Kansas Cattlemen Decry Beef Price Freeze Policy Fallout
Kansas feedlot operators and industry leaders blasted the Phase 4 price freeze on beef through Sept. 12 while pork and other meats rise moves. They warned of disrupted marketing, built in losses, and holding cattle back to gamble on higher post Sept. 12 prices.
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Bob Jones
Associated Press
Nixon
Kansas
Garden City
Virgil Huse
Bill Lynch
Dodge City
Huseman
Chmelka
J.R. Ham
Council
Floyd Farleigh
Scott City
Docking
Smith
A WOLF Terrier Returns From Year-Long Absence
Judy the eight-year-old terrier vanished on Easter Monday with a neighbor’s German shorthair. The Stinsons found her at Bennie Stinson’s Ottawa farm after more than a year, seemingly unaltered and eager for rides, rabbit hunts, and family affection. Mystery lingers on where she wandered and how she returned.
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Joan Istas
Judy
Bennie Stinson
Ottawa
Rfd
Stinsons
Stinson
Karen
Joe
Battle-Weary Farm Issue Heads Toward Compromise
Washington AP reports a bill to ban food stamps for strikers tightens farm payments and elevates Agriculture Secretary Butz as food price czar. Senate approves a $2.20 minimum wage bill. veto risk looms. Congress seeks a conference to reconcile House and Senate versions before September. The bill faced hours of debate with a key Dickinson amendment to bar food stamps for strikers.
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Washington
Earl L. Butz
Senate
House
Harrison A. Williams Jr
D-N.j
Congress
Rep
W. R. Poage
D-Tex
House Agriculture Committee
Senate House
Poage
William L. Dickinson
R-Ala
Flash Flood Warnings Across Kansas After Heavy Rain
National Weather Service issued a flash flood warning for north central and northeast Kansas after two days of heavy rain. Abilene reported four inches. Topeka and Wamego over three inches. Concordia, Manhattan and Salina about two and a half. Forecast calls for a warming trend Sunday through Tuesday with scattered showers and thunderstorms tonight.
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Topeka
Kan
National Weather Service
Kansas
Abilene
Wamega
Concordia
Manhattan
Salina
Nixon vows to work hard after hospital release
President Nixon told White House staff in the Rose Garden he would not resign, calling such talk poppycock. He said he would work at full tilt, despite doctors urging rest, stressing the nation's health over any individual.
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Nixon
Franklin County Budget Cuts Seen in 1974 Plan
Franklin County adopts a 1974 budget with a 13.04 mill reduction in expenditures and total valuation rising to 51.87 million dollars. Public hearing set for August 8 at the county courthouse. Welfare and school foundation costs drop as state takes over, while general and road funds show increases.
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Franklin County
County School Foundation
General Fund
Phase 4 wage price controls to take effect August 12
Washington officials said no additional exemptions are likely before August 12 when Phase 4 begins, with exemptions already announced for lumber, utilities, rents and interest rates. Health industry remains under special mandatory controls, not the price freeze. Phase 4 features cost absorption limit price increases, affecting metals like aluminum, steel and copper, and officials worry about incentives and capacity. GDP growth slowed to 2.6 percent in Q2 from April to June, the weakest since 1970, as the government details the plan and possible gasoline rollbacks and petroleum allocations.
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Washington (Ap
John T. Dunlop
Cost of Living Council
Dunlop
Newsmen
Council
Kenneth Fedor
Commerce Department
Bugging Logs Kept From Hoover Shifting to White House
Former assistant attorney general Robert C. Mardian testified Nixon asked him to obtain tapes of White House ordered telephone taps. He said FBI associate director William Sullivan warned Hoover might lose control of the sensitive logs kept in his safe. The tapes, part of the 1970 national security surveillance effort, were found in John Ehrlichman’s safe earlier that spring.
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Washington
Nixon
White House
FBI
Robert C. Marchan
Senate
Watergate Committee
J. Edgar Hoover
National Security Council
John D. Ehrlichman
Mardian
William Sullivan
Hoover
Sullivan
Watergate Hoax Cast Shocks Senate Panel
FBI hunts the hoaxer behind a telephone trick that humiliated Senator Sam Ervin and threatened a Nixon surrender scene during Watergate hearings. A caller pretended to be Treasury Secretary Shultz’s secretary seeking urgent contact, prompting Ervin to discuss the episode and the potential implications for the investigation.
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Kansas Livestock Association
Don Smith
Goodland
Jerry Chmelka
Bill Amstein
Robert Docking
Ross Winter
Dustry
Gordon Leith
Farmland Industries
Kansas City
Iowa
Price Czar
Williams
Sen
Hugh Scott
South Locust
Adriance Tractor
Wellsville
Adv
Cost. of Living Council
Atty
John N. Mitchell
San Clemente
Calif
John BD
Ehrlichman
Herman E. ‘Almadge
D-Ga
Watergate
Sam J. Ervin Jr
D-N.c
Ervin
Treasury
Charles P. Shultz
Committee
Shultz
Treasury Department
Secret Service
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