Tough Strip Mine Bill Passes In Senate Vote
The Senate approved a tough strip mine regulation bill 82 to 8 and sent it to the House. The bill would require states to adopt acceptable regulations within 22 months and create a reclamation fund. An industry amendment to loosen reclamation rules was defeated 62 to 29.
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Senate
Washington
House
James B. Allen
D-Ala
Allen
Sen
Henry A. Jackson
Dash
Environment and Mines and Mining
Louise Dunlap
Coalition Against
Miss Dunlap
Dewey F. Bartlett
Henry L. Bellman
Oklahoma
Wallace F. Bennett
Utah
Carl T. Curtis
Nebraska
Jesse A. Helms
North Carolina
William B. Saxbe
Ohio
William Lloyd Scott
Virginia
Agnew Attacks Subsidized Housing as Costly Failure
Vice President Spiro Agnew told New York Building Congress officials that federally subsidized housing has been a costly failure with only about one in fifteen eligible receiving aid. He said government costs to provide low income housing run 15 to 40 percent higher than private purchase or rent.
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New York
Spiro T. Agnew
Agnew
Drill Sergeant School Opened for Elgin Cleanup Campaign
The annual drill sergeant school started last weekend under Lt. David Drennan and runs through next year’s training period. Company A led by Lt. Hank Leonard assisted Elgin’s fall cleanup with Lions Club volunteers, conducting house to house trash collection. New reservists including Dennis Kindred and others from Lawton and Altus were inducted, with promotions to E-6 for Alien, Comanche, Fountain, and Ronald Smith. Capt. Ronald Honeycutt at Central Junior High School served as material center director.
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Elgin
David Drennan
Hank Leonard
Elgin Lions Club
Dennis Kindred
Marlow
Alan Murdock
Victor Montalvo
John Lowrey
Harvey Cochnauer
George Boydston
Robert Wright
Lawton
Rudolph Hodge
Altus
E. Alien
Comanche
Larry J. Fountain
Ronald D. Smith
Ronald Honeycutt
Central Junior High School
Two Fort Sill Soldiers Charged With Stolen Vehicle
Fort Sill privates James E. Browning and Leodus B. Doyle are charged with willful damage to government property wrongful appropriation and failure to report for duty. Officials say they removed an M548 cargo carrier from the motor pool drove it to Apache and abandoned it north of town.
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Fort Sill
James E. Browning
Leodus B. Doyle
John H. Ward
4Th Battalion
4Th Field Artillery
Apache
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PITT
Goodyear
Blackwall
Spalding
Door Buster
Armory Building
Cache Rd
STATE
GOU
Ces
Tennessee Valley Authority
Jackson
Harry F. Byrd Jr
Federal Grand Jury
Maryland
Baltimore
Justice Department
Justice
New York Building Congress
Nixon
McCord
C Ave
Walt’s News & Book Store
Western Union
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