Ottawan Couple Wins Royals Boston Trip
Mr and Mrs Francis Cummings of Ottawa won a six day all expense paid road trip with the Kansas City Royals to Boston for a three game series at Fenway Park. They reported the trip including visits to Bunker Hill Harvard and Concord as well as the Royals losses away. The pair noted Boston fans were avid and the Fenway atmosphere filthy and disappointing compared to home.
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Bob Hunter
Boston
Kansas City Royals
Red Sox
Royals
Fenway Park
Francis Cummings
S. Willow
Ottawa
Cummings
Bunker Hill
Harvard
Concord
Cumming
Agnew Briefing Set As Subpoena Question Looms
Vice President Spiro T. Agnew will hold a news conference at 3 p.m. EDT, with no stated purpose given by his office. In Maryland, Judge Edward Northrop says Agnew cannot be subpoenaed to testify before a special grand jury investigating political corruption, noting he could be compelled only by his own voluntary choice.
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Washington
Spiro T. Agnew
Agnew
Baltimore
U.S. District Court of Maryland
Justice Department
Edward
Northrop
Paschal
Don E. Lee
Hutchinson
Sergeant Arrested in Espionage Case Tied to Russian Diplomat
Air Force sergeant James D. Wood of Tacoma Washington is charged with espionage and faces court martial after police say he was caught in Queens July 21 with keys to a cabin containing classified counter intelligence documents. An unidentified Soviet agent linked to the Russian Embassy in Washington was arrested at the scene. FBI suspicions grew when the Russian requester hastily sought permission to travel to New York.
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Washington
Pentagon
James D. Wood
Tacoma
Wash
U.S
Wood
Queens
N.Y
FBI
Time Magazine
New York
Justify Price Hikes Prompt Public Hearings
The Cost of Living Council will hold public hearings in Washington on August 28 for auto price increases and on August 30 and 31 for steel price hikes. Major steel firms may raise prices by up to 5 percent, while auto makers target higher costs for 1974 models led by GM. The council may reduce or delay the increases under Phase 4, citing potential economic impact concerns.
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Washington
Cost of Living Council
Council
John T. Dunlop
Weather County Forecast Sunny Warm Midweek
Mostly sunny and warm Wednesday with highs in the 90s and fair tonight with lows in the upper 60s to low 70s. Winds southerly 10 to 20 mph this afternoon and diminishing tonight. High today 96 tomorrow, 72 today, 100 a year ago, 74 a year ago. Record high 105 in 1936 and record low 45 in 1950.
Nixon defends B52 raids in Cambodia controversy
President Nixon rallies at a New Orleans Veterans of Foreign Wars event to defend the B52 bombing raids ordered against North Vietnamese troops in Cambodia in 1969 and 1970. He rejects claims of secrecy and argues the strikes targeted tens of thousands of troops with Cambodian approval. A separate briefing notes that Secretary Rogers linked missile tests to nuclear talks and criticized the Ellsberg burglary.
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Barry Scnweid
Associated Press
Nixon
Watergate
Cambodia
Congress
Veterans of Foreign Wars
New Orleans
Vietnam
U.S
Prince Norodom
Sihanouk
Secret Service
United States
William P. Rogers
Washington
Rogers
Daniel Ellsberg
King Radio Expands Hiring and New Plant Plans
King Radio in Ottawa plans to raise local plant staffing from 112 to 120 this week and aims for 300 employees by mid October with a new Ottawa Industrial Park plant ready. Training will occur in Olathe before returning to the home plant, and production is set to hit 3000 units monthly by next March.
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King Radio
N. Main
Henry Claterbos
Ottawa
Olathe
Claterbos
Former Policeman Gaudet Sought Near Taos After Threat Claim
Secret Service and local officers hunt 12 miles north of Taos for Edwin M. Gaudet known as Punchy a former New Orleans policeman charged in a New Orleans federal warrant with threatening the life of President Nixon. Gunfire exchanged with officers in a thicket as Gaudet fled through pinion trees near the Morning Star commune and arroyo.
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Arroyo Hondo
N.M
Secret Service
Taos
Nixon
Morning Star
Edwin M
Gaudet
New Orleans
John Paul Jones
New Mexico
Taos City
Jose Lucero
Joe G. Martinez
Lucero
Jones
Taos County
Arthur E. Trujillo
Re Loading A Big Job Re Lading A Big Drum
A 160000 pound drum 50 feet high and 16 feet in diameter rolled off a trailer on the K-68 bypass near Seventh street en route from Osawatomie to Lawrence. Harold Anderson of Anderson Trucking said a top heavy trailer caused the rollover. Two cranes and cables hauled the drum back aboard, with restoration expected to take 3 to 4 hours at about 5000 dollars. In Lawrence the drum will serve as a fertilizer dryer.
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Joanistas
Lawrence
Seventh Street
Harold Anderson
Anderson Trucking
el Dorado
Anderson
Osawatomie
Ted Wilkerson, Inc
Kansas City
Hutchinson Supt Accused Of Taking Milk Kickbacks
Hutchinson school officials hold a closed session over charges that Superintendent Harland Paschal took kickbacks from The Milk Producers Co. for about five years totaling around 30000 dollars. Investigators say checks were mailed to Paschal and cashed, with dual bookkeeping masking the scheme.
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Hutchinson
HNS
Harland Paschal
Noval Kline
Paschal
Kline
Lee
Milk Producers Co
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U.S. Steel
General Motors
Ottawa Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
U.S.C
Ottawa High School
Charles “Bud” Beeman
Fred Zook
Enid, Okla
Dairy Company
Topeka
Reno
Porter Brown
Brown
Newsmen
Jefferson County
Colo
Arvada, Coro
University of Colorado
Colrado
Fort Madison
Iowa
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