11 Apr 1973
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Newspaper
Oswego Palladium Times
Location
Oswego, New York, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1973
Page
1
Smiths Beach near Oswego faces heavy seas threatening cottages. Owners battle to save structures as bulldozers push gravel and rocks to form barrier. Gravel and large rocks hauled from Watertown as floodwaters encroach along lake front.
Environmental Protection Agency chief William D. Ruckelshaus granted a one year extension of the 1975 antipollution rules for autos while setting interim standards. Catalytic converters will be required on all domestic cars sold in California in 1975 and a less strict nationwide standard is expected to push catalysts into some models. GM expressed disappointment. other automakers and the United Auto Workers favored the extension. The interim rules aim to phase in catalysts to reach a 90 percent emissions reduction by 1976 models, with 1975 standards at 1.5 grams per mile and 0.9 grams for hydrocarbon emissions, replacing 1974 levels.
President Nixon hailed a 51 vote House veto-sustainment as a victory for consumers and taxpayers in the year’s first test of overriding his veto. He cited the rural water and sewer grant fight and a separate handicap rehabilitation bill as proof of courageous, outnumbered backing.
A Manhattan osteopath, Dr. W Kenneth Riland, was indicted by a federal grand jury on five counts for evading more than 39 000 in income taxes over 1966 to 1970 by not reporting 71 000 in medical fees. Riland treated Nixon several times and accompanied him on a China trip while also serving Rockefeller’s physician. He is due to plead April 23 in Manhattan federal court.
Lebanese security dispersed 500 students trying to reach the U S embassy to protest Israel's raid on Lebanon. Demonstrators chanted Down with imperialism and There Is No Difference Between Israel and the United States as extra forces were deployed. Premier Saeb Salam resigned, with sources saying President Franjieh may accept, amid ongoing tensions and funeral plans for three Palestinian leaders killed in the raid.
Gov Rockefeller named Ontario County Judge Robert P Kennedy of Canandaigua to replace Dominick Gabrielli, who resigned to join the Court of Appeals. Monroe County Judge George D Ogden of Rochester designated for the vacancy created by Justice Richard Rosenbaum, now state Republican chairman. Seventh District justices earn 21000 annually.
Beech-Nut Inc changes its corporate name to Life Savers Inc to reflect the flagship product. One billion Life Savers rolls are sold yearly at about 75 million dollars in retail value, versus 36 million from gum. The firm, formed in 1957 from Beech-Nut and Life Savers merger, had sold coffee tea and baby foods last year while continuing gum hard candy and cough drops.
Frankfurt officials announced Martin Bormann’s death by his own hand on May 2, 1945 after a skull reconstruction and dental match confirmed the skeleton found last December was his. Attorney General Horst Gauf lifted the arrest warrant and ended the 28 year search. Simon Wiesenthal called it 99 percent certain, while noting a sliver of doubt.
U S intelligence reports say about 1000 tons of artillery shells and ammunition were sent into northern South Vietnam last week. Additionally 700 North Vietnamese trucks moved along the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos, with tailings implying further resupply for major attacks this month.
Nine year old Sandra Kimble survived a severe burn after pigskin dressings kept infection and fluid loss down while doctors prepared grafts from her own skin. The treatment, developed at the University of Iowa, uses sterile pigskin applied daily to burn areas under Dr. Ben Knecht and therapist Carmen Bossenbrock at Deaconess Hospital in Wenatchee.
In Albany four hours of testimony by drug abuse specialists urged treatment as a solution rather than tougher penalties. Assemblyman Dominick DiCarlo, chair of the Codes Committee, said the experts viewed the stiffer approach as ineffective. Baruch College and the Drug Abuse Council sponsored the hearing for Senate and Assembly codes committees.
A spring storm moved from the Midwest into the Northeast bringing heavy snow and freezing temperatures. Freeze warnings extended from Illinois and the Ohio Valley to Gulf Coast states with Florida spared. Birmingham posted a 31 degree low on April 10. Rumford Maine measured five inches of snow. Greenville and Houston saw four inches with more to come as gale winds battered the region.
Albany AP report says despite pleas from the blind and disabled gay activists and women's rights groups the legislature is unlikely to pass any bills this year strengthening laws against discrimination in employment and housing.
The Internal Revenue Service says abortion costs, vasectomies, and birth control pills are tax deductible on 1972 returns. There is no ceiling on the deductible amount for abortions and vasectomies, according to an IRS spokesman.
President Nixon sends comprehensive pension reform to Congress to protect workers from losing benefits if they lose jobs. The plan adds tax benefits for individually purchased retirement investments and mandatory vesting, but excludes federal insurance against plan termination, according to White House and congressional sources.
Saigon said Communist forces violated the cease-fire 147 times in the 36 hours to noon today. Government forces reported 34 soldiers killed and 199 wounded, with 19 civilians dead and 19 wounded, most in small isolated clashes.
Albany NY AP DOT Commissioner Raymond T. Schuler says the department now cuts roadside brush instead of burning it. The brush is chipped and spread as mulch on slopes to promote grass growth, aligning with Earth Week goals and reducing air pollution.
Two Senate committees open hearings on bills to limit presidential emergency powers. The Foreign Relations Committee would require congressional approval after 30 days of armed force use abroad, while a special committee proposes a similar limit upon declaring a national emergency.
Governor Nelson A Rockefeller signs bill restoring welfare payments for about 1.5 million New York recipients. The raise returns most benefits to the 1971 level after previous cuts statewide, including New York City’s one million welfare cases.
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