Expo 74 Opens in Spokane amid brisk activity and Nixon presence
Expo 74 starts a six month run in Spokane with President Nixon due to attend along with Commerce Secretary Dent and ambassadors. The fair features 10 national pavilions and over 40 exhibitors tied to the theme Celebrating Tomorrows Fresh New Environment. Spurney leads as general manager amid prior debates over its viability and environmental group boycotts.
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Spokane
Wash
Nixon
Spokane River
Commerce
Frederick B. Dent
United States
Russia
Anatoly F. Dobrynin
U.S. Commerce Department
Peter Spurney
The
Sierra Club
Zero
Spurney
Australia
Soviet Union
Japan
Canada
Republic of Korea
Philippines
Iran
Mexico
West Germany
Nixon Pays Up His Back Taxes In California
SACRAMENTO Calif AP President Nixon has paid back state income taxes penalty and interest totaling 5052 26 for 1969 and 1970 state officials say Nixon tax counsel filed a 1973 return showing no state income taxes owed on California source income of 26136 The Nixons are not California residents for tax purposes but the President had liability for income earned while in California.
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Sacramento
Calif
Nixon
Martin Huff
State Franchise Tax Board
California
Dissident Students Reject Plan At Concordia Seminary
ST LOUIS AP dissident students at the Seminary in Exile may refuse a proposal to place them within the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod. Rev Bertram called the plan no immediate solution and said outcome uncertain as officials prepare a formal reply next week.
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Seminary In Exile
Concordia Seminary
Jacob A. O. Preus
Synod
Concordia
Lorenz Wunderlich
Council of Presidents
St. Louis
Springfield
Radioactive Gas Leak Probed at Savannah River Plant
federal and state investigators were dispatched to the Savannah River Plant in Aiken South Carolina to determine the leak cause and potential contamination. Officials said the 60 mile monitoring zone showed no expected public danger as the tritium gas, released from a process line, drifted at about 200 feet altitude and rain likely carried it. ABC and state health officials noted some gas remained airborne but posed minimal risk unless inhaled or ingested.
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AIKEN
S.C
Savannah River
Atomic Energy Commission
Department of Health and Environmental Control
Division of Radiological Health Services
Michael Butler
AEC
South Carolina
ABC
Atlantic Ocean
Mitterrand Could Win Run-off Vote
Paris reports an evening poll showing Socialist Francois Mitterrand possibly winning the presidency in two rounds. Giscard d Estaing leads runoff chances only narrowly over Mitterrand with Chaban Delmas distant. eight other candidates run, none reliable.
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Paris
Francois Mitterrand
Giscard d'Estaing
Mitterrand
Giscard Estaing
Independent
Republican Party
Chaban-Delmas
Giscard d’Estaing
Gaullist
France
Charles de Gaulle
United States
Hearst: Transcripts contain damning impeachment signal
William Randolph Hearst Jr asserts transcripts of presidential conversations are damning and point toward impeachment. He portrays Nixon as morally blind and driven by deceit, in a Sunday Hearst column carried by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
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Seattle
William Randolph Hearst Jr
Hearst
Nixon
Seattle Post- Intelligencer
White House
House Judiciary Committee
Judge halts Alioto comments on Zebra murders case
In San Francisco, Municipal Court orders Mayor Joseph Alioto and others to refrain from discussing Zebra case details as three men trialed for killings face pleas on May 9. The gag applies to officials, police, and witnesses. Alioto may be included per the judge. The Zebra spree links 80 California murders to a Death Angels group per Alioto, but authorities dispute the existence of such a gang beyond San Francisco.
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San Francisco
Joseph Alioto
Agnes O’brien Smith
Larry C. Green
J. C. Simon
Manuel Moore
Smith
Alioto
California
Tom Manney
Clarence Jamerson
Dwight Stallings
Edgar Burton
Charles Barca
Green
Quita Hague
Richard
Tax Cheat Must Work In Kitchens In Kansas City
Jas per J. Mirabile, owner of a fashionable Kansas City restaurant, is sentenced to three weeks of kitchen work at county jail, hospital, and nursing home. Convicted by federal court on a mail fraud count tied to 28 months of sales tax returns. Judge also places five years probation and orders back taxes paid. Defense appeals. other indictments involve local officials Capra and Brancato.
