McGovern Leads California Poll In Key Presidential Primary
Sen George McGovern holds a 20 point lead in a California Democratic primary poll, with 46 percent to Humphrey 26 and Wallace 8. Write-in efforts for Wallace and 13 percent undecided round out the field as McGovern and Humphrey campaign in San Francisco ahead of a national convention nomination vote.
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Mood Threatens Plan to Merge Nine Churches
ST LOUIS AP A mood that champions the little man jeopardizes a push to unite nine Protestant denominations into one. CO CU official Dr Paul A Crow Jr notes defenders of parochialism and uncommitted members threaten the church union effort as the United Presbyterian Church voted to reconsider withdrawal but fell short. Remaining in the effort are AME AME Zion Disciples of Christ CME Episcopal UCC and United Methodist Church.
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Trailer crush kills Wright City man near St. Louis
Bernard Cohen about 30 of Wright City died Thursday when a house trailer he was working under slipped from its jack. The Warren County sheriff's office reported the accident occurred in Wright City, about 40 miles west of St. Louis.
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Nixon asks Congress to approve landmark US Soviet arms accord
President Nixon urged Congress to approve a two part treaty limiting defensive anti ballistic missiles while enabling an executive agreement to curb offensive missiles as part of a broader pact with the Soviet Union. The joint session heard praise and warned of debate over the two thirds Senate vote needed for the treaty.
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Iraq nationalizes IPC oil assets amid export halt
Iraq's government suspends IPC operations and sets up a new company to take over facilities. Med terminals at Banias and Tripoli suspend exports indefinitely as Syria nationalizes the line and Lebanon takes no action. IPC valued over $350 million with major Western stakeowners. Bakr's regime seeks continued French partnership amid negotiations.
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Senators Would Restore Ban on Man in House Rule
The Senate Finance Committee voted to reinstate a rule allowing states to deny welfare benefits to mothers and children living with a man not related to them. The panel also linked workfare to child welfare referrals, offering one month of wages to a parent who refuses to work and potentially moving 1.2 million welfare adults to federal employment programs.
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Green Picks Four Winners for Missouri Freedom Forum
The AP reports Green Refractories Co. announced four scholarship winners for the eleventh annual Missouri Freedom Forum. Winners are Jayne Hartell, Jane Dubbert, Priscilla Jane Singleton, and Mila Smithey, all sophomores at Mexico High School. They are children of W.J. Hartel, Edwin Duthbert, G.D. Singleton, and Louis Smithey respectively. The Forum is co-sponsored by the Missouri Chamber of Commerce, the Missouri Farm Bureau Federation, and the Missouri affiliate.
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Route 4
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Forum at Missouri Military Academy Honors Free Enterprise Study
Forum Missouri Military Academy began eleven years ago to train high school students in the American free enterprise system and the dangers of communism. The event runs June 25 to 29 at the academy with noted lecturers professors and presidents as instructors.
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Wholesale Price Index Jump Sets Back Nixon Controls
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports May wholesale prices rose 0.6 percent led by a 1.4 percent rise in farm products and processed foods, signaling pressure on living costs despite wage and price control efforts. Unemployment held at 5.9 percent as joblessness stayed steady across groups, with teens at 15.7 percent and whites at 5.3 percent. Rank-and-file workers saw average hourly pay up 2 cents to 3.61 and weekly earnings up 74 cents to 133.21, levels up from a year prior.
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Dwis
Senate House Economic Committee
Hearnes Signs 10 New Bills Into Law
Missouri Governor Warren E. Hearnes signed ten new bills from the 1972 legislature, including measures requiring candidate campaign committees to file expense reports in the candidate’s home county, and assigning the chief highway engineer authority over overweight permits. Other actions include allowing the St. Louis prosecuting attorney to hire and fire, permitting surplus property sales by six district schools, adding welfare recipients to county commissions, permitting a 3 cent county health tax in St. Louis County, raising the St. Louis city sheriff’s pay, reimbursing the St. Louis library for services to the blind, removing the county superintendent from the county library board, and authorizing an Algoa airport navigational aid.
