Apollo 16 Countdown Advances From Cape Kennedy
Apollo 16 launch crews fixed three minor issues as the countdown continued for Sundays liftoff. John Young, Charles Duke and Thomas Mattingly planned to spend day in crew quarters with jet proficiency runs possible. Duke may have wife visits. Mattingly's wife awaits a May baby in Houston.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
Moon
John W. Young
Charles M. Duke Jr
Thomas K. Mattingly
Space Agency
Young
Duke
Mattingly
Houston
Tex
Gordon Turner
Turner
Former Ottawa woman Sheri Seright to be laid to rest
Former Ottawan Sheri Ben Seright 25 of Olathe died by an apparent self harm after her car was found near a lake bluff. Funeral services set for 1 30 pm Monday at Lamb Roberts Funeral Home with Rev Roger Fredrickson officiating. Burial at Highland Cemetery. Police divers recovered her body Friday morning from Lake Olathe. She was born November 7 1946 in Ottawa and attended Ottawa High School class of 1964 later studying at Emporia State and Augusta School of Art in Sioux Falls. She attended First Baptist Church of Ottawa and is survived by her mother and several aunts and uncles.
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Sheri Ben Seright
Olathe
Ottawa
Lamb-Roberts
Roger Fredrickson
Sioux Falls
Highland Cemetery
Miss Seright
Lake Olathe
James Thornton
Glenna
Oakes) Seright
Ottawa High School
Emporia State
Augusta School of Art
First Baptist Church of
Haydn L. Shaw
S. Willow
Fred Kissinger
Ottawa Rfd
Industrial Output Is Up
Washington AP government figures show March industrial output rising for the fifth straight month with a 0.6 percent gain led by business equipment steel textiles and paper while the nation remains 4 percent above last year’s level and 2 percent below mid 1969 peak. Lawmakers question rising profits under Phase 2 and prepare hearings April 25 on productivity efficiency and price controls with witnesses including PETE Peterson Ralph Nader C Jackson Grayson GE and Standard Oil of New Jersey.
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Federal Reserve Board
Capitol Hill
Nixon
Joint Economic Committee
Herbert Stein
Council of Economic Advisers
Marina Whitman
Stein
Price Commission
Whitman
Henry Reuss
D-Wis
William Proxmire
Commerce
Peter G. Peterson
Ralph Nader
C. Jackson Grayson
General Electric
Standard Oil
New Jersey
Titanic Survivor Remembers 1912 Disaster Tonight
Edith Russell, 93, one of five living Titanic survivors, recalls the sinking as she sits in a London hotel. She says there was no music in the lifeboats, only screams, and she clung to a pig stuffed toy with a music box that she credits with helping her survive.
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London
North Atlantic
Edith Russell
Cincinnati
Russell
Reds Press An Loc Assault in Central Highlands
North Vietnamese tanks broke into An Loc and a bold Viet Cong onslaught hit Saigon and Da Nang. U.S. forces reported heavy air power, 14 American deaths, 24 missing, 72 wounded, and more than 20 aircraft shot down as battles raged from An Loc to Hue and Da Nang with multiple fire bases overrun or attacked.
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Saigon
An Loc
da Nang
South Vietnam
Bastogne
Highway 13
Chon Thanh
U.S. Air Force
U.S
Central Highlands
An Khe
U.S. Command
Associated Press
Peter Arnett
Hue
Charlie
Highlands
O'Connor
Dong Ha
Cambodia
Phnom Penh
High Command
Takhmau
Tornado preparedness training at Anchor Savings
Ed Provost of the National Weather Bureau spoke at a volunteer tornado spotter training session in Ottawa about improving warning systems and community organization. Franklin County Civil Defense Director D. F. Kyle notes 80 spotters, mostly southwest of Ottawa, with watches issued by Topeka.
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Ed Provost
National Weather Bureau
Topeka
Anchor Savings
D. F. Kyle
Franklin County Civil Defense
Ottawa
Kyle
Topeka Weather Bureau
Provost
Franklin County Civil Defense Office
Nixon Trudeau Ink Great Lakes Pact
President Nixon and Prime Minister Trudeau signed a joint pact to clean up the Great Lakes by 1975 and prevent future pollution. About 50 demonstrators, outnumbered by police, protested outside Parliament Hill as Nixon called the agreement a significant step toward reversing the lakes’ decline and restoring their beauty.
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Ottawa
Nixon
Canada
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Great Lakes
Parliament Hill
Canadian Liberation Movement
Lakes
Ottawa University dump in and recycling drive set
The Ottawa University Student Volunteer Services with help from Ft. Riley US Army sponsors a dump in next Tuesday from 9 am to 2 pm on Park Street. Residents may bring newspapers stationery paper corrugated cardboard and mixed paper while cans should be cleaned and labels removed. Cans and sorted papers go to Kansas City for recycling. Call 242 5200 ext 224 Jean McKenzie for storage space and 242 5200 ext 203 Mark Estes for transportation before Tuesday.
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Ottawa University
Park Street
U. S. Army
County Forecast: Mostly cloudy and mild with showers possible
County forecast calls for mostly cloudy skies and mild temperatures with a chance of showers tonight. Low in the 40s. Sunday remains partly cloudy with a high in the 60s. Rain probability 20 percent tonight and 10 percent Sunday.
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Sheri Seright
Congressional Joint Economic Committee
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Lake Ontario
North Vietnam
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