Kaiser AluminumEyes Soviet Process for Magnetic Field Casting
Kaiser Aluminum confirmed a preliminary contract with the Soviet Union to purchase rights to their method for casting aluminum in a magnetic field. The agreement is subject to contingencies including further testing. Eleven people were injured, two critically, when steel beams fell onto vehicles beneath a highway underpass east of Sacramento on U.S. 90.
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Oakland
Calif
Kaiser Aluminum
Soviet Union
Kaiser
Bob Sandberg
Sacramento
Here
Highway Patrol
Jail inmate accuses jailer of offering hacksaw blade
Jimmy Lee Brown, 25, who escaped the old county jail Wednesday night, alleges Sheriff Clarence Jones ordered an investigation into a jailer who tried to sell him a hacksaw blade for 40 dollars. Brown was recaptured Thursday in a taxicab on the town's south side.
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Dallas
Clarence Jones
Jimmy Lee Brown
Old County
Ray Chaney dies in auto crash near Fort Worth
Country and western singer and composer Ray Chaney was killed Thursday when his car crashed into a bridge abutment on FM 718 about a mile northwest of U S 81. The vehicle burned after the impact.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Ray Chaney
U.S. 81
Burlington Northern to haul 33000 tons coal weekly to Texas
The Burlington Northern Railroad plans a long range haul of 33000 tons of coal each week from northeast Wyoming to a new Texas power plant starting in 1976. The 1483 mile Gillette Wyoming to Carson Texas route would become the nation's longest coal train run.
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Gillette, Wyo
Burlington Northern Railroad
Wyoming
Texas
Gillette
Cason
Tex
Stock splits to rise aided by Nixon dividend rules
New York AP reports stock splits may hit a record high this year as Nixon administration dividend controls push more companies to split. A split increases share count while lowering per share price to make the stock seem more affordable to investors.
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New York
Mexican American leader offered post to boost Spanish vote
Bill Clinton campaign spokesman in Texas says Sargent Shriver offered a top position to Albert Pena Jr., outgoing County Commissioner and longtime Mexican American activist, to shore up Spanish speaking support for the Democratic ticket.
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San Antonio
Tex
Bill Clinton
Houston
Sargent Shriver
Albert Pena Jr
Farah Manufacturing Union Vote Eligibility Challenge Denied
A U S NLRB hearing officer denied Farah Manufacturing Co Inc a challenge to strike seeking eligibility to vote in local union elections. The decision, coming within a month, follows an NLRB hearing in San Antonio Texas. Farah pressed to exclude striking employees from voting but was rebuffed.
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San Antonio, Tex
Farah Manufacturing Co., Inc
National Labor Relations Board
Farah
NLRB
Clayton Corley
Houston
Texas Construction Drops 24 Percent in July
Texas July total construction fell 24 percent from June level, the Bureau of Business Research reports, but the year to date shows a 24 percent gain vs 1971. July construction totaled 3.25941 billion dollars with 117.756 million in new residential work and 114.084 million in nonresidential projects.
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Austin, Tex
Texas
Bureau of Business Research
Bureau
Antique show set for Austin Municipal Auditorium
About 50 antique dealers from across the United States are expected to take part in the eighth annual Antiques Show and Sale set for September 22 to 24 at Austin Municipal Auditorium. The Heritage Society of Austin sponsors the event with all proceeds going to city preservation projects.
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Austin, Tex
United States
Austin? Municipal Auditorium
The
Heritage Society of Austin
Austin
Wallace lands unusual birthday present from GOP candidate
Gov. George C. Wallace, a Democrat, received a Republican platform copy as a birthday present from U S Senate candidate Winton M. Blount. Wallace was at Spain Rehabilitation Center for therapy when the gift was shown to reporters in Birmingham.
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Birm.ngham
Ala
George C. Wallace
Republican Party
GOP
U. S. Senate
Alabama
Winton M. Blount
Spain Rehabilitation Center
Wallace
Scientists search for giant fish on the Snake River
Lewiston Idaho AP John Coon and Rudy Ringe study prehistoric giant white sturgeon along a 30 mile stretch of the Snake River near Pittsburg Landing Hell's Canyon They tag fish with sonic or radio devices and seek help from fishermen to track movements While large dams may threaten the species scientists conduct a three year study funded by the Office of Water Resources Research Pacific Northwest Power Co and Idaho Fish and Game Department to learn how to preserve these giants
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Lewiston, Idaho
John Coon
Rudy Ringe
Snake River
Coon
Moscow
Idaho
University of Idaho
Ringe
Columbia
Snake Rivers
Ringo
Pittsburg Landing
Hell's Canyon
Paterson
Wash
Washington State
Columbia Snake
Donald Chapman
Snake
Ringe and Coon
Federal Office of Water Resources Research
Pacific Northwest Power Co
Idaho Fish and Game Department
The
Northwest
McGovern attacks Nixon as turning U S into palace for few
Senator George McGovern blasted President Nixon dubbing the U S economy a palace for the privileged few. He criticized Nixon’s speech accepting a second term, urged a return to Roosevelt Truman Kennedy and Johnson. McGovern planned Senate work, then a speech to labor groups before a Maryland weekend with family. He spoke to the American Federation of Teachers and Veterans of Foreign Wars in Minneapolis-St Paul, receiving mixed reactions. The AFT endorsed McGovern, pledging 250000 dollars to his campaign. Humphrey attended, and McGovern pressed labor support in Minnesota. He also mocked Nixon for borrowing his Come Home America line.
