Treasury Accepts 165 Dollar Gold Bids in Auction
The Treasury announced acceptance of bids for 499,500 ounces of gold at 165.05 per ounce from Monday's auction. Officials said 758 bids totaling four million ounces were received, with 70 bids from 41 bidders accepted. Total revenue equals 82,442,475 dollars. Swiss Bank of Zurich bid on 628,780 ounces at 140 to 167 dollars per ounce.
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Treasury Department
Treasury
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Thomas V. Wolfe
Bank of Zurich
U.S
Bicentennial Commission Sifts Ideas
The Mexico Bicentennial Commission will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the library of the new junior high school to discuss program ideas. At the June 18 meeting the group reviewed Lasting Memorial Committee plans for a memorial at the Old City Cemetery and noted 59 stones collected for the base. Proposals for fundraising were discussed including a downtown flea market or attic sale in early fall. Carl Burchfield will liaison with Audrain County Agricultural Bicentennial Commission. Bill Williams named vice-chairman. Frank Kent Tim Hagan A.E. (Gene) Gallagher chaired committees. James Redmond resigned.
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Mexico
Carl ‘Burchfield
Bill Williams
Heritage
Frank Kent
President Signs Public Debt Boost
President Ford signed legislation to temporarily raise the public debt limit to 577 billion dollars through November 15, 1975, while keeping the permanent limit at 400 billion. He also enabled a 30 day postponement from July 1 to August 1 for new child support program provisions under Social Security Act amendments.
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Ford
White House
Congress
Firm Advertises Plan To Duck Traffic Tickets
HONOLULU AP report outlines Clarence Shak 53, founder of Motorists Inc., who charges a $5 membership to guarantee payment of fines or court costs if a traffic ticket leads to court. He claims to exploit weaknesses in ticketing while Hawaii officials dispute the plan's legality.
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Clarence Shak
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Shah
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U.S
State
Consumer Protector
Tom Ikuda
District Court
Maj
Clifford Anderson
Ann Landers Divorces After 36 Years of Marriage
Ann Landers Esther Lederer says she and Jules Lederer are divorcing after 36 years of marriage. The Chicago Sun Times notes the columnist wrote that the marriage could not last and describes her feelings, with their daughter Margo mentioned and Landers inviting readers not to press for details.
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Ann Landers
Miss Landers
Chicago Sun- Times
Esther Lederer
Jules
Miss Sanders
Margo
Koreas Rebuilt Twenty Five Years After War
Seoul now a six million metropolis with skyscrapers and traffic while Pyongyang, under a major industrial base near the Yalu River, shows modern facilities and public transport. Both capitals remain tense with curfews and patrols as renewed conflict fears persist along the DMZ.
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South Korea
Defense Ministry
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Yalu
Kaiser Refractories retiree Lloyd Doyle ends 68 1/2 years of service
Lloyd Doyle has retired from Kaiser Refractories effective yesterday after a career that began December 18 1936 as a truck driver. He and his wife Cora live at 1008 N Clark St with two sons Les of Columbia and Dee of Searcy Ark. Doyle plans to enjoy retirement
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Kaiser Refractories
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Cora
N. Clark St
Les
Columbia
Dee
Searcy
Ark
Russell Boswell
Mr. Boswell
Mexico
Pools Open Full Till Fourth Of July In Mexico
Mexico recreation director Joe Bailey announced two pool sessions at Plunkett Park from 1 to 3 15 p.m. and 3 45 to 6 p.m. Garfield pool operates 1 30 to 5 30 p.m. Red Cross lifesaving class shifts to 8 30 a.m. on July 26. Friday closures include Mexico supervised playgrounds, baseball diamonds, and the Plunkett Park multi court area Friday evening. Additional golf lessons set at Arthur Hills for tonight and Tuesday at 7 p.m.
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Fred Harris retires after 26 years at Green A P Green
Fred Harris, longtime quality control tester for A. P. Green Refractories Co, retires after 26 years of service dating from 1948. A Boonville native, he joined as a laboratory technician and spent most of his career in inspection and quality control with a six month stint in shipping. He later served as raw materials inspector and grader and in the past six years worked as plant lab technician for the specialty department. Harris and his wife live at 1418 Pinelawn with one son, Scott, a student at SMSU in Springfield.
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Tax man sentenced for failing to file tax returns
DETROIT AP Former Internal Revenue Service agent William O Williams 41 of Inkster was sentenced to two years probation and a 2500 fine for not filing his 1969 personal income tax return and a 1971 return for a business he then headed Williams pleaded guilty to both charges in U8 EUG context.
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Internal Revenue Service
William O. Williams
Inkster
Egypt and South Korea Get Food Aid Expansion
The Agriculture Department announced new long term Food for Peace credits for Egypt and South Korea. Egypt will receive about 50,000 tons of wheat valued at 8 million dollars by August 31, increasing total wheat shipments to 650,000 tons worth 110 million dollars. South Korea is to receive 57,000 tons of rice valued at 18.2 million dollars through December 31, bringing Korea total rice commitments to 277,000 tons worth 101 million dollars since April 1973.
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South Korea
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Korea
Indira Gandhi Faulted for Delayed Emergency Action
Indira Gandhi said her government should have declared a national emergency earlier to thwart opposition plans and alleged saboteurs going underground. Reports from New Delhi cited killings by police in Patna and elsewhere, while arrests topped 900 as she disciplined opponents and enforced censorship.
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India
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New York Times
Eric Pace
Patna
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Rashtriya Sweyak Sevakasangh
Washington Post
Draft notices and drill lore from the Revolutionary era
A retrospective on Continental Army formation and discipline after 1776. It recalls draft notices like John Sail of Massachusetts, Baron von Steuben’s training at Valley Forge, the Brown Bess musket, bayonet combat, drum signaling, and the brutal realities of enlistment, attrition, and desertion shaping Washington’s forces.
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John Sail
Massachusetts
Sail
Baron Frederick William von Steuben
Steuben
Valley Forge
Delhi Braces as Police Crackdown Echoes Saigon
AP Special Correspondent Peter Arnett portrays Old Delhi under heavy police presence with crowds dispersed by loudspeakers and staves, amid rumors of anti government protests. Violent clashes had earlier led to 29 arrests, signaling rising resistance to Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s crackdown. A Mumbai obituary mocks censorship while the Times of India notes the crackdown’s June date. The Financial Express cites a poem praising freedom of speech.
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Times of India
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Hope and Justice
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