Inaugural Benches Turned Souvenirs for Sale
Wood from Nixon's inaugural stand nets profits for buyers and a craftsman, with Ed Streeky selling 11 by 11 inch plaques at 100 dollars each. Contractor Jacob Hoffman reports mixed sales, from 200000 board feet for around 30000 to custom beach house and police building purchases.
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Washington
Nixon
Ed Streeky
Arlington
Strecky
Dan
Capitol
Jacob Hoffman
Virginia
Hoffman
Streeky
Arlington, Va
Are Federal Employees Paid More Study Probes Pay Bias
The General Accounting Office investigates whether federal workers are paid more on average than private sector workers in comparable roles. The complex comparability system links salaries for federal and military jobs to a national scale, affecting over four million workers, with initial recommendations possible this spring and potential executive or congressional action.
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Washington
General Accounting Office
Congress
GAO
Elmer B. Staats
Office of Management and Budget
White House
Fishermen Survive 44 Days Adrift
Nabuti Tabutoa and Taraia Teketaba survived 44 days adrift in an open boat after a one day fishing trip toward Tarawa. Lost in a rainstorm they drifted 1,000 miles, subsisting on coconuts turtles and rain water while fending off sharks in the open sea.
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Suva
Fiji
Tarawa
Nabuti Tabutoa
Taraia Teketaba
Atoll
Alaskans Vote For Congressman in Special Election
Anchorage Alaska AP voters select a new US representative amid low turnout with Emil Notti or Don Young as candidates. Governor Egan had ordered the special election after a jury ruled Rep Nick Beach legally dead.
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Anchorage
Alaska
POWs Formed Choir While Held Captive
At Clark Air Base in the Philippines a group of 17 former prisoners of war formed a chorus aboard the station after arriving from Hanoi. Led by Cmdr Kay Russell, they sang four songs from memory, with tears and laughter marking the performance.
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Clark Air Base
Philippines
Clark Air Force Base
Hanoi
Cmdr
Kay Russell
Corsicana
Tex
Charles E. Southwick
Russell
Country
Newspapers Get Subpoenas In Watergate Case
Four newspapers The Washington Post The Star News of Washington The New York Times and Time magazine face subpoenas for sworn testimony in a civil suit over the Watergate break‑in. Judge Charles R. Richey schedules a hearing on motions to quash and delays for manuscript notes tapes and drafts.
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Washington
Democratic National Committee
Watergate Complex
Washington Post
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Star News of
New York Times
Time Magazine
Charles R. Richey
HEW plans to keep interns in Public Health Service hospitals
HEW has allowed the U S Public Health Service Hospitals in Baltimore and seven other cities to continue a national intern program. A Baltimore hospital spokesman said the department had ordered hospitals to pull out, while Dr Spencer Foreman of Woman Park hospital warned this could hinder staffing and recruitment. Congressman Paul Sarbanes called the issue a congressional budget matter and noted doubts about whether other Baltimore facilities could absorb the Wyman Park patients.
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Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Public Health Service
Baltimore
Baltr Toote
Federal Department
Hispitals
Spencer Foreman
Public Health
Woman Park
Nixon
Foreman
Paul S Sarbanes
HEW
Sarbane
Congress
Sarbenes
Wyman Park
Bomb Threat Cancels Ulster National Meeting at Downpatrick
Northern Ireland’s Ulster National Meeting at Downpatrick was canceled after a bomb threat by the IRA and three burned hurdles. Army explosive experts searched the grandstand and track with no bombs found. The Provos claimed responsibility for booby-trapping the stand while authorities captured their Londonderry battalion commander, 27-year-old Tommy Tenor, amid a chance arrest in Dungiven.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Irish Republican Army
IRA
Provisional
Downpatrick
Londonderry
Fuernilas
Tommy Tenor
Dungiven
England
Seaford votes down fluoridation proposal
Voters in Seaford Delaware rejected a fluoridation referendum by 457 to 327, a result with unclear legal impact as state officials note local votes cannot override a state mandate. Health authorities cite dental health benefits and ongoing enforcement of the public water fluoridation rule. In other results, Marshall Nesbitt and William Cash won town council seats.
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Seaford, del
Sussex County
State Department of Justice and Health
Marshall R. Nesbitt
William L. Cash
Frederick
Coca-Cola Bottling Co., Inc
Maryland
Coca-Cola Company
P.O
Clinton
Iowa
Law Committee Advances Death Penalty for Drug Pushers
Harrisburg AP A Pennsylvania House committee tentatively backed mandatory execution for drug pushers whose sales cause a user’s death as part of broader capital punishment bills. The panel would also authorize automatic Board of Pardons review and consider a public referendum. The move cuts jury role to verdicts on guilt while assessing murder facts. Attorney General Israel Packel announced 17 appointments to the Governor’s Study Commission on Capital Punishment with first meeting next week.
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House
U. S. Supreme Court
House Committee On Law and Justice
House Committee
Joseph V. Zord
R-Allegheny
State Board of Pardons
Zord
Supreme Court
Pennsylvania
Israel Packel
Governor's Study Commission
Packel
Shapp
Allende Coalition Strengthened After Chile Election
President Allende’s leftist coalition extended its hold as voters filled all 150 Chamber seats and half the Senate. Government candidates gained seven seats in the chamber and two in the Senate, reducing opposition control to 87-68 in the chamber and 30-20 in the Senate. Allende praised a Chilean style socialism within law and democracy and celebrated in Santiago as his bloc posted 43.39 percent to the opposition 56.61 percent overall.
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Santiago
Chile
Salvador Allende
Allende
Chamber of Deputies
Senate
Chamber
Dolley Madison’s Fashion and Social Life Spotlight
Dolley Madison, wife of the fourth U.S. president, is noted for wearing bejeweled turbans and using snuff. She hosted 15 to 20 guests at dinners and became one of the era’s most popular first ladies in American history.
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Dolley Madison
America
U.S
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