Protesters shift emphasis to draft office in antiwar drive
Antiwar activists pushing to end Indochina war moved from Capitol sit ins to targeting the draft system. About 1,000 demonstrators planned to lobby draft office workers while protests spread to Senate offices and a White House briefing. Nine demonstrators were arrested during a brief Senate disruption as temperatures fell outside.
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Washington
UPI
Senate
Congress
People's Coalition For Peace and Justice
Chicago Seven
Rennie Davis
West Potomac Park
Lincoln Memorial
McCloskey forms campaign group to challenge Nixon
Rep. Paul McCloskey Jr. said he is forming a campaign organization to run against President Nixon in 1972 if Nixon does not end the Vietnam War. He cited increased bombing in Laos, criticized the U.S. embassy in Vientiane, and urged GOP groups to back an early end to the Indochina conflict.
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Chicago
APL
Paul McCloskey Jr
H-Calif
Nixon
Indochina
State Department
McCloskey
League of Women Voter Republicans
PTA Republicans
Young Businessmen Republicans
Mobilization Week planned by TVA groups in Tennessee Valley
TVA area groups schedule a Valley Mobilization Week for May 16 22 as the agency nears its 36th year. Leaders cite the Tennessee River as the unifying force for regional resource development and environmental progress while TVA Board Chairman Aubrey Wagner offers agency support.
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Knoxville
UPI
Tennessee Valley Authority
TVA
Tennessee River
Decatur
Ala
Tennessee River Valley Association
Landrun
Oxford
Miss
Tennessee Valley Public Power Association
Aubrey Wagner
Explosions Hit Army Office and Police Lab in Belfast
Explosions damaged an Irish Army recruiting office and Belfast’s police forensic science laboratory early today. No casualties were reported. Police say the lab held vital exhibits for upcoming prosecutions and that 40 pounds of explosives caused extensive damage.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Army
Irish Republican Army
TRA
Billie Sol Estes Paroled Spurred Bitter West Texas Memories
West Texans react to Billie Sol Estes’s parole and release from prison July 12. Farmers J C Barnes Jr and J W Hill recall major losses from Estes fertilizer tank deals and accuse finance companies of complicity. Pecos jeweler John Fonville and stockholder Coleman McSpadden express mixed views, with some seeing release as overdue and others arguing accountability for higher-ups.
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United Press International
West Texas
Billie Sol Estes
Gere
Hill
John Fonville
Estes
Pecos
Tex
Coleman DB. McSpaddina
Lubbock
Superior Manufacturing Co
Ming
Invasion Move Marks A Shau Valley Operations
Reports from Saigon and Washington describe Operation Lam Son 720 into the A Shau Valley with South Vietnamese and U S forces preparing a major strike. After two weeks, reconnaissance yields limited action while secrecy increases as two fire bases are set and reporters are barred from flights.
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Maj
Edward Smith
West Airborne Division
A Shau
101St Airborne
Mexican Sent Home in Truck
A Mexican man who admitted illegal entry was sent home by truck due to funding shortages at the local U.S. Immigration Service office. Nipolito Zamora Gomes of Saltillo, Mexico, could not pay $50 for air travel, so he rode with a trucking crew returned to Mexico after being found in a railroad boxcar. Gomes said he sought work in Chicago.
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Memphis
UPI
Mexico
U. S. Immigration Service
David Cole
Nipolito Zamora Gomes
Saltillo
Coahuilla
Cole
Gomes
Iminois Central
Immigration Service
Tald
U.S
Chicago
South Koreans To Pick President Today
South Korea voters choose their next president with Park Chung Hee facing Kim Dae-Jang. About 35.5 million eligible, 9,000 polling stations opened at 7 am and closed 6 pm local, results not expected until midweek. Park urged stronger defense and faster growth. Kim pushed militia abolition and closer North Korea contact.
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Seoul
Park Chung Hee
Kim Dae-Jang
North Korea
Bath Park
Democratic Republican Party
Kim
Shinmin
New Democratic Party
Uniter
Park
Kir
Public Nuisance Law Hits Mills in Birmingham
Alabama Attorney General Baxley filed suit in Jefferson County Equity Court seeking six months to clean or shut down Birmingham’s biggest mills over air pollution. Named firms include U S Steel Republic Steel US Pipe Foundry Lone Star Cement Connors Steel Volcan Materials McWane Cast Iron Cl Clow Universal Atlas Alpha Portland Woodward Alabama By-Products.
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William J. Baxley
Dothan
Suthern
Baxley
Jefferson County Equity Court
Birmingham
U.S. Steel
Republic Steel
US. Pipe and Foundry
Lone Star Cement Co
Connors Steel Division
H.K. Porter Co. Inc
George G. Seibels Jr
Buxbey
Republic Steel Enterprises Inc
Volcan Materials Co
McWane Cast Iron Pipe Co
Clow Corp
Universal Atlas Cement Co
Alpha Portland Cement Co
Woodward Co
Alabama By-Products Corp
Middle of Nation Honored In Mascoutah Farm Field
A U S census marker is placed in a fallow soybean field near Mascoutah Illinois marking the geographic center of the United States population based on the 1970 census. Lawrence Priesterichs field owner Friederich explains the spot lies 18 inches deep under a concrete block plaque as reporters observe. The field five miles southeast of Mascoutah lies on a 14acre fallow plot under a federal subsidy program.
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U.S
United States
Lawrence &. Priesterich
Friederich
Ife
Linda
Mascoutah
Meicucrich
Sunday Edition Notes Incomplete Local Press History
Fragmented OCR of a newspaper dateline showing terms like Saturday and Sunday editions, subscription prices, and postal details. It references Kinginard and Kingaport TN areas, United Press International and other agencies, but many words are garbled. The piece reads as a publication notice or masthead fragment without a cohesive story.
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Kinginard Times
Kingaport
Tennessee
Vega
Vaility
United Press International
Chicana Daily Ties
Newmaner Enterprise Assocition
Repunticalion ci
al Mavier Herawg
Tis Miner
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