Oil Imports Dent US Trade Balance in September
Washington reports an eighth straight monthly US trade surplus of 978.4 million for September, as imports rise 2.9 percent while exports climb 14 percent. Oil imports jump 2.5 percent to 207 million barrels, influencing the smaller surplus amid broader gains in wheat exports and bulk materials.
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Washington
United States
Commerce Department
Ford
Organization of Petrolean Exporting
U.S
Army plans to invade Canada unearthed in 1919 file
Kansas City A P reports obscure Army records show in 1919 Army Corps of Engineers official R T Ward drafted contingency plans to defend North Dakota and Montana by retreat across the Missouri River and even a possible invasion of Canada from Montana and North Dakota. The notes show maps, funding limits, and humorous reactions from conference attendees as colleagues in Washington deemed the work satisfactory and filed.
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Kansas City
United States
Canada
Federal Archives and Records Center
R. T. Ward
Army Corps of Engineers
Lawrence H. Larsen
University of Missouri-Kansas City
U. S
Larsen
North Dakota
Saskatchewan
Ward
Montana
Stark Prairie
Clarence 0. Sherrill
War Department
Office of Coast Artillery
Sherrill
Missouri River
Sweet Grass
Northgate
Washington
Ali Demonstrates Shuffle and Double Clutch in Bahamas
Muhammad Ali wowed crowds in Nassau with the Ali Shuffle and a new move dubbed the Double Clutch during three exhibition bouts. The outdoor event, staged by Prime Minister Lynden Pindling's Progressive Liberal Party with promoter Don King, drew thousands despite rain and storms.
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Nassau
Bahamas
Muhammad Ali
Ali
NYC Aid Bill Faces City Officials Dissent
The Senate Banking Committee is set to approve federal aid for New York City but may omit favored terms. Senator Stevenson and Chairman Proxmire debate debt restructuring and a possible state tax. Officials warn a $6 billion loan guarantee may not satisfy NYC needs and a November deadline looms amid funding shortfalls. Geopolitics aside, Paris notes report Georges Carpentier’s death at 94.
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Washington
Senate Banking Committee
New York City
New York
Adlai E. Stevenson III
D-I
William Proxmire
D-Wis
Proxmire
Senate
New York State
House Economic Stabilization Subcommittee
Treasury
William E. Simon
House
Stevenson
Robert Packwood
R-Ove
Banking Committee
Felix G. Rohatyn
Municipal Assistance Corporation
Quinlan case headed for highest court appeal
Karen Anne Quinlan’s life and death case heads toward appeal to the U S Supreme Court after Superior Court Judge Robert Muir Jr weighs complex medical testimony in Morristown New Jersey. Quinlan, 21, has been in a six month coma in a persistent vegetative state with no recovery chances. her parents seek permission to remove life support and let her die with dignity.
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Morristown
N.J
Karen Anne Quinlan
Superior Court
Robert Muir Jr
Muir
Miss Quinlan
Quinlans
U.S. Supreme Court
Daniel R. Coburn
Quinlan
First Presbyterian Church
Mendham
New Jersey
Clayton
Missouri Court of Appeals
St. Louis
William Corrigan
Gary Debro
Judith Ann
Sara Moore Connected to Hearst Payroll and FBI Role
In 1974 Sara Jane Moore, age 45, remained on Randolph Hearst's payroll for months while rumored to aid his search for Patricia Hearst. She also received FBI payments to report on Hearst's dealings with radicals, as Rolling Stone details. The article notes Moore may have provided little real information to Hearst.
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San Francisco
Sara Jane Moore
Randolph Hearst
Rolling Stone
Patricia Hearst
Moore
Ford
Hearst
Howard Kohn
Symbionese Liberation Army
Kohn
SLA
Patty
FBI
David Weir
Mrs. Moore
Hearsts
Miss Hearst
Former Mexicoan Runs Teen Pageant
Mrs. Gladys Macias of Orlando formerly of Mexico sponsors the Miss Teenage Orlando Pageant and her Orlando winner Cynthia Scott plan to travel to Tulsa for the National Miss Teenage America Pageant televised on NBC November 15 at 9 p.m. Macias, born in Mexico, graduated from Mexico High School in 1941 and is daughter to Mrs. Maggie Taylor now in Paris. She has two sisters in Mexico, one in Middle Grove, one brother in Paris, and owns Florida International Shows, Inc., coordinating many events year round.
