Missouri leaders prepare for speed limit and open records actions
Gov Bond poised to sign a 55 mph speed limit bill set to take effect March 4, with a signing ceremony in the Capitol rotunda. The session also screens a reorganization bill, open meetings law amendments, and bills on personal property tax repeal and the death penalty. Senate debate on open records continues amid concerns about disclosure and enforcement.
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Jefferson City. Mo
Christopher S. Bond
Capitol
Bond
State Highway Department
Senate
Clinton
William Cason
A. Clifford Jones
R Brentwood
Cason
House
Bob Griffin
Cameron
Appropriations Committee
Brooke Fears Change In Missile Targeting
Washington Senator Edward W. Brooke warns that targeting missiles at military sites rather than Soviet cities could raise the risk of nuclear exchange. Defense Secretary James R. Schlesinger counters the move aims to reduce overall risk, and the two exchange letters detailing their contrasting views.
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Washington
Edward W. Brooke
U.S
Defense
James R. Schlesinger
Brooke
R-Mass
Schlesinger
Odd And Even Gas Pump Plan Spreads Across States
Thousands of drivers in four states and the District join alternate day gas purchases by license plate numbers. New Jersey makes the plan mandatory. Massachusetts New York and Washington adopt similar versions. Oregon began as a voluntary program, while a separate Energy Office redistribution shifts allocations among states to better match original levels.
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L. Ashley Higgins
Associated Press
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Oshu
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Auto supermarket in San Diego sells few leftover cars
San Diego dealers turned a stadium into a giant showroom to clear leftover 1973 full sized models. Hundreds attended but less than half were sold. Ernie Campbell of a Cadillac dealership said the event aimed to save gasoline by a single shopping area, with many cars $1000 to $3000 below list price. he moved 14 of 34 Cadillacs.
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San Diego
Calif
San Diego Stadium
Ernie Campbell
Cadillac
Campbell
Simon Asks More Gasoline From Refiners
Federal energy chief William R. Simon urged refiners with adequate distillate and residual fuel to boost gasoline production to ease shortages. Weather and conservation help distillate stocks, while Oregon plan begins in five states. Congress has not yet passed an emergency relief bill, with a Senate vote planned for Tuesday Feb. 19 after possible recommitment.
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Washington
Federal Energy
William £. Simon
Simon
Oregon
New Jersey
District of Columbia
Washington State
New York
Massachusetts
Maryland
U.S
Senate
Henry M. Jackson
D-Wash
Congress
House
Optimists 50th Inter-Club Visit to Jefferson City
Fifty members of the Mexico Optimist Club visit the Optimist Club of Jefferson City for the regular meeting at 7 130 tonight at the Holiday Motor Lodge. It marks the Mexico club’s 50th inter-club visitation in Missouri. Anthony Castaldi, president of Jefferson City Optimist, says the clubs value the exchange of ideas and fellowship on this golden visit.
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Mexico
Turnpike Town Faces Gas Shortage Blues
Breezewood Pennsylvania, a motel and highway hub with 750 rooms and 85 percent of gas allocation, lays off over half its winter staff as demand falls. Town leaders launch campaigns to attract travelers, promising fuel and lodging and advertising no local gas shortage to revive the economy. Local innkeeper Don Felton and longtime gas station worker Ed Crabtree reflect on the downturn and uncertain future for 63 year old workers.
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Breezewood
Pennsylvania
Florida
Don Felton
Breezewood Tourist Association
Pennsylvania Turnpike
Felton
Don McFarland
Canada
Fred L. Bingham
Ed Crabtree
Transportation Measures Move To Congress
President Nixon will send a package of transportation bills to Congress covering highways mass transit and railroads. He spoke Saturday urging independent truckers to return to work while noting a easing of violence accompanying the strike and Pennsylvania National Guard preparations to deactivate. The plan includes a 2 billion federal loan guarantee to modernize railroads and a 16 billion federal aid program over six years for metropolitan and rural transport with two thirds of funds allocated to local and state governments for effective use.
