Two Soviet Cosmonauts Orbit Earth in Soyuz 15 Mission
Tass announced Lt. Col. Gennady Sarafanov and flight engineer Col. Lev Demin launched in Soyuz 15 to orbit ahead of joining Salyut 3. The mission aims to continue scientific research as the previous Soyuz 14/Salyut 3 test flights set the stage for a joint U.S.-Soviet program next year. Both crewmembers are reported in good health with steady radio and TV contact.
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Moscow
Salyut 3 Space Laboratory
Tass
Gennady Sarafanov
Lev Demin
Space Lab
Salyut 3
The
Space Laboratory
Sarafanov
Demin
Three Fish Kills Being Investigated
Missouri biologists probe three fish kills in Hinkson Cedar and Coldwater creeks in Jefferson City area. Acid from inactive strip mines blamed for Hinkson and Cedar Creek losses including bass sunfish catfish suckers darters and shad. Coldwater Creek cites oxygen depletion from sewer repairs killing about five thousand nine hundred fish.
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Jefferson City
Missouri Conservation Department
Hinkson Creek
Columbia
Richard Duchrow
Cedar Creek
Callaway
Boone Counties
Frank Ryck
Stup
Interstate 70
Ryck
Coldwater Creek
St. Louis ‘County
Florissant
Duchrow
Missouri Wrecks Drop Sharply Under 55 MPH Rule
Missouri Highway Patrol reports about 4 500 fewer traffic accidents in the first seven months of the year versus 1973. By end of July 624 deaths on Missouri highways versus 937 a year earlier. Patrol credits 55 mph limit and fewer miles driven for the drop, noting 2 500 fewer injuries and 301 fewer fatalities.
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Jefferson City
Missouri Highway Patrol
Sam S. Smith
Missouri
Smith
Ford Tax Return Privacy Plan Faces Opposition
Washington AP A White House plan to curb access to IRS tax returns faces opposition from privacy advocates who say it lags. A draft would limit agency access and bar the President from viewing returns, but critics warn loopholes remain.
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Washington
White House
Congressional
Treasury Department
Internal Revenue Service
Richard M. Nixon
IRS
Senate Watergate Committee
House Judiciary Committee
Ford
Domestic Council
Jerry L. Litton
Dmo
Litton
Nixon
Department of Agriculture
Lowell P. Weicker Jr
R-Conn
Senate
Watergate Committee
Philip Buchen
Decorated Bike Contest Tied to Bluegrass Festival
John Blass announced a Mexico Optomist Club Bluegrass Festival parade on Sept 7 with a decorated bicycle contest for area children. Entries meet at Love and Clark at 9 30 a m. parade starts 10 a m. Cash prizes awarded. contact Blass or Ed Dubrouillet for details.
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Mexico
Ed Dubrouillet
Blass
Blackmore Lake
Mexico Optimists Win Honors at Missouri District Convention
Mexico Optimists earned three top honors at the Missouri District Optimists convention in Kansas City. Paul Lowther, president, was runner-up for Optimist of the Year as 64 competitors vied for leadership and service awards. Ralph Glascock of Clinton won top honor and will lead Optimist International. Lowther was installed as Lt. Gov. of Zone 14. The club won first place for community service and its weekly newsletter, with the Little Dixie Blue Grass Festival as culture and literature winner. The event marked the largest attendance at a Missouri district meeting since the club’s 1967 founding, with Mr. and Mrs. Paul Lowther among the representatives.
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Mexico
Crown Center
Kansas City
Paul Lowther
The
Lowther
Zone 14 Optimists
Dave Kemp
Bill Woodruff
Arthur Allen
Missouri
Tragedy remembered Lindbergh kidnap case tale
Retired editor Samuel G. Blackman recalls the Lindbergh baby kidnapping and Hauptmann murder trial. He recounts the ransom notes, the ladder, the nursery search, and Hoffman's doubts, noting handwriting and wood evidence upheld Hauptmann's guilt despite controversy. Also reports Ford White House dinner for Cabinet members.
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Samuel G. Blackman
General News
Associated Press
Blackman
Samuel G.blackman
NEW York
Col
Charles A. Lindbergh
Charles Jr
Lindberghs
Sourland Mountain
Hopewell
N.J
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Bronx
New Jersey
Harold G. Hoffman
Hauptmann
Anne Morrow
Betty Gow
Lindbergh
Anne
Col. Lindbergh
Miss Gow
Wilentz
Arthur Koehler
United States Forest Products Laboratory
Madison
Wis
McCormick
S.C
Koehler
South Carolina
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Drug Walgreen Agency
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Jassie
J.F.C
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Gay Head
Elizabeth Island
Martha’s Vineyard
Mass
Virginia Capes
Roosevelt
Federal Reserve System
Trenton
H. Norman Schwarzkopf
Walter Lyle
Tsidor Fisch
Fisch
Germany
Atty
David T. Wilentz
Frank J. Wilson
Mr. Wilson
Wilson
Hoffman
Lindbergh Nursery
Fords
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Central
Sses Loan Company
Vents
Smiley
IGA
W. Boulevard
Showtime
Little Dixie Drive-In
Samuel Z. Arkoff
Max Baer
Ernie Casey
John Carr
Walt Disney Productions
Carradine
Ain
West Side Square
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