Motorists Ignore Pleas For Help In Iowa Tragedy
John Renfrow and a companion rescued a child from ice in a park three months earlier. On Interstate 80 in western Iowa a few feet away his father tried to save his mother, who suffered a heart attack as traffic passed. A rescue squad arrived too late and she was pronounced dead. The family, traveling from Perry, Iowa, said motorists ignored the cries for help.
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John
Iowa
Perry
Renfrew
Offutt Air Base
Adair Volunteer Fire Department
Romney cites graft in FHA housing drive and central city crisis
Housing Secretary George Romney told the House Appropriations Committee that graft and conflict of interest have tainted some FHA personnel and sparked FBI investigations into over 750 cases. He blamed central city social and economic problems for housing woes, while noting national housing success overall. A Brooklyn grand jury indicted 10 firms and 40 individuals in a multimillion dollar slum housing fraud scheme.
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George Romney
Romney
House Appropriations Committee
FHA
Federal Housing Administration
Ask
FBI
Brooklyn
Countyan’s Rick Wilson Accepted to Texas Medical School
Rick Wilson son of Mr and Mrs Harold Wilson west of the city has been accepted for entrance to the University of Texas School of Medicine in San Antonio He is an Oklahoma University graduate with a bachelor of science in zoology chemistry and history Wilson will begin medical school classes July 1 He currently serves as a chemist in the Medical Field Services School at Fort Sam Houston Texas
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Harold Wilson
City
University of Texas School of Medicine
San Antonio
Oklahoma University
Wilson
Medical Field Services
Fort Sam Houston
Tex
Humphrey
Kansas
McGovern
Muskie
South Dakota
Who's Really To Blame For Rising Beef Prices
Washington AP reports a House Agriculture subcommittee hearing on beef costs heard farmers and grocers blame shifting. National Association of Food Chains president Clarence Adams argued price increases reflect supply and demand and condemned government price measurements as lagging, while farm spokesmen urged market factors over regulation.
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Association
Clarence Adams
Adamy
Agriculture Department
Gene Potter
National Farmers Organization
Muskie and McGovern Duel for Democratic Delegates
The AP delegate poll shows Muskie with 991 votes and McGovern at 951 for the July 10 Democratic convention. Nixon leads Republicans with 128 delegates toward the August 21 GOP gathering as uncommitted ballots linger.
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George McGovern
Nixon
Associated Press
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McGovern
Wisconsin
Alabama
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Hubert H. Humphrey
Shirley Chisholm
Henry M. Jackson
Wilbur D. Mills
Arizona
Humphrey
Florida
Wallace
Georgia
Chisholm
Mills
Witness recaps first shots in Marin County courthouse siege
A trial witness testified that the first shots in the August 7 1970 Marin County courthouse gun battle came from inside a yellow van where four captors held hostages. He described disarming a suspect reaching for a sawed off shotgun in Judge Haley’s lap and noted Miss Davis had purchased the firearms used. The incident killed Judge Haley and three others, with two wounded.
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Angela Davis
Marin County
Asst
Eugene R. Fontaine
Fontaine
San Quentin
John Matthews
Miss Davis
Matthews
Haley
Judge Haley
Magee
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