Mid-Decade Census Plan Faces Congress Budget Test
The Census Bureau plans a mid-decade sample survey in 1975 to study social and economic changes since 1970, surveying about one million households. The total project is estimated at 45 million dollars, with 6 million requested in the 1974 budget. participation would be voluntary and not subject to prosecution.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Congress
Nixon
Robert Hagan
Bureau
Organized Opposition to Meet at Walkersville
Residents and leaders in Walkersville plan a county meeting to oppose a 7700 person development. Charles Nicodemus says the aim is to present facts on fire safety education financing and medical services while forming a civic association led by Harry O. Smith.
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Charlies Nicodemus
Harry O. Smith
Burgess Richard Winn
Winn
Nicodemus
Walkersville
REYCO
Miner Survives 77 Hours In Cave-In
In Sapporo Japan AP reports miner Wataru Kuratani 35 was rescued nearly 77 hours after a cave in at the Mitsui Sunagawa coal mine about 40 miles northeast of Sapporo. He was in good condition and among six miners presumed dead.
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Sapporo
Japan
Wataru Kuratani
Mitsui Sunagawa
Sappore
Arrests in Northern Ireland Shake Illegal Factions
Belfast AP reported authorities arrested IH performers on murder to armed robbery charges this year in Northern Ireland. The crackdown targets Protestant and Catholic militants, with 56 arrests in the first six days of March. Violence continues in Belfast and Ulster, as Catholic guerrillas clash with Protestant militants, with about 747 deaths in nearly four years of fighting.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Irish Republican Army
Ulster
Drug Arrests Linked With Heroin Supply Line
Baltimore court hears the North Carolina case of Donald L. Southerland 31, held on false ID, as prosecutors seek ties to a Southeast Asia heroin flow. Eleven of 44 recently arrested face federal narcotics charges. some bonds set high amid possible links to a major heroin ring.
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Baltimore
North Carolina
U.S. District Court
Southeast Asia
Baltimore Sun
The
Washington Post
Southerland
Donald L. Southerland
Castle Hayne
N.C
Andrews Air Force Base
Washington, D.C
James R. Miller Jr
Arthur G. Murphy
Federal Court
U.S. Atty
Michael E. Marr
Marr
Murphy
United States
Fayetteville
Doctor studies transplant rejection grant awarded in Detroit
Detroit physician Dr. James J. Lightbody Jr. of Children’s Hospital and Wayne State University received a $48,000 American Cancer Society grant to study why the body rejects transplants but not malignancies. Early results suggest an internal blocking factor stops attacks on cancer, but not on transplants, with Lightbody seeking to locate and control this factor.
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Detroit
American Cancer Society
James J. Lightbody Jr
Children’s Hospital
Wayne State University
Lightbody
Great America Park Will Generate County Taxes, Study Says
Marriott Corp projects Great America Park in Manassas will pay $627,000 in local taxes its first year while costing the county $257,800. By 1984 county revenue would reach $1.9 million with a $7.9 million cumulative surplus, though water and sewer costs are not included. A joint hearing Friday will consider rezoning for a May 1975 opening, with 75 acres of amusement space and environmental protections noted in the plan.
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Manassas
Rrrge
William County Board of Supervisors
Marriott Corp
Great America Park
Marriott
Economic Research Associates
Planning Commission
Greater Manassas Sanitary District
State Water Control Board
Great America
Blacks Take Control Of Detroit Schools
DETROIT AP blacks will take majority control of the Detroit Board of Education later this month as Alonzo W. Bates replaces resigning Rosemary J. Shirley in the board's 131 year history. Observers say the new majority may curb further appeals of a federal court order for cross district integration and likely press a rule requiring Detroit residency for teachers, noting about 25 percent currently live in suburbs.
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Detroit
Detroit Board of Education
Alonzo W. Bates
Rosemary J. Shirley
Suburbs
U.N. Flags Display Upon New Members Arrival
At the United Nations headquarters in New York, flags of member countries fly alphabetically at equal height before the Secretariat while the U.N. flag sits above. When a nation joins the UN, its banner is raised in a central position above the rest for the first day.
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U.N
United Nations
New York
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