Plot to Kill Nixon Triggers New Orleans Motorcade Cancel
Secret Service uncovers a possible assassination plot targeting President Nixon during a New Orleans visit. FBI and local police coordinated the probe as a planned motorcade was canceled and barricades were set along Canal Street for the president’s VFW speech.
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Secret Service
Nixon
New Orleans
UPI
FBI
Washington
Jack Warner
Edmund ‘‘Punchy” Gaudet
Key Biscayne
Fla
Veterans of Foreign Wars
International Airport
Rivergate Convention Center
Canal Street
White House
Convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars
Ruth Asher
New Orleans Police Public Information Office
the Saints
John F. Kennedy
Dallas
Jim Garrison
Aspin Attacks Pentagon Tuxedo Spending on Aides
Rep Les Aspin criticizes a Pentagon contract to outfit enlisted aides with tuxedo pants coats and accessories claiming high ranking officers push aristocratic airs and waste taxpayer dollars. He argues military aides should dress as soldiers not as musical comedy characters.
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Washington
UPI
Les Aspin
D-Wis
Wisconsin
Pentagon
Phone rates rise in Norwalk area under PUCO order
Northern Ohio Telephone Co raises residential and extension charges after PUCO approval. The $2 monthly down to 15 for a residence, 50 cents for unlisted numbers, and 7.50 for home extensions are among increases totaling about 2.8 million in extra annual revenue. private lines see rate cuts. Ohio Bell adopts one minute initial billing for intrastate calls with other towns uneven toll-free access remains.
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Norwalk
Northern Ohio Telephone Co
Public Utilities Commission of Ohio
Charles A. Bowen
PUCO
Ohio
Ohio Bell Telephone Co
McGovern Says Nixon May Face Impeachment If Tapes Are Refused
Senator George S. McGovern warned that President Nixon risking a court-ordered tape release could force Congress to consider impeachment. He said impeachment is premature now but could be pursued if Nixon continues to refuse, defying court orders.
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Washington
UPI
George S. McGovern
Nixon
Congress
McGovern
Kennedy Pleads Innocent in Negligent Driving Case
Joseph P. Kennedy III pleaded innocent at arraignment in Nantucket on a negligent driving charge after an accident that injured his brother and two teenage girls. The case began with his immediate trial after police testimony that Kennedy admitted the fault.
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Nantucket
Mass
UPI
Joseph P. Kennedy, III
Robert F. Kennedy
Bill Dalton
Kennedy
Weather and city brief with births and deaths in Norwalk area
Weather clears and cools tonight with a low around 58. Tuesday brings fair skies and mild heat near 80s. Rain chances rise to 50 percent today and 10 percent tonight and Tuesday. Winds shift from southwest to west then northwest. Norwalk highs reach 83, lows 63. Humidity shifts from 93 percent at 7 am to 60 percent by 1 pm. Birth notices list five new babies in Collins and Norwalk area. Death notices include six residents: Lyons Monroeville Brant Berlin Heights Haynes Norwalk McElligott Willard Liebhart Norwalk Johnson New London.
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Norwalk
David Lyons
Monroeville
Alfred Brant
Berlin Heights
Vera H. Haynes
James McElligott
Willard
Harry L. Liebhart
Frank Johnson
New London
Board, Teachers To Meet Tuesday
The Norwalk Board of Education and the Norwalk Teachers Association plan a Tuesday 8 p.m. briefing on terms of a new salary schedule and issues. The session is informal with no action. a special meeting for formal approval may be set later. If agreed, it would come as school opens in two weeks. Negotiations began last spring.
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Norwalk Board of Education
Norwalk Teachers Association
Teacher Association
Teachers Association
James Ryder
Record Livestock Sale Fair Attendance Drops at Huron County
Attendance at the Huron County Fair fell for a second year due to wet weather. Official George Ryerson cites parking lot conditions and rain on opening day as key factors, with totals dropping from 60,000 in 1971 to 45,000 this year. cleanup crews deconstruct rides and haul away derby wreckage as revenue outlook dims.
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Janet Conway
Fair Board
George Ryerson
Fairgrounds
Ryerson
Quick Rescue Saves 14 Month Old From Drowning
Everett police aided a drowning scare when Maureen Sweet found her 14 month old son Jeremy in a wash tub. Dispatcher Bill Pyles guided her by phone with mouth to mouth checks until an aid car arrived in six minutes. Jeremy revived and, after oxygen, was listed in good condition at a hospital.
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Everett
UPI
Maureen Sweet
Bill Pyles
Mrs. Sweet
Jeremy
Plyles
Witness claims different gun in Robinson murder case
Defense witness William Thompson Jr testified that Larry D. Robinson produced a chrome plated gun with white pearl handles on April 6, not the dark weapon in evidence. The trial featured extensive exhibit rulings, with autopsy photos admitted and a handwritten statement allowed while a police interview tape was excluded.
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Judy Morgan
Larry D. Robinson
Robinson
William Thompson, Jr
Willard
Henry F. Young
Huron County
William W. Owens
John Borgia
Borgia
Thompson
Lonnie S. Westbrook
Pat
Owens
Common Pleas
Robert J. Vetter
Young
Jack L. Fryman
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Clarence Giarrusso
Giarrusso
Lakefront
Ted Hayden
Huron County Banking Co
Kelvin G. Frye
Hayden
Cleveland
North Fairfield
Milan
Berlin
Fourrty
Isle
LL Yomee
Pee Levi
James Weber
Collins
F-T Hospital
Bernard DeMuth
Donald Shinski
O’dell Holbrook
Paul Kensley
Sandusky Memorial Hospital
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