Missouri House approves modernized election laws and primary plan
Missouri lawmakers advance a broad election reform package to the Senate including a presidential primary and statewide voter registration. The measure would limit elections to five days annually, transfer authority to county clerks and urban boards, and introduce preliminary precinct tallies for punchcard voting. The House also backs public counsel, welfare and unemployment reform, and a rise in workers compensation benefits.
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Jefferson City
Missouri
Missouri House
House
Senate
Joseph Teasdale
House Democratic
Vic Downing
D-Bragg City
Downing
John Sharp
Kansas City
Arabs Warn West Of Oil Shortage
In Nicosia, Saudi backed experts warn that oil supplies could run dry unless Western nations curb use and Arab states pursue new reserves. OAPEC official Mahmoud Amin says exploration lags production, with fewer wells but more production wells added, shrinking net reserve gains between 1960 and 1974 from 106 to 60 billion barrels.
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Nicosia
Cyprus
Mahmoud Amin
Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries
Amin
OAPEC
Saudi Gazette
Aly Shobokshi
Congress Still Unsure About $50 Rebate Plan
Congress debates a $17.5 billion stimulus framework and whether to include $50 rebates. If approved, rebates likely mailed by late June. House and Senate votes aimed at funding the fiscal year through Sept 30.
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Congress
Washington
Senate
House
Carter
GOP Chairman Evicted From Courthouse in Missouri
Osage County Court ordered Osage County Abstract Co to vacate courthouse space by April 1. McCuskey, longtime county prosecutor and state GOP chairman, refused comment on the eviction notice amid audit findings that public courthouse property cannot house private commercial enterprises.
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Durferson City
Missouri ‘State Republican Committee
Lowell McCuskey
Osage County
McCuskey
Belle Banner
Recorder of Deeds
George Lehr
Social Security Visits In March In Mexico
A representative from the Columbia branch of the Social Security Administration will visit Mexico every Tuesday in March. He will be at the union hall from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. on March 2 and 16 and at the city auditorium from 9 to 11 a.m. on March 9. He will assist residents to file for retirement disability survivor and health insurance benefits and answer Medicare questions.
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Norman Merrell
Royal Cafe
Legislative Committee of Mexico Area Chamber of Commerce
Chamber of Commerce
Columbia
The
Social Security Administration
Mexico
Wills
Union Hall
City Auditorium
Who
Ian Oshmgbbisrore
Toke Sannin
Agnew Violated Parole Provisions Warns March Hearing
A Justice Department report finds former Vice President Spiro Agnew violated probation at least once, with a March 14 hearing set. The report recommends no action. The case centers on gifts from foreign governments and a separate civil suit by Sam Polar alleging Agnew acted as a foreign agent without proper disclosure.
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Baltimore
Justice Department
Spiro T. Agnew
Agnew
U.S. District Court
Rogzel Thomsen
State Department
Richard L. Thornburgh
Ford Administration
Sam Polar
Last Polar
Quincy Bombing Trial Testimony Ties Motley's Role
Robert Motley, 39, who pleaded guilty to murder in the Sept. 26 Quincy factory bombing, testified he helped Jeffrey Lawis and Stanley Stock assemble bombs and drove them to the plant. He said he paid Lewis $100 to steal dynamite from Western Illinois Stone Co. with the aim of releasing Stock from jail, and one bomb exploded while Sgt. Maj. Dennis Foster examined it, killing him, injuring Ernest Arenz.
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Quincy
Colt ‘Industries
Dennis R. Foster
Ft. Leonard Wood
Foster
Ernest Arenz
Beardstown
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