Arizona Commission Orders Gas Rate Reductions
The Arizona Corporation Commission directed Southern Gas Corp to cut rates for domestic and commercial customers in Pinal Gila and Greenlee counties with refunds due within 60 days from the Sept 3 order. Industrial and irrigation rates were briefly increased.
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Arizona Corporation Commission
Southern Gas Corp
Pinal
Gila
Greenlee
Arizona
William Laub
Las Vegas
Arizona Commission
E. T. Williams Jr
Milton J. Husky
Laub
Soviets Begin Withdraw from Czech Cities
About 300,000 Soviet troops began pulling out of major Czech cities to join remaining forces in rural camps as part of a Moscow negotiated three stage withdrawal. Deputy Premier Hamouz warned journalists to curb critical coverage or Russians might reoccupy press offices they left.
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Prague
UPI
Czechoslovakia
Communist Party
Josef Hamouz
Moscow
Mamie Seeks Ballplayer Divorce
Hollywood based Mamie Van Doren will seek a divorce from minor league pitcher Lee Meyers in Orange County California. The lawyer said a divorce complaint will be filed by week’s end charging mental cruelty. Meyers is 21 and pitched for Dallas Fort Worth. Van Doren is 35 and previously married to Ray Anthony.
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UPI
Mamie van Doren
Lee Meyers
Joe Agapay
Orange County
Calif
Meyers
Miss van Doren
Dallas-Fort Worth
Ray Anthony
New York Teachers End A Two Day Strike
New York City public schools reopen after a two day strike won by teachers. The United Federation of Teachers and Board of Education reached a contract securing job protection amid a decentralization plan. UFT members voted 55 000 to 218 in favor with 5 515 supporting. A related court hearing was scheduled for September 18 on a temporary restraining order.
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UPI
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United Federation of Teachers
UFT
Supreme Court
Jacob Markowitz
Markowitz
Wrong roadblock leads to four-car pileup near Buenos Aires
Two robbery suspects were trapped by a Pan American highway roadblock near Buenos Aires. Police aimed to slow traffic at a three-car wreck. the suspects sped up, collided with the wreck, and caused a fourth vehicle to crash.
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Buenos Aires
UPI
Trumpeter Injures Neck During Band Concert
John Little aimed for a high C at a Reno band concert and blew two neck cartilage discs out of place. He finished in traction at a hospital after the injury.
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Reno
UPI
John Little
Reno man given probation in fatal Jan 3 Reno crash
Dist. Judge John Barrett sentenced Walter E. Brigham, 55, of Sun Valley, to two years probation after a traffic accident that killed an off duty Reno policewoman on January 3. The plea and terms were outlined by UPI reports.
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Sun Valley
Linda Burrell
Reno
UPI
John Barrett
Walter E. Brigham
CPA Conduct Gets Ruling From Court
Cameron Batjer of the Nevada Supreme Court told the Nevada Accountants convention that professional accountants must adhere to ethical conduct even at the risk of losing business. He warned that diversions from ethics invite trouble and could collapse liability insurance as premiums soar.
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Cameron Batjer
Nevada
Pardons Board Delays Ruling on Robert Peoples Case
In Carson City the state pardons board hesitated to act on Robert Peoples 37 who protests his 1965 murder conviction of Sharon Beach in Beatty. Peoples offered to undergo a lie detector test to prove innocence while serving life without parole as his case awaits an appeals court ruling.
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Carson City
UPI
State Pardons Board
Robert Peoples
Peoples
Sharon Beach
Beatty
Georgia Primary Negro Office Seeker Challenges State's Elite
UPI report details Maynard Jackson, a young Negro attorney, challenging Sen. Herman Talmadge in Georgia's Democratic primary with a vow to beat him at the polls. DOJ observers and state troopers are deployed to monitor black voter access as primaries in multiple states shape party returns and incumbents face light opposition.
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Frank J. Lausche
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William K. Tufts
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Stafford
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John J. Daley
Daley
Arizona
Barry M. Goldwater
Roy Elson
Carl Hayden
Elson
Robert Kennedy
Dick Herbert
Sam Goddard
Jack Williams
Williams
Goddard
New Hampshire
Norris Cotton
Manchester
John €. Mongan
John W. King
House
Walter R. Peterson
Airmail stamp split between government and airlines
The Post Office Department gets 9.4 cents for each 10 cent airmail stamp sold while airlines receive 0.6 cent. For first class air mail the 6 cent stamp is divided as 5.85 cents to the government and 0.15 of a cent to the airlines.
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Post Office Department
Air
Nevada Voters Back Direct Primary Reform
The piece argues voters rejected Johnson Humphrey on Vietnam and notes Nixon won primaries unopposed. It urges replacing indirect presidential selection with direct primaries at state and federal levels, aiming for majority rule and reform in Nevada politics.
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Johnson- Humphrey
Vietnam
Nevada
United States
House of Representatives
Funeral set Saturday for long time local vegan
Frank E. Whitehead 74 a longtime Mercury employee dies earlier this month at Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital. Sunset Funeral Chapel organizes a first class funeral with help from a local labor union and James Ryan’s building local members covering costs. Services are at 9 30 a m Saturday.
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Frank E. Whitehead
Sunset Funeral Chapel
Whitehead
Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital
James Ryan
Building Local
Investor Friedman Testifies About $50,000 Petty Cash
Maurice H. Friedman of Las Vegas testified he kept $50,000 as petty cash for gambling at the Friars Club in Beverly Hills. He described the fund as a safe deposit box provision used like petty cash while on trial with four others on charges of conspiracy to cheat at cards.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Maurice H. Friedman
Las Vegas
Nev
Friars Club
Friedman
U. S
William Gray
Beverly Hills
Hearing Ordered for Criswell Case in Elko Juried Review
Dist. Judge John Gabrielli ordered an evidentiary hearing before an Elko district court jury for Elmer Criswell who was convicted last year of second degree murder. The hearing will decide if Criswell knowingly and voluntarily waived constitutional rights and if his July 28, 1968, confession was voluntary.
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Wisconsin
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Senate
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Bronson C. LaFollette
Warren P. Knowles
Maryland
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Charles McM. Mathias
Colorado
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Ken Monfort
Peter Dominick
Roy McVicker
Henry Howe
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RENO
UPI
John Gabrielli
Elko District Court
Elmer Criswell
Criswell
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