Dollar Slumps to Record Low in Frankfurt Market
News from Bonn reports the dollar at an all time low on the West German exchange with the mark at 3.55 to the dollar, 3.66 official rate, as Germany proposes a plan to combat Europe’s money crisis. The plan aims to float the mark and curb inflation, facing stiff Common Market resistance ahead of Saturday talks in Brussels.
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Bonn
Europe
Frankfurt
Conrad Ahlers
Willy Brandt
West Germany
Ahlers
Burssels
Belgium
Karl Schiller
Walter Scheel
Aurora Man Tells Police Of 7 Deaths
Merle Richard Sturdivan of Aurora Colorado faced a first degree murder charge for killing Dr Samuel B Chapman 53 in a Kansas City motel room. He told police of seven additional slayings from Florida to California while authorities prepared to verify details.
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Liberty, Mo
Kansas City
Florida
California
Merle Richard Sturdivan
Aurora
Colo
Clay County
Samuel B. Chapman
William Brandom
Sturdivan
Miami
Miami Beach
Tampa
Fla
New Orleans
Atlanta
Houston
Tex
San Francisco
Brancom
Jobless Rate Edges Up in April Amid Racial Gap
WASHINGTON AP The government reports unemployment rose to 6.1 percent in April with Black joblessness surging to 10 percent the highest since January 1964. Whites at 5.6 percent and teens at 17.2 percent, while total employment edged up slightly mainly from farm jobs.
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Washngton
BLS
Fatal Rent Apartments fire spurs $294,260 suits
Two lawsuits totaling $294,260.51 filed in Douglas County District Court stem from the September Fire at Rent Apartments. Kathryn Kihm, a KU sophomore from Chanute, died October 14 from burn injuries. One suit by New Hampshire Insurance Co seeks $66,662.55 for building repairs. Named defendants include Continental Construction Co Inc Lawrence architect John Herring Connie and Laura Krause and their father William Krause James Lindsay and Associates and Phyllis Mecaughey. The other suit by Kathryn Kihm’s parents seeks $227,597.96 against Mecaughey Continental Construction Christine Davis Connie Krause and Don Eley. Mrs Mecaughey owned the apartments.
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Douglas County
Kathryn Kihm
Kansas University
Chanute
Kansas City
The
New Hampshire Insurance Co
Continental Construction Co., Inc
Lawrence
John Herring
Overland Park
Connie E. Krause
Laura Krause
William S. Krause
Woodstown
Engle Rd
Engel Rd
Albert A. Kihm
Barbara A. Kihm
Kathryn
Peace Candle of the World Lights Scappoose Silo
Darrel Brock and eight workers built an 18 foot diameter 50 foot tall wax coated silo in Scappoose. The $18,000 Peace Candle will be lit Sunday by Governor Tom McCall using a 60 foot match. Brock says it will burn forever if wax is continually pumped up, after 600 man hours of labor.
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Scappoose
Ore
Darrel Brock
Oregon
Tom McCall
Brock
Columbia County
Washington antiwar protests end in rout after massive crackdown
Protesters faded as thousands were arrested while police and federal troops outmatched a well organized campaign to shut down traffic and halt government action. Organizer Rennie Davis vowed more action, predicting another large turnout in two months as authorities prepared for future demonstrations.
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Washngton
Rennie Davis
Little Kim Smashing With Hands In Karate Rivalry
Highland Indiana AP Kim Pisut, 17, can break a one inch pine board with her palm and has become a karate veteran under father Tom Pisut a third degree black belt. She won the American Karate Association Open title last March and competes in kata scoring 54 moves. She has not yet faced another girl in competition.
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Kim Pisut
Kim
Tom Pisut
Highland, Ind
Rainfall Falls in Afternoon as Lawrence Seeks Moisture
Rain began in several parts of Lawrence shortly after 1 p.m. today as clouds, which had lingered in the morning, returned during the noon hour. By 2 p.m. a trace of precipitation was reported and clearing was expected tonight with lows in the 50s and Saturday highs in the 70s. No heavy rainfall is forecast to materialize this weekend.
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Lawrence
Valachi Buried at Lewiston Following Senate Testimony
Joseph Valachi, the witness who exposed Cosa Nostra operations before a Senate subcommittee, was buried in Lewiston, near Niagara Falls, N.Y. The burial confirms his final rites after his public disclosures.
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Niagara Falls
N.Y
Joseph Valachi
Cosa Nostra
Senate
Lewiston
Bible-Carrying Marchers Plan Capitol Rally and TV Messages
The Rev. Carl McIntire and followers plan a song service on the Capitol steps then a win-the-war march to the Washington Monument. He aims to broadcast messages from Chiang Kai-shek and other Far East anti-Communist leaders and to have George Wallace and Lester Maddox deliver telephone messages. McIntire expects a crowd larger than the April antiwar march and cites figures from 350,000 to 500,000.
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Washington
Carl McIntire
Capitol Steps
Washington Monument
Collingswood
N.J
Chiang Kai-shek
McIntire
Chiang
Chung Hee Park
Nguyen van Thieu
Nguyen Cao Ky
Alamada
George Wallace
Georia
Lester Madox
McIntre
Capitol
Joplin Man Convicted In Blast Case
Joplin resident Bobby Lee Shuler, 29, was found guilty of second degree murder by a Springfield jury in a blast case. The panel recommended a 99 year sentence after convicting him for firing into a dynamite truck that killed driver John Galt, 48, of Oklahoma City. Judge Jack Powell instructed the jury with 14 stipulations, limiting verdict options to acquit or convict on the charge.
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Springfield
Bobby Lee Shuler
Joplin
Shuler
John Galt
Oklahoma City
Jack Powell
Local Ads Showcase Available Services and Vendors
Russell Stover Candies and Key Rexall advertise at home and away services. Rumsey Funeral Home offers contact at 843 5111. Auto liability insurance for teen agers promoted by Gene Doane Agency at 824 Mass.
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Russell Stover
Rexall
Rumsey Funeral Home
Gene Doane Agency
Mass
Agriculture Salute at White House under Nixon policy
The White House hosted a "Salute to Agriculture" with livestock on the mansion grounds and a photo captioned Hogs are Beautiful. Nixon invited 70 agricultural leaders to discuss a $400 million farm aid program focusing on loans and export growth to $10 billion. DNC Chair O'Brien blasted the event as political harvest and said funds were misused for politics, while Farm Bureau head Kuhfuss praised the policy but questioned ongoing subsidies.
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Nixon
White House
Executive Mansion
Lawrence O‘brien
O‘brien
Agriculture Department
Southwest
William J. Kuhfuss
American Farm Bureau Federation
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James D. Hodgson
Treasury
John B
Connally
Department of Agriculture
Highland
Ind
James H. Lindsay and Associates
Phyllis Ann Mecaughey
Oxon Hill
Fade
John S. Lang
Davis
Valachi
Pentagon
Air Force
Daniel L. James
Federal Communications Commission
FCC
America
Strom Thurmond
R-S.c
John G. Schmitz
R-Calif
John R. Rarick
D-La
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