Saxbe Named Attorney General As Nixon Picks Aide
Washington AP William Bart Saxbe a blunt spoken Ohio Republican veteran takes over the Justice Department as the 70th attorney general. He asserts politics has a place but promises immunity from improper pressures and signals he will modify key records rules from his predecessor. Saxbe departs Senate after five years and prepares for swearing in in the department's Great Hall with about 300 Ohio friends and officials attending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
William Bart Saxbe
Ohio
Justice Department
Saxbe
Senate
Department
State Supreme Court
Robert M
Richardson
White House
Congress
Fire Marshal Aims for Central Office in Missouri
Missouri Fire Marshal Robert L. Morrison outlined a statewide fire reporting plan to identify fire causes and prevent fires. The office will categorize fires by type, study hazards such as arson, kitchen dangers, and rug or drapery risks, and publish findings mid-February.
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Jefferson City
Missouri
Robert L. Morrison
Morrison
Lee’s Summit
Robert Aird Receives His Master’s Degree
Robert Aird son of Mr and Mrs Gordon Aird 11 Quantico Road has earned a master’s degree in speech pathology from Northeast Missouri State University The Degree was conferred at Elexeribes Fides speech therapy and a CB in public schools of Des Moines Iowa Beginning January 28 His wife who teaches in LaPlata school system and their son Sam will join him in Iowa in May
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Robert Aird
Gordon Aird
Quantico Road
Northeast Missouri State University
Des Moines
Benny Donation Claim Denied by IRS on Tax Dues
AP reports Jack Benny seeks a 156000 deduction for donating show memorabilia to UCLA but the IRS says Benny and his wife owe 109081 in back taxes for 1967 and 1968. Lawyer Kartiganer filed an appeal in U S Tax Court, arguing the deduction mirrors Nixon's accepted claim.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Archives
Nixon
Kartiganer
IRS
Benny
U.S
FAA backs Illinois site for new St. Louis airport
The FAA asks the DOT to approve locating a major St. Louis area airport near Columbia Illinois. Alexander Butterfield announced the recommendation and an environmental study found no disruption beyond safe limits. Final decision rests with Transportation Secretary Claude Brinegar, with weeks rather than months anticipated.
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ST. Louis
Federal Aviation Administration
Department of Transportation
Illinois
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
FAA
Alexander P. Butterfield
Washington
Columbia
Lambert-St. Louis
Claude S. Brinegar
Secretary of Transportation
Butterfield
Transportation Department
Brinegar
Playboy for Israeli soldiers halted by opposition
In Tel Aviv the Israeli president's wife proposed sending 3000 copies of Playboy to troops to boost morale. Orthodox deputy education minister and the Union of Immigrant Rabbis from Western countries urged stopping the project.
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Tel Aviv
Playboy Magazine
Ephraim Katzir
Playboy
Orthodox National Party
Owings Named Production Control Manager at Mexico Plant
Robert A. Owings has been named production control manager of A. P. Green Refractories Co. Mexico plant. He will oversee fulfillment of domestic and export orders from the facility and manage eight departments. Owings, originally from Mexico, joined in 1943 as a lab tech and has held multiple supervisory roles, most recently assistant production manager. He and his wife Evelyn reside at 119A S Jefferson St with two children.
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Robert A. Owings
A. P. Green Refractories Co
Mexico
Mr. Owings
Green
Owings
IFB
United Methodist Church
Evelyn
S. Jefferson St
John Janssen
William R
Daytona Belch, Fla
Docking kinship and grand jury probe rattles Kansas
In Topeka, George R. Dick Docking, brother of Gov. Robert Docking, testified before Shawnee County grand jury amid an investigation into state architectural contracts. He acknowledged a subpoena and noted his law firm represented the winning Marshall and Brown Sidorowicz firm. Separate dispatch from Moscow reports the Soviet leadership urged citizens to work harder in 1974 to boost the economy, highlighting 1973 shortcomings and lowered 1974 targets.
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Topeka
Kan
George R
Dick” Docking
Kansas
Robert B. Docking
Shawnee County
Grand Jury
Dick Docking
University of Kansas Medical Center
Kansas City
Marshall and Brown-Sidorowicz, PA
Loughborn and
Shawnee County District Court
Marshall and Brown-Sidorowicz
Norbert Sidorowicz
Medical Center
Kenneth R. McLain
Kansas Senate
McLain
Sidorowicz
Miami mayor ends sixth marriage after 76 days
Dade County Metro Mayor Jack Orr divorces his sixth wife in a Haitian court after a 76 day marriage. Attorney Maurice Bell said the divorce was granted in Haiti just before the new year. Orr, 54, refused comment. Former Mrs. Orr Elizabeth Fussell, 38, could not be reached for comment.
