Chrysler seeks price increases after Phase 1 results
Chrysler Corp reports stronger third quarter sales at 1.9 billion dollars and 12 cents per share earnings. Chairman Lynn Townsend says a price hike is needed after Phase 1 to offset higher labor and material costs despite solid profits. Nine month sales hit a record 5.9 billion with 67 cents per share earnings.
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Detroit
Chrysler Corp
Nixon
Lynn A. Townsend
Chrysler Board
Wounded gunman at large in St Louis bank robbery
A wounded gunman holds four hostages after robbing Cass Federal Savings & Loan. James Leroy Cochran, 36, is sought by police and FBI. two accomplices already arrested. One hostage released Thursday, others driven to Granite City and Kansas City before return. John L. Dorrell III missing. wife says he is being held. $10,000 recovered.
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ST. Louis
James Leroy Cochran
Cochran
Granite City
Ill
Kansas City
Marilyn Oliver
Cass Federal Savings & Loan Association
Four youths arrested for pumpkin throwing on I 80 near Joliet
Four youths were arrested after pumpkin throwing from overpasses onto Interstate 80 near Joliet. Richard Malone 17 David Chervem 18 and Robert Hewitt 16 faced reckless conduct charges and stayed in Will County Jail overnight. One juvenile was released to parents awaiting a hearing. Police traced the suspects by car description and found an 80 pound pumpkin in the vehicle.
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Joliet
Ill
Richard Malone
David Chervem
Robert Hewitt
Will County
Brezhnev Visits Paris Amid Hostile Echoes on Champs Elysees
In Paris Brezhnev rode in an open car to lay a wreath at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier and faced scattered hostile shouts. Police arrested several demonstrators while crowds along the Champs Elysees cheered. He then met President Pompidou at the Elysée and City Hall before talks on a European security conference.
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Paris
Leonid E. Brezheny
Champs Elysees
France
Communist Party
George Pompidou
Brezhnev
Pompidous
Farmers weigh corn crop ahead of next spring
Washington AP reports Agriculture Department officials monitor farmer plans for fewer sows this winter and rising pig numbers next spring. A spring-picked corn crop will shape 1971 72 feed use as hog slaughter is expected to dip while hog prices rise modestly.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Economic Research Service
ERS
McConkey Runs for 15th District Vacancy in Aurora
Republican Bill McConkey of Aurora says he is seeking only the vacancy in the current 15th Congressional District. The seat was vacated when Mrs. Charlotte Reid resigned effective Oct. 1 to join the Federal Communications Commission.
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Bill McConkey
Congress
Aurora
Grundy County
Charlotte Reid
Federal Communications Commission
Coal City receives permit for metal horse stables and grain storage
Virgil T. Berrong of Coal City was granted a building permit to erect a metal structure for horse stabling and grain storage south of the Santa Fe railroad in Braceville Township Section 3 near Coal City. The $1,000 project carries a $32.40 fee.
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Virgil T. Berrong
Coal City
Santa Fe
Braceville Township
Prolixin Used on Inmates at Missouri Penitentiary
An attorney alleges doctors at Missouri Penitentiary administer the antipsychotic Prolixin to inmates to quell violence. Walsh of Legal Aid & Defender Society says inmates are “shot up” after clinical judgments of psychosis, with effects lasting up to two weeks.
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Missouri Penitentiary
Gerald R. Walsh
The
Legal Aid & Defender Society of
Kansas City
Funeral services for Phillip E. Gordon held today
Funeral services for Phillip E. Gordon were held at 9 30 a m at the Finland Chapel with the Rev Donald Kocher officiating. Pallbearers were Randy Shannon Steven Guard Bill Sparrow Steven Chamberlain John Olson Kevin Connor Gary Hausken and Gary Delong. Burial was in Mt Carmel Cemetery.
