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Newspaper
Mt Vernon Register News
Location
Mt Vernon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1973
Page
4
The Soviet Union reports about 550000 doctors, claimed to be the most of any nation, as officials document medical staffing figures and health system capacity.
Mrs Florence Esten and daughters Phyllis and Cindy visited her parents Mr and Mrs Lacey Mendenhall in High Ridge Missouri over the weekend. Mrs John Kovach and Miss Alice Wilson spent the weekend in Memphis Tennessee attending the Blackwood Homecoming event.
In Oak Ridge Tennessee AP reports massive petrified tree trunks dating about 300 million years are uncovered in a deep coal mine. University of Tennessee chemist Dr Friedrich Schmidt Bleek notes the trunks weigh six tons and measure about 45 inches in diameter with well preserved bark suggesting they were oaks.
Watergate, built as a high end 1960s housing and office project, attracts visitors amid its infamous link to the 1972 break in and Nixon era scandal. Developers led by Societa Generale Immobiliare created a valued, multiuse site with 240 original units and 400 added later, now housing VIPs and a popular hotel.
Four federal narcotics agents suspended in April for their roles in mistaken raids on Collinsville homes have performed limited administrative duties since five days after suspension. Vernon D. Meyer said agents retain civil service rights but are not involved in investigative work while a federal grand jury probes the incident. Jerry Murphy noted they’re excluded from street enforcement and have no weapons or credentials during the investigation.
Rend Lake littering is rising as facilities open. Larry Foster of Rend Lake Conservancy District urges visitors to keep the lake clean. Charles Ijames and his Corps of Engineers team manage the area and are praised, but more visitors in 1973 could worsen the problem.
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