telegraph Corp
Senate Judiciary Committee
Kennedy
D-Mass
Tunney
Ryan
Kleindienst
Justice Department
Jack Anderson
Dita D. Beard
San Diego
Denver
Radetsky
Joseph Snyder
Ray Pryor
Judiciary Committee
White House
Peter Flanigan
Charles Mec. Mathias
Ouachita honors Arkansas student at Forum for the Future
Miss Edna Lorraine White of Hope Arkansas earns high school honor from Ouachita Baptist University Arkadelphia She and her parents attend the Forum for the Future in Texarkana with Dr Daniel R Grant introducing faculty and alumni The event occurs April 18 1972 plus a revival at Rising Star Baptist Church April 17 and attendance details.
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Robert Lee White
Route 4
Hope
Ouachita Baptist University
Arkadelphia
Edna Lorraine White
Arkansas
Miss White
Forum For the Future
College
Texarkana
Daniel R. Grant
Ouachita
Tacoma
Washington
Student Christian Union
French Club
Future Homemakers of America
Choir
Babettes
Madrigals
Rising Star Baptist Church
Oak St
P. Sharp
Magnolia
W.M. Martin
Political spotlight shifts to Pennsylvania primary races
Senator Muskie McGovern and Humphrey intensify campaigns in Pennsylvania as 182 delegates loom at Miami Beach. Wallace works Texas Week to boost May 5 delegates. Tunney warns Muskie that April 25 and May 2 contests will determine his fate. Mitchell named director of Nixon re election effort. Shlapak sets Michigan State record with 54 yard field goal.
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Robert L. Campbell
Associated Press
Pennsylvania
Edmund S. Muskie
Maine
George McGovern
South Dakota
Hubert H. Humphrey
Minnesota
Keystone
Miami Beach
Alabama
George Wallace
Texas
Wallace
John V. Tunney
Dalif
Muskie
Cleveland
Massachusetts
Ohio
Tunney
Case Western Reserve University
Atty
John N. Mitchell
Nixon
Mitchell
Father of Eight Hijacked Plane in Los Angeles
Ricardo Chavez-Ortiz a 37 year old Mexican immigrant and father of eight hijacked a Frontier Airlines 737 over New Mexico and directed it to Los Angeles. He spoke on radio and TV airing grievances about minorities and his personal troubles while claiming no criminal intent before surrendering the empty .22 pistol to the pilot. He faces hijacking charges and was held on $500000 bond.
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Jack Lefler
Associated Press
LOS Angeles
Ricardo Chavez-Ortiz
Frontier Airlines
Chavez-Ortiz
Socorro
N.M
Los Angeles International Airport
Minot
N.D
FBI
United States
Mexico
Willie Hunt
Spend Same for Food Get Less Says LA Family
The Associated Press surveys show meat prices rising 10 to 50 cents a pound across the country. Mrs. Terrence Snyder of Los Angeles says her family now eats steak only once weekly and substitutes dairy meals, tuna, spaghetti, sandwiches and soup. Prices for pork chops, ground round and porterhouse steak vary by market, with examples in New Orleans Boston Indianapolis and Chicago. Federal officials hold hearings on rising prices as wholesale food costs slip slightly.
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Louise Cook
Associated Press
Terrence Snyder
Los Angeles
C. Jackson Grayson
Federal Price Commission
Labor Department
Agriculture Department
New Orleans
Canal Wallery
Porterhouse
Boston
Purity Supreme
Indianapolis
Marsh Foodliners
IRS to bring back short form tax return next year
The IRS plans to resume using the short-form income tax return, replacing the card form retired in 1968 with a new half-size 1040. The form suits filers taking standard deductions, as fewer people itemize, officials said.
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Washington
Internal Revenue Service
IRS
Prisoner Wrong About Bones at Cummins Prison Farm
Oklahoma anth ropologist Dr Clyde C Snow reports bones found at Cummins Prison Farm in 1968 were buried 40 to 80 years earlier, contradicting inmate Reuben Johnson who claimed they were unmarked graves of murdered inmates from the 1940s. Rod ney Carlton had earlier found no supporting evidence. State Police noted the site as an old pauper’s cemetery.
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Little Rock
Oklahoma
Cummins
Clyde C. Snow
Civil Aeromedical Institute
Federal Aeronautics Administration
Oklahoma City
Reuben Johnson
Johnson
Bradley Stevenson
Frank Elder
Reverend Butler
Snow
Arkansas Democrat
Bradley Steven
Butler
Rodney F. Carlton
Arkansas
Carlton
Storms Hit Texas Flooded by Severe Weather
The Associated Press reports powerful thunderstorms and hail swept Texas from Fort Worth toward Denton and Roanoke while another line moved from west of Austin to Eagle Pass. Weatherford saw golf ball sized hail for minutes before dawn and dust storm warnings were issued across a wide area from the New Mexico border to Gaines County with visibility at a quarter mile.
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Associated Press
Texas
Fort Worth
Denton
Roanoke
Austin
Eagle Pass
Weatherford
National Weather Service
New Mexico
Parker County
Gaines County
Death claims Caraway man in vehicle crash
Pinkey McMillan 91 of Caraway died in a Jonesboro hospital from injuries suffered March 24 when struck by a car on Arkansas 158. State Police said the auto was driven by James Reeves of Arkansas.
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Jonesboro, Ark
Pinkey McMillan
Caraway
Jonesboro
Arkansas 158
James Reeves
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