Nixon lifts beef price ceiling early and boosts auto costs
The Nixon administration ends the beef price ceiling two days early and allows automakers to raise car prices. Grocers may pass higher food costs to shoppers as food price controls take effect immediately. Gasoline prices dip by one to three cents as ceilings start.
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Washington
Nixon
Cost of Living Council
Ford
General Motors
Chrysler
American Motors
Council
John T. Dunlop
Dunlop
Ten Hurt as Chlorine Leak Triggers Evacuations in Greensburg
In Greensburg Pennsylvania a chlorine gas leak from a railroad tanker sickened ten residents and prompted the evacuation of about two thousand others. Fifty total people sought medical help with delayed reactions possible while officials said the threat was no longer critical. Two engineers from a chemical firm arrived to cap the valve and the tanker was moved to Young for drainage and shipment home.
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Greensburg, Pa
Pittsburgh
Chemical
Ohio
Young
Gas price controls cut pump costs nationwide today
Gasoline may drop one to three cents a gallon at many stations under Phase 4 price ceilings that mirror last January levels. Some dealers protest while Exxon and Atlantic Richfield raised wholesale prices. retailers must absorb increases, with Rehnquist upholding the rule.
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Washington
Supreme Court
William H. Rehnquist
Exxon
Atlantic Richfield
Jerry S. Cohen
National Congress of Petroleum Retailers
Cohen
Five Die in Collision Between Family Wagon and Soldiers
Five members of the Gary C. Brown family and a Kentucky man died when their station wagon carrying eight relatives collided with a car carrying two Camp Drum soldiers on New York 11 near Watertown. Victims include Gary Brown 31 Elsie Brown 32 Patrick Brown 1 Melissa Brown 2 Ursula Griffith 60 and Roman Budzinski 26. Earl Kauffman 21 was critically injured.
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Evans Mills
N.Y
Kentucky
Watertown
Gary C. Brown
Edwards
St. Lawrence County
Patrick
Melissa
Negotiator Seized as Kuwait Paris Hostage Crisis Unfolds
Aly Yassin head of the PLO office in Kuwait negotiates aboard a Kuwaiti Airlines Boeing 707 with gunmen who seized four Saudi hostages during an attack on the Paris Saudi embassy. They demand Daoud's release and safe passage via Syria. Temperature on site reaches 115 degrees as tensions rise and planes circle.
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Aly Yassin
Palestine Liberation Organization
Kuwait
Kuwaiti Airlines
Paris
Middle East
Syria
Damascus
Baghdad
Yassin
Saudi Arabia
Jordan
Abu Daoud
Hussein
Daoud
France
Ehrlichman Freed on Innocent Plea in Ellsberg Break-in Case
Former White House adviser John Ehrlichman was released after pleading innocent to burglary conspiracy and perjury charges in the 1971 Beverly Hills office break-in connected to the Watergate plumbers squad. He faced arraignment before Superior Court Judge James G. Kolts and awaits Sept. 20 for a trial date.
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Los Angeles
White House
John D. Ehrlichman
Ehrlichman
Nixon
Superior Court
James G. Kolts
Daniel Ellsberg
Egil Krogh Jr
David Young
Watergate
G. Gordon Liddy
Los Angeles County
Joseph Ball
Dep. Dist. Atty
Stephen Trott
Kolts
Seattle
Wash
Ball
Krogh
Young and
Liddy
Beverly Hills
Lewis Fielding
Balding Young
Henry A. Kissinger
Plumbers Squad
Plumbers
Watergates
Ellsberg
Anthony Russo
Middletown Area Weather Cloudy With Showers Sunday
It will be considerably cloudy tonight and Sunday in the Middletown area with two periods of showers. Low tonight in the low to mid 60s, high Sunday in the 70s. Rain chances 40 percent tonight and 50 percent Sunday.
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Middletown
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