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Phillip E. Gordon
Finland Chapel
Donald Kocher
Randy Shannon
Steven Guard
Bill Sparrow
Steven Chamberlain
John Olson
Kevin Connor
Gary Hausken
Gary Delong
Mt. Carmel Cemetery
Two accidents damage four vehicles in Morris incidents
Morris police report two accidents Monday damaging four vehicles. At 3:30 p.m. on the U.S. 6 and Illinois 47 intersection Kenneth P. Sandeno and Nick M. Conversa collided as Conversa tried to pass. both cars sustained rear and left front damage. A second backing crash on Liberty Street at 4 p.m. involved Gail V. Smith backing into Orville Clock's car, with minor damage to the left rear fender and a dent.
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Morris
U.S. 6
Illinois 47
Dean Sager
Kenneth P. Sandeno
South Wilmington
Nick M
Conversa
Hickory Hills
Sandeno
Charles O'Brien and Son Construction Co
Liberty St
Gail V. Smith
Rte. 3
Syd Reeve
Chevrolet
Orville H. Clock
Wilmington
Miss Smith
Chrysler
Cuba holds hijacked jumbo jet
A Boeing 747 hijacked by a gunman remained grounded in Havana with 221 aboard including three sky marshals and an off-duty FBI agent. The plane, American Airlines Flight 96, landed at Jose Marti Airport as Soviet Premier Kosygin was to arrive, and Cuba had not released it for departure.
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Miami
Cuba
Sky
FBI
Federal Aviation Administration
American Airlines
Havana
Jose Marti
FAA
Alexei N. Kosygin
Toronto
New York
Kennedy International
San Juan
P.R
Kennedy
Washington
American
Dallas
Jose Maryi
Supreme Court lets stand Pontiac busing plan ruling
The Supreme Court unanimously refused to review Judge Damon J. Keith’s ruling upholding a large busing plan in Pontiac Michigan. The plan aims to have 20 to 40 percent black student populations at each school amid 32 percent black enrollment and 10,000 bused students since September. FBI arrests followed bombed buses and six more arrests by officials in early classes.
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Washington
The
Supreme Court
Pontiac
Mich
U.S
Damon J. Keith
Detroit
High Court
Keith
Cincinnati
Automobile Manufacturing Center
FBI
Kansas City
Markets and fashion notes from New York and Chicago
Chicago reports quotes for wheat corn oats and soybeans with No 2 classes and soybean oil at 13.20. In New York Traphagen School of Fashion students expect hot pants to lose popularity citing impracticality in heat with boots and excessive cold in winter.
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Chicago
New York
Traphagen School of Fashion
Kissinger Returns From China In Airlift To Washington
President adviser Henry Kissinger returned to the United States with his party from Peking aboard a Boeing 707 refueled in Anchorage. The trip marked the first mainland China to U S flight since before World War II as Kissinger reported to President Nixon on plans for a forthcoming visit to mainland China.
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Anchorage
Alaska
Henry A. Kissinger
United States
Peking
Washington
Nixon
China
Kissinger
Shanghai
Tanjug
United Nations
Bicycle theft reported in Mazon neighborhood
Mrs. Howard Richey of North and Center Streets in Mazon reports a bicycle stolen from under her front porch. The theft occurred Monday night and was reported to the Grundy County Sheriff's Department at 8 14 a m.
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Grundy County
Who owns the clouds in a weathered debate storm
Miami Beach AP reports at a National Biological Congress session Dr. Louis Battan questions rain ownership and fairness of weather modification while Dr. Cecil Gentry discusses Project Stormfury and hurricane seeding risks. South Florida drought saw rainmaking reduce drought yet upset tomato growers over crop damage.
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Miami Beach
Fla
Louis Battan
University of Arizona
Institute of Atmospheric Physics
Battan
National Biological Congress
South Florida
Perils of modern medicine cited by Illinois physician
Dr. Robert Mendelshohn told a Hill City conference that modern drugs may cause as many deaths as they save and highlighted risks in surgery physical exams and hospitalization. He warned routine care may produce complications and argued that medicine shifts mortality rather than reducing it.
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Hill City
Minn
Illinois
Robert Mendelshohn
Evanston
Ill
Department of Community Health
University of Illinois College of Medicine
Labor and World Affairs
Mendelshohn
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Joliet Market
Joliet, Ill
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Ind
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Cecil Gentry
National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration
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