Government Moves To Ease Lumber Prices
Washington AP The Nixon administration unveiled a plan to curb rising housing costs by boosting the timber supply and seeking voluntary limits on Japanese log purchases. The package includes more rail cars, a possible reimposition of price controls on forest products, and selling 11.8 billion board feet of timber this year to lower lumber costs for housing.
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Washington
Nixon
U.S
Cost of Living Council
John T. Dunlop
Senate
I S
Dunlop
Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs
Bob Packwood
R-Ore
United States
Congress
Saigon Frees President's Opponent After Five Years
Saigon freed former presidential candidate Truong Dinh Dzu after nearly five years in prison. The 56 year old lawyer, once a rival to Nguyen Van Thieu, suffered a heart condition and declined to speak to reporters. Dzu advocated talks with the Viet Cong and a coalition government during the 1967 campaign.
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Saigon
Truong Dinh Dzu
Nguyen Vang Thieu
Dzu
Thiet
United States
Nixon
U.S Congress
Thieu
U.S. Congress
Viet Cong
Viet Comng
Convict Stabbed Over Cigarettes at Missouri Prison
Jefferson City AP report says inmate Willie B. Ward, 22, serving eight years for manslaughter, was stabbed to death in the state penitentiary over a cigarette debt. Ward, found in P Hall Sunday, allegedly owed 15 packs of cigarettes. two homemade knives were found and two inmates are being questioned.
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Jefferson City
State Penitentiary
Harold R. Swenson
Willie B. Ward
St. Louis
P. Hall
Swenson
Ward
Edward Steichen Dies Photographer who shaped art
West Redding Conn AP Edward Steichen died Sunday at his Umpawaug Breeding Farm age 93. he would have turned 94 Tuesday. A pivotal figure in turning photography into art he led ambitious projects including Family of Man and Road to Victory and served as MoMA photography director from 1947 to 1962 with a 1961 retrospective and a photography center named in his honor.
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West Redding
Steichen
Museum of Modern Art
Edward Steichen
Brezhnev to Visit United States in June Reported
Chinese sources say Soviet leader Brezhnev will visit the United States in June. The U S Embassy lacks dates and the Russians have not commented. The trip would echo President Nixons visit last spring with Mrs Nixon hinting that it would be soon.
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Brezhnev
Moscow
Communist Party
Leonid I. Brezhnev
United States
Jume
U.S
Nixon
Four Judges Named for Saturday Miss Mexico Pageant
Gary Sanger announces four judges for the Miss Mexico Pageant at Presser Hall. They are James A. Austin of Lexington Scott Kistler of Raytown G L Mendenhall of Kirkwood and Deborah K Duff of Kansas City. Pageant uses 50 percent latent presentation 25 percent evening gown 25 percent swim suit with contestant interviews for background no interview points.
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Presser Hall
Gary Sanger
James A. Austin
Lexington
Scott Kistler
Rawtown
G.L. Mendenhall
Kirkwood
Deborah K. Duff
Kansas City
Missouri
Montie Whitten
St. Louis
Songer
Sanger
Mr. Austin
Ray County
Richmond
Mendenhall
Gulf Oil Co
Missouri Oil Council
Missouri Oil Jobbers Association
The
Elks
Garden City
Kan
Jaycee
Kansas
Ilinois
Kistler
Raytown Cablevision Inc
Raytown
Sedalia
Columbia
Trenton
Miss Whitten
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale
Mil
Accessory Services Inc
Southernllinois University
Mexico
Atlantic City
Duff
Penn Valley Community College
New York
Dallas
Tex
Chicago
J. W. Thompson
Ford Motor Co
McCord Telling Watergate Story To Senate Probers
Watergate defendant James W McCord Jr begins telling Senate investigators his account of the burglary and wiretapping. He named others connected to the case and may offer further names as the panel seeks a full, sworn account.
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McCord
Senate
Washington
James W. McCord Jr
Samuel Cash
Senate Watergate
Cash
U.S. Dist
John J. Sirica
Los Angeles Times
Cash John W. Dean III
Jeb Stuart Magruder
Magruder
Nowing
Key Biscayne, Fla
White House
Ronald L. Ziegler
Times
Dean
I Iy
Sirica
FBI
CIA
Committee
Dash
Atty
Richard G. Kleindienst
Sam J. Ervin Jr
D-N.c
Howard H. Baker Jr
R-Tenn
Senate Committee
War prisoner release seen as prayers answered in Warrenton
In Warrenton Missouri Air Force Captain William Burns and 106 others listed by Hanoi as POWs to be released are hailed by Burns wife as proof prayers helped. Burns, shot down May 22 1972, is expected to return soon with other captured servicemen amid a Pentagon release list including pilots and Navy officers from several states.
