Monroe Fire Prevention Week Observed with Tours and Displays
Monroe volunteers host National Fire Prevention Week events October 7 to 13. The Fire Department will offer tours by arrangement with Ron Barribeau or Tom Faralli. Emil Klarer directs a fire prevention display as Chief Joe Benkert notes.
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Monroe
National Fire Prevention Assn
Monroe Fire Department
Ron Barribeau
Tom Faralli
Monroe Park and Recreation Department
Emil Klarer
Joe Benkert
CROP Walk Set for October 13 with Weather Make-up
Reminder notes the CROP walk, postponed by bad weather, will occur Saturday October 13. Volunteers meet at Wesley Hall at 9 a.m. and follow one of three city routes to raise funds for the Christian Rural Overseas Program aiding hungry people. The piece also includes home fire safety drills and family evacuation guidance.
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Wesley Hall
Christian Rural Overseas Program
Bus Crash In Milwaukee Injures Sixteen Students
A Milwaukee school bus carrying 40 seventh and eighth graders rear-ended a city truck at a red light. Driver Thomas Florek, 23, said brake failure caused the collision. Sixteen people were injured, 13 of them children, taken to Mt Sinai Medical Center for treatment, most with bruises and facial cuts.
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Milwaukee
Thomas Florek
Mt. Sinai Medical Center
Boston Faces Violence as Slayings Spark Fear
In Boston a 24 year old woman died after being drenched with gasoline and set afire. A fisherman was killed earlier in a stoning and stabbing attack by a large group amid persistent black white clashes. Extra police patrols and school shutdowns marked the city response as officials meet to address the volatile situation.
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Boston
Esman
Bayside Mall
Verna
Tierney
Kevin H. White
Food prices may rise 10 percent in six months
Washington AP President Nixon’s chief economist Dr Herbert Stein warned of rapid food price increases near 10 percent over the coming six months. He cited lagging supplies and rising incomes, with a possible decline by year end 1974 not guaranteed.
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Washington
Nixon
Herbert Stein
Council of Economic Advisors
Stein
Ball Park
Congress
Unemployment Stays At 4.8 Percent In September
The Labor Department reports the national jobless rate at 4.8 percent for September, unchanged for a fourth straight month. Teenagers staying in work offset declines in the labor force, with total employment up 700000 and the workforce up 750000 on a seasonally adjusted basis.
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Washington
Labor Department
Pentagon drops mutiny charges against released prisoners
Pentagon officials say the Army and Navy secretaries will drop charges for four enlisted men, citing lack of evidence. The AP report covers further Senate Watergate testimony, Elliott Roosevelt vindication, Calley appeals, nerve gas stockpile policy, wiretap reforms, gender quotas at the 1972 convention, and Social Security benefit increases through 1973.
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Washington
Pentagon
Army
Navy
Justice Rides Again Judge Bruner Arrives by Motorcycle
Judge Ervin M. Bruner substitute County Court Judge from Madison arrived in Monroe on Thursday riding a Honda motorcycle. His bike featured a windshield and turn signals, and he wore a helmet.
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Ervin M. Bruner
Madison
Monroe
Agnew Subpoena Demands Time Sources Over Indictment Reports
Agnew lawyers served a federal subpoena on Time magazine in Washington seeking the names of confidential sources for two articles about an indictment in Maryland. Judge Walter E Hoffman authorized the subpoena, with Time asserting it will not reveal sources.
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Lucky
Madison
Wisconsin
Patrick J. Lucey
Lucey
Office of Revenue Sharing
Graham Watt
New York
Spiro T. Agnew
Time
Agnew
Maryland
Washington
Don Wilson
Walter E. Hoffman
Norfolk
Wilson
Department of Justice
Nixon visits as Agnew case looms and church votes miss priesthood
President Nixon arrives for a weekend with White House aide J. Fred Buzhardt and speechwriter Patrick J. Buchanan. The Justice Department responds to Agnew's bid to halt the grand jury probe, while Episcopal delegates voice heartbreak over baring women from priesthood. In New York, NCI researchers report lab cells can spontaneously form cancer-like viruses, warning of potential biohazards for workers.
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Key Biscayne
Nixon
J. Fred Buzhardt
White House
Spiro T. Agnew
Patrick J. Buchanan
Ronald L. Ziegler
Buzhardt
Buchanan
Baltimore
Justice Department
Agnew
Louisville
Episcopal Church
Charles Perry
Washington, D. C
John M. Allin
Jackson
Miss
New York
National Cancer Institute
United Nations block stalls South Africa address at assembly
Asian and Communist nations joined Black African states to block South Africa’s white minority government from addressing the General Assembly, with a vote pending on whether Hilgard Muller may speak.
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United Nations, N.Y
South Africa
General Assembly
Hilgard Muller
Muller
Assembly
Boston in Fear as Racism Sparks School Closures
Dover Elementary Principal James D Supple says parents fear sending children to school amid racial unrest. Boston leaders link killings in Roxbury to violent attacks as McCormack Junior High and Dover Elementary close to avert trouble. Police report three incidents within 20 minutes, including the Wagler murder and Barba stabbing, with a $5000 reward offered for Wagler's killers.
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McCormack Junior
James D. Supple
Dover Elementary School
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Atomic Energy Commission
Tony- Flambeau
Whitewater
Clear Lake
Polk County
Winter
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Marvin Nelson
Tony -Flambeau
Nelson
Horicon Horicon
Horicon National Wildlife Refuge
Robert Personius
Silvio Conte
R-Mass
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Conte
Florida
Robert Benz
Benz
Elliott Roosevelt
Senate
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Bahamas
William L. Calley Jr
My Lai
U.S. Court of Military Appeals
Calley
Denver
Robert C. Hill
Soviet Union
Atty
William D. Ruckelshaus
U.S
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D-Conn
House
Jerusalem
Golda Meir
Schoenau
Moshe Dayan
Belfast
Northern Ireland
Stormont Castle
Britain
Ulster
Saigon
le Minh
Bonn
West Germany
Treasury
George P. Shultz
United States
Germany
Shultz
Santiago, Chile
Chile
Santiago
Paul R. Tierney
Boston School Committee
Evelyn Renee Wagler
Ludivico L. Barba
Roxbury
Barba
Columbia Point
Jeremiah P. Sullivan
Ronald Leonard
Revere
Leonard
City Hospital
Clare Oates
Quincy
White
Wagler
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