Top Bell officials aided campaigns in San Antonio races
Five Southwestern Bell executives in San Antonio donated to Bob Krueger in the 1974 congressional race and to the 1973 city council contest. James Ashley, fired for misconduct, said he contributed under Bell pressure and was reimbursed. Gravitt left notes about a $50 monthly slush fund. The company denies running a political slush fund.
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John Lumpkin
Associated Press
San Antonio, Tex
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co
San Antonio
San Antonio Bell
Bob Krueer
U.S
Ashley
Krueger
Bell
Southwestern Bell
T.O. Gravitt
Texas
Gravitt
Ward K. Wilkinson
Good Government League
Good Government
Kruger
Congress sets first national drinking water standards
Congress votes to establish national drinking water standards after government warns some supplies hold cancer causing chemicals. The bill moves to the White House for possible veto as Rep. Paul G. Rogers cites it as a key step to clean water nationwide.
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Washington
Congress
White House
Paul G. Rogers
D-Fla
Stranded beauty queen pursues hitchhiking to pageant
Nancy Jane Richert a 24 year old Louisiana beauty queen traveling to the Miss Rodeo America pageant endured a 14 hour ordeal after her truck ran out of gas on a Texas highway near Mesquite. She armed herself with a pocketknife and hitched rides to reach Oklahoma City for the pageant events.
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Associated Press
Oklahoma City
Louisiana
Texas
Nancy Jane Richert
Mesquite
Tex
Interstate 20
Ohio
Dallas
Ed Wiliams
John Marshburn
Florida
United States
McNeese State
Lake Charles
Lung cancer seen as national calamity by expert
Dr Bernard Roswit