Bureau of Mines faces clash over public hazards after dam collapse
Washington officials debate whether the Bureau of Mines can regulate dams that threaten the public beyond mine sites. Sen. Williams cites authority over public hazards. Director Osborn argues authority limited to miners. Rep. Heckler denounces perceived legal loopholes and partial enforcement.
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Washington
U.S. Bureau of Mines
Bureau
Interior Department
Harrison A. Williams,Jr
D-N.j
Senate Labor
Bureau of Mines
Elburt F. Osborn
Erator
Ken Heckler
West Virginia
Heckler
Three IRA Provisional leaders arrested in Ireland
Irish authorities captured three leaders of the Provisional IRA while a fourth remains at large. Joe Cahill and Rory O Brady were detained under state offenses for 48 hours. Sean O Brady, Sinn Fein publicity chief, was also seized. The Provisional wing has ignored a ceasefire and continued violence as Belfast sees shootings, a dockside blast, and a booby trap injury.
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Dublin
Irish Republic
Irish Republican Army
Provisional
Joe Cahill
Northern Ireland
Rory O’brady
Sinn Fein
O'Brady
Sean
Sean Macstephain
Istaff
Provisionals
Two MIGs Downed In Near Hanoi Air Action Near Hue
More than 1,000 South Vietnamese paratroopers with tanks moved northwest of Hue to trap a North Vietnamese regiment as U S forces reported 34 MIGs shot down this year. U S Phantoms claimed two MIG 21s near Hanoi while a Phantom returned to base with two crewmen unharmed. Newport News and Waddell shelled coastal targets as B 52 bombers struck ahead of the ground push.
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Saigon
Hue
U.S
North Vietnam
Hanoi
Thailand
Newport News
Waddell
Navy
Associated Press
Holger Jensen
Jensen
Central Highlands
Kontum
Pat’Smith
Seattle
Wash
Uniform Property Tax Faces Floor Vote and Court Tests
In Columbus the House Ways and Means Committee plans to report a six year delay on implementing statewide uniform property tax assessments. Senator Maloney predicts a floor vote next week as the bill faces likely court challenges and earlier Senate passage.
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Columbus
Ohio
House
Ways and Means
Michael J. Maloney
Cincinnati
Maloney
Ways and Means Committee
Park Investment Co
Cleveland
Ohio Supreme Court
House approves tax exemption bill and debt limit resolution
The House passed 91 to 2 a Senate bill allowing a $40 annual state income tax exemption for persons over 62, heading to a conference committee over a House amendment lowering the age to 65. A separate 58 to 27 vote adopted a resolution urging Congress to call a constitutional convention to cap the national debt.
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House
Senate
LasSle
Congress
Charles
Buller County Tuberculosis Association 34th Annual Meeting
The Buller County Tuberculosis and Health Association will hold its 34th annual meeting tonight at 7 at the Garden Manor Extended Care Center on Hamilton Middletown Road. President Lou Florio announced the event. Speaker will be Robert G Loudon professor of pulmonary disease at the University of Cincinnati. His topic is The Infectiousness of Tuberculosis.
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Hamilton
Buller County Tuberculosis and Health Association
Garden Manor
Hamilton- Middletown Road
Middletown
Lou Florio
Robert G. Loudon
University of Cincinnati
Lawmakers push tax reform and constitutional amendments in Ohio
Fry and Kurfess discuss moves toward a floor vote on a resolution to require voter approval for any state income tax increase. An initiative seeks a May constitutional amendment, while another would repeal last year’s income tax.
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Fry
Springfield
Charles Kurnfess
Perrysburg
Senate Action on Bills Aims at Tax, Transit and Local Rules
The Senate advanced measures on court seating for a county principal seat, authorizing villages to enforce subdivision regulations beyond boundaries, and a formula to determine taxable net assets of regulated investment companies for franchise tax. A House-passed bill creating a Department of Transportation for mass transit and highway planning was reported out and sent to the floor for a vote.
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Senate
House
Lake Erie
Marigene Valiquette
Oli Toledo
Sen
Valiquette
Senate Rules Committee
Court of Appeals
Seaate Committee On Highways and Transportation
Department of Transportation
Duke of Windsor's Body Arrives at Windsor Castle
The Duke of Windsor's body reached Windsor Castle shortly after dawn aboard a RAF jet from Paris. Four RAF officers guarded the catafalque at Benson Air Base, with the coffin then taken by hearse to the castle for lying in state and a funeral planned at St George's Chapel.
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Windsor
England
Duke of Windsor
Windsor Castle
Royal Air Force
Benson Air Base
Oxford
Paris
Catafalque
Benson
Albert Memorial
Castle
St. George’s Chapel
Frogmore
Castle Park
Duke of Kent
Queen Victoria
Agnew Declines Maryland Delegation to National Convention
Vice President Spiro T. Agnew will not join Maryland’s delegation to the Republican National Convention. Four years earlier he led the Maryland group at Miami Beach and ended up as President Nixon’s running mate.
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Washington
Spiro T. Agnew
Maryland
Miami Beach
Nixon
Bobby Baker Released After 17 Months In Federal Prison
Bobby Baker, once secretary to the U S Senate Democratic majority, left the federal penitentiary in Lewisburg Pa at 8 a m driving away in a private car. He served 17 months for tax evasion theft and conspiracy to defraud the government after being convicted in 1967 for misusing his authority while a key aide to President Lyndon B Johnson during his time as Senate majority leader.
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Lewisburg
Bobby Baker
U.S. Senate
Democratic
Baker
Senate
Lyndon B. Johnson
Ironton Man Charged With First-Degree Murder
Arnold Messinger, 31, of Ironton faces first degree murder and shooting with intent to kill charges after a tavern shooting in Lawrence County Sunday night. He is accused of killing Melvin Blankenship, 29, and wounding two others.
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Tronton
Ohio
Arnold Messinger
Ironton
Messinger
Melvin Blankenship
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