Losers Week at Hollywood Park Offers Odd Prizes
In Inglewood California Western Harness Racing promotes Loser's Week offering prizes for picking last-place horses. Prizes include a $25 bail bond certificate, a Thanksgiving dinner for two, a swine flu shot with live pig, and a condemned two bedroom house or $519.07 cash. Enter by selecting last place in the first six races. top loser wins. Last year’s grand prize loser was Dan Crowley who received a 1959 Edsel.
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Inglewood
Calif
Opera House
Hollywood Park
Art Aragon
Los Angeles
Dan Crowley
Nine Kansas counties urged drought designation for emergency loans
The State Emergency Board voted unanimously to recommend nine counties Morris Chase Lyon Osage Franklin Miami Jewell Sumner and Cowley be designated drought areas to qualify farmers for 5 percent crop loss loans. Monitoring Comanche Clark and Meade for possible future designation.
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Topeka
Kan
State Emergency Board
Kansas
Morris
Chase
Lyon
Osage
Franklin
Miami
Jewell
Sumner
Cowley
Comanche
Clark
Meade
Frank Mosier
Manhattan
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service
Emergency Board
Robert F. Bennett
Windfall Looms for Revenue Sharing to 1980
Congressional conferees agreed to a bill delivering 25.5 billion dollars in federal revenue sharing to states cities and counties through 1980. The measure, likely to win final House Senate approval this week, would go to President Ford for signature before the November elections. The plan removes most grant strings but tightens antidiscrimination rules, continuing a program that has provided 30.2 billion dollars over five years to about 38 000 local government units.
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Washington
House
Senate
Ford
Ford Campaign Moves Into White House Role
Ford resumes White House incumbent position after a three day South campaign tour and plans to frame himself as a world leader before the October 6 San Francisco debate. Carter rests in Plains Ga for two days to reassess campaign strategy and schedule. Mondale and Dole take brief days off as both camps chart October moves. Ford hosts foreign ministers at the White House to back up a foreign policy image. Carter aides say Plains decisions will shape October effort. Ford criticizes Carter as inexperienced in foreign affairs and touts Kissinger talks with Congress. Ford ends South trip with a 2000 police rally pledge to fight crime in early administration.
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Dave Riley
Associated Press
Jimmy Carter
Ford
White House
Carter
Washington
South
San Francisco
Plains
Walter Mondale
Bob Dole
Midwest
Georgia
Congress
Henry A. Kissinger
Africa
Louisiana
Mississippi
Alabama
Florida
Hamilton Jordan
Economic Leading Indicators Fall, signaling slower growth
Washington AP news summary reports the Commerce Department index of leading indicators dropped 1.5 percent in August, the first decline since February 1975 and the largest since the prior month. Eight of eleven components pointed downward, highlighting higher manufacturing layoffs, weaker orders, and slower consumer and business activity amid a temporary growth lull.
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Washington
Commerce Department
Rhodesia Talks Move Toward Black Rule Change
Rhodesian nationalist Ishua Nkomo heads to Botswana for talks with black African leaders on a constitutional conference. Also en route are U S Secretary of State Kissinger aide William Schaufele and British Africa minister Ted Rowlands. They aim to plan transition from white to black rule and address leadership for a future prime minister.
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Salisbury, Rhodesia
Ishua Nkomo
Botswana
Rhodesia
Gaborone
U.S
Henry Kissinger
Africa
William Schaufele
Ted Rowlands
Rowlands
Nkomo
Lusaka
Zambia
Kissinger
Britain
Petition Seeks Meals For Elderly In Franklin County
A petition with 679 signatures seeks a half mill levy to fund a nutrition program for the county's elderly, earmarked to provide one hot meal daily at reduced cost. If ballot approved, about $27,000 yearly. 508 valid signatures required to qualify. program could start in 1978 due to tax roll timing. Commissioner support noted. bridge bid also approved for $43,000 in Peoria township.
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David Olson
Franklin County
County Commission
Marvin Forker
Franklin County Council On Aging
Laura Sutton
Sutton
Forker
Commission
Jack Davis
Council On Aging
Midwest Construction Co
Holton
Peoria
Midwest
Columnist sues Nixon for $22 million over Watergate effort
Washington AP report says columnist Jack Anderson seeks $22 million from Richard Nixon and 19 aides, claiming a five year campaign to ruin his credibility and violate his First Amendment rights. The suit alleges CIA surveillance, plotting by Liddy and Hunt to murder Anderson, and targets including Kissinger Helms Colson Gray and Mitchell.
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Washington (Ap
Jack Anderson
Richard M. Nixon
Anderson
Nixon
Paign
U.S. District Court
CIA
White House
G. Gordon Liddy
E. Howard Hunt
United States
H.R. Haldeman
John D. Ehrlichman
Ander
Secetary of
Henry A. Kissinger
Richard Helms
Charles W. Colson
FBI
L. Patrick Gray
Atty
John N. Mitchell
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Bennett
U.S. Agriculture
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Morgan Williams
The
Farmers Home Administration
FHA
Mosier
Clark and
Meade Counties
White Carter
Nixon & Co
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