Retiring Mexicoan Durfee Long Known for Global Exports
Ererett Durfee, longtime senior export sales correspondent for AP Green Refractories, retires after 46 years 7 months. Originating in Chillicothe Missouri, he helped found the export department and guided orders from South and Central America to the Far East. He recalls expanding from six products to nearly 300 and recalls a 1939 train robbery affecting wooden crates. Durfee plans greenhouse work, woodworking, and stone polishing at home with his wife and three children.
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Ererett Durfee
A.P Green, Refractories Co
Green
South America
Central America
Caribbean
Far East
Durfee
Robert H. Marty
Purfee
CH. Cots
Mexico
S. Webster
Lockwood Park Baptist Church
James Maddox
Route 5
John Maddox
Oklahoma City
Delores Shahan
Pharr
Texas
Addis Ababa demonstrators challenge new prime minister
Thousands of antigovernment protesters march through Addis Ababa as Endalkachew Makonnen declares support beyond radical elements. Troops police keep order while students demand democracy, press freedom, party formation, and land for the poor. Government vows reform and talent based rule. A baby girl born at Audrain Medical Center completes a city report.
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Addis. Ababa
Ethiopia
Addis Ababa
Endalkachew Makonnen
Haile Selasse
Aklila Haptewold
Churchill Road
Endalkachew
Kissinger Seeks Syria Talks On Golan Buffer Plan
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger carries Israeli disengagement ideas to Damascus after meeting in Tel Aviv with Meier Allon Eban and Dayan. The plan envisions a UN buffer force between Israeli and Syrian troops in the Golan area and a staged withdrawal, with negotiations on frontier posts and the fate of settlements.
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Mt Aviv
Henry A. Kissinger
Golan Heights
Sinai
United Nations
Israel
Biblical
Mt. Hermon
Kissinger
Cairo
Damascus
Hafez
Assad
Syria
Geneva
Red Cross
Tel Aviv
Golda Meier
Yigal Allon
Abba Eban
Moshe Dayan
Nixon
Egypt
United States
Ismail Fahmy
U.S
House Votes Reform Rules On Pensions
The House passed a sweeping pension reform bill 375 to 4, reshaping private retirement plans for roughly 30 million workers with over 150 billion in assets. It broadens tax features, permits personal retirement programs, sets contribution standards, and caps tax deductible amounts for very high executive pensions, aiming to protect funding and reduce revenue loss.
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Washington
House
VLA and
Ieolva
Lowe Urges Productivity Amid Civil Unrest Reflection
Columbia business leader William S. Towe, head of the U S Chamber of Commerce, told about 300 at the 69th Columbia Chamber dinner that Americans must boost productivity to fund machine purchases, warning of self-criticism, social disruption, and campus violence from the 1960s while noting the era’s revolution behind the nation and the need to control spending.
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Columbia
America
William S. Towe
Mexico
United States Chamber of Commerce
Columbia Chamber of Commerce
Ramada Inn
Lowe
Selma
Ala
Kent State
Energy fears for US supply over next 15 years
Kansas City AP reports Panhandle Eastern executive David Hochanadel warns the United States faces a looming energy cliff as 1985 imports could exceed 50 percent of oil supply and 1980 imports may rise beyond half. He cites 3 to 5 year delays to start new oil production and warns of rigid consumption patterns hindering quick fuel shifts.
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Kansas City
David Hochanadel
Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Company
Hochanadel
United States
Amtrak Turbo Liner Breaks Down in St Louis Station
In Union Station St Louis the Amtrak turbo train failed with a complete engine breakdown. Officials sent two Greyhound buses to carry about 25 of the stranded passengers to Chicago after rest took refunds. Buses would stop at Alton Springfield Bloomington and Joliet along the way.
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St, Louis
National Railroad Passenger Corp
St. Louis
Mrs Gallop Ends Shoe Career Of Over Third Of Century
Mrs Maggie Gallop of 20 Fairsite Drive retired from Florsheim Shoe Co on Feb 22 after more than thirty years with the company She began with International Shoe Co in 1939 in the West Liberty street factory and moved to the new plant five years ago She worked as an outsole embosser in stock fitting and had served in every plant department except the cutting room She is active in Friendship Baptist Church Mexico Rebekah Lodge and AARP Her three children and eight grandchildren live across the country She received a plaque an orchid corsage and a gift for retirement and plans to visit her sons.
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Maggie Gallop
Fairsite Drive
Florsheim Shoe Co
International Shoe Co
West Liberty St
Mexico Rebekah Lodge No
Guardian
Missouri University Tigers
Columbia
March Winds Bring Warmer Air Across Missouri
Light showers moved through the south central Missouri Ozarks with winds up to 13 mph signaling March. The band stretched 35 miles wide from the Lake of the Ozarks toward Cabool, as winds southerly boosted temperatures into the 55 to 65 range.
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Kansas City
Missouri Ozarks
Lake of the Ozarks
Cabool
Missouri
National Weather Service
Kirksville
St. Louis
Joplin
West Plains
GOP To Pay Democrats 775000 In Watergate settlement
Washington AP reports a virtually final $775,000 out of court settlement of Watergate related suits. Democratic National Committee officials led by Robert Strauss announced the compromise to the committee, which voted to accept in principle. The suits and counter-suits totaled over $5 million.
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Washington
Robert S. Strauss
Strauss
Democratic National Committee
Democratic Party
Nixon
Jackson 5 Singer Cleared On Charge
In Van Nuys California AP report says Tito Jackson 19 was cleared of receiving stolen property in a burglary case. Judge Henry V Peetris dismissed the charge after a motion by Tito Jackson while codefendant John P Jackson 22 pleaded guilty.
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van Nuys
Calif
Superior
Henry V. Peetris
Toriano
Tito” Jackson
John P. Jackson
Absentee Ballots Available for School Election
Mrs Fran Hoberman, school board secretary, announced that absentee ballots for the school election are now available. Applications may be made at Presser Hall from 8 to 5 daily, in person or by mail, with in person cutoff at 4 pm the day before the election. Registration closes March 6 at the county clerk's office.
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Fran Hoberman
Presser Hall
Memory Book Collection Plans Change
Changes to the 1974 memory book plan require seniors to bring a 3 dollar deposit for announcements and cards plus 2.70 for memory books. Deposits and pickups occur Wednesday March 6 in the auditorium during IAA classes. Payments may be cash or checks payable to Jostens. STUDENT COUNCIL members will sell Bulldog jerseys in the cafeteria Monday at 3.50 each, first come first served, in sizes small through extra large.
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IAA
Josten's
Bulldog
Natural Gas Up As Much As 60 Percent
Washington AP reports that wellhead prices for emergency natural gas sales rose sharply from February 1973 to early 1974, climbing from 25.4 cents to an average 55.2 cents per thousand cubic feet and peaking at 72 cents. The increases reflect nonregulated wellhead costs and imply higher consumer prices while the FPC warns a service cutback would follow otherwise.
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Washington
Federal Power Commission
FTC
FPC
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