Cambodian Fuel Stocks Suffer Major Loss in Phnom Penh Attack
Cambodian capital faced a sharp fuel shortage after an overnight raid by enemy sapper units. Up to 40 percent of Esso Shell and Tela Khmer storage may have been destroyed, triggering vast fuel shortages amid ongoing Southeast Asian fighting. In Tay Ninh and U Minh, North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces pressed a major offensive, with dozens killed and several weapons captured as U.S. helicopters joined Saigon troops in heavy jungle combat.
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Caah
Cambodia
Phitom Penh
South Vietnam
Phnom Penh
Ince
Esso
Saigon
43Rd
Tay Ninh
Cambedia
Associated Press
Robin Mannock
Shell Oil Companies
Tonle River
Mannock
Tela Khmer
Government Oil Company
Prek Phnoen
U.S
U Minh Forest
Ca Mau Peninsula
Saison
Namese
Pathologists confirm guns killed nine at Attica prison
At Attica State Prison the autopsy results support gunshot deaths for nine hostages, validating earlier findings by Monroe County and New York City officials. The Task Force on Organized Crime remains tight lipped as investigations continue. witnesses claim beatings occurred after the uprising was quelled.
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Attica
N.Y
Attica State Prison
Henry Siegel
Westchester County
John Edland
Monroe County
Edland
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Correction
Russell G. Oswald
Siegel
Organized Crime
Edward Moran
Moran
New York Times
Michael Baden
New York City
The
Baden
Daniel Alterman
Joshua Roth
National Lawyers’ Guild
Girl Finds $12,300 in Bag. Police Probe Gun and Shells
New York AP report notes 14 year old Annette Ronella found three stacks of twenty dollar bills in a brown paper bag in Queens. She turned it in and waits six months to see if the owner claims the money, with a revolver and 74 shells found in the bag prompting police inquiry.
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New York
Annette Ronella
Annette
Queens
Communists Wipe Out Cambodian Fuel Supply Near Phnom Penh
AP dispatch reports Communist commandos hit outskirts of Phnom Penh destroying two thirds of Cambodia’s civilian fuel supply. In South Vietnam, sappers near Tay Ninh City caused heavy casualties in five attacks, marking a third major loss in five days to Cong forces.
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Associated Press
Saigon
Phnom Penh
Cambodia
South Vietnam
Tay Ninh
Washington
Corps of Engineers
Tenpeasee
Tombigbee
Washington (Ap
Shakespeare and Speaking Courses Enroll on 27th
Mexico Evening School offers Shakespeare and Public Speaking classes taught by Mrs. Mary Barfield. Registration is Monday Sept 27 at 7 p.m. at Mexico High. Shakespeare readings cover The Taming of the Shrew Hamlet Othello and The Tempest with possible added play. Public Speaking helps overcome stage fright for group talks. Fee is FO for each course plus some book costs.
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Mexico High School
Mary Barfield
Davis Hart
Mexico
Fort Fierce couple welcomes a daughter
Cynthia Ireland and Mire Donald Ireland of Fort Fierce Florida announce the birth of their daughter born Friday. The baby weighed 9 pounds 10 ounces and Cynthia Ireland is the mother. Mrs. Joan J. Walker of Mexico and Warrensburg is the maternal grandfather.
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Mire
Donald Ireland
Fort Fierce
Fla
Jdre
Ireland
Mise Battie Mae Walker
Mexic
Cynthia Ireland
Joan J. Walker
Mexico
Warrensburg
Nixonomics Faces Major Test Abroad and at Home
Global finance ministers, led by John Connally, resume talks in London seeking a framework for a new monetary order after the gold linkage and 10 percent import surcharge. In Washington, the House Ways and Means Committee begins closed hearings on Nixon's tax plan with expected changes including shifting 2 billion in relief to low earners and delaying a military pay raise. The Civil Service Committee backs a veto resolution amid party lines while wage and price controls continue under the 90 day freeze and the Cost of Living Council weighs legal action in several cases.
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Edmond Lebreton
Associated Press
Washington (Ap
Congress
Nixon
Secretary of the Treasury
John B. Connally
London
United States
Cost of Living Council
Council
Justice Department
Connally
U.S
Washington
House Ways and Means Committee
House Post Office and Civil Service Committee
House
Segal Finishes Sabile Central Park Marathon
New York AP reports Erich Segal author of Love Story and amateur runner among finishers in the Sabile Central Park Marathon. Of 168 starters, many dropped out but the Yale professor completed the 4 % laps around the park in a race held Sunday.
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New York
Erich Segal
Central Park
Yale
Man feeds thousands of birds in Los Angeles parks
Raymond Lopez, 80, a retired Hollywood makeup man, spends most of his pension on weekly deliveries of 2,800 pounds of bird feed for Echo and Macarthur parks. He says life is for the birds, even if it means going hungry himself, while neighbor Manuel Cerda assists with transport as about 150 pigeons, doves, sparrows and bluejays gather each dawn.
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Los Angeles
Raymond Lopez
Lopez
Echo and
Macarthur Parks
Hollywood
Manuel Cerda
Cerda
Army seeks five to tenfold increase in free air time
The Army asks broadcast networks for a five to ten fold rise in free public service announcements to support recruitment. Secretary Froehike notes stations are government licensed and should aid essential national programs, citing budget limits on paid prime time ads. No response to the Sept. 1 letter has been reported. Prime time time slots command high commercial rates.