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Washington
George McGovern
Nixon
United States
McGovern
Richard Nixon
Franklin Roosevelt
Harry Truman
John Kennedy
Lyndon Johnson
Senate
International UN
South Dakota
Minneapolis-St. Paul
American Federation of Teachers
Veterans of Foreign Wars
AFT
Hubert H. Humphrey
Minnesota
Smith warns of loss of Texas governor budget powers
Gov. Preston Smith says Atty. Gen. Crawford Martin's opinion could strip much of the governor’s budget power, leaving him a ceremonial figurehead. He may call a special session before 1973 legislature to address the issue and possible insurance reform.
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Austin
Tex
Preston Smith
Crawford Martin
Texas
Smith
Martin
Robert S. Calvert
Price Daniel
Navy opens sea duty track for first women NROTC cadets
West Lafayette Indiana AP The Navy begins training pros pective women officers in the NROTC program with 16 selected cadets from Purdue University and other schools. They will study the same curriculum as male cadets with potential shipboard duty four years later.
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West Lafayette
Ind
Navy
Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps
NROTC
Purdue University
Jacksonville
Fla
University
University of Washington
Southern University
Louisiana
Purdue
I. H. Knudson
Purdue Nrotc
Knudson
Officer Candidate School For
Newport
R. I
Tom Calhoun
Smelter wins nod to break law in Amarillo
In Austin the Texas Air Control Board granted ASARCO a 16 month delay allowing continued operation of the Amarillo zinc smelter despite pollution concerns. The board rejected immediate compliance 4-4 with one member absent. If extended, federal EPA will decide post 1973. The case affects 410 plant jobs and 1,606 related positions. Cadmium levels in local children alarm officials.
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Austin, Tex
Amarillo
Texas Air Control Board
American Smelting and Refining Co
Asarco
James Abrams
el Paso
Charles Barden
Federal Environmental Protection Agency
E.W. Robinson
Tion
Canyon
Hamzick
Potter County
Losses in Vietnam Reach 91 Missing Airmen
North Vietnam reported the capture of over 20 fliers as US air losses rose to 82 planes and 91 missing airmen since bombing resumed on April 6. American forces claims 310 strikes, including 25 warehouses, 10 ammunition depots, 15 bridges, and 31 watercraft. Peking accused a lifeboat attack killing five aboard a Chinese merchant ship off North Vietnam. Saigon orders heavy fighting near Quang Tri with 2,000 shells and 207 North Vietnamese troops killed. Que Son Valley also sees intense action.
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Saigon
North Vietnam
North
Peking
Novth
Vietnam
United States
Hon Ngu Island
Vinh
Oy Peking
Hon Gai No. 151
North Vietnham
Oriskany
Que Son
Atom hazard device builder dies at 63
Charles F. Kircher 63 helped build the world first atomic hazardous device and died in a Detroit hospital Tuesday. A Manhattan Project manager 1943 to 1949 he worked under Enrico Fermi at labs near the University of Chicago football stadium and helped set up a plutonium 239 plant in Richland Washington. Survivors include his widow Nancy and several children. The funeral service was set for today.
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Detroit
Charles F. Kircher
Kircher
University of Chicago
Richland
Wash
Baby returned after apparent kidnapping at Houston airport
Three month old Christopher Kuyendall, allegedly kidnapped by a babysitter in Little Rock, slept through the media crowd at Houston Intercontinental Airport as FBI agents escorted him home. Babysitter Jeannette Bryant faced arrest in Little Rock on kidnapping charges, bond set at 50,000.
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Houston
Christopher Kuykendall
Beaumont
Christopher
Houston Intercontinental Airport
FBI
Alvin Kuyendall
Jeannette Marie Bryant
Salvation Army
Little Rock
Ark
Miss Bryant
Bell Gardens
Calif
Kuyendall
Herbert L. Hoxie
Kayendall House
U. S
Robert Faulkner
Jack Acklin
Acklin
Dallas
Texas
Jewsme
Kuvendalls
Lawrence
Kuvendall
Ind
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Columbia River
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Dwight Eisenhower
Federal Commission On Aging
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S.C
Fish
Ion
Maryland
America
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Executive Department
Executive Department of Government
Smelter
Break Law
Wendell Hamzick
Holston
Atom
Physicist Enrico Fermi
el Paso, Tex
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Chris
Charles III
Conrad
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Julie
Faith
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