Power shortages loom as Greene County faces hot summer
A nationwide forecast warns some areas may face electricity shortages this summer due to insufficient capacity. Greene County residential use rose 59 percent in five years from 41 to 65 million kilowatt hours annually. Brownouts and voluntary cutbacks are expected with utilities racing to build new plants. Father's Day 1971 will again rise in gift spending with women buying over 75 percent of gifts totaling more than 1 billion dollars.
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Federal Power Commission
Greene County
East North Central States
Justice Department seeks injunction to halt Times Vietnam study pages
Attorney General John Mitchell announced the Justice Department will seek a temporary restraining order in federal court to stop The New York Times from publishing top secret Defense Department documents on the Vietnam war. The filing alleges publication would cause irreparable injury to national defense.
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Washington
UPI
John N. Mitchell
Justice Department
New York Times
United States
U.S
Fred Buzhardi
Defense Department
Vietnam
Gulf of Tonkin
the Times
Mitchell
Tryon Named 7th District Commander
Ancil Tryon of Linton Post 22 was elected Seventh District Commander of the American Legion at Edinburgh. Delegates from 44 posts voted. Tryon has served as Post Commander and held multiple district roles and is a Past Sergeant of Arms for Indiana. Cleon Bowman and Chuck Powers were named alternates to the national convention in Houston in August.
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Ancil Tryon
Linton
American Legion
Edinburgh
Tryon
Law and Order
Department of Indiana
Cleon Bowman
Houston
Texas
Bowman
Chuck Powers
County Group Meets Thursday
The Greene County Community Development and Employment Committee will meet at Klusmeier's at noon Thursday. Randal Scott leads an industrial survey for Greene County and aims to meet community representatives to arrange survey appointments. The survey is funded by a federal grant and sponsored by the Greene County Committee.
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Greene County
Klusmeier’s
Randal Scott
Greene County Community Development and Employment Committee
Government
Chamber of Commerce
Miss Indiana to ride float in Linton Fourth of July parade
Deborah Sue May Miss Indiana 1970 will attend the Linton parade as a special guest and ride a float. A Remington native and Indiana University senior in speech and theater she is an accomplished vocalist and instrumentalist with prior honors in baton twirling and public speaking. The July 5 event invites float registrations through the Chamber of Commerce office.
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Deborah Sue May
Indiana
Linton
Miss May
Remington
Indiana University
National Honor Society
American Legion
Chamber of Commerce Office
Marion Bales
Bell System Facing Strike in Kansas City
The Communications Workers of America plans a strike against Bell Telephone System after a convention vote showing 205,431 in favor to 82,000 against. A Wednesday strike date was hinted, with nationwide action possible after July 1. The union demands a 5 percent pay raise, better pension, wage differentials for large cities, and job reclassification.
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Kansas City
UPDA
Communications Workers of America
Bell Telephone System
Bell
Joseph R. Beirne
CWA
Beirne
Artillery Attacks and Casualties Rise in Vietnam Front
UPI reports Communist artillery hit a South Vietnamese outpost near Khe Sanh killing five soldiers and wounding 15. Five Marines killed and 15 wounded in shelling eight miles east of Khe Sanh as B52 raids intensify. North Vietnamese massing forces in the highlands with 68 killed in Monday clashes. An explosion hit the U.S. ship American Hawk near Qui Nhon, suspected mine by Communist divers injured one longshoreman. US air and artillery response ongoing as fighting continues northeast of Saigon and near Miran Loc.
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Saigon
UPI
U.S
Khe Sanh
An Ampusa
Phnom Pinh
Highlands
South Vietnam
Demilitarized Zone
Dmz
Qui Nhon
King
Miran Loc
Indiana Pension Task Force Eyes Consolidation or Oversight
At the first meeting of Indiana's Pensions Task Force Rep. James J. Robison outlined options including consolidation or an advisory board to oversee funds. The group plans hearings with fund officials as it drafts recommendations for the 1972 Legislature. The Teachers Retirement Fund is the largest, followed by the Public Employees Retirement Fund.
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Indianapolis
UPI
Indiana
Pensions Task Force
James JT. Robison
Frankfort
House Public Policy Committee
Robison
Whitcomb
Indiana Teachers Retirement Fund
Indiana State Teachers Retirement Fund
Indiana Appellate Court Overturns Caveat Emptor In Home Purchases
The Indiana Appellate Court rules that buyers of new homes have an implied warranty the home is fit to live in, reversing Vanderburgh Superior Court in Theis vs Heuer. Theis family claimed health and property damage from sewer and drain tile backflow during heavy rains. The trial court had dismissed the suit following Tudor vs Heugel, but the appellate court says the old rule is bad law and orders the case heard.
