Meat Price Ceiling Enforced Nationwide Beginning Monday
The Nixon administration announced nationwide enforcement of the new meat price ceiling will begin Monday with IRS help. Housewives urged to report violations to local IRS offices. Ceiling likely to stay through summer amid peak demand for beef pork and lamb.
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Washington
Nixon
Internal Revenue Service
Cost of Living Council
Council
IRS
John T. Dunlop
Dunlop
Gasoline Shortages Prompt Large Firms to Trim Deliveries
Odessa American reports widespread cutbacks as several large companies allocate gasoline and reduce deliveries due to crude oil shortages. The page also features Jacobyn Jacobs on bridge and assorted sections like sports and a worry clinic.
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Jacoby
Gov Briscoe Sees Potential Welfare Funds Saves Texas
Gov. Dolph Briscoe, while ill at the mansion, traveled to Washington to press HEW over social services funds and avoid millions in cuts. He said changes could spare Texas up to 28 million yearly by limiting private funds for matching and warned of up to 98 million losses over two years if new regulations take effect.
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Austin
Dolph Briscoe
Washington
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Briscoe
Texas
HEW
Briscoe Sai Sa
More POWs Begin Trek To States
The last group of freed American prisoners began heading home on Friday and some men wrote a celebratory poem aboard a C141 Star-Lifter. The poem was read to 1,500 at Hickam AFB Hawaii, and 18 POWs were aboard from Clark Air Base to Kelly AFB. The final contingent traveled to Travis AFB California amid rain and cheering crowds. The return brings total home to 470 with 116 more expected this weekend, as others recount harsh prison experiences but will not speak yet.
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Associated Press
Hickam Air Force Base
Honolulu
Benjamin Purcell
Columbus
Purcell
Clark Air Base
Philippines
Kelly Afb
Tex
Travis Afb
Calif
Navy
Cmdr
Phillip Kientzler
Travis
San Antonio
Hanoi
Defense Department
United States
Scott Air Force Base
Ill
Andrews Afb
Scott
Hickam Afb
Hawaii
Afb
Sun
Robert White
Newport News
Mekong Delta
Saigon
POWs Describe Torture and Hope for Death in captivity
Former U S prisoners of war recounted brutal torture by North Vietnamese captors at a news conference after last POWs arrived at Clark Air Base. Lt Col Kenneth North described wire binding and beatings, while Lt Cmdr Paul Galanti recalled torture and rapes during interrogation and a later march through Hanoi.
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Kenneth North
Weifleet Mass
North
Chicopee
Mass
Fitchmond
Arto
Galanti
Hanoi
McCord asserts Haldeman knew of Watergate breakin plans
Nixon aides in focus as James McCord says Haldeman had to be aware of plans to break into the Democratic headquarters. Senate subpoenas target three lower echelon Republicans tied to McCord’s testimony. White House denies advance knowledge and pushes limited testimony. Sirica postpones McCord’s sentencing to June 15 to finish testimony and grand jury disclosure.
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James W. McCord Jr
Senate
H. R. Haldeman
Senate Committee
McCord
White House
Nixon
Ronald L. Ziegler
U.S. District Court
John J. Sirica
Mctoru
Sirica
G. Gordon Liddy
Haldeman
Sai
Sally Harmony
McCord legal team at odds over new counsel shift
James W. McCord faces tension as Gerald Alch contemplates quitting amid plans for a new attorney. Bernard Fensterwald, a wealthy Washington lawyer, backs a different approach, aiming to frame the White House for political gain and reveal McCord’s limited role in the Democratic headquarters bugging. Fensterwald’s past work includes wiretap probes and Kefauver and King cases.
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Washington
James W. McCord
Gerald Alch
McCord
Nixon
Bernard Fensterwald
Fensterwald
White House
Sheer Alch
F. Lee Bailey
Alch
U.S. District Court
John J. Sitia
Jerry
Aci
Chicago
Senate
Bernard Shankman
Simca
Capitol Hill
James Earl Ray
Martin Luther King
Nashville
Estes Kefauver
D-Tenn
Thomas Hennings
Dmo
Edward V. Long
D-Mo
Long
Teamsters
James R. Hoffa
Quipster Blames Others for Failures and Credits Successes
A witty remark notes that blaming others for failures may be acceptable only if one credits others for successes, highlighting fairness in attribution. The statement centers on accountability and the balance of credit.
Warmup expected in Permian Basin with rising temps
The National Weather Service at Midland reports a partly cloudy weekend in the Odessa area with a warming trend. Highs near 65 Saturday rising to about 68 Sunday, overnight lows around 38 to 42, and north to northwesterly winds 10 to 20 mph with gusts. winds may ease Saturday night after a Friday gust to 44 mph.
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National Weather Service
Midland Regional Air
Weather Service
Page &B
East
North Central
West Texas
Oklahoma
Lake Texoma
Lubbock
Texas Tech
Ice
Terminal
Iowa
Abilene
Chicago
Paso
Fort
Antitax, Antibureaucracy Rally Upsets Danish Politics
A Boersen poll shows the Progress party led by Mogens Glistrup jumping to 18.2 percent, potentially winning 33 of 179 seats and challenging Denmark's major parties. Glistrup vows to abolish income tax and sack 99 percent of public administration staff, sparking fears of a political upheaval before the 1975 elections.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
Progress Party
Mogens Glistrup
Boersen
Glistrup
Alixe
Social Democrats
Giistrup
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