Voters Go to Polls on Liquor by the Drink in Mexico
Mexico voters faced a pivotal liquor by the drink ballot as polls opened. Precinct turnout surged with 399 votes in four courthouse precincts by 11 am and expected lines at Lakeview and the high school. If approved, city licenses follow four weeks of publication. if defeated, the issue rests four years.
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Mexico
Lakeview
the Ledger
Channel 12
See-Tv
Io Audrain Circuit Court
Hardin Reported Ready to Quit as Agriculture Secretary
Secretary Clifford M. Hardin is said to be poised to resign, though White House officials deny any link to Farm Belt discontent. Administration sources say resignation is likely, with Nixon reportedly satisfied with Hardin’s performance despite GOP worries about farmer fortunes in key states.
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Washington
Clifford M. Hardin
White House
Nixon
Agriculture Department
Hardin
GOP
Midwest
Hopeful Of Settling Dock Strike Progress Report
Chief mediator J Curtis Counts said talks to end the 41 day East and Gulf Coast dock strike were very productive after a night bargaining session. A union source and an industry spokesman offered cautious notes as coal talks with UMW and operators continued in New York.
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Associated Press
J. Curtis Counts
Gulf Coast
Counts
Aflcio International Longshoremen’s Association
United Mine Workers and
New York
Russian Buildup Cited In OK On Big Arms Bill
The House Appropriations Committee approved 71 billion dollars for the Defense Department for the current fiscal year citing Soviet military buildup. Intelligence estimates say the USSR has surpassed the United States in ICBMs on launchers. The committee notes US subs and bombers remain superior and that the USSR is expanding a deep water navy. New funds total 1.46 billion more than last year due to inflation.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Defense Department
Soviet Union
United States
See TV panel explains Audrain food distribution program
A Channel 12 program at 6 p.m. answers who benefits and how the Commodity Food Distribution Program is financed. Sponsored by the Mexico Andrain County League of Women Voters, it informs Audrain County residents while extended through June 1972.
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See Tv Tonight
Channel 12
Mexico-Andrain County
Ernest Lehto
Commodity Food Distribution Center
Peter Chi
Ernest S. Gantt
The
Human Development Corporation
Paul Powell
Vandalia United Methodist Church
LWV
See Tv
W. B. Arvin
Audrain County Welfare Office
Richard Strange
Audrain County Commodity Food Distribution Program
Missouri big plan to overhaul state government unveiled
The Little Hoover Commission proposes sweeping changes to end fragmented administration in Missouri. It calls for two constitutional amendments to create new departments and establish unified personnel systems, aiming for full restructure by July 1, 1974 with a new Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and a Department of Higher Education.
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Jefferson City
State Reorganization Commission
Missouri
Little Hoover’' Commission
Department of
Department of Education
Department of Higher Education
Col Stribling Named To Missouri Reorganization Commission
Col Stribling as chairman of the Missouri Military Academy board and former Missouri State Chamber of Commerce president served on the state reorganization commission. The panel’s report urged a broad revamp of Missouri state government.
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Col
C. H R. Stribling
Missouri Military Academy
Missouri State Chamber of Commerce
State Reorganization Commission
Missouri
Labor Union Chief Steps Up Fight On Pay Controls
AFL-CIO President George Meany escalates opposition to President Nixon’s wage price controls by calling the Pay Board ruling unfair and one sided. He questions how the program fights inflation while shifting workers’ wages to employers. The stance shapes up as a 1972 election issue as Meany weighs staying on the board or resigning to push from inside.
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Miami Beach
Fla
Afl-Cio
George Meany
Nixon
Meany
Big
Labor Federation
Afl-Cio Metal Trades Department
Labor
Sters
Leonard Woodcock
United Auto Workers
UAW
Detroit
Government to loosen price controls after freeze
Officials say about 18.2 percent or more of the cost of living will be exempt from post freeze ceilings as the Price Commission finalizes guidelines. Used cars and homes join exempt items, with additional possible exemptions. wage rules may also see exceptions under the Cost of Living Council.
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Washington
The
Price Commission
Cost of Living Council
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Bureau
Donald Rumsfeld
Rumsfeld
Nixon hints unknown Vietnam serviceman may join Tomb of the Unknown
President Nixon visited Arlington National Cemetery to mark the 50th anniversary of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and express hope that the next unknown from Vietnam may be interred there. The Pentagon said no unknown Vietnam dead exist, and past wars saw burials abroad or near where fallen. He referenced Eisenhower and discussed peace requiring power and perseverance.
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Washington
Nixon
Vietnam
National Cemetery
Arlington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Korea
America
Pentagon
United States
Teens Escape as Captor Kills in Dyersburg Case
Five Tennessee teenagers were imprisoned Tuesday night in a Houston murder case. Eddie Eugene Seat, 18, was drowned in a tub in a house where George Albert Whittington Jr., 26, kept four other youths, two boys and a girl, one of whom escaped to call police. The Davis brothers Rob ert Franklin Davis, 16, and Michael Davis, 18, with Candy Marie Davis, 16, and Kenneth Colvin, 16, were from Dyersburg. Calvin Calvin, 18, was sought on grand larceny and burglary warrants and among the group but turned back after questioning in Louisiana. Police in Dyersburg requested Houston patrols. Six youths had left Dyersburg Saturday seeking work in Beaumont, Texas.
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Houston, Tex
Tennessee
Eddie Eugene Seat
Dyersburg
Tenn
George Albert Whittington Jr
Whittington
Franklin Davis
Michael Davis
Candy Marie
Kenneth Colvin
Davis
Beaumont
Tex
Calvin
Houston
Calvin Calvin
Kenneth
Louisiana
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Edwin Dubbert
Pleas Smith
Frank DiBlasi
Anna Duffen
George Gieseker
Richard Vance
Little Hoover
Col. Stribling
Meat Cutters
Afi-Cio Building and Construction Trades Department
I. W. Abel
United Steelworkers
Floyd Smith
International Association of Machinists
Frank E. Fitzsimmons
A. P. Green
A. P. Green Refractories Co
Santa
Jim Doyle
Dallas DeOrnelas
Dick Henage
Walter Wright
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