Gray admits grievous misjudgment over Watergate papers
Former acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray told the Senate Watergate committee he burned Watergate related papers and buried White House material from wiretapper E. Howard Hunt with Christmas wrappings at his Connecticut home last December.
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Washington (Ap
FBI
L. Patrick Gray
Senate Watergate Committee
Gray
White House
E. Howard Hunt
Connecticut
Nixon proposes major overhaul of banking system
President Nixon urges a far reaching banking reform to raise savings deposit rates above 5 percent over a five year period and loosen ceilings on what banks and savings and loan associations may pay. He says the current limits are outmoded and drive investors to higher yielding options.
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Washington
Nixon
Savings and Loan Associations
Allende to consider cabinet resignations amid transport strike
In Santiago, President Allende meets with advisers to review 15 minister resignations handed in Friday night over a nationwide transport strike by truck, bus, and taxi owners. A high official said the president may delay a decision until Monday or Tuesday.
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Santiago
Chile
Salvador Allende
Allende
Popular Unity Coalition
Congress recess follows farm highway bills and wage hike
Congress entered a month long recess after approving major farm and highway bills and receiving a pledge from President Nixon to halt bombing Cambodia on August 15. The chamber also enacted a two step raise to the minimum wage to 2.20 dollars but the measure will not go to the White House for several weeks.
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Washington
Congress
Nixon
Cambodia
White House
August Named VD Month in Iowa Proclamation
DES MOINES Iowa AP A proclamation naming August Veneral Disease Awareness Month was signed by Gov Robert Ray at a ceremony in the governor office. Attendees included Dr Ralph Henderson CDC Atlanta Dr Harry Elmers Des Moines Dr Rubin Flocks Iowa City Dr Shirley Lindell Iowa City and Norman Pawiewski acting state health commissioner.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Robert Ray
Ralph Henderson
Center For Disease Control
Atlanta
Georgia
Harry Elmers
Keokuk farmer Arthur Rein drowns in pond
Keokuk Iowa Arthur Rein aged 78 drowned Friday in a pond on his Keokuk area farm. The body was recovered by the Keokuk Volunteer Emergency Corps after authorities found his truck near the pond and were alerted when he was last seen leaving his home shortly before.
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Keokuk, Iowa
Arthur Rein
Keokuk
Rein
Fire at Summerland complex leaves 46 dead
Isle of Man police hunt three teenage youths after a blue scarred youth and two others were seen fleeing a hut at a miniature golf site as a fast spreading fire engulfed the Summerland indoor entertainment center. The blaze killed 46 with six missing, a worst disaster on the island in memory.
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Douglas
Isle of Man
Fin Palace
Summerland
Britain
Ireland
Beef Shortage Deepens As Stores Ration Meat Supplies
Grocers ration beef as nationwide shortage widens with 9,000 layoffs at 100 beef plants. Cattlemen withhold cattle until Sept 12 price freeze ends, while restaurants and grocers shift to black market purchases and price gouging probes rise. The National Restaurant Association urged Nixon to lift the freeze. Brasserie Restaurant in New York plans deviled chicken burger and veal cordon bleu burger.
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American Meat Institute
Nixon
The
Meat Institute
Agriculture Department
Schwegmann’s
New Orleans
Atlanta
Ralph's Grocery Co
California
New York City
Internal Revenue Service
Lincoln
Neb
United States
National Restaurant Association
New York
Brasserie
Remains of Broadway Central Hotel at risk of collapse
Firemen used cranes to remove rubble as the remaining south-central section of the Broadway Central Hotel, later the University Hotel, stood unstable over Broadway. Nineteen treated at hospitals, over a hundred homeless, 325 registered guests, and 23 in the fallen portion. Authorities cite age and vibration damage. razing planned.
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Broadway Central Hotel
Sity Hotel
John T. O'Hagan
South Central
East Wall
Jim Fisk
Boss Tweed
Diamond Jim Brady
Jim Wisk
Jay Gould
Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt
Partner Slay Plot Suspect Receives Suspended Term
Harold Vander Linden 47 of Altoona pled guilty to attempting to hire someone to kill his business partner Robert Ochlert of Indianola. Arrested August 8, 1972, Vander Linden received a 20 year sentence suspended by Polk County District Court Judge Dale Missildine and was ordered to undergo psychiatric treatment.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Harold Vander Linden
Altoona
Vander Linden
Robert Ochlert
Indianola
Polk County
Dale Missildine
Nixon Says Congress Will Bear Blame For Cambodia Halt
President Nixon declares Congress must take the blame for any fate of Cambodia after the administration halts all U S bombing in less than two weeks. He accuses Democrats of abandoning a friend while warning North Vietnam not to misread the move as a green light to attack elsewhere in Indochina.
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Washington
Nixon
Congress
Cambodia
U.S
Indochina
R. Schlesinger Jr
Laos
Supreme Court
William C. Douglas
Yakima
Wash
Douglas
New York
Jobless rate dips in July while Black unemployment rises
U S unemployment slips to 4.7 percent in July with total employment at 84.6 million. White unemployment eases to 4.1 percent as Black and other races see a sharp rise to 9.3 percent. June rate was 4.8 percent and May was 9.4 percent for Blacks and others. The goal remains 4.5 percent overall.
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Washington
United States
Labor Department
Library begins pet loan program in Los Alamitos
Los Alamitos Rossmoor Library offers 20 animals for short term loans to children with a library card. Rabbits hamsters guinea pigs and a turtle and rat are kept in cages in the children's section. The program started last spring to support summer reading with animals from a local elementary school.
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Los Alamitos
Calif
Los Alamitos Rossmoor
Joyce Kearns
Kearns
Erie
Orange County
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