Gas Shortage Spurs Small Car Sales Ahead of 1974 Models
Detroit reports a surge in compact and subcompact sales driven by fuel shortages. Ford GM Chrysler and AMC highlight smaller, lower priced models ahead of the 1974 lineup. U.S. automakers and foreign brands show rising demand, with VW Mazda and Volvo posting gains.
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U.S
Ford
General Motors
Chrysler
American Motors
Volkswagen
Mazda
Volvo
George Romney
AMC
John J. Riccardo
Wankel
Informant on Stand in Miami Convention Plot Trial
FBI informer William Lemmer testified in the trial of eight antiwar activists charged with plotting violence at the Republican National Convention in Miami. Lemmer described meetings with Vietnam Veterans Against the War and said defendants including Scott Camil and Alton Foss participated in planning. He testified he was paid by the FBI but could not recall amounts. Some defendants have not been linked to the charges by witnesses yet.
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Gainesville
Fla
FBI
William W. Lemmer
Miami
Larry Turner
Doris Peterson
New York City
Lemmer
VVAW
Scott Camil
Peter Mahoney
John Kniffen
William J. Patterson
Austin
Tex
Camil
Alton Foss
Hialeah
Donald P. Perdue
Hollywood
John K. Briggs
Stanley K. Michelson Jr
Cancer Victim's Party A Success
Ruth Hoffman 57 held a party for more than 100 family and friends in her Sequoia Hospital room after learning she had terminal bone cancer days earlier. She spoke of embracing loved ones before death and sang softly to her 5-year-old grandson as visitors gathered.
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Redwood City
Calif
Ruth Hoffman
Hoffman
Sequoia Hospital
Jan Gregory
Mrs. Hoffman
Apaches Seek Damages From Government Over Atrocity
Chiricahua Apache descendants, led by Geronimo’s lineage, renew a legal fight to obtain further damages for an atrocity around the turn of the century. The Indian Claims Commission has awarded over 16 million dollars for seizure of ancestral lands across Arizona, New Mexico, and Mexico, but the tribe demands additional millions.
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Washington
Geronimo
Indian Claims Commission
Arizona
New Mexico
Mexico
GOP Chairman says surplus funds pumped to Nixon campaigns
National GOP leader George Bush said the Republican National Committee fed money into Nixon campaigns beyond need. He noted $650,000 to $750,000 spent to start Nixon's 1972 bid and that about $1 million in surplus funds existed, with possible uses for electing Republicans to Congress amid pending suits.
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R.I
Republican National Committee
GOP
George Bush
National Committee
Nixon
Bush
Congress
Senate Watergate Committee
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Old Farmer Almanas Weather and Notable Dates
Almanac style notes forecast a week of rain and heat across regions, with dates like the Full Sturgeon Moon on Aug 18 and Dog days ending Aug 19. Mentions Babe Ruth death on Aug 16, 1948 and a New England cheddar aging anecdote.
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Babe Ruth
Louisiana
L.A
U.S
New England
Philadelphia
DeCoursey Chosen to Lead Kansas Economic Development
James H. DeCoursey Jr., former Kansas lieutenant governor, named to replace Terry Scanlon as director of the Kansas Department of Economic Development. Scanlon leaves July post to enter private business in Wichita. commission to vote DeCoursey September 15. DeCoursey, 41, currently legal counsel to the Kansas Highway Commission, has a banking law and political background and was Docking’s lieutenant governor.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
James H. DeCoursey Jr
Terry Scanlon
Kansas Department of Economic Development
Scanlon
Wichita
al Kamas
Kansas Economic Development Commission
Kamas
DeCoursey
The
Kansas Highway
Pandas Diet Costs the National Zoo a Pretty Penny
The National Zoo spends about 3,989 yearly on Hsing-Hsing and Ling-Ling with rice gruel honey and side dishes plus bamboo. Bamboo is free but cutting and testing raise costs. Hsing-Hsing weighs 229 pounds Ling-Ling 240. The zoo keeps them apart to avoid female domination as cub prospects loom.
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Washington
National Zoo
Hsing-Hsing
Ling-Ling
China
Nature
Zoo
Library Notes Ottawa Library Humor Overflow 1973
Ottawa Library offers a selection of humorous books for August with titles by Cornelia Otis Skinner Erma Bombeck James Thurber and Ogden Nash among others. The notice invites patrons to ask for the funny number 817 and mentions hours for adults and juveniles.
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Ottawa
Cornelia Otis Skinner
James Thurber
Erma Bombeck
Bill Keane
Jack Douglas
T.V
Dr. Spock
B.M. Atkinson
Judith Vierst
Ogden Nash
Stephen Baker
Erick Gurney
Ottawa Library
Army Sgt. Richard Skinner Drowned Near Rocky Ford
Searchers found Army Sgt. Richard Drew Skinner 25 in Manhattan Kansas after he drowned Saturday in the Rocky Ford fishing area north of town. Skinner lived in Ogden and was stationed at Fort Riley. Companions said he attempted to swim a concrete channel deflector and was swept under by the current.
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Manhattan
Kan
Army
Richard Drew Skinner
Rocky Ford
Here
Skinner
Ogden
Fort Riley
Cut Back Efforts To Find Lost Boy
CHILALI New Mexico AP An intensive search for a missing boy based on radio distress calls was scaled back to four radio direction finders. State Police Chief Martin Vigil said after five days no definite information proved the call valid or located the boy. He noted the voice could be from anywhere and denied discontinuing the effort.
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Chilali
N.M
Martin Vigil
New Mexico
Realistic approach floated on Kansas education funds
Topeka Kansas Commissioner of Education Dr C Taylor Whittier says the federal government may advise states to raise state and local spending rather than repay funds allegedly misspent in Kansas schools The dispute centers on 130000 in Title I funds used for libraries reading and small class size Whittier calls the proposed option more realistic and notes Kansas still maintains no money is owed and has not received formal notice of the option
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Kan
C. Taylor Whittier
Kansas
U.S. Office of Education
Hutchinson
Kansas City
Kaw
Leavenworth
Olathe
Washington
Whittier
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