Nixon Pushed Pesticide Rules and Fuel Tax Plan
President Nixon faces proposals from the President's Council on Environmental Quality for tighter pesticide controls and a tax on the sulfur content of fuels. A permit system for toxic industrial materials and stricter environmental safeguards are outlined, with debates over earmarking tax proceeds and White House approval.
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Dent Nixon
Congress
Council On Environmental Quality
White House
Office of Management and Budget
Nixon
Environmental Protection Agency
Army Unit Raises 106 For Oregon Man's Glasses
In Saigon a seven hour fund drive by Army Signal Support Agency personnel brought 106.10 for Floyd Rice of Grants Pass Oregon to cover eyeglasses and a hearing aid. Rice faced repossession on a 260 cost with 125 down. Donations came from 344 soldiers led by Capt. Joe LaGrow and Sgt. Nino Schepis, with prior gifts from Grants Pass and a Baltimore class. Rice plans a Floyd Rice fund for similar aid.
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Saigon
Floyd Rice
Rice
Grants Pass
Ore
Stars and Stripes
Joe LaGrow
Grayling
Mich
Army
Long Binh
Schepis
LaGrow
Vietnam
Baltimore
Texas
Salty the dog finally returns home to Detroit
Salty, a speckled dog of unknown breed, walked about 300 miles through Michigan to reach home New Year’s Day to Mrs. Margie LaBeff and her daughter. After wandering away from a Cheboygan family in August, she endured a long, muddy trek before collapsing back at the LaBeff residence. The reunion, marked by wet fur and bleeding paws, ends with the family vowing not to part with Salty again.
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Detroit
Salty
Michigan
Lower Peninsula
Margie LaBeff
Michelle
Shots Fired Lines Cut At PPG Plant
AKRON Ohi o AP Tele phone lines were cut and shots fired Monday night at a strike bound Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co plant in Barberton. About 350 salaried employees began a second day of living inside the plant while October strikers kept mass picketing. A cable carrying 800 lines was cut and full service was not expected to be restored soon. Bullets hit a car in a parking lot and a wall. others used slingshots. Guards drove off presumed saboteurs who fled as security dispersed them. Plant workers remain inside to maintain operations during the mass picketing.
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Akron, Ohio
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co
Barberton
Ad Agate
PPG
Worse
Essenal
Practical politician quotes crowd to front to shout
A pithy old quote notes that a practical politician follows popular sentiment then asserts loud, pushing forward to lead public opinion. It frames political tact as aligning with the crowd and seizing the moment.
Jordan, Palestinian Guerrillas Agree to Cease-Fire in Jordan
The government and PLO central committee sign a joint cease-fire order after five days of fighting. Premier Wasfi Tel and Ibrahim Bakr urge Jordanians and Palestinians to return to work. A Damascus broadcast claimed Jordanian tanks and helicopters attacked guerrilla bases in northern Jordan near the Syrian border.
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Amman
Jordan
Palestine
Hussein
Wasfi Tell
Ibrahim Bakr
Central Committee of
The
Palestine Liberation Organization
Damascus
Aqraba
al Khureiba
Syri
More Teens Smoking Says Surgeon General Report
Washington AP reports the U S surgeon general Dr Jesse L Steinfeld says teen smoking is rising while older smokers quit. He cites greatest increases among 13 to 15 year olds and urges bans on smoking in confined public places to protect nonsmokers. He notes evidence linking maternal smoking to fetal harm and discusses rising teen and adult smoking rates with data from 1966 to 1970.
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Steinfeld
Ohio Weather Forecast Warns of Snow Late Week
Cloudy skies blanketed Ohio with temperatures from 23 in Toledo to 37 in Marietta and Parkersburg area. North northeast winds 10 to 20 mph off Lake Erie may bring a few snow flurries in northern Ohio tonight as colder air moves from Lake Superior region toward New England. Low tonight 10 to 20, high tomorrow upper 20s. a new low pressure from the lower Ohio Valley is expected Wednesday, possibly bringing snow across Ohio late Wednesday or night. Yesterday’s high in Middletown was 38, morning low 32.
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Columbus, Ohio
Toledo
Marietta and
Parkersburg
W. Va
Lake Erie
Ohio
Lake Superior
New England
Ohio Valley
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Eugene, Ore
Eugene Hospital
Allison
Washington
Trust Fund
Oregon
Sale
American Red Cross
Syria
Ann Landers
Television Valley News
the Tobacco Institute
National Academy of Sciences
Institute
Horace R. Kornegay
National Clearinghouse For Smoking and Health
National Interagency Council On Smoking and Health
Don Forness
Moose Jaw
Sask
Middletown
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