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Gladys Macias
Orlando
Fla
Mexico
Cynthia Scott
Tulsa
Okla
NBC
Macias
Maggie Taylor
Paris
Middle Grove
Florida International Shows, Inc
Beef and Bread Prices Rise While Milk and Eggs Fall
JEFFERSON CITY MO AP beef prices at the retail level rose earlier in the week then eased with pork and chicken mixed. Sirloin dropped nine cents to 2.02, round 1.89, T bone 2.31, rib 1.89, arm roast 1.34, ground beef 0.81. Milk and eggs varied with milk at 1.52 for whole, 1.45 for 2 percent, eggs up to 0.72 for large. Bread and sugar fell, potatoes rose, cane sugar 1.47, loaf 57. Continuous price shifts across beef cuts and dairy items.
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Jefferson City
Missouri Farm Bureau
Waynesville Police Resign Over Pay Dispute
Waynesville Missouri officials rely on outside protection as three man police force resigns over a 50 dollar monthly raise demand. Chief Jim Cole and patrolmen Ralph Cook and Edward Miller quit after Cook sought higher pay. mayor says replacements to be hired soon and cites election on a one cent sales tax to support salaries and additional officer.
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Waynesville
Missouri
Jim Cole
Ralph Cook
Edward Miller
C.W. Parker
Cook
Miller
State Highway Patrol
Sheriff's Office
St. Robert
Parker
Ft. Leonard Wood
Groundbreaking Turns Up Potatoes at Godfrey Church
About 300 members of Alton First Southern Baptist Church began a new Godfrey church on a 20 acre site with a $400000 budget. Under Rev Howard Todd Taylor members uncovered potatoes as shovels turned soil during a Sunday ceremony. Half a peck of potatoes were unearthed, later explained as unharvested from 52 garden plots planned for members.
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Godfrey, Ill
Alton
Taylor
Seventeen-year Crisis Over Homosexual Foster Home
Seattle AP report details 16 year old Charles removed from a foster home run by two men after a Clark County judge ruled a gay foster home harms a child’s sexual development. The boy’s attorney says the decision shatters trust, while psychiatrist Dr Harold Johnson warns it risks institutionalization.
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Seattle
Charles
Echo Glen
Clark County
Harold Johnson
Johnson
Richard Blumberg
Aple
John Skimas
Skimas
Pressure Grows to Name Juan Carlos Spain’s Chief of State
Madrid reports mounting calls for Prince Juan Carlos de Borbon to be named chief of state as Generalissimo Franco, age 82, clung to life. Daily medical updates noted temporary improvements in fever, blood pressure, and heart rhythm, but intestinal hemorrhaging persisted and no return to control was anticipated.
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Madrid
Spain
Juan Carlos de Borbon
Francisco Franco
Franco
Pardo Palace
US And Turkey Open Negotiations On Defense Pact
Ankara Turkey the United States began talks on a new defense agreement including the status of U S bases closed after an arms embargo. Negotiations lasted about an hour due to Shah Pahlevi’s visit and were not to resume until early November. The U S seeks early base reopening while Turkey demands payment and arms supply assurances.
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Ankara
Turkey
United States
U.S
Shah Mohamed Reza Pahlevi
Iran
Gasoline up 8 percent since July 4 nationwide
Rep. Les Aspin charges the Labor Department suppressed a Bureau of Labor Statistics report showing regular gasoline rising 8.1 percent since July 4. The data also show premium up 7.3 percent and fuel oil up 3.6 percent with regional differences noted across the western north central states Wisconsin Illinois Indiana Michigan Ohio mountain states Pacific New England middle Atlantic and southeast regions.
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Washington
Les Aspin
Dwis
Aspin
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Labor Department
Wisconsin
Illinois
Indiana
Michigan
Ohio
Mountain States
Pacific States
New England
Middle Atlantic
Southeastern
Audit faulted St Louis State School accounting practices
State Auditor George Lehr disclosed a five year audit through June 1974 faulting improper accounting and record keeping at the St. Louis State School and Hospital. The report cites misused funds, transfers between special funds, incomplete federal fund statements, and undercharges to patients in 14 of 62 cases. It also notes similar deficiencies at the Kansas City Regional Diagnostic Clinic and calls for documentation and regular reviews of patient rates.
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Jefferson City
St. Louis State School and Hospital
George Lehr
Lehr
St. Louis
Kansas City
James D. Walker
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