Embargo On Grain Sales Is Ended
Washington AP reports long term U.S. Soviet grain and oil pacts set to begin, with grain sales to the Soviet Union expected to start soon. Asst. Secretary Bell notes firms in Moscow, 7 million more metric tons likely this year, Oct. 1 1976 start for shipments, and a $1 billion annual trade balance impact. Critics call the pact interventionist while Meany sees benefits for consumers and farmers.
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Washington
Soviet Union
U.S
Agriculture Department
Asst
Richard E. Bell
Russia
Moscow
Bell
Earl L. Butz
Hyde Murray
House Agriculture Committee
Murray
Agricultural and Stabilization Service
Madison
Wis
Ford
Aflcio
George Meany
United States
Frank G. Zarb
Oren Lee Staley
National Farmers Organization
Farm Bureau Critics Grain Pact as Dangerous Precedent
William J. Kuhfuss president of the American Farm Bureau Federation denounced the US-Soviet grain agreement in Chicago, calling it government to government trading that interferes with market systems and sets a dangerous precedent for future political commodity deals.
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Chicago
American Farm Bureau Federation
William J. Kuhfuss
Organization
Missouri Farm Bureau Praises U S Soviet Grain Deal
Missouri Farm Bureau President C R Johnston welcomed the Monday grain agreement with the USSR and the lifting of the embargo on U S grain sales to the Soviet Union in a prepared statement.
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Jefferson City
Missouri Farm ‘Bureau
C. R. Johnston
Ussr
United States
Soviet Union
Johnston
Mother Knew Her Child Wasn't Runaway Case
In Greenville South Carolina a mother suspected her 16 year old daughter Kathy Smith was not a runaway. After 22 days Kathy and friend Cynthia Jones were found dead in the Reedy River with a third unidentified girl. Sheriff Williams calls it a triple murder unknown cause. Mrs. Smith sought help from police newspapers radio and FBI but was told to wait or that runaways were policy. Public notices and appeals finally drew attention before the bodies were found and she now laments.
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Greenville
S. C
Clemilee Smith
Kathy Ann Smith
Greenville High
Wade Hampton
Mrs. Smith
Mold On Corn Triggers Iowa Kansas Nebraska USA Fears
Iowa officials and agricultural experts address rumors of a cancer causing fungus in corn across Iowa Missouri Kansas and Nebraska. chemical analyses follow as elevators screen grain with ultraviolet tests while some shipments are halted pending results. local experts urge calm noting tests are presumptive and the fungus has long existed though the extent of contamination is unclear.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Robert Lounsberry
Nebraska
Kansas
Missouri
Lounsberry
Bob Skinner
Iowa Grain & Feed Assn
Skinner
Iowa State University
Kansas City
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Charles Roy
Usda Grain Division
Extortion letters threaten utility violence across states
FBI says several utilities from Florida to California received two page extortion letters demanding large deposits. Letters warned employees would be shot and equipment booby trapped if demands not met. FBI and police pursue leads. no arrests announced as the deadline passed without incidents.
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Orlando
Fla
FBI
Florida
California
Homer Boynton
Florida Power & Light Co
Miami
Florida Power Corp
St. Petersburg
Middle South
Mulligan
Orlando Sentinel
B.A. Fox
Fairview Dr
Alexandria
B. A. Fox Co
Madagascar
Beef Prices Jump Across Several Categories in Missouri
Jefferson City AP reports beef prices rose this week across several cuts. T bone steak up to 2.34 per pound, sirloin to 2.11, arm roast rib and round steak and ground beef higher with ground beef at 81 cents. Wholesale pork fell but grocery prices stayed steady. Red potatoes rose to 1.38 a 10 pound bag. Chickens milk eggs and sugar showed lower prices.
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Jefferson City
Missouri Farm Bureau Shoppers’ Guide
Missouri
Farm Bureau
Bayh Returns Home To Announce 1976 Bid In Indiana
Sen. Birch Bayh, after a laryngitis bout, declared his candidacy for the 1976 Democratic presidential nomination from Shirkieville Indiana. A crowd of about 600 heard his remarks at the Bayh family farm and a later speech in the Indiana House. He urged moral leadership, tax reform, antitrust enforcement, and Fed reform as he pitched a platform to contrast with rival candidates. The town celebrated with a banner, bunting, and a spruced-up tavern and road approach to the farm.
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Indianapolis
Birch Bayh
Indiana
Bayh
Shirkieville
Terre Haute
Indiana House of Representatives
Federal Reserve
Illinois
Two Va men indicted in plot to kill Ford
Federal grand jury in Los Angeles handed down indictments against Gary Steven DeLure and Preston Michael Mayo both of Warren County Virginia for conspiring to assassinate President Ford in Sacramento on September 5. The plan reportedly included bombing a sewer as a distraction while gunfire occurred. Fromme's known Ford incident is not linked to this plot. DeLure had absconded from a Montana state mental hospital after threats to Ford. Mayo is charged as co conspirator with DeLure awaiting arraignment on October 28.
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Los Angeles
Ford
Sacramento
Manson
Lynette Fromme
Justice Department
Migs Fromme
Gary Steven DeLure
Preston Michael Mayo
Warren County
DeSure
State Mental Hospital
Warm Springs
Mont
California
Robert H. Wilson
Billings
United States
Santa Barbara
Calif
Fromme
U.S
Robert Zapata
Zapata
Mayo
California State Capitol
Asst
U.S. Atty
John J. Resich Jr
Miss Fromme
Sara Jane Moore
San Francisco
DeLure
Stennis Recovering From Gallbladder Surgery
Senator John C. Stennis of Mississippi is reported to be doing fine after gallbladder removal at Walter Reed Medical Center. Doctors say he tolerated the operation well with no complications and expect a two to three week convalescence, while the 74-year-old Armed Services Committee chair recuperates.
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Washington
John C. Stennis
D-Miss
Walter Reed Medical Center
Stennis
Dekalb, Miss
Job Slashing Talk Startles NYC Board
New York fiscal watchdog group approves an austerity plan to trim the city budget by 724 million over three years and eliminate thousands of municipal jobs by 1978. Governor Carey notes the figure reflects job equivalents tied to the savings, while officials promise attrition and nonpersonnel cuts.
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New York
New York City
Hugh L. Carey
Emergency Financial Control Board
City Club
Kenneth Axelson
Abraham D. Beame
Ford
Green Products Used To Make Aluminum at Empire Club
Mark Schnake of A P Green Refractories spoke on aluminum sector use of Green products at the company's Management Club meeting at the Empire Club. He noted aluminum is a top market for Green and cited furnaces up to 450 by 150 feet with refractory linings filling 950 railroad cars.
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Mark Schnake
A.P. Green Refractories Co
A.P. Green
Empire Club
Green Company
Harry M. Stover
Irvin C. Charles
Dewey L. Payton
Lowell M. Colter
James T. Williams
Nancy Arnold
Management Club
Bill Gritton
Freeport
Tex
Andy Clark
Tarentum
Bob Hicks
Chicago
Don Mason
St. Louis
George Zendell
Philadelphia
Don Rapkin
Joe Worst
George Bobal
Kearny
N.J
Bill Kitterman
Gil Gelineau
Orange
Human Cannonball Hugo Zacchini Dies at 77
Hugo Zacchini the original Human Cannonball died of a stroke in SAN BERNARDINO CALIF. He was 77. Zacchini introduced the act on Malta in 1922 while with his father’s circus and spent nearly four decades performing the act.
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San Bernardino
Calif
Hugo Zacchini
Zacchini
Island
Malta
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