Congress approves cost of living pay raise for all top officials
Congress passed a cost of living pay raise covering the vice president, Cabinet members, judges, and senior officials under the comparability system. The measure, approved 214 to 213 in the House and 58 to 21 in the Senate, sets October 1975 for rate decisions and November 1976 for voter judgment, with Ford backing the move.
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Congress
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Senate
Ford
Civil Service
Supreme Court
Con
Gress
House Rules Committee
Kansas House
Plot to poison Castro described by ex aide
Robert A. Maheu testified that in 1960 billionaire Howard Hughes was briefed on a CIA poison Castro plot. He said he warned Hughes he could not handle a Los Angeles assignment and rejected a covert operation tied to the Glomar Explorer project later linked to a CIA effort to raise a Soviet submarine.
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Washington
Howard Hughes
CIA
Fidel Castro
Miami
Robert A. Maheu
Hughes
Maheu
U.S
Pacific Ocean
Securities and Exchange Commission
Hughes Air West
Eudora Library Construction Delayed by Weather
Weather delays completion of Eudora's new library building replacing a rented space. McPherson Contractors Inc. reports spring snow and wet conditions slowed progress. roof and siding underway with no firm completion date before November. Board chair Alden Fleming mentions meetings with architects to confirm timetable. Bond funds of 80 000 were approved last summer.
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Eudora
Michael Ecord
McPherson Contractors Inc
Topeka
McPherson Company
Ecord
Alden Fleming
Fleming
Psychology chair Kiesler leaves KU for APA post
Charles Kiesler, chairman of the KU Department of Psychology, will become executive officer and director of the APA in Washington DC starting August 15. B Kent Houston is named acting chairman while Kiesler heads a 180 person central office and 42 000 member association.
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Charles Kiesler
Kansas University
American Psychological Assn
APA
Washington, D.C
Kiesler
B. Kent Houston
Association
Queen visits Silverwood 3 coal mine in Rotherham
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip toured the Silverwood 3 coal mine in Rotherham England spending two hours at the 1200 foot level. The queen wore white overalls and a hard hat and carried away a freshly cut lump of coal as a souvenir.
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Rotherham
England
Queen Elizabeth II
Silverwood
Prince Philip
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