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Washington
Army
Robert F. Froehike
United States
Associated Press
Federal Communications Commission
Centralian suffers concussion in Centralia Paris game
Paul Reinhart, son of Mr and Mrs William Reinhart, sustained a severe concussion Friday night during a Centralia versus Paris game. He was taken to Boone County Hospital where his condition has improved and he is listed in Room 582 per the family.
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Centralia
Paul — Reinhart
William Reinhart
Paris
Boone County Hospital
Motorized Bedpan Invented At Pacific Northwest Expo
SEATTLE AP The three day Pacific Northwest Inventors Exhibition opened with 80 displays including Edward Gerrick’s motorized bedpan from Olympia. The unit warms slides out from under a bed and returns with an orderly call light. Other inventions shown include a spobbin thread unit by Harold Milin Auburn and a folding checkerboard cube. Maynard Wege Seattle displayed a car ignition lock concept.
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Seattle
Northwest
Edward Gerrick
Olympia
Wash
Gerrick
Harold R. Milin
Auburn
Maynard Wege
Bond Vote Set For $180,000 School Improvement
In Houston AP report, voters will decide Tuesday on a $180,000 school bond issue for Toro Tsmone at the junior high elementary school.
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Houston
Vetera
Toro Tsmone
Beilringer March To Aid Mental Health Drive
The East Central Missouri Association for Mental Health will conduct its Bellringer March in Audrain Monroe and Montgomery counties across Rush Hill Farber Vandalia Paris Monroe City Santa Fe Holliday and Centralia. Town chairmen were named and the Sept 19 30 drive aims to support the Mental Health Association.
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East Central Missouri Association For Mental Health
Audrain County
Rush Hill
Farber
Vandalia
Thompson
Monroe County
Paris
Monroe City
Santa Fe
Holliday
Montgomery County
Harold Griffin
Robert Riley
Melville Hawkinson
Gene Johnson
Michael Long
Tom Tanzey
Hugh Engle Jr
Jack Knorr
Ralph Bothe
Mental Health Association
American Medical Association
East Central Missouri Assn. For
Audrain
Callaway
Monroe
Montgomery
Ralls and
Pike
Centralia
Fulbright Pushes Rules For Access To Government Documents
Sen. J. William Fulbright says a GAO report shows need for legislation setting guidelines on congressional access to government documents. He notes the GAO is rarely denied access but faces frustrations and delays that hinder timely investigations into programs spending hundreds of millions of dollars. Fulbright, chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, introduced a bill with Judiciary subcommittee support to curb delays and grant clearer access.
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Washington
Sen
J. William Fulbright
General Accounting Office
Fulbright
GAO
Congress
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
U.S
Oatetight Hag
Judiciary
Groups Still Say No On Phosphates
Eleven consumer and environmental groups label government advice to keep phosphate detergents unsound. They urge promoting low phosphate or soap products. Officials say some nonphosphate detergents may be unsafe for children.
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Washington
Jesse L. Steinfeld
William D. Ruckelshaus
Environmental Protection Agency
Environment and
Natural Resources Defense Council
Ecology Center Communications Council
Metropolitan
Coalition For Clean Air
Public Interest Research Group
Zero Population Growth, Environmental Action, Wilderness Society
Concern Inc
Sierra Club, Clear Creek and
Friends of the Earth
Laird Warns US Could Lag Behind Russia
Secretary Melvin Laird warned at Warrenton that the United States could fall behind the Soviet Union in military strength within two years if Pentagon spending is cut. He said defense budget reductions of two to three percent could leave the U S weaker by 1973, citing momentum in Soviet ICBM and missile submarine growth.
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Warrenton
United States
Soviet Union
Congress
Pentagon
Melvin R. Laird
Laird
Russia
Pentagon Soares
Whose Wasps Strikers Or Management In Birmingham
In Birmingham England strikers on a picket line march with fly spray and swatters claiming management enlisted wasps to break the 35 week strike. Workers say jam and cake icing sugar attract wasps behind lines. Factory manager William Turner calls the claim absurd and argues wasps are drawn by discarded biscuits.
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Birmingham
England
William Turner
Tooth Transplant Reported In Sikeston
Sikeston dentist Dr. Dewey E Urban says he completed what may be the first successful tooth transplant between unrelated people about four years ago. He reports no signs of rejection and mentions a 17 year old boy donor and a 2 year old recipient in the case details.
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Sikeston, Mo
Sikeston
Dewey E. Urban
Dental Survey
Iban
Gator bites judge after missed feeding in Plant City
Wallace the seven foot alligator at a sewage plant pond bit Circuit Judge James D. Bruton on the finger after three days without his usual chicken meals. Bruton had fed the reptile raw chicken for a year and is nursing three tooth puncture marks.
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Gity
Fla
Wallace
James D. Bruton
Bruton
Mexican Ledger Pricing and Office Hours Notice
The Mexican Ledger lists publication details with daily except Sundays and holidays at 300 N Washington St Mexico Missouri 65265. It shows postage rates and subscription prices for various regions and states and notes office hours from 8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday to Friday and 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Saturday.
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Mexican Ledger
Washington St
Mexico
Audrain
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