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Washington
Congress
Nixon
Pennsylvania National Guard
Reelected Vandalia road commissioner James Mac Elzea
James Mac Elzea has been reelected commissioner of the Vandalia special road district for a three year term. He was recommended by the Vandalia mayor and board of aldermen and approved by the Audrain County Court.
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James Mac Elzea
Vandalia
Audrain
Rent A Set Of Parents For Family Trips In Philly
A Vil lanova firm in Philadelphia offers live in rental parents for 24 dollars a day to care for children and run a household. About 1,500 families have used the service in three years, with 150 couples available. Wages total 100 dollars weekly plus meals and housing. assignments last from 10 days on average to as long as six weeks. Edward and Helen Guy share experiences as rental parents and reflect on their feelings after caring for many children.
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Senate
Norman Merrell
Monticello
Merrell
University of Missouri
Fulton
Missouri
Philadelphia
Villanova
University Home Services
Ed Rockower
Edward Guy
Helen
Helen Guy
Nurse Class Starting Date Set July 8
The Advisory Committee of the Mexico Public School of Practical Nursing set Monday July 8 as the start date for the next class. The school year marks 17 years of operation with 271 graduates and notes its status as the seventh oldest in the state.
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Mexico Public School of Practical Nursing
Peggy Sterner
Mexico
Audrain Medical Center
Jean Thompson
Phil van Horn
Employment Security Office
Raymond Wilders
Nelson Willingham
L.P.N
Sterner
Davis Hart
Coyote Bite At Home Leads to Impoundment Action
Sewell L. Milan of Missouri Power and Light Co was bitten on the top and palm of a hand by a pet coyote at Jerry Hague’s residence. Hague said the animal had rabies shots, but it will be impounded for the required period as with a dog.
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Sewell L. Milan
Missouri Power and Light Co
Jerry Hague
Hague
Fairness Group Booed Speaker Off Stage in Connecticut
A Connecticut college sophomore was booed offstage while presenting an opposing view to a pro Nixon group. Lynda Hill, 19, defended fairness to the presidency before about 100 attendees at Central Connecticut State College. The audience interrupted with shouts as she described the Nixon administration as a shambles and criticized the Cambodia bombing. Six members walked out and the meeting adjourned with Hill seated amid scattered applause.
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Raines
Miss Hill
Cambodia
Solzhenitsyn Denies Legality of Summons
MOSCOW AP Solzhenitsyn rejects the legality of a second Soviet summons and vows not to appear after publishing Gulag Archipelago. He accuses the state of illegality and mass repression, urging punishment of mass executions and detained dissenters, as officials demand a 10 a.m. Tuesday interrogation.
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Moscow
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Solzhenitsyn
Soviet Union
Prosecutor
Lori Ann Wagner Poster Child Dies at 13
Lori Ann Wagner, the 1966 March of Dimes poster child, died Saturday in Milwaukee at age 13 from kidney failure. The crippled singer traveled over 30000 miles in 1966, appearing on telethons and in a movie with Sammy Davis Jr.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Lori Ann Wagner
Lori
Sammy Davis Jr
TWA seeks U S aid for higher fuel costs
Trans World Airlines asks the U S government to reimburse domestic carriers for elevated operating costs caused by wide price gaps between jet fuel used on international routes and cheaper fuel for domestic trips. Airlines note domestic fuel rose about 50 percent under price controls while overseas fuel nearly tripled. TWA sent the proposal in a letter to the Civil Aeronautics Board.
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New York
Trans World Airlines
U. S
TWA
Civil Aeronautics Board
Weinberger Says No Taxes In Health Plan
HEW secretary Caspar Weinberger defends Nixon health plan saying no new taxes are required and private insurers would not reap windfall profits due to competition and regulation. Kennedy counters that administration plan may not guarantee health as a right but sees it as a step forward with higher costs and possible tax increases.
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Nixon
Health, Education and Welfare
Caspar Weinberger
Edward M. Kennedy
Congress
Massachusetts
Democrat
Weinberger
Kennedy
Nbctv
Meet the Press
CBS
HEW
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