Proxmire Slams Defense Contractors Over Shady Practices
Senator William Proxmire charges defense contractors divert government owned equipment for private use, costing taxpayers millions. He claims the practice makes the public pay twice for items like jet engines and vows to publicize guilty names as a Defense Department crackdown targets violations of the Truth In Negotiations Act.
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Washington
UPI
William Proxmire
D-Wis
House- Senate Economic Committee
Proxmire
Vietnam
Defense Department
General Accounting Office
Pentagon
Pleads Innocent To Robbery Counts In Ohio Case
Charles Conner 18 of Mansfield pleaded innocent at arraignment in Huron County Common Pleas Court on two armed robbery counts for taking 116 dollars from Harvey's Market and 90 dollars from Neda Harvey in Willard on December 15. Bond set at 5000 cash or 10000 property per count. He had previously pled innocent to an earlier armed robbery charge involving 20.04 dollars from a Plymouth food store parking lot.
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Charles Conner
Mansfield
Huron County Common Pleas Court
Harvey's Market
Neda Harvey
Willard
Conner
Plymouth
Two Bodies Recovered From River After Silver Bridge Collapse
Two more bodies were pulled from the Ohio River area near the Silver Bridge collapse raising the toll to 35 with about 14 missing. The victims James O. Pullen 48 of Middleport Ohio and Frederick D. Miller 27 of Gallipolis Ohio were in a car found by cranes as salvage work continued through Christmas.
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Point Pleasant
W. Va
UPI
Ohio
Silver Bridge
James O. Pullen
Middleport
Frederick D. Miller
Gallipolis
Miller
Pullen
Bobby L. Head
Gast Pleads Guilty to Drunken Driving in Huron County
Robert E. Gast, 42, of Sandusky, fined $200, costs $25.60, and sentenced to three days in jail after pleading guilty to drunken driving. License revoked six months. He was released and to serve jail time later. Elevator at Huron County Courthouse to be out of service for three weeks for new automatic doors and safety features installed by Houghton Elevator Co.
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Robert E. Gast
Sandusky
Huron County Commons Pleas Court
Gast
Huron County
Haughton Elevator Co
Solon unhappy with pajamas in national letters
UPI reports Rep. Otis G. Pike denounces the american hospital as a monument to inhumanity while recounting a minor surgery experience in which he was stripped to a blue pajama and worn a back slit smock. The piece also notes a Christmas message from Secretary Trowbridge and office party rules in the NBA Standard with alcohol restrictions.
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Leon Burnett
Washington
UPI
Otis G. Pike
D-N.y
American Hospital
Pike
NBA Standard
Bureau of Standards
Commerce
Alexander B. Trowbridge
Standard
Bureau
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