Liquor by the Drink Issue Sparks City Vote Debate
Local group led by Ralph Niehaus campaigns to call a special election under Chapter 311 to decide liquor by the drink in towns with under 90,000 residents. They argue current controls fail to curb drinking and favor economic gains from license fees, claiming fees could fund streets and traffic control while reducing intoxication, litter, and open containers in vehicles.
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Ralph Niehaus
Niehaus
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Missouri
Interstate 75 percent complete in Missouri
Jefferson City officials reported about 75 percent of Missouri’s planned 1,147 mile interstate system is finished. 786 miles were done by Aug 1 with 29 more under contract to open by year end, while over 160 miles remain in early planning and engineering stages. Missouri advances well ahead of the national average.
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Jefferson City
Missouri
Bond Plan Seeks 700 Million For Roads Transit And Airports
Gov. Warren Hearnes proposed a 700 million bond package to fund highway construction totaling 475 million plus 150 million for rapid transit and 30 million for airports. The plan also includes 15 million for municipal buses and 10 million for rural bridge work and would create a Department of Transportation.
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St. Louis
Warren BE. Hearnes
Jackson
A. J. Cervantes
Hearnes
Stuart Symington
D-Mo
L. K. Roos
Kansas City
Charles 8. Wheeler
Jackson County
George Lehr
Highway Commission
Department of Transportation
Springfield
St. Joseph
Columbia
Jefferson City
Roos
Cervantes
Hoffa Parole Denied For Third Time
Washington AP reports former Teamsters leader James R. Hoffa faces parole denial for the third time from his 13 year sentence for jury tampering and mail fraud. The US Board of Parole set a June 1972 rehearing date after reviewing Hoffa record and aides. Hoffa has been in Lewisburg prison since 1967 and recently testified before a New York grand jury in a bribery case involving Allen Dorfman.
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Teamsters
James R. Hoffa
U.S. Board of Parole
Hoffa
Parole Board
George J. Reed
Reed
Detroit Teamsters
James P. Hoffa
Department of Justice
Lewisburg
Will R. Wilson
Justice Department
West Coast
100 Years After Lincoln Slavery Persists in World
United Nations report cites Col Patrick Montgomery of the Anti Slavery Society of London estimating a few hundred thousand chattel slaves worldwide with about 1 million in debt bondage and serfdom. He notes regions in Africa Asia and Latin America where slavery elements remain and recounts abuses including flogging branding and child exploitation.
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United Nations
N.Y
Abraham Lincoln
United States
Patrick Montgomery
Anti-Slavery Society of London
Double Albino Lobster Found Surprises Boston Aquarium
A female double albino lobster, estimated over two years old, was caught by Quincy lobstermen off Temberton Beach near Hull and exhibited at the New England Aquarium. Experts say the rare white lobster results from two pigment systems breaking down, with odds around 100 million to one.
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Boston
New England Aquarium
Richard L. Jandl
Quincy
Temberton Beach
Hull
Howard Fell
Harvard
Car overturns near Kirksville leaves two injured
A car ran off Missouri 3, two and a half miles south of Kirksville in Adair County early this morning, killing passenger Paul Gene Snyder, 20, of rural Kirksville. Driver Ronald Lee Frye, 24, of Oklahoma, and passenger Harley G. Snyder, 25, of Keyes, Oklahoma, were hospitalized. The Oklahoma driver was ejected from the vehicle when it overturned.
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Missouri 3
Adair County
Paul Gene Snyder
Snyder
Harley G. Snyder
Keyes
Okla
Ronald Lee Frye
Highway Patrol
Paul Snyder
Victims program aid shows California payouts
In California, 406 victims received 677000 dollars under the violent crimes law over four years, plus 27 under the Good Samaritan Act totaling 119261 dollars. Claims average a few thousand. many denials cited need standards and prudent behavior. Veglia notes monthly crime reports and low take-up despite eligibility forms.
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Sacramento
Calif
Oxnard
Berkeley
Eugene F. Veglia
California
Veglia
State Board of Control
Kernodles Seek New Trial In Public Accommodations Case
James E. Kernodle and Oliver Paul Kernodle request a new trial in a Kansas City public accommodations case. They contest $500 fines and six months jail tied to a recreation lake that excluded Negroes for 42 years, arguing the Kansas City Citizens Council was private and that evidence of prior Negro exclusions was improperly admitted.
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Kansas City
James E. Kernodle
Oliver Paul Kernodle
Kernodies
Anti-Viet Vets Confront Taylor at Kennedy Airport
At Kennedy International Airport 60 members of Vietnam Veterans Against the War confronted General Maxwell Taylor, ex-Joint Chiefs chair and ex-U S ambassador to South Vietnam, asking Are you proud of My Lai and how did you get your stars by body count. Taylor denied knowing any of them as the veterans protested Braniff International Airlines for transporting service personnel to Vietnam.
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Maxwell Taylor
Joint Chiefs of Staff
U.S
South Vietnam
Kennedy International Airport
Vietnam
My Lai
Taylor
Braniff International Airlines
Boston
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