House panel OKs controversial farm plan in broad bill
The House Agriculture Committee tentatively approves a wide farm bill with a 28 to 4 vote. It trims annual subsidies to 37 500 per crop and sets target prices for wheat corn and cotton, while backing a 20 000 per farmer subsidy cap in line with Senate provisions.
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Washington
House Agriculture Committee
House
Agriculture Department
Senate
Earl L. Butz
Nixon
House Committee
Inflation Surges as May Prices Rise Sharply
US inflation rose six tenths of a percent in May, 7.2 percent annual rate, consumer purchasing power declined. Aeromexico jetliner crash near Puerto Vallarta with 27 aboard. early word on survivors unavailable. Peron returns to Buenos Aires amid violence that killed 13 and wounded 250. Dow slips as Watergate hearings loom. Schlesinger Defense Secretary nomination approved by Senate committee. Cambodian bombings and fighting reopen two highways from Phnom Penh.
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Washington
Labor Department
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Bureau
Puerto Vallarta
Mexico
Aeromexico
Here
Houston
Tex
Buenos Aires
Rainfall in Hocking Valley and Friday Forecast
Rainfall in the Hocking Valley measured 0.55 inches with an overnight low of 67 degrees. At 11 a.m. the temperature was 78 degrees, down from Wednesday's 90. Partly cloudy skies are forecast with highs near 80 on Friday.
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Hocking Valley
Strive To Break Ohio Budget Logjam
Conferees on Gov. John Gilligan's 9.9 million budget bill press to move after three unproductive sessions. House action included repeal of Sunday Closing laws, razing abandoned gas stations, and a 5 percent raise for several state retirement systems. Senate boosts for widows and dependents, nursing home licensing rules, and veterinary disposal of unclaimed animals passed.
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Columbus
Ohio
John J. Gilligan
Public Employes
Senate
Police and Firemen’s
House
Second-Half Real Estate Tax Statements Mailed
Second-half real estate tax statements were mailed in Hocking County and property owners should receive them today. The deadline to avoid a 10 percent penalty is July 20. Payments can be made 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays at the treasurer's Courthouse office, with a treasurer's representative at Salt Creek Valley Bank on July 10 for Laurelville area taxpayers.
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Hocking County
Francis E. Myers
Myers
Salt Creek Valley Bank
Laurelville Area
Ohio Bell Bid Nixed By Justices
The Ohio Supreme Court says it cannot compel the Public Utilities Commission to grant an emergency rate increase for Ohio Bell Telephone Co. The PUC argued only it can set rates and that approving an increase would violate Nixon’s 60 day price freeze. Justice Corrigan dissented, urging action on Ohio Bell’s claim.
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Columbus, Ohio
Ohio Supreme Court
Public Utilities Commission
Ohio Bell Telephone Co
Ohio Bell
PACC
Nixon
J. J. P. Corrigan
PACO
Court Rules Lukens Off Ohio Ballot
The Ohio Supreme Court unanimously upheld a ruling declaring state Sen. Donald E. Lukens ineligible to run for office in 1974 due to filing lateness for a 1972 expense report. Lukens may finish his term and considering further court action. He is married and honeymooning in Switzerland.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ohio Supreme Court
Donald E. ‘‘Buz
Lukens
High Court
Ted W. Brown
U.S. Senate
William Saxbe
Butler County Board of Elections
Switzerland
John Zonak
U.S. Supreme Court
Federal District Court
Nixon Considers Major Energy Department Restructuring
President Nixon plans a new energy message proposing a Department of Energy and Natural Resources based on Interior. Consideration includes separating energy research from Interior and the AEC, creating a White House energy policy coordinator, and a three member energy policy council. Former governor Scranton declined as energy czar.
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Washington
Nixon
Department of Energy and Natural Resources
Interior Department
Interior
Atomic Energy Commission
Energy Research Agency
White House
Pennsylvania
William W
Energy Policy Council
Council of Economic Advisors
Congress
Three Men Sentenced in Dry Ridge Elementary Arson
Williamstown Kentucky AP three Grant County men faced prison terms after pleading guilty to arson and burglary at Dry Ridge Elementary School on February 20. Jerry Lee Sargent 22 received 10 years for arson and five years for break in. Donald Sargent 19 and John Davis 28 each got four years for arson. The $90 000 fire caused busing of hundreds of students and a new school was planned to open this fall.
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Williamstown
Grant County
Dry Ridge
Jerry Lee Sargent
James R. Ford
Donald Sargent
John Davis
Skylab Astronauts Ready Return After 28-Day Mission
Skylab's astronauts wrapped up a 28 day orbiting mission by tidying the station and transferring equipment to the Apollo ferry ship. Charles Conrad Jr Joseph P Kerwin and Paul J Weitz prepared for a July 27 visit by Skylab 2 for a 56 day stay with a 9 50 a m Pacific splashdown forecast aboard the Ticonderoga in favorable weather.
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Space Center, Houston
Space Station
Earth
Charles Conrad Jr
Joseph P. Kerwin
Paul J. Weitz
Nixon Brezhnev eye nuclear pact at Camp David
At Camp David the leaders discuss a breakthrough SALT inspired accord to guide Geneva talks and a bilateral pact on peaceful atomic energy. Brezhnev says talks will yield good results as Nixon and Brezhnev prepare to sign at the White House after their summit retreat.
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Camp David
Richard M. Nixon
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Geneva
Nixon
Brezhnev
Washington
White House
Moscow
U.S
Wayne County Native Named New Hocking Conservationist
Wayne County native Robert Kapper was named the new district conservationist for the Hocking County Soil Conservation Service effective June 11. He succeeds Bill Nedderman who left to run his father's dairy farm near St. Marys. Kapper is a 1970 Ohio State University agriculture graduate with a forestry major and previously worked two years as a soil conservationist in Warren and Licking counties.
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Robert Kapper
Wayne County
Hocking County Soil Conservation Service
SCS
Kapper
Bill Nedderman
Hocking Scs
St. Marys
Ohio State University
Hocking County
Warren
Licking
GE Contract Approved for 3400 at Ohio Plants
United Auto Workers ratified a contract covering 3400 workers at General Electric plants in Evendale and related Ohio facilities. The agreement secures terms for the Evendale plant and the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center in Wooster before staff proceed to OSU.
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Cincinnati, Ohio
United Auto Workers Union
General Electric Co
Evendale
Ohio
Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center
Wooster
OSU
Kapper
Mary
Fountain St
Supreme Court narrows obscenity shield to local standards
In a 5-4 ruling, the Supreme Court restricts obscenity protection to local community standards. The majority allows juries to assess works as a whole for serious value, targeting hard core pornography and upholding regulations against sexist ad practices. Justice Burger writes for the majority.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Warren E. Burger
Burger
Hard
Nixon
Harry A. Blackmun
Lewis F. Powell Jr
William H. Rehnquist
Byron R. White
Logan Rt 4 Girl To Teach In Egypt
Kathy Dale Fisher of Logan Rt 4 completed commencement at Eastern Mennonite College Harrisonburg Virginia and will receive a BA in August. She an English major has accepted a three year teaching post at Ramses College for Girls Cairo Egypt through the Mennonite Central Committee Teachers Abroad Program. A 1969 Logan High School graduate.
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Kathy Dale Fisher
Dale Fisher
Logan Rt. 4
Eastern Mennonite College
Harrisonburg
Ramses College For Girls
Cairo
Egypt
Mennonite Central Committee
Kathy
Logan High School
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Bourneville
Budget Conference Committee
Shoemaker
Senate House
Zonak
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Young Republicans Club
GOP
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Federal Pay Board
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