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Kansas City
Jasper J. Mirabile
Mirabile
Jefferson City
Missouri
Elmo B. Hunter
Sal Capra
Jasper M. Brancato
Capra
Brancatos
Hunter
Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
St. Louis
Dick Martin Divorce Suit Filed by Dolly Read
Margaret Martin, 30, filed suit in Santa Monica seeking dissolution of her marriage to comedian Dick Martin, 52, a former Laugh-In co star. She cites irreconcilable differences, marking a second divorce for Martin.
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Santa Monica
Calif
Dick Martin
Dolly Read
Margaret Martin
Martin
Interest rate jumps to 11 percent across major banks
In New York AP reports banks ended the week by lifting prime lending rates to 11 percent. Franklin National Bank led the move, followed by Security National Bank in Los Angeles Continental Illinois Bank Wells Fargo United California Bank Bank of California Detroit Bank & Trust National Bank of Detroit First Wisconsin Union Bank of Los Angeles and Harris Bank in Chicago also raised their primes to 11 percent.
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Franklin National Bank
Los Angeles’ Security National Bank
Continental Illinois National Bank of Chicago
Wells Fargo
San Francisco
United California Bank
Bank of California
Detroit Bank & Trust
National Bank of Detroit
First Wisconsin National Bank
Union Bank of Los Angeles
Harris Bank
Chicago
Mexico graduates at Warrensburg in 1960 Central Missouri ceremony
Sixteen Mexico students join more than 2,400 others at Central Missouri State University to receive degrees in Warrensburg on May 19. Also two graduates from Centralia and two from Thompson, with recipients listed by name and degree including bachelor and master level programs across science education business and music.
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Mexico
Central Missouri State University
Warrensburg
Centralia
Thompson
Julius A. Fennewald Jr
Patricia Sue Mechlin Adams
Vicki Lynn Barnes
Robin Hood
Linda Sue Crabtree
Kent Road
John Archie Sunderland Jr
N. Clark Sr
Rodney L. Allen
Woodlawn
Marc W. Catalina
E. Jackson St
Curtis R. Dearley
E. Love
Stanley Michael Hays
W. Pearson
David Kent Lowry
N. Kentucky Road
Thomas R
Peak
Cynthia Dian Thompson
Rosebud
John Charles Cadwell
Larry James Valentik
Clark L. Mefford
Ringo St
Jane Carol Norman
Ozark Place
Ruth Elaine Reams
Jon Gary Wainscott
Claudia Lynne Mosley
Marcia Rae Lees
Cotton calls Watergate transcripts incoherent in NH remarks
Sen. Cotton says reading the president’s Watergate tapes transcripts is like taking a sleeping pill and that the material is terribly incoherent in places. He told newsmen in Concord, New Hampshire, that it takes long to separate wheat from the chaff.
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Concord
N.H
Sen. Norris
Cotton
New Hampshire Republican
Grand Jury Probes Airline Kickbacks to Travel Agents
A Brooklyn federal grand jury subpoenas 23 airline executives amid an investigation into secret rebates to high volume travel agents. The Times cites evidence of kickbacks by Pan American World Airways, Trans World Airlines, and others, including Aeroflot. Rebates reportedly ranged from 4 to 50 percent plus standard 7 to 11 percent commissions in a widespread alleged fare-malpractice probe.
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New York
New York Times
Brooklyn
the Times
Pan American World Airways
Trans World Airlines
Times
Aeroflot
U.S
Legal Sales Commission
Maude Adams Award To Helen Hayes
Actress Helen Hayes received the Maude Adams award from Stephens College in Columbia Missouri marking the honor’s second presentation since 1971. The award honors outstanding actresses and is named for Maude Adams, famed stage star and Stephens College faculty member.
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Maude Adams
Helen Hayes
Columbia
Miss Hayes
Stephens College
Agnes Moorehead
Stephens
Labor Dispute Delays KC Times
Police cleared the Kansas City Star building after about 98 pressmen were fired amid a sudden labor dispute delaying the Kansas City Times. One pressman was arrested for refusing to leave. union members picketed. The stoppage breaks the no strike no lockout clause of a contract with the pressmen.
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Kansas City Star
Kansas City Times
Kansas City Star Co
Web Pressmen’s Union No. 14
International Printing Pressmen and Assistants Union
Frank S. McKinney
The
Star
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