09 Aug 1973
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Newspaper
Kingsport Times
Location
Kingsport, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1973
Page
1
The Kingsport Zoning Appeals Board will convene at 7 30 p m Thursday in the Council Chambers at City Hall. The notice urges attendance and notes the meeting is open to the public.
The Kingsport Boys' Club Inc accepts applications for its 1973 football program for boys 6 to 13 under 126 pounds. Applications available at 213 Lee Street and must be shown by a parent. Deadline August 14.
Bays Mountain Park naturalists announce a series of visitor activities including Lithoology Barge Programs on weekdays at 3 pm and weekends at 2 45 and 3 pm. Interve Walks run weekdays at 10 am, Snake Programs weekdays at 4 pm, and telescope viewing every Thursday evening until 10.00 pm Weather and skies conditions noted.
Washington, UPT Gen. Ureighiun Abrams, Army chief of staff and former commander in Vietnam, testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee that he did not know why records of 1970 bombing missions in Cambodia were falsified. He admitted approving secret bombing targets in Cambodia and cover targets in South Vietnam, and said the operation was terminated after it became his responsibility.
A teenage suspect led police to a Lin storage shed where eight bodies were found buried by midnight. The youth described a paint sniffing party at which he and companions were threatened, forced to endure torture, and then shot by Dean Corll. Investigators noted remains in bags and skeletal forms as officers recovered evidence and questioned the jailed suspect.
In Detroit a wildcat strike at a Chrysler plant enters a second day with pickets claiming revolutionaries behind the dispute. UAW VP Douglas A Fraser says leaflets misled him. workers demand reinstatement of 13 dismissed colleagues and safer conditions. A temporary injunction hearings set, production at risk.
Commerce Secretary Frederick Dent predicts prices will climb before easing under Phase 4. Meat producers withhold cattle, Texas butchers cut hours, and wheat prices hit records as the city studies beef sourcing options. A federal judge receives a bid to lift the meat price ceiling amid cost of living concerns.
In Rome Housewives report growing prices, and government inflation squads now arrest grocers bakers and butchers who violate the price freeze. A Fresinone baker paid 5100 for raising bread a cent, Turin saw 48 bakers closed five days for overcharging or failing to publish prices. A Saferne customer clashed with a baker and the butcher intervened before police charged both with violations.
A former cellmate claims Alvin Seagraves was forced into a Saturday shootout that left his ex-wife Phyllis firegory dead and two others slain. Seagraves, 26, fled with his son after the car rampage and custody dispute. Authorities say a parole release and parole officer missteps contributed to the escape and manhunt.
London Sun reports U S may face a military coup amid Washington political vacuum and Pentagon influence. European governments fear paralysis of U S foreign policy, hindering Atlantic relations and urgent monetary and economic talks, with prospects for Nixon's Europe visit now uncertain.
The Army missed recruiting goals for six straight months since the draft ended, filling only 76 percent of July’s target. About 35 percent of new enlistments were Black, triple the Black share of the population, while low intelligence score recruits rose to 31 percent, near double the 18 percent cap. The Air Force hit 101 percent, Navy 97 percent, and Marine Corps 82 percent.
Beall, 35, federal attorney, leads probe into Maryland kickback scheme that prompted Vice President Agnew to be named a target. Irony lies in Beall and Agnew’s prior political ties. Beall’s career included appointments by Agnew and Nixon, with notable prosecutions and clashes over indicting prominent Maryland contractors in federal construction fraud cases.
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