Explosion At Texas Munitions Plant Kills Four
An explosion at Gearhart Owen plant near Cleburne Texas triggered a chain of blasts as grenades and fuse boxes detonated. Four women were killed and 35 injured as workers fled amid collapsing ceilings and flying debris. The plant makes gunpowder munitions and detonating systems.
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Texas
Frank Griffis Cleburne
Tex
UPL
Renades
Irene Felan
Doris Bront
Fort Worth
Debbie Spurelie
Joshua
Sue Grisham
Grandbury
Dorothey Cole
Cleburne
Harold Oreen
Gearhart- Owen Industries, Inc
Fela
Marsha Buckner
Cleburne Times Review
Hospital Notes From Appalachian Regional Hospital
Dismissals list includes Marsha Combs Vanessa Dixon Chenoa Mrs Donna Douglas and others. Admissions name Myrtle Adkins Geneva Caudill Bertha Clark Johnnie Crawford Cathy Lynn England Mary Fuitz Ancil Garrett Anthony Hall Saesh Hargis Pete Hayes Sloven Mars Sarah Partin Huthie McManaway Rebecca McMurry Matilda Moyers Nancy Riel Larene Smith Terrie Weaver Glen Wilder Flora Wilson Debra York plus births Mrs Charles D Lamb and Mrs Raymond Lipinsky.
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Tlawm
Marsha Combs
Vanessa Dixon
Chenoa
Donna Douglas
Jeffery Dunn
Indianapolis
Ind
Helen Eldridge
Jonesville
Ernest R. Gilbert
Edna Hoover
Pine Knot
Ruth Johnson
James King
Stearns
Minnie Monday
John Willis
Tildi O'Rourke
Saura Partin
Catherine Paul
Donnie Silvils
Lorene Smith
Howard Ward
Pine
Gap
Johnnie Crawford
Bryants
Cathy Lynn England
City
Mary Fuitz
Tazewell
Ancil Garrett
Clairfield
Anthony Hall
Chicago
Saesh Hargis
Harrogate
Pete Hayes
Sloven Mars
Sarah Partin
Huthie McManaway
Rebecca McMurry
Ewing
Matilda Moyers
Nancy Riel
Ewing Larene Smith
Terrie Weaver
Glen Wilder
Flora Wilson
Debra York
City Births
Charles D. Lamb
Speedwell
Raymond Lipinsky
Arnald Stephenson
Birl
Cover-Up Controversy Lingers in Watergate Witnesses
Relentless opposition frames testimony as a palpable lie. Mitchell accuses Magruder of false statements to Liddy about funding the operations. Stans’s testimony is challenged as wrong, while Haldeman and Ehrlichman’s White House shifts draw scrutiny.
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Mitchell
Magruder
G. Gordon Liddy
Dean
Justice Department
White House
Westergate
Tya Sloan
Sloan
FBI
Natchell
Stans
Ned
Nine
Liddy
Suay Liddy
Mitchick
J. Fred Buzhardt
Nixon
Watergate
H.R. Haldeman
John D. Baplichman
Highway Bill Could Fund National Park Road Tunnel
The article notes a highway bill setting a fixed fund for National Park roads. Division directors decide allocations and staff engineers favor a tunnel as a top priority. Scandlin says the bill may go to the House soon after two and a half months of work, but a date is uncertain.
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Scandlin
Kentuckys Democrats report fund drive totals
The Kentucky Democratic Central Committee filed detailed accounts with the U S Senate showing 402150 raised in a recent fund drive from mass solicitations as part of 950046 total funds. Young Republicans at a Atlanta convention expressed faith in Nixon and set a Buckley address as the closing speaker. A Louisiana probe into campus killings faulted armed deputies and state police for confusion. Tennessee Game and Fish director denies indictments for agents in a Southeast illicit trade ring. Governor Wallace frames a toll road link as speeding a Kansas City to Brunswick superhighway project.
