Gas loading begins for nerve gas disposal at sea
Stevedores load 418 steel-jacketed vaults of VX and GE gas onto the World War II Liberty ship LeBrannon Russell Briggs at Sunny Point North Carolina. Army plans to sink the vessel 16,000 feet deep off Cape Kennedy after two to three days of loading, with weather checks and naval escorts. The disposal faces environmental challenges and opposition from U Thant and U S lawmakers, who seek proof the site and method are safest.
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Sunny Point
N.C
Anniston
Ala
Richmond
Army
Navy
LeBrannon Russell Briggs
Atlantic
Cape Kennedy
Fla
Briggs
Coast Guard
Utah
Army Chemical
National Academy of Sciences
U.N
O ‘Thant
Florida
Claude Kirk
U.S District Court
Washington
Environmental Defense Fund
President Nixon vetoes education and agency bills
Washington AP Democrats vow to override Nixon vetoes of a 4.4 billion education appropriation and 18 billion agency funding bill. Republicans split, Ford among skeptics as leaders set Thursday votes to gain required margins. Nixon defends action to curb rising living costs and inflation.
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Washington
House
Nixon
Gerald R. Ford
Michigan
Hale Boggs
D-La
Larry O’brien
Rock festival ordinance set licensing and safety rules
Green County board adopts a rock festival guide authorizing a separate $100 daily license per site per day for gatherings of 5000 plus, with strict sanitary and medical requirements, fenced locations, water and toilet provisions, emergency services, illumination, parking, and liability bonds, plus penalties for violations and potential license revocation. The measure aims to regulate long events and includes enforcement and related county actions from the same session.
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Green County Board of Supervisors
Bething
Dina Speich
Board of Supervisors
Nixon Signs Postal Reform Bill Into Law
President Nixon signed the postal reform bill in Washington praising bipartisan support. The overhaul creates a corporate like independent Post Office, moves it from cabinet, and sets rates via a governors board with interim increases to offset a projected $2.6 billion deficit.
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Nixon
Washingtonavy
Blount
Congress
Board of Governors
Captives Held by Tupamaros Denounced as Well
An American agronomist Claude L Fly and Brazilian consul Aloysio Gomide said to be held by Tupamaro guerrillas remain alive, with captors threatening execution if authorities advance. Five thousand police and soldiers keep searching as the rebels warn of further harm after Mitrione’s prior killing.
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Montevideo
Uruguay
Claude L. Fly
Fort Collins
Colo
Aloysio Mares Dias Gomide
Dan A. Mitrione
Richmond
Ind
Mitrione
Dias Gomide
Fly
Agriculture Ministry
Jorge Pacheco Areco
Albany Legion Barbeque and Tractor Pull Heads Sunday
Albany hosts a Legion Cricits Barbeque and tractor pull at Legion Park on Sunday August 16 with 11 a.m. start. Weigh ins occur Sunday morning. prizes include trophies in heavier classes and 25 dollars for first in those classes plus 10 dollars for first in the garden tractor class and three trophies. entry fee is five dollars for tractor pull. spectators admitted free.
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Albany Legion Bar
Albany Legion
Stop Inductions Until Evaders Punished
Door County Selective Service Board No 16 will issue no induction notices after Sept 1 unless the federal government stops letting draft evaders walk the streets. Chairman S F Brunswick said the board will stand firm even if replaced and cited local cases noting no action has been taken. The state director would not comment until reviewing the board vote.
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Door County Selective Service Board No. 16
S. F. Brunswick
State Selective Service
Clinton Knutson
Brunswick
Door County
Fighting at Fire Base O'Reilly tempers Vietnam war stretch
AP dispatch reports four days of fighting at Fire Base O Reilly in the northern war zone with South Vietnamese forces claiming 96 enemy killed across two battles in the south. Saigon also suffers heavy casualties in one engagement as Cambodia reports repelling an attack near Dang Kor close to Phnom Penh. In Laos, Pathet Lao and government say talks will be held at Khangkhai. Israel reports five civilians killed by a mine near the Golan Heights. Algeria pulls 2000 troops from Suez front amid Nasser ceasefire stance.
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O'Reilly
Cambodia
Dang Kor
Phnom Penh
Laos
Pathet Lao
Souvanna Phouma
Khangkhai
Vientiane
Plain of Jars
Tel Aviv
Golan Heights
Cairo
al Ahram
Algeria
Suez Canal
Gamal Abdel Nasser
West Germany Kosygin pact aims to ease East Europe ties
Bonn and Moscow signed a nonaggression treaty with West German Chancellor Willy Brandt and Premier Alexei Kosygin backing broader talks on German Soviet relations and European security. Gromyko and Scheel also signed as part of a broader diplomatic push.
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Muduaw
Willy Brandt
West Germany
Alexei N. Kosygin
Bonn
Europe
Andrei A. Gromyko
Walter Scheel
Brandt
Kosygin
Bloodmobile in Juda Falls Short of Quota
The Badger Red Cross Bloodmobile visited Juda at the United Methodist Church collecting 38 pints of blood from 42 residents. Co chair Paul Matzke noted satisfaction with turnout despite a 50 unit goal, citing warm weather and busy farm work.
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Badger Red Cross
Juda
United Methodist Church
Paul Matzke
Miss Jo Daviess County Fair Crowned In Warren Ill
Eighteen year old Shirley Coad daughter of Floyd and Mrs Coad Apple River Illinois won the Miss Jo Daviess County Fair title at the Warren fairgrounds pageant. She is a Warren High School graduate of 1970 and plans to study math teaching at Illinois College Jacksonville. Debutantes and runners up named include Deborah Lynn Stoedter, Elizabeth Elizabeth Fischer Harriet Beal Debbie Lawson and Pamela Sturtevant. The fair continues with judging and entertainment events through Sunday including tractor pulls a horse show and a demolition derby.
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Warren
Times
Shirley Coad
Floyd Coad
Apple River
Ilinois
Deborah Lynn Stoedter
Delores Timmerman
East Dubuque
East Dubuque High School
Randy Marie Fischer
Elizabeth
Ill
Harriet Beal Stockton
Debbie Lawson
Pearl City
Pamela Sturtevant
Judi Ford
Belvidere
Susan Marie Kempel
Miss Carroll College
Susan Tuescher
Ice Caprice
University of Platteville
Susan Miller
Jo Daviess County Fair
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Monroe Ready Mix
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