Carter Ford duel shapes New York push with 41 electoral votes
Carter plans a three day swing through New York Detroit Kansas City and Ohio after a Plains Ga stop while Ford defends tax cuts and faces inquiries over Watergate ties. The Verge of a probe into Ford involvement hangs over campaigning as Mondale and Dole head to Houston for a Friday debate.
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Carter
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Ford Administration
Watergate
Richard Nixon
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Bob Dole
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N.Y
Farm grain loan rates hike in 1976 plan
Washington AP The Ford administration raised production loan rates for wheat and feed grains as part of a plan to bridge credit tightness and take account of a record corn crop and near record wheat harvest. Knebel insisted the move followed a presidential commitment and not Carter pressure.
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Ford Administration
Jimmy Carter
John A. Knebel
Knebel
USDA
White House
Ford
Bolivia Faces Mourning After Deadly Jet Crash
More than 100 Bolivians and three Americans were killed when a chartered Boeing 707 crashed into a street crowd and a youth soccer practice in Santa Cruz. Officials called it Bolivia’s worst aviation disaster as three days of national mourning were ordered.
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Santa Cruz
Bolivia
Hugo Banzer
la Paz
Jet Power Inc
Miami
Rodel Enterprises
Lloyd Aerero Boliviano
Houston
Julio Gutierrez
Avenida de Ejercito
Air Force
Saxe trial ends in hung jury in Boston
The murder armed robbery trial of Susan E Saxe an antiwar activist on the FBI Ten Most Wanted list ended in a hung jury after nearly five days of deliberation. Chief Justice Walter McLaughlin declared a mistrial and instructed jurors not to discuss the case outside the courtroom.
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Boston
Susan E. Saxe
FBI
Walter McLaughlin
U.S. Superior Court
Ms. Saxe
State Street Bank
Brighton
Walter Schroeder
McLaughlin
Wheat loan rate boosted to aid Kansas farmers
President Ford raised the wheat loan rate from 1.50 to 2.25 per bushel, praised by Kansas Farm Bureau President John Armstrong and Wheat Growers Association Chief Earl Hayes. The 50 percent increase aims to provide cash for bills without prompting more wheat plantings, with 7.5 percent interest and the option to repay or forfeit next spring.
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Kan
Ford
Kansas
U.S. Department of Agriculture
John Junior Armstrong
Kansas Farm Bureau
Earl Hayes
The
Kansas Association of Wheat Growers
Hayes
Armstrong
Ron Orton Named Police Chief in Wellsville
Wellsville City Council hired Ron Orton as police chief to replace Larry Hylton who resigned for personal reasons and professional disagreements with Sheriff Rex Bowling. The council also set March 31 1977 for bids on pool repairs and approved payment to youths who worked at the cemetery despite dissatisfaction with the mowing job.
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Wellsville
Ron Orton
Larry Hylton
Hylton
Franklin County
Rex Bowling
Sheila Dominick
Dominick
Canadian Defense Minister resigns over bilingualism in constitution
Defense Minister James Richardson resigns in Ottawa criticizing Prime Minister Trudeau for potentially inserting bilingualism into Canada’s constitution. He fears Quebec’s demand for French and English as official languages in the British North America Act and related statutes. Senator Baldwin Winter will visit Baker University campus Tuesday for a political communications class and Rotary luncheon.
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Ottawa
Canada
James Richardson
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Quebec
Britain
Baldwin
Wint Winter
Baker University
Lyn Barrie
Baldwin Rotary Club
Baldwin Palmyra festival opens with warm weather forecast
Lively weekend planned in Baldwin as Palmyra Post Office grand reopening and Bloods Grocery celebrate. The 19th Maple Leaf Festival runs through Sunday with events from a Friday ribbon cutting to Saturday parades, music shows and tours, and a Sunday pony pull.
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Palmyra
Blood’s
Mercury
Lawrence
First US skyscraper was Chicago Home Insurance Building
The Home Insurance Building in Chicago, completed in 1885, is identified as the first skyscraper in the United States, rising ten stories and marking a shift in urban architecture.
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United States
Home Insurance
Chicago
Injured Benton player dies after Friday game
A 17-year-old St. Joseph Benton High School football player died at the University of Kansas Medical Center after sustaining head injuries in a game with Maryville. Jim Sparks Jr. died about 8:30 a.m. The fatal injury occurred during a pass defense collision.
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Kansas City, Kan
St. Joseph Benton
Maryville
St. Joseph
Jim Sparks Jr
University of Kansas Medical Center
Douglas County Delivers Under-Estimate Bridge Bids
Bushman Construction Co. of St. Joseph Mo bids four new bridges well below engineers estimates. Total project uses bond funds from an 11.75 million issue approved in 1974, boosting the 50 bridge program to 16 contracted or completed.
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Bushman Construction Co
St. Joseph
Douglas-Franklin County
Tain Creek
Clearfield
Mud Creek
Lawrence
Bushman
Foley Construction Co
Lecompton
Dean Sanderson
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