Army Reservists Aid Jamboree at Moraine Park
Brig. Gen. Willie Dixon announces the 99th Army Reserve Command will contribute about 3000 troops to the 1973 National Scout Jamboree at Moraine State Park August 3 to 9. A 160 bed field hospital beside U S 422 will serve medical needs with billets for troops nearby. Engineers will build roads and a bridge while a transportation unit will haul equipment. Nurses and doctors will train in operating the field hospital, with volunteers drawn from Western Pennsylvania Eastern Ohio and West Virginia. Dixon notes prior community service projects and a helicopter site tour were arranged for reporters.
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Ohio
West Virginia
Control authority to expire tonight
Congress must act by midnight to extend or end President Nixon’s wage and price controls. A compromise would extend to April 30 1974 but faces GOP opposition over four amendments including corporate cost disclosure and fuel rationing provisions. Roy Ash cautions only limited tightening may occur depending on Congress. Senate votes on voter postcard registration amid push to cut debate.
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UPI
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House Senate
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CBS
Ash
Beef fans end affair with beans
In Amarillo Texas Meat Appreciation Week ends with a bean dinner after a failed barbecued beef event. Thousands attended as VIPs including Ben Johnson and Amarillo Slim Preston watched a massive pit cook attempt falter and leave 16,000 cuts of beef uncooked.
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Mat
Ben Johnson
Andy Devine
Amarillo Slim Preston
Bob Price
Rtex
Texas
Budget cut bill eyed by Pennsylvania House panel
In Harrisburg the House Appropriations Committee was to meet to consider an $85 million cut from Gov. Shapp’s proposal with aims to push the measure to the floor this week. Senate action was anticipated on a separate $45 million Land Water Conservation and Reclamation Act package for mine drainage treatment and park building. A fluoridation bill and a moratorium on sex before and outside marriage also loom, while the panel weighs whether to report the budget measure now or delay to Tuesday.
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Milian Shapp
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Senate
Department of Environmental Resources and Community Affairs
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Arthur H. James
Ack Seltzer
Lebanon
Appropriations Committee
Robert Butera
Montgomery
Shapp
Rober Mellon
D-Lackawanna
Ben
Jay Wells
Allegheny
Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
Martin Mullen
Mullen
Prince Harald relaxes at Galveston Bay amid Offshore Tech trip
Norwegian Crown Prince Harald spent Sunday sailing with friends on Galveston Bay and attended a private dinner. He is in Houston for the Offshore Technology Conference beginning Monday, with Peder Monsen and Ernest Fay in the sailing party.
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United Press International
Houston
Harald
Galveston Bay
Peder Monsen
Ernest Fay
Familly
Crown Prince Harald
Escapees flee Georgia prison break top 12 at large
In Bainbridge Georgia state and local officers hunted 12 of 24 maximum security inmates who escaped from the Decatur County state prison branch after two inmates duped a guard into unlocking the gate Saturday night. Guard Ray Cook was overpowered and jailed inmates freed others. Commissioner Ellis MacDougall fired Cook for violating rules. Authorities worked nonstop to recapture the escapees.
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Ellis MacDougall
Cambodian Troops Vanish After U.S. Bombing Raids
Cambodian Communist troops disappeared today from the east bank of the Mekong opposite Phnom Penh. Field reports described the strikes as deadly accurate American bombing raids. U S sources said the Sunday strikes followed a 24 hour pause over civilian casualty concerns. In Honolulu, U S Pacific Command said B52s and other warplanes entered the fourth month of their trips with no details released.
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Israelis Pause to Honor Holocaust Victims
Israelis paused on street corners and at formal ceremonies to remember the six million Jews who died in Nazi camps. Prime Minister Golda Meir told mourners that those who did not act to save Jews should not condemn Israel for its actions and urged the world to match its moralizing with help offered during the Holocaust. She said, if you rescued no one then don't preach.
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United Press International
Golda Meir
Israel
Fire destroys trading post at Wounded Knee amid AIM shelter
Fire swept the one story trading post near Wounded Knee Sunday night burning out of control. The post adjoins the Wounded Knee museum which has housed AIM supporters and their equipment since February. The hamlet lacked means to contain the blaze.
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Aspin Says Oil Giants Plan to Smash Independent Dealers
Rep Les Aspin warns big oil companies like Shell and Mobil seek to curb competition by forcing independent gasoline dealers out of business this summer. He cites sharp profit jumps in first quarter 1973 and accuses majors of benefiting from energy shortages and higher prices.
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UPI
Les Aspin
D-Wis
Aspin
Shell
Mobil
Truce Ends in Londonderry Amid Bloodshed
In Londonderry the Provisional Irish Republican Army proclaimed a week long truce to mark a religious festival but it expired at midnight Sunday amid bloodshed. Two British soldiers were killed in Londonderry and another in Belfast, with British spokesmen calling the truce empty.
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UPI
Londonderry
Amy
Lake cleanup at Presque Isle draws many volunteers
Erie Pa Saturday volunteers from several groups joined a cleanup of Presque Isle State Park after a storm. Mayor Louis Tutllo urged contractors and nearby communities to assist in restoring the popular vacation resort. About 250 people operated heavy equipment to remove debris and return hundreds of tons of sand to the beaches.
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UIFT
Presque Isle State Park
Lake Erie
Louis Tutllo
Wnitng
Tiny 12 Inch West Virginia Pony Draws Attention
Charles F. Bean cites the smallest horse in West Virginia a 12 inch tall and 12 inch long Fallabella pony born on a Dean farm. Dean an asphalt company owner and pony breeder says he has 16 such tiny ponies imported from Argentina and has never seen one this small.
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W. Va
UPI
Charles F. Bean
West Virginia
Dean
Argentina
NYC Patrolman Charged After Fatal Shot Of Boy
Ten year old Clifford Glover was shot by NYPD officer Thomas Shea who mistook him and his stepfather for armed robbers while walking to work. Acting Police Commissioner Donald Cawley condemned the murder charge as improper and said homicide would be more accurate.
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New York City
Thomas Shea
Donald Cawley
UPI
Crest Threatens Levees As Mississippi River Rises
The Mississippi River crest surged downstream threatening dikes and levees across seven valley states. Damages exceed 500 million dollars as 11 million acres flood, tens of thousands displaced, 17 000 homeless in Missouri alone. River crested near St Louis and began to fall, but highs remain alarming. Local residents urged to safeguard livestock and property.
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Arkansas
Mississippi
Louisiana
Missouri
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Eads Bridge
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Levee Board
Weldon T. Smith
Tragic practical joke ends with three drowned in Hudson River
In Bethlehem New York three people Ethel Slaughter 35 her mother in law Frances Slaughter 74 and Earl Washington 50 were drowned when a car rolled into the Hudson during a prank. Irving Slaughter 38 escaped uninjured after jumping from the front seat as the vehicle left the bank.
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Earl Washington
Washington
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