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Miami
Dade County
Jack Orr
Maruice Bell
Orr
Haiti
Elizabeth Fussell
Poll shows Americans pessimistic about 1974 economy
Gallup poll of 1,550 adults finds 85 percent expect economic difficulties in 1974 with 64 percent foreseeing rising unemployment and only 8 percent predicting prosperity. Last year 47 percent saw difficulties and 43 percent rising unemployment. Regional variation small, South slightly more optimistic on employment.
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Princeton
N.J
Gallup
Milwaukee
United States
South
City Workers Put On Diet by Hubbard in Dearborn
Dearborn Michigan AP Mayor Orville L Hubbard ordered city officials on a diet saying fat guys do not work well He told 19 department heads at City Hall to lose from 2 to 10 pounds by January 15 the date their reappointments take effect The 70 year old mayor weighs 283 pounds and is 5 11 He vowed to lose 75 pounds by December 31 1974 if alive
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Dearborn
Mich
Orville L. Hubbard
City Hall
Hubbard
Warming Inside Saves Near Frozen Pair In Twin Cities
In Minneapolis a man and a woman near death from deep cold survived after blood warming via heart lung machine. Doctors at Hennepin General Hospital say the New Year’s Eve procedure raised blood to about 96 degrees from 72 for the woman and to normal for the man from 75, with no permanent damage.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Hennepin General Hospital
Ernest Ruiz
Ruiz
Beth
Ruiz Aeshede
Low-Number License Plates Divide Missouri Supreme Court
Missouri judges say they can rule impartially on whether to issue low number license plates to favored individuals though five of seven justices own such plates. Gov Bond argues extending renewal could burden the state and expands the interpretation of license issuance. Pending appeal leaves plates being reissued. chief justice Donnelly notes no bias and jokes about the situation while other justices comment on the issue.
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Jefferson City
Missouri Supreme Court
Christopher S. Bond
Bond
Montgomery City
Cole County
Byron Kinder
Supreme Court
Robert T. Donnelly
Susie
Donnelly
John E. Bardgett
High
James A. Finch Jr
Fred J. Henley
Lawrence Holman
Low number license plates spark ethics quibbling in Missouri
In Mexico Missouri Ledger reports lawmakers and judges discuss the ethics of low number car plates. Judges J P Morgan and Robert E Seiler defend or deflect concern about plates while revenue director James Spradling notes new 1974 plates issued to some recipients before Gov. order halts further distribution.
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Holman
J.P. Morgan
Robert E. Seiler
Supreme Court
Joplin
James Spradling
Spradling
Missouri approves medical review plan forming PSRO regions
The Health Care Foundation of Missouri gains federal approval to divide the state into five areas for peer review organizations. The plan aims to raise medical care quality while monitoring costs under federal participation. Executive VP Mark Halverson notes each area will establish its Professional Standards Review Organization PSRO.
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Jefferson City
Health Care Foundation of
Missouri
Department of Health Education and Welfare
Health Care Foundation
Mark Halverson
PSRO
Babysitter Faces Federal Charges After Child Abduction
North Las Vegas teen babysitter Sharon Banchereau, 18, is charged with kidnapping a 15 month old boy less than 24 hours after the child's brother died of viral pneumonia. The mother, Johnnie Lawrence, says she fears for her surviving child as authorities pursue the pair toward Texas.
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North
Las Vegas
Nev
Johnnie Lawrence
James Timothy
John Glenn Lawrence
Sharon Lee Banchereau
Lawrence
Timmie
John
Charles Dulinsky
FBI
Patrick Dingle
North Las Vegas
Miss Banchereau
Phoenix
Ariz
Texas
Dingle
Mrs. Lawrence
Judge Dampf to retire as Cole County probate judge
Elliott M. Dampf announced he will not seek reelection to the Cole County probate judgeship. He will be 71 at term end next year, and has held the post since 1958 according to AP.
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Jefferson City, Mo
Elliott M. Dampf
Cole County
Dampf
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