Area Watershed Project Moves On
The Pottawatomie Creek Watershed District advances with a general plan targeting 135 structures for flood control. Five years after formation, committees form, costs range 8 000 to 85 000 per site, landowners hold control, multipurpose options possible, and funds rely on state and local sources with a two mill levy cap. Joe Alexander and Carl Sobba win three-year board terms.
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Joan Istas Garnett
Pottawatomie Creek
Jerry Gillen
Tom Benton
Anderson County
Gillen
Kansas Forestry, Fish and Game Commission
Watershed Board
Franklin County
Miami
Linn
Coffey
Dale Stewart
Pawnee Creek
Pottawatomie
Stewart
Kansas
Benton
Joe Alexander
Lane
Carl Sobba
Garnett
Alexander
Joe Fenoughty
Sobba
IRA Revenge Shocks Belfast Amid Kidnapping and Riots
IRA in Belfast abducted a 15 year old Catholic girl accused of spying for Scotland Yard. In Londonderry battles, 4 raiders hit by British troops after three hours of firefights. but no army casualties. Dungiven transformer blast and York Street store arson followed the violence and unrest across Northern Ireland.
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Belfast
Irish Republican Army
Londonderry
Free Derry
TRA
Dungiven
County Tyrone
Northern Ireland
York Street
Haiphong Harbor Evacuated Before Nixon Deadline
Freighters including at least one bearing the Soviet flag pulled from Haiphong harbor before Nixon's mined entrance deadline. U S forces continued heavy air and naval bombardment against North Vietnam with the 7th Fleet striking near Haiphong and the Hanoi Haiphong complex. Two U S Phantom crews claimed five MiG kills this week, while An Loc and Kontum remained under siege amid fierce fighting and reports of tank assaults and mortar fire.
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Saigon
Haiphong Harbor
Nixon
U.S. 7Th Fleet
U.S
Haiphong
North Vietnamese
North Vietnam
7Th Fleet
Western Pacific
Hanoi
Cunningham
Tonkin Gulf
Air Force
South Vietnam
An Loc
Central Highlands
Ben Het
Defense
Melvin R. Laird
Washington
Somalia
Cable-TV Finds A New Home In Ottawa Inc office move
Ottawa Cable-TV Inc relocates to 114 S Main after a fire damaged its 117 E 2nd Street office. Manager Robert C Brooksher says rebuilding plans are incomplete though razing the old building and constructing anew are possibilities. The firm aims to be fully operational by Friday morning and insurance assessments are pending. About 200000 feet of cable were stored in the damaged building, much of it waterlogged in the basement.
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Ottawa Cable-Tv Inc
S. Main
Robert C. Brooksher
Second Street
Brooksher
Willie Mays Back With Mets in Giants Trade
Willie Mays returned to New York joining the Mets in a deal sending minor leaguer Charlie Williams and undisclosed cash to the Giants. Mets GM Bob Scheffing announced the move and Manager Yogi Berra said Mays would join the club Sunday.
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NEW York
Willie Mays
New York Mets
Charlie Williams
San Francisco Giants
Mays
New York Giant
Giants
Mets
Bob Scheffing
Yogi Berra
Soviet Urges End to U S Harbors Blockade
Moscow demanded cancellation of the coast blocking by the United States and an end to aggression against the DRV while Nixon pressed ahead with the North Vietnamese harbor mining. The summit with Soviet leaders in Moscow set for May 22 remained on schedule amid mixed reactions at home and abroad.
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Washington
Nixon
U.S
Moscow
Tass
United States
Democratic Republic of Vietnam
Saigon
U.S. 7Th Fleet
Haiphong Harbor
House Foreign Affairs Committee
White House
Kremlin
China
North Vietnamese
Bella Abzug
D-N.y
Auction Items Pile Up at Skunk Run Auction
A Brazilian citrine gem, a 12 gauge Winchester Model 1893 shotgun serial 23386, and sterling silver fish forks will be auctioned next weekend on May 21 at 1 30 p.m. on the Ottawa Library lawn to benefit the Library Endowment Fund. The 12 gauge gun, invented by John Browning and patented in 1890, had 34 000 produced and is the first Winchester slide action. The gem was donated by Lamar Phillips of 809 S Hickory, polished for about 20 hours, weighing 35 carats with 145 facets and a 22 mm diameter.
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Ottawa
Library Endowment Fund
John Browning
Lamar Phillips
Hickory
Phillips
Courtesy Call Signals Hope for Moscow Summit
President Nixon met with Soviet foreign trade minister Nikolai Patolichev in a courtesy session in Washington. The meeting, attended by Kissinger and Flanigan, followed a Soviet statement on Vietnam measures and occurred as Peterson translated for the talks on trade.
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White House
Nikolai Patelichev
Anatoly Dobrynin
Nixon
Vietnam
Ronald Ziegler
Patolichev
Washington
Commerce
Peter G. Peterson
Henry A. Kissinger
Peter Flanigan
Nixon approves 15 percent oil import hike in 1972
President Nixon signed a proclamation increasing oil import quotas by 230000 barrels per day for the balance of 1972. The boost applies to petroleum and petroleum products from the Middle East Latin America and Canada, expanding the flow of crude and refined products.
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Washington
Nixon
Middle East
Latin America
Canada
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The
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service
Recreation Environmental Protection Act
IRA
Scotland Yard
Navy
Randy Cunningham
Shelbina
William Driscoll
Framingham
Mass
Kontum
Don Son
House of Representatives
Carl Albert
Foreign Affairs Committee
Democrats
Indochina
Chicago
Richard J. Daley
Daley
Atlantic
Minnesota
Wendell Anderson
University of Minnesota
Treasury
John Connally
Senate Democrats
Peach Nixon
Claude Myers
Edith Crandall
Peoples National Bank
Crandall
Neil Barnaby
Ottawa Library
Peterson
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