Troubles Sull Bug Skylab: possible fuel leak
Cape Kennedy Fla AP three American astronauts reported a possible fuel leak in their Apollo as they approached Skylab a 59 day orbital mission to study the sun stars earth and man commander Alan Bean described spark like activity at the right window while Jack Lousma noted particles like frost and rain Mission Control reported helium and propellant drop in one quad of small jet engines and the crew secured the system
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
Skylab Laboratory
Earth
Man
Alan L. Bean
Mission Control
Jack R. Lousma
Bean
Lousma
Owen K. Garriott
Commander Bean
Scattered Showers Across Kansas Through Sunday
Skies will be partly cloudy in Kansas through Sunday with the chance of scattered showers and thunderstorms. Tonight’s low will range from the upper 50s in the northwest to the low 70s in the southeast, with Sunday’s high near the low 90s. Friday’s heat topped out at 96 in Hutchinson, Salina and Pittsburg, 89 in Goodland. lows varied from 55 to 71. Extended outlook calls for a chance of showers Monday, otherwise partly cloudy with small temperature changes through Wednesday.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
Hutchinson
Salina
Pittsburg
Goodland
Close Call In Mixer Mishap Rescue At Ottawa Site
A mixer truck owned by Penny's Ready Mixed Concrete overturned seven miles north of Ottawa after a tire blowout at about 2 15. Meineke, the driver, was pinned for about an hour as rescuers cut and freed him. Wreckers from Baldwin and Wellsville assisted. emergency crews, doctors, and passersby aided throughout. The area was cleared and the truck removed by 6 10 p.m. with officers commending the rescue effort.
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Ottawa
Ronald D. Meineke
Kansas
Franklin County Sheriff's
Ottawa Fire Departments
Meineke
Ransom Memorial Hospital
RFD
Penny’s Ready Mixed Concrete Offa, Inc
Baldwin
Wellsville
Highway Patrol
Linda Ostmeyer
Royal T
E. 2Nd
Cecil Wolgast
Wolgast
AMF Incorporated
Wolgasts
Garnett
Humboldt
Iola
Osage City
Lyndon
Gardner
Osawatomie
Paola
Lawrence
Lake Pomona
AMF
Ehrlichman Exposes Tottering Congressmen Campaign Tactics
Washington AP Ehrlichman told the Senate Watergate committee that campaigns may attack more than issues including drinking problems sexual habits and domestic situations. He cited incumbents who drink and stagger onto the House floor weakening judgment and questioned press scrutiny of lawmakers lifestyles. Ehrlichman defended hiring Anthony Ulasewicz to handle White House investigations amid the confrontation with Sen. Lowell Weicker.
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Washington
John D. Ehrlichman
Nixon
Senate Watergate Committee
Weicker
Ehrlichman
Connecticut
Republican
New York
Anthony Ulasewicz
White House
Phase 4 hits shoppers as food prices rise
Weekend shoppers faced higher food bills as Phase 4 economic measures take effect. A week and a half after President Nixon announced the program allowing increases on most raw agricultural products except beef, prices for pork dairy and poultry surged amid widespread stockpiling to beat rising costs.
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Nixon
Political fire forces resignation of Kansas penal chief Woodson
Robert N. Woodson 48 director of state penal institutions resigns after political attacks linked to an FBI probe in Kansas City. Gov. Docking accepts resignation and names Deputy Director John C. Hazelet as acting director. Gaffney and Woodson testified before the grand jury. no indictments yet. Gaffney seeks no immediate resignation. Hazelet declines comment on future personnel moves.
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Topeka
Kan
Robert N. Woodson
Robert Docking
John C. Hazelet
Woodson
Kansas
Kansas City
Raymond J. Gaffney
Lansing
Gaffney
Karl Menninger
Paul Wilson
Lawrence
Don Black
Leavenworth
Docking
Hazelet
Fuel distribution plan eyed for Kansas shortage
In Topeka federal official Jim Gill told oil industry and state leaders that distributors should aim to allocate gasoline equally to consumers as last year. The session, at Sen. Bob Dole's request, warned of a severe LPG shortage this fall and winter affecting farmers drying crops.
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Topeka
Kan
Jim Gill
Bob Dole
R-Kan
Gill
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