Ford to decide on $1 oil tariff this week
President Ford faces a choice on a proposed $1 per barrel oil tariff hike after discussions with top energy and economic advisers. A decision is expected by Wednesday with the tariff potentially taking effect Thursday unless action changes. Meanwhile Congress pursues a gasoline tax package tied to 1976 and 1977 conservation goals.
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Washington
Ford
Frank G. Zarb
Nelson A. Rockefeller
White House
Ron Nelsen
Congress
House
Ways and Means
U.S
IBM Won't Refuse South Africa Buyers
IBM Corp will not halt computer sales to South Africa despite racial policies. A church affiliated stockholders meeting, representing about 55,000 IBM shares, including the Episcopal Church and the National Council of Churches, presented the proposal.
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Pittsburgh, Pa
Ee Iris
IBM Corp
South Africa
IBM
Episcopal Church
National Council of Churches
Young American Mission Workers Stay In Saigon
A group of Mennonite Central Committee and American Friends Service Committee workers choose to stay in Saigon as evacuation begins. Max Eddiser and two others, fluent in Vietnamese, say they will remain to help and to support locals. Other Americans debate departure while tensions rise and Saigon braces for a possible Viet Cong takeover.
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Saigon
Max Eddiser
Turpin
Okla
Mennonite Central Committee
Edisor
James Klassen
Kansas
Luke Marin
Pennsylvania
South Vietnam
U.S
Duong van Minh
Washington
Ediser
Klassen
Marin
Claudia Erich
Keith Brinton
American Friends Service Committee
Claudia
Brinton
Arthur
Kate Brinton
Ludlow
da Nang
Nha Trang
Paul Quinn- Judge
Sophie
Claudia Krich
Percy
Rita Krich
Bayside
N.Y
Quang Ngai
Court Won't Dismiss Suit On Haldeman
A federal judge denied motions to dismiss a 1.2 million damage suit over an Oct 15 1971 Billy Graham rally. Plaintiffs claim illegal exclusion. remaining defendants include H R Haldeman and Secret Service and local officials. The case proceeds with testimony and evidence. Veterans of Foreign Wars is removed.
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Richard M. Nixon
National Veterans of Foreign Wars
Haldeman
White House
Nixon
Secret Service
Charlotte Police Department
VFW
John W. Dean III
Slow Pace Of Arms Talks Delays Ford Brezhnev Summit
U S officials cite slow nuclear arms talks and doubt over the European security conference as the main reasons for delaying President Ford's summit with Leonid Brezhnev from late June to September at the earliest. They credit the Soviet central committee with detente gains and note Geneva talks face technical problems that could push back the Helsinki conference.
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Washington
U.S
Ford
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Brezhnev
Communist Party
Central Committee
Brezhenev
Henry A. Kissinger
Middle East
Moscow
Israel
Iraq
Syria
Egypt
Geneva
Merrell Says Senate Won't Compromise On Emergency Bill
Jefferson City Missouri AP Sen Norman Merrell says a 35 million emergency appropriations bill may fail without House conferees accepting the Senate positions on three disputed items. He opposes 1.5 million for St Louis County storm sewers 300000 for a mobile breast cancer detection program and reducing prison planning funds from 500000 to 15000. He suggests delaying some payments to address emergencies with regular appropriations.
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Jefferson City
House
Senate
Senate Appropriations Committee
Norman Merrell
Donticello
St. Louis
Merrell
Meat Price Change Termed Temporary
Clarence G. Adams, president of the National Association of Food Chains, told Atlanta civic club that April meat price spikes reflect a temporary aberration caused by many animals being withheld from the market. He forecast an overall food price drop this summer if grain growing weather stays favorable, noting last year’s higher rate of price changes has eased to about half up and half down this year.
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Atlanta, Ga
National Association of Food Chains
Clarence G. Adams
Civic Club
Adams
Presbytery Life Members Honoring Two Mexico Women
Mrs. Jewell Bybee and Miss Virginia Botts were named Life Members by the Women of the Church at Mexico First Presbyterian Church during morning worship. The pastor Rev. Robert R. Collins praised their leadership in church and presbytery work. Life Membership pins were presented by Mrs. J.V. Wilson.
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Jewell Bybee
Virginia Botts
First Presbyterian Church
Synod
General Assembly
Robert R. Collins
Bybee
Mexico
Women of the Church
Miss Botts
Presbytery
Judicial Commission
Women of Missouri Presbytery
Women’s Work In
Missouri Union Presbytery
Presbyterian Church
U.S
The
Presbyterian Church, U.P
J.V. Wilson
Mexico First
Ford says 1976 bid plans intact amid sabotage claims
White House spokesman Ron Nessen says several of President Ford's advisers suspect someone planted false Newsweek reports to derail his 1976 campaign. Newsweek stands by its story. Ford allegedly told intimates he might not run due to his wife’s health and time and money concerns.
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Washington
Ford
White House
Ron Nessen
Newsweek
Nelsen
New York
Nessen
Another Policeman Out At St Joseph
ST JOSEPH MO AP The St Joseph Police Department has lost its 13th officer in an ongoing probe into sexual misconduct by overnight patrol members. Police Chief Glenn E Thomas said a police corporal resigned after a Monday conference, raising resignations to 11 with two more dismissed. He noted the investigation covers allegations of sexual activity with a 21 year old housewife while on duty and declined to comment on possible further dismissals or charges.
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ST. Joseph, Mo
St. Joseph
Glenn E. Thomas
Thomas
Shelton Retires After 41 Years With Green Co Mexico Plant
Otis Shelton retires from A P Green Refractories Mexico plant after 41 years and six months. He joined in 1933 as a brick wheeler, later moved to kiln selection, then lift truck operator. A founder and four time president of Brick and Clay Workers Local 790, he notes no lost time injuries in his Green tenure.
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Otis Shelton
A.P. Green Refractories Co
Mexico
Mr. Shelton
Green Company
Brick and Clay Workers Local 790
Lowe
Mundy
Company
Shelton
Troy
Wellsville
Springfield Post & Brick Co
Springfield
Ill
St. Luke United
Zsa Zsa Ends London Honeymoon With Third Rolls Royce
London AP report notes Zsa Zsa Gabor and her sixth husband Jack Ryan left London after a disappointing shopping spree. She complained American clothes offer better value, while Ryan bought her a $48,000 Rolls Royce, the third she has owned.
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London
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Jack Ryan
Zsa Zsa
Gabor
Local church leader Shelton to retire from roles after decades of service
On the Columbia-Mexico district board of the UMO Shelton has held multiple posts including four years as district lay speaker director and 17 years as a certified lay speaker. For five years he has served as lay minister for St. Pauls UMC in New Bloomfield, attending services every second and fourth Sunday to support the church. He won a 1966 Kiwanis laymans award for service and now sits on the Greenco Credit Union board. Shelton hopes to travel west more, noting visits to every state west of the Mississippi. He and his wife live at 416 N Agricultural and have three children, Mrs James Stapleton of Vandalia, Otis Carl of Des Moines, and Mrs Lewis Jones of Milwaukee.
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Free E Men
Columbia-Mexico
UMO
Shelton
St. Paul’s Umc
New Bloomfield
Mexico
Weather Delays Farm Field Work in Missouri
Columbia report shows only 2 percent of days suitable for field work last week due to rain. Plowing reached 57 percent, 15 points below the period average. oat seeding near completion, at 71 percent. corn planting 12 percent complete versus one third last year. Pasture and wheat conditions were fair to good.
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Columbia
Missouri Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
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