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Indianapolis
OPL
Indiana Appellate Court
Vanderburgh Superior Court
Frederick Theis, Jr
James F
Freda Heuer
Evansville
Theis
Tudor
Boys State Party Chairmen Elected
TERRE HAUTE Indiana Mark Blade of Terre Haute and Dan Frederick of Middlebury were chosen as state party chairmen for the 1971 elections at Hoosier Boys State. The American Legion sponsored exercise in government is on the Indiana State University campus with Blade heading the Federalist party and Frederick the Nationalist.
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Terre Haute
UPL
Mark Blade
Dan Frederick
Middlebury
Hoosier
Egypt Sees Maxi Mum Alert After Dayan War Warning
Cairo sources say Egypt placed Suez Canal defense on maximum alert after Moshe Dayan warned war may resume in the Middle East. Egypt vows no first strike but will respond to Israeli provocations along the waterway amid rising tensions sparked by an Arab guerrilla attack on an Israeli bound tanker in the Red Sea. Dayan warned that war could be imminent and noted Israel could strike Cairo Amman and Damascus if conflict returns.
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United Press International
Cairo
Egypt
Suez Canal
Moshe Dayaos
Middle East
Ces
Red Sea
Israel
Tiran Strait
Gulf of Aqaba
Dayan
Hebrew University
Jerusalem
Amman
Damascus
Fascists In Italy Make Big Gains
In Rome and across Sicily voters swung to the right as the neo Facist Italian Social Movement MSI won noticeable advances in regional provincial and city elections. Premier Emilio Colombo's Christian Democrats and coalition partners also gained, deepening tensions in Italy's fragile government amid economic trouble and unrest.
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Rome
UPI
Italian Social Movement
MSI
Sicily
Emilio Colombo
Christian Democrats
Miners' Strike Spreads Across Ohio and Pennsylvania
The walkout began in southern West Virginia with 20,000 miners protesting Tony Boyle’s removal as a UMW welfare fund trustee. An estimated 1,600 miners joined eastern Ohio fields and about 2,200 in western Pennsylvania, with potential expansion uncertain.
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Charlestown
W. Va
UPI
W. A
Tony” Boyle
United Mine Workers Welfare and Retirement Fund
Ohio
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Boyle
Washington
Indiana Honors Grissom Memorial and Space Institute Opening
Pete Knight and Governor Whitcomb joined a ceremony in Indianapolis for the arrival of The Molly Brown as part of a Virgil Grissom Memorial event. The capsules from Grissom's 1965 flight are displayed at Weir Cook Airport to inaugurate the Indiana Aerospace Education Institute for Youth on campus. Grissom, a Hoosier and Apollo 1 casualty, is remembered as a memorial rises near Spring Mill State Park near Mitchell.
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Indianapolis
UPI
Pete Knight
Whitcomb
Molly Brown
Indiana
Virgil
Grissom
Earth
Indiana Aerospace Education Institute For
Weir Cook Airport
Knight
Spring Mill State Park
Mitchell
Southern Senators Switch on Viet War Call for Withdrawal
Senator Herman Talmadge and Senator B Everett Jordan, long opposed to U.S. involvement in Vietnam, urge total withdrawal. Jordan backs a Vietnam disengagement act to end combat by December 31, while Talmadge cites constitutional issues and urges Nixon to negotiate prisoner releases and begin complete disengagement within a year. The pair say American patience has worn thin amid war costs and national divisions.
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Washington
UPI
Vietnam
U.S
Herman Talmadge
D Ge
B. Everett Jordan
D .C
Jordan
Nixon
Senate
Talmadge
Wwe
Americas
Nixon Admin Discussing Clifford Plan On War Polymer Release
Washington sources say the Nixon administration will discuss Clifford's plan to secure the release of American prisoners of war rather than dismissing it. The move follows criticism that ruling out the plan too quickly hindered efforts to address Viet Cong captivity.
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Washington
UPT
Nixon
Cluck Cliffords
Defense
Clifford
Bend
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Robert KE
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James A. Clem
St. Louis
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