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Warrenton
Jesus
Bill
William G. Burns
Air Force
William Burns
North Vietnam
Nixon
Hanoi
Byrns
Scott
Byrnes
Pentagon
Beeler
Carrol R
Navy
Frisco
Tex
Missouri
Burns
William G
St. Louis
Kan
Latham
James P
Shawnee Mission
Polter
Clarence R
Independence
Schwertfeger
W.R
Caldwell
Medford
Okla
Talley
William H
Sayre
Vavroch
Duane P
Tama
Iowa
Wilson
William W
Conrad
White to Speak at Culver-Stockton College
Robert M. White II editor and publisher of The Ledger will lead discussion sessions seminars and address Culver-Stockton College students Monday and Tuesday. A 1 p.m. Tuesday assembly in Alexander Campbell Auditorium kicks off an editor in residence program sponsored by the Association for Education in Journalism and the Newspaper Fund. White will meet with the student newspaper staff critique the campus paper and hold an informal seminar with journalism students. He will also speak to a government class about his China tour and experiences as a working journalist.
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Canton
White
China
Noel Coward Dies Of Heart Attack At 73 In Jamaica
London AP report says Sir Noel Coward famed playwright actor and composer died in Jamaica at his vacation home. Secretary Mrs Joan Hirst said he died early this morning at 73 after a heart attack. Coward born December 16 1899 in Teddington near London rose to fame with The Vortex and later wrote and acted in many works including Private Lives Blithe Spirit Cavalcade Tonight at 8 30 and Words and Music. He appeared in films and stage revues, shaping modern British theater.
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London
Noel Coward
Jamaica
Joan Hirst
Coward
Thamesside
Teddington
Croydon
Haly Virtue
Alfred Lunt
Lynn Fontanne
Gertrude Lawrence
Music Group Picture-taking on Wednesday at MHS
Mexico High School announces midweek picture day for VOCAL MUSIC GROUPS including Concert Choir Girls Glee and Freshman Choir during regular class. Missouri Van Guard Theater presents Women of Shakespeare Thursday assembly and Charley's Aunt at Presser Hall Thursday evening. Spring sports begin with track golf and baseball schedules versus Quincy and Jefferson City. FFA members sell flower and garden seeds to raise funds. contact John Peeper for orders.
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Mexico
Missouri Vanguard Theater Group
MHS
Presser Hall
Missouri Council of Arts
Audrain County Historical Society
John Peeper
Noel Coward obituary highlights prolific career and honors
Notable playwright Noel Coward produced In Which We Serve and Brief Encounter with autobiographies Present Indicative and Future Indefinite. He wrote Blithe Spirit and Bitter Sweet during wartime and Private Lives amid illness, earning knighthood from Queen Elizabeth after a Buckingham Palace ceremony in 1970.
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Coward
London
Hawaii
Shanghai
Savoy
Lord Mountbatten
Queen Elizabeth
Elizabeth
Buckingham Palace
Noel
H W Plant At Fulton Hit By Fire
A Fulton Missouri fire caused extensive damage to the first floor of the Harbison-Walker Refractories plant. The blaze started when a hydraulic elevator coupling ruptured and sprayed oil onto a heater. Firefighters shut gas, contained the fire, and two firefighters were treated for smoke inhalation and minor burns. Plant manager Elmer Pugh hoped for a quick return to full operation.
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Fulton, Mo
Harbison-Walker Refractories
Fulton
Yeu
Te Plant
Callaway County Hospital
Elmer Pugh
Wurst Thief Caught in Bavarian Warehouse Heists
FREISING Germany AP A wurst thief stole 16400 worth of sausage and other meats in seven breaks at a butcher wholesale warehouse Hans Horst Pauli 33 was arrested during an eighth attempt his accomplices escaped in a car. Stennis Attends Daughter's Wedding in Washington AP Sen John C Stennis attended his daughter's wedding at Walter Reed Army Medical Center after recovering from gunshot wounds he walked to the chapel and witnessed the ceremony for his daughter Margaret Jane and Cecil H Womble Jr
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Freising
Germany
Hans Horst Pauli
Pauli
Stennis
Washington
John C. Stennis
Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Margaret Jane
Cecil H. Womble Jr
Charleston
S.C
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