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Kentucky Democratic Central Committee
U.S. Senate
Senate
Orlando Potter
Kentucky
Southern University
Louisiana
William Guste
Tile Tennessee Game and Fish Commission
David Goodrich
Man and Fiancée Drift 42 Days Aboard Disabled Boat
Aboard the 50 foot Nihoma off Cuba and the Caribbean a man William C. Hoadley and his fiancée Debbie Blocker along with two dogs drifted 42 days on a damaged vessel. They ate fish caught from the sea and drank rainwater aided by vitamin pills. Hoadley recounted signaling ships and improvising a stove from diesel to survive. He estimated a drift distance of 1500 miles before rescue near the Mississippi River delta.
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Aoman
Mexico
Fdfoot
William C. Hoadley
Deland
Flo
Debbie Blocker
Gary
Nlc
Honduras
Moses
Poco
Hout Heennes
Cuba
Gulf of Mexico
Mary St. Phillip
Hoadley
Mississippi River
Dodtors
Blorker
Pots
Debbig
Alabama
Mitchell May Have Lied Says Talmadge
Senate debate erupts as Herman Talmadge questions John Mitchell’s Senate testimony about not engaging in political activity while attorney general. Talmadge cites memorandums from Jeb Magruder suggesting Mitchell played a major campaign role before Kleindienst hearings, leaving the question of perjury to the American people.
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Washington
UPI
Herman Talmadge
D-Ga
John N. Mitchell
Senate Judiciary Committee
Senate
Talmadge
Mitchell
Aon
Richard Kleindienst
Nixon
Kleindienst
Kennedy
Juitchell
Jeb Stuad Magruder
Energy agency weighs two year delay in air standards
Nixon administration weighs a two year postponement of federal clean air standards to ease the energy crisis. Oil executives deny Florida lawsuit charges of conspiring to create the fuel shortage. A nationwide fuel price monitor expands. AAA reports fuel access improving and stations in more areas normal. William E. Simon says he has consulted with the EPA on policy.
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Lucindal. Franks
United Press International
Nixon
Florida
Cost of Living Council
Los Angeles
Philadelphia
Atlanta
St. Paul
American Automobile Association
AAA
Simon
William E. Simon
Treasury
Deaths and Funerals in Frakes and Somerset Kentucky
Obituary notices report the deaths of Joe Powers formerly of Frakes Ky July 10 1873 in Claiborne County Hospital and Janet Brock 10 of Somerset Ky who died July 1973 from a boating accident in Laurel County Born February 1 1963 in Bell County Janet leaves multiple relatives and will be buried at Matt Brack Cemetery Stoney Fork Funeral services set at Arnett Funeral Home Chapel with burial at Matt Brack Cemetery. Additional notices list Holland Kirk Mayes born December 11 1905 in Claiborne County Tenn and died July 7 1978. survivors include children grandchildren siblings and a host of relatives. Burial arrangements with Shumate Funeral Home and references to ongoing public notices and local events follow.
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Joe Powers
Frakes
Claiborne County Hospital
Cawood Funeral Home
Janet Brock
Somerset
Bell County
Laurel County
Bonnie Brock
Brenda
Loretta
Rebecca Brock
Timothy
Edward
Freddie Brock
Nettie Brock
Stoney Fork
Arnett Funeral Home
Thea O. Carter
Matt Brack
Holand Kirk Mates Holland Kirk Mayes
Lothbury Avenue
Claiborne County
Tenn
Joseph Mayes
Kizzie Poore Mayes
East Cumberland Avenue
Michigan
Carlos: Mayes
Middlesboro
Pearl Breedin
Riceville
Myrtle, Horton
Porter Mayes
Sterl Mayes
George
Dock) Mayes
General Mayes
Ohio
J. E. Mayes
Knoxville
Shumate Funeral Home
Lawrence Powell
Sharp Cemetery
Shumate Funeral. Home
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