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John C. Danforth
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St. Louis County
Robbers abduct store operator in Hanley Hills robbery
Arthur Snow, a 65 year old food store operator, was robbed at gunpoint by three men who forced him to empty the cash register and safe. He was abducted to a car, driven across the Missouri River to St. Charles, released unharmed in a field along Missouri 94, and later alerted police from a farmhouse.
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Arthur Snow
St. Louis County
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18-Year-Old GOP Delegate Backs Nixon From Missouri
SARCOXIE Mo AP Nixon gains support among young voters says Larry Taylor 18 the youngest of Missouri delegates to the Republican National Convention He argues the war will end by election day and cites Nixon’s foreign policy as a strength Taylor a freshman political science major at Missouri Southern College also works part time at his father s auto agency He predicts McGovern will erode Nixon’s youth vote as the Vietnam issue fades.
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Melvin Belli to wed coed from Maryland Saturday
Prominent criminal lawyer Melvin Belli plans marriage to Lia Triff 23, a University of Maryland coed and Fulbright scholar from Bethesda. The couple, who met in Washington at the Kennedy Center, will wed at a Sonora courthouse. This is Triff's first marriage and Belli's fourth.
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Melvins Belli
University of Maryland
Bookmobile Schedule for Mexico Audrain Library week
The Mexico Audrain County Library announces next week’s bookmobile routes with times at Friendship Excelsior West Audrain Cedar Grove Rivers Salt River Benton City Martinsburg Thompson Rush Hill Garfield Sunnydale and other stops.
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Mystery Man Named As Skyjacker In Eastern Pa
Frederick William Hahneman, a 49 year old Honduran American, is described as a mystery man by Easton neighbors after FBI charges allege he hijacked an Eastern Air Lines plane on May 5. The craft diverted to Dulles then over Honduras where he bailed out early May 6. he has not been captured.
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Just One World Says Astronaut Duke
Apollo 16 astronaut Charles M. Duke Jr. told St Louis audiences that from the moon the world appears as one. He joined sailors John W Young and Thomas K Mattingly in a 12 city tour after arriving from Houston. They spoke to McDonnell Douglas employees, then to 1500 high school students at Harris Teachers College and attended a civic event.
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Thomas K. Mattingly
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Flour Bombs Hit School In Kirkwood High
In Kirkwood Missouri a suburban high school was struck by four flour bombs dropped from a light aircraft around 11 p m Thursday. Four youths were arrested and two more questioned as police pursued warrants. No injuries were reported though nearby homes were hit by flour filled bags and a bag landed near a couple in a car. Principal Donald Duchek noted surprises about end of term pranks.
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Kirkpatrick Named To National Office
Kirkpatrick, Missouri secretary of state and longtime editor, was named vice president of the National Association of Secretaries of State at the 55th national conference in Hershey. He has served as treasurer of the group this past year and would become president in 1973 if re-elected in Missouri. Dwight Brown, Missouri secretary of state 1933-44, was the other Missouri secretary to serve as president.
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Colorado
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Swetnam And Phillips To New Districts
George Swetnam and Jack Phillips Jr. of A.P. Green Refractories shift to new districts on June 15. Swetnam becomes district manager in Kansas City after a career starting in 1946 with roles in engineering and sales, later leading Peoria operations. Phillips to district sales manager in Peoria after long a path from Mexico origins through research, Macon and Atlanta posts, then Knoxville sales leadership.
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Arizona Judge Rules Property Tax for Schools Unconstitutional
A Superior Court judge in Phoenix struck down Arizona's property tax system funding schools, delaying its implementation to allow the legislature to craft a new method. Judge Charles Hardy found the system unconstitutional for favoring the wealthy and discriminating against poorer districts, violating equal protection provisions at both state and federal levels.
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