Perry Reservoir sees summer visitor peak pass
Perry Lake officials note July turnout pending with 126000 during the Fourth of July weekend, down from Memorial Day 132000 while May counts reach 566000 and June totals hit 382123. Through six months 1,383,255 trips suggest a total below the original 3 million estimate. Lake supervisor Lynn Myers cites vacation patterns and surging rival reservoirs as factors and says facilities are near capacity with plans to add picnic tables and to open two rustic camping areas in 1973 with new roads and amenities including fire pits and docks.
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Lynn Myers
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Perry
Colorado
Myers
Perry Reservoir
Corps of Engineers
Grasshopper Point
Old Military Trail
Search for Kevin Dye Continues on Casper Mountain
In Casper Wyoming police and volunteers press on with a mountain search for nine year old Kevin Dye who vanished during a cabin outing with his parents. A tracking dog reportedly followed a possible scent though darkness halted the line. A battered ping pong paddle found at a cabin and a found refrigerator with missing food spurred further inquiries. The boy’s epilepsy and anxiety medications are noted as factors in the ongoing effort.
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Casper
Wyo
Kevin Dye
Casper Mountain
Kevin
Garner
Workers Forego Hikes for Windsor Tire Plant
Good year Tire and Rubber Co. hourly workers at Windsor Vermont agreed to forgo scheduled wage increases for 1971 and 1972 to keep the shoe plant in operation. Local 289 members, 431 in all, will not receive 26 cent increases per hour as provided in last year’s contract, keeping the average wage at about 3.48 per hour to maintain competitiveness with imports.
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Windsor, Vt
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co
Goodyear
United Rubber Workers Union
1812 Overture Brings Siamese Cat Back To Family
Tybalt the two year old Siamese jumped from the Miles family car in Joplin Missouri during a move. After 17 days of separation Tybalt was located by a humane society worker using the 1812 Overture and later prepared for a flight from Tulsa to Boston to reunite with Mr. and Mrs. Miles of Berlin New Hampshire.
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Joplin, Mo
Tchaikovsky
Tybalt
J. D. Miles
Berlin
N.H
Joplin
Miles
New Mexico
New Hampshire
Len
Joplin Humane Society
Gold Assets At Lowest Since 1938
Washington AP reports U S reserve assets including gold and foreign currency fell in June to the lowest level since August 1938. June total reserve assets were 13.504 billion, down over 300 million from May. Gold stock dropped to 10.507 billion, the lowest since May 1968.
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Washington
United States
Treasury Department
U.S
Injured Children To Get Proceeds
Daniel Ellsberg says he will donate his $150,000 book advance to aid war wounded children in Indochina. Ellsberg, MIT research associate, was indicted by a federal grand jury on June 28 for unauthorized possession of the secret Vietnam study.
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New York
Daniel Elsberg
Pentagon
Vietnam
Indochina
Ellsberg
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jame
U.S
Rate Hike Sought For Workmen’s Insurance Rates
Topeka AP reports a public hearing will be held by the state insurance commissioner next Tuesday at 10 a.m. on a rate increase application for workers compensation insurance. The National Council on Compensation Insurance requests the rise for 225 member and subscriber companies.
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Topeka
State Insurance Commissioner
Fletcher Bell
National Council On Compensation Insurance
Vaccination Drives Cover Vast Texas Oklahoma Area
Federal officials report 949 950 horses in Texas and smaller totals in Oklahoma Louisiana Arkansas and New Mexico vaccinated against Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis VEE as spraying continues to curb mosquitoes. Human cases rise modestly with one new Texas case and 120 suspected cases nationwide.
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Houston
Tex
Texas
Oklahoma
Louisiana
New Mexico
Arkansas
California
Arizona
Mississippi
Alabama
Georgia
Florida
Texas Animal Health Commission
Mexico
Texas Health Department
U.S. Public Health Service Laboratory
Fort Collins
Colo
Health Department
Federal Emergency Center
Kennedy Won't Run for 1972 Presidency Says Fear Shapes Decision
In Look magazine Kennedy cites fear of assassination as the most crushing factor in his choice not to seek the Democratic nomination. He says the timing feels wrong and pressures from within and from others push against carrying on the Kennedy political tradition. He refuses to campaign in primaries and notes the national mood may not swing back quickly enough for Kennedy leadership.
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New York
Edward M. Kennedy
Massachusetts
John F. Kennedy
Sen
Robert F. Kennedy
Oregon
Kennedy
Jack
Nixon
Hope Predicts Big Withdrawal From Vietnam
Bob Hope told the National Exchange Club at its 58rd annual convention in Salt Lake City that virtually all US troops will be out of Vietnam by next July. He praised Vietnamization, claiming the US saved Vietnam and Southeast Asia and called antiwar critics traitors in a lengthy address to about 700 members.
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Bob Hope
Vietnam
Hope
The
National Exchange Club
Southeast Asia
Service Club
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Kansas
Whelan's, Inc
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Mayflower Warehouse
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Dell Publishing Co
Elisberg
ART Nease
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6Th & Mass
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Lennox Central Air Conditioning
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Current Look Magazine
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