Congress Overrides Veto On Pension Bill
Congress swiftly overrode President Nixon's veto to grant a 20 percent pension increase to 900,000 retired railroad workers. The House vote 353 to 29 and Senate vote 78 to 5 ensured the measure becomes law, though the raise lasts only until June 30 and may require new funding to become permanent.
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Washington
Congress
Nixon
House
Senate
Sen
Alan Cranston
D-Calif
Cranston
Harley O. Staggers
D-W. Va
Collision Course Set In AFL CIO Conflict
Washington AP reports AFL CIO President George Meany presses a neutrality rule amid state unions demanding Nixon defeat. Orders to rescind anti Nixon resolutions trigger pushback from Oklahoma North Carolina and California leaders who cite policy and seek to preserve local campaigns while Meany pursues a federal trusteeship in Colorado as the dispute widens with Minnesota Nebraska Iowa and Texas affected. Meany argues endorsing a candidate violates policy while skeptics claim he favors Nixon and political action continues at state conventions and in court.
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Washington
Aflcio
George Meany
Richard Nixon
Meany
Nixon
National Federation
U.S
Oklahoma
AFL Cio
Henry L. Sikes
Aflcio Council
North Carolina
Afl-Cio
Wilbur Hobby
John F. Henning
California
Sacramento
Minnesota
Nebraska
Iowa
Texas
George McGovern
Colorado
McGovern
Likes
Afl-Ciq
Champ Steer Brings In Money For College
In Wichita Kansas the 40th Kansas National Junior Livestock Show and Sale saw six Kansas youths sell grand champion and reserve champion steers hogs and lambs. Freight Train a 1100 pound Simmental-Angus steer sold for 2750 to KFDI radio at 250 per pound. Reserve champion Pain brought 2 per pound. Georgia Grathwohl's 1070 pound Angus sold for 2140. Cudahy Packing Co bought grand champion market barrow Blue Back at 330 per pound totaling 742.50. Kathy Gatz's grand lamb sold to Carl Bell Meat Market for 580 per pound totaling 725. KFDI also bought reserve grand lamb for 336. The reserve grand market barrow sold to KFDI for 175 per pound totaling 420. Rider notes plan to use funds for college.
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Wichita
Kan
Kansas
Kfdi Radio
Rex Buchman
Burdick
Kansas State University
KFDI
Pain
Angus
Georgia Grathwohl
Hiawatha
F. F
Ice) Lynch
Buchman
Barrow
Ronda Jo Wilson
Arkansas City
John Barnard
Cudahy Packing Co
Carl Bell Meat Market
Kathy Gatz
Newton
Lamb
Dwight Wedel
Moundridge
Market Barrow
Cindy Dekat
Westmoreland
Hampshire
Toplessness ruling hits Kansas City private clubs
Three topless dancers charged with indecent exposure in Kansas City Kansas were acquitted by Municipal Judge Myles Stevens who ruled the city nudity ordinance does not apply to private clubs. Charges against club operators were dismissed for lack of a city ordinance covering the case.
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Kansas City, Kan
Kansas City
Kan
Myles Stevens
Anthony Russo
Blind Candidate Elected To Bench In Duval County
Louis Corbin, 33, elected judge of the Duval County Court in Jacksonville, Fla., is blind. He lost sight at age six in a shotgun accident and plans to take office in January. Corbin relies on his secretary to read mail and brailled files, and he would braille standard instructions for type cases. He believes photos and other evidence can be explained by questions to both sides.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Duval County
Louis Corbin
Corbin
Sven Lamb Jr
Lamb
Coralee
Lesley
KU Enrollment Cuts Lead to Hiring Freeze at KU
Lawrence Kansas AP reports a fall in University of Kansas enrollment triggers a freeze on filling faculty and staff vacancies and a 10 percent cut in departmental expenses. KU Medical Center enrolls 1529 students, up from last year, while Lawrence campus falls 272 to 18246. Nichols notes funds can be covered by equipment reserves and fee balances as the decline follows a national pattern linked to the Selective Service changes.
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Lawrence
Kan
University of Kansas
Raymond Nichols
KU Medical Center
Kansas City
Nichols
New International Conference Weighs BCG Cancer Promise
Cancer researchers from 10 nations gather in Bethesda to study BCG as a potential human cancer treatment. The National Cancer Institute notes limited, though encouraging, results in early trials and warns no major breakthrough has occurred. The two day meeting follows an Oak Ridge report stirring cautious optimism.
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Bethesda
U.S. National Cancer Institute
NCI
Oak Ridge
Tenn
National Cancer Institute
Michael G. Hanna Jr
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
BCG
Oak Ridge Laboratory
Hanna
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I Plaza Telephone
Sue WS A
Technicolor
PGI
Allied Artists
Kodak
OK Photo
Pizza Hut
Blackpool
England
Lancashire
Wilson
Ottawa
Paine
America
First National Bank OF
Ottawa, Kansas
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