Damaging Blaze At Local Firm Ottawa Millwork Fire Guts Plant
Fire at Ottawa Millwork Company 711 N Locust caused extensive damage to the main machine and assembly shop. Fire Chief Junior Diamond requested aid from the State Fire Marshal to determine origin, with no suspicion of arson at this time. Three trucks and 10 firefighters contained the fire after nearly three hours. other buildings remained intact and production will continue. The plant makes cabinets and wood products.
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Kansas State Fire Marshal
Ottawa
N. Locust
Junior Diamond
Nixon selects Agnew again as running mate for fall election
AP reports President Nixon has again picked Vice President Spiro T. Agnew as his running mate. White House secretary Ronald L. Ziegler said Nixon informed Agnew at the White House in a one hour Oval Office meeting and told Republicans at the convention and campaign. Nixon also told Connally and Mitchell over dinner at Camp David, remarking he should not break up a winning combination. Agnew, once obscure, is seen as a hard liner with mixed praise and criticism.
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Washington
Nixon
Spiro T. Agnew
White House
Ronald L. Ziegler
Oval Office
Ziegler
Camp David
Treasury
John B. Connally
Atty
John N. Mitchell
Viet Force In Trouble on Vietnam Front
North Vietnamese forces slow vital supply movements on the northern front amid fears a 20,000-man government task force could be cut off from the rear. U S destroyers and helicopter gunships hit transshipment points 75 miles north of the DMZ as Saigon reports recapture of Bong Son and renewed fighting near Hue and Quang Tri. The Saigon drive aims to regain Bong Son Tam Quan and Hoai An with 200000 residents and a rich rice harvest. Terrorist blast hits a Saigon police precinct, killing no one but wounding one officer.
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Saigon
U.S. 7Th Fleet
Denver
Demilitarized Zone
Saigon Command
Bong Son
Quang Tri
Hue
Highway 1
Phong Dien Bridge
U.S
South Vietnam
Tam Quan
Hoai An
Chi-Chi the Panda Dies at London Zoo at 15
Chi-Chi the London Zoo giant panda died in her sleep at about 3:30 am. The 15 year old, once famed for rejecting mate An-An, was described as an old maid and died likely of old age. A post mortem will be performed.
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London
An-An
Moscow
Zoo
Michael Brambell
Chi-Chi
London Zoo
Communist
China
North Korea
Asia
British Museum
Natural History Museum
Soviet Craft At Venus Reaches Planet Atmosphere
Unmanned Soviet Venus 8 neared Venus atmosphere and likely landed. Sir Bernard Lovell at Jodrell Bank monitored the descent, estimating a possible 10 45 a m GMT landing. Signals ceased at 11 22 a m, suggesting transmission ended or craft burned up.
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Jodrell Bank
England
Bernard Lovell
Venus
Sadat Open To All Comers In Egypt Shift
Cairo AP reports Egypt will keep options open after pulling Soviet advisers and technicians and may accept weapons from any country. Information Minister el Zayyat notes Egypt could use 25 or 30 U S Phantom jets and urges Western Europe to press the U S for Middle East peace. Al Anwar quotes Sadat saying 10,000 Soviets will depart Egypt by today.
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Cairo
Egypt
Mohamed Hassan el Zayyat
United States
Zayyat
Western Europe
Middle East
al Anwar
Sadat Today
Belfast siege as British troops strike Catholic areas
British forces moved into Markets Lower Falls and Andersonstown after midnight amid heavy gunfire in Belfast. The offensive followed Friday bombings blamed on the Provisional IRA, raising the two day toll to at least 18 with clashes across Catholic strongholds and civilian casualties including a man and a girl found in a bullet riddled car.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Lower Falls
Andersonstown
Irish Republican Army
Louisa Street
Ardoyne
IRA
Provisionals
Clifton Street
Weekend heat to 90s with humid eastern Kansas
AP reports weekend highs in the upper 80s to low 90s across Kansas with persistent humidity in the east. Partly cloudy Sunday brings a slight shower chance in the west. nights dip to the 60s northwest to mid 70s southeast. Through Monday to Wednesday similar conditions persist with Friday highs from 86 northwest to 95 southeast and overnight lows from 64 to 73. Some rain fell in parts including .12 inches in Dodge City and .03 in Hill City.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
Goodland
Manhattan
Dodge City
Hill City
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Iceland
Bobby Fischer
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Ivo Nei
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Spiro Agnew
Harold C. Passer
Commerce
Herbert Stein
Stein
Labor Department
Chi-Chi the Panda
Finley Stephens
Stevens
Brad Vaughn
Stephens
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