Humor and cereal wars poke fun at driving and diet
A Bristol Herald-Courier dispatch outlines lighthearted highway sign gags from Ohio to Georgia and Oklahoma plus a policy tale on cereal fortification. It notes signs like Welcome Back Stupid and Don t Take a 1000 to One Chance along with federal limits on added vitamins and minerals.
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Profits of Industry Under Study
Washington AP A $2 million federal study of defense industry profits criticizes Pentagon policy and calls for a sharper government system to push cost cuts and efficiency. GAO Comptroller General Elmer Staats defends the review amid questions of pre release edits while Sen. Proxmire prepares a hearing with Staats as a witness. Pentagon says profits in defense business are not excessive or unreasonable compared with nondefense profits.
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Nixon Seeks warmer public image amid private life dispute
President Nixon moves to bridge the gap between his stiff public persona and the private man, aiming to appear more approachable as a forthcoming family wedding and a looming election pressure him. A series of live interviews and new communication efforts follow a dip in popularity, with plans for a Monday night conversation with Howard K. Smith and exclusive talks with major reporters and editors.
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London Sunday Telegraph
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Lottery Pays Man One Million in New Jersey
In Trenton Nas Ed ward Henry a 40 year old telephone company worker is the first $1 million winner in the state lottery. He is married with two children and his wife, 26, is due to give birth to their third next month.
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Lower Voting Age Issue Delayed Across Nation
Washington AP reports state by state ratification of the 18 year old voting age amendment has been delayed by another long weekend. House leaders adjourned delaying a vote until Tuesday after funding for the supersonic transport bill failed. Despite optimism in several legislatures, the delay makes timely passage before the 1972 election uncertain as 38 states are needed.
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Proxmire Considers 1972 Democratic Presidential Run
Washington AP reports Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire saying he may enter the 1972 Democratic nomination race and would campaign everywhere if he decides to run.
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Warren Sees No Danger of Revolution
AP Special Correspondent Saul Pett reports former Chief Justice Earl Warren, age 80, believes the United States faces no real danger of armed revolution. He cites youth action on divisions, reflects on his career, notes work on citizenship book and memoirs, and urges national commitment to end the Vietnam War and focus on domestic rehabilitation and development.
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Supreme Court
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Tax Relief Urged Over Easy Money, Brimmer Says
Washington AP An Federal Reserve Board member Andrew F Brimmer urged Nixon to rely on tax cuts rather than looser monetary policy to boost a weak economy. He spoke in Dallas saying demand is seriously short and that inflationary money injection may already be excessive. If further stimulus is needed, he favors fiscal measures like tax cuts or investment tax credits over Easy credit.
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Agency Head Already Getting Top Salary
Y Whelchel, coordinator of public safety, received 5 000 dollars from federal funds atop the 10 000 dollar state salary. The Joint Budget Committee weighed raising the total to 15 000 dollars a year all from federal funds starting July 1. The audit noted Whelchel was paid 9 999 from state funds and 4 999 from federal funds for the prior year, with the 10 000 dollar cap previously set by law. The committee questioned who authorized the extra 5 000 and who approved the federal payment.
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Y. W. Whelchel
Legislative Joint Audit Committee
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Swifton
Joe Stewart
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Melbourne
Legislative Action in Arkansas from Hempstead Representative
State Representative Mack McLarty of Hempstead County reviews a two week extension in the Arkansas legislature. He notes the budget process, a $26 million revenue package via cigarette taxes, and debates over prison funding and county official fees. The Eagleton Study contract for 1973 aims to improve legislative efficiency and governance.
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Hempstead County
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Avalanche Kills Half of Mining Town
Peruvian geologists and police warn residents in the Andean valley to evacuate after a landslide from a loosened mountainside into Lake Yanahurina sent floodwaters over Chungar mining camp. The disaster leaves 400 to 600 dead, with about 50 hospitalized, many victims reportedly wives and children of miners. Rescue teams approached from the east, heavy equipment urged to drain remaining water. The event marks Peru's worst disaster since last May's quakes and slides that killed about 70,000.
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Chungar
Transportation Sharing Plan Offered by Nixon
President Nixon proposed a 2.56 billion transportation revenue sharing plan to broaden funding beyond the interstate program. He urged Congress to pool transportation aid, funding planning, construction, acquisition and maintenance across highway aviation and mass transit, with mass transit earmarked at 515 million and 8 percent to large metropolitan states.
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