Laird Defends Bomber Plan at Rockwell Plant Tour
Defense Secretary Melvin Laird toured a full scale mockup of the B1 bomber at North American Rockwell, urging support amid McGovern budget cuts. He warned that proposed reductions could end the project, noting the bomber is slated for a 1974 test flight and 15 months later into production. The program, costing about 2.6 billion to develop, would replace aging B52s.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Melvin Laird
George McGovern
Rockwell
Laird
McGovern
Congress
Defense Department
Thunderstorms lash Plains with hail and high winds
Storms swept central and southern Plains with heavy rain and hail. Hail measured up to half to one inch at Lake Perry Missouri while Tulsa Oklahoma faced gusts near 86 mph. Oklahoma City saw 58 mph winds. a Pittsburg Kansas funnel cloud was reported but did not touch down. No damage or injuries reported as heavy rains triggered flash flood watches.
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Republican River
Kansas
Pacific Coast
Eleven Hurt As Freeway Bridge Beams Collapse
Eleven people were injured when support structures for a new freeway fell and trapped motorists. Two workers were critically hurt as beams crashed to U S 50 traffic, with a domino effect and warnings that the bridge supports were loose. The project cost exceeded ten million dollars.
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Sacramento
UPI
California Highway Patrol
CHP
Bill Miller
Sheriff's Department
Lompoc Record Admits Second Class Mail Status
The Lompoc Record notes its posting under Act of Congress as an adjudicated legal newspaper. It lists leadership including Mrs. Kenneth L. Adam as President and Harry J. Crompe as Editor, with staff and affiliations to major press associations and an annual subscription rate of $2.25. The paper is published daily except Sundays and Christmas Day.
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Lompoc
California
Lompoc Record
Lompoc Record Publications
Kenneth L. Adam
Harry J. Crompe
Lawrence C. Grossman
J. Donald Adam
Rennie L. Adam
Gaylen Jackson
Tim Conner
Clete Lunny
Wesley A. Huffman
Ray McCuen
Betty Laurent
Scott Ostler
Steve LaRue
Vaughn Proctor
Dan Duffy
Stan Tulledo
California Newspaper Publishers Association
United Press International
International Press Institute
Inter-American Press Association
California Press Association
Audit Bureau of Circulations
California labor groups form McGovern support committee
At the California Labor Federation AFL-CIO convention an ad hoc McGovern committee is launched with 45 locals and councils backing the effort. Steve Edney and Charles O. McCord say unions are not neutral and predict strong California worker turnout for McGovern.
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Los Angeles
UPI
California
George S. McGovern
California Labor Federation
Afl-Cio
McGovern
Steve Edney
United Cannery and Industrial Workers of the Pacific
Aflcio
George Meany
Nixon
Political Education Committee
San Francisco
Charles O. McCord
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Local 11
McGovern Committee
Million dollars hidden aboard hijacked Delta jet recovered
UPI reports a December return of one million dollars in cash carried by two Delta officials after eight skyjackers seized a Delta flight July 31 from Detroit to Algiers. Algerian authorities impounded and returned the ransom in Paris while passengers searched in Rome and Paris learned little. Frances Farenthold and her daughter Emily were among aboard.
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UPI
TWA
Dulles International Airport
Delta Airlines
Delta
Detroit
Algiers
Paris
Rome
Frances
Cissy) Farenthold
Texas
Emily
Welfare rolls fall in California in July drop
The Reagan administration reports July welfare rolls in California declined by 16 200 bringing total caseload after 16 months to 2 081 000. Total cash grant programs decreased by 4 4 million last month with AFDC cases down 13 000 for unemployed fathers and 2 900 where fathers are absent. General home relief fell 700 to 53 267.
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Sacramento
UPI
Carleson
AFDC
Republicans Leave Miami Beach Amid Nixon Rally Aftermath
In Miami Beach the GOP infers a costly convention linger while Patched by Mayor Hall. Nixon backers voice guarded optimism on Congress with MacGregor calling control only a fair chance. Agnew heads to Minneapolis as protests flare and police report 1200 arrests and marijuana grow plans surface in Malibu incident.
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UPI
Nixon
Congress
Spiro T. Agnew
Minneapolis
Veterans of Foreign Wars
George S. McGovern
John M. Ashbrook
Ohio
Ashbrook
McGovern
Republican National Committee
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Robert Dole
Kansas
GOP
Clark MacGregor
MacGregor
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dana Beal
National Coalition of Gay Organizations
White House
Security tightened in Northern Ireland over hotel bombings
BELFAST UPI reports troops increased security around public lodgings in Northern Ireland following a wave of hotel bombings. A separate attack in Londonderry left one sniper dead and another wounded as the army confirmed a fatal shooting in the city’s northern area, with a second incident occurring Thursday night in the Creggan district.
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Belfast
UPI
Northern Ireland
Londonderry
Creggan
Man crucified to plead for family reunion
Eugene Austill, 45, convinced a woman friend to nail him to a cross beside a fence near Buckeye Arizona in a bid to bring back his wife and two sons. He hung for about two hours and was hospitalized with nail wounds. The woman is not expected to be charged. Separately, a land mine attack near the Irish border killed a trooper and injured others as IRA threats prompted hotel bomb scares and further fighting in Northern Ireland.
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Ariz
UPI
Eugene Austill
Sheriff's Office
Austill
Here
Ed Calles
Calles
Maricopa County
Austin
Irish Republic
Belfast
Europa
Public Protection Agency
Irish Republican Army
IRA
Crossmaglen
County Armagh
Ian Hunter-Case
Killeter
County Tyrone
English priest serves wine bread for communion fund
The Rev. Christopher Roberts substitutes homemade wine for the wine at Communion while his wife Edith provides homemade bread in place of wafers. The church aims to save funds for restoration work.
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Castleton
England
UPI
Christopher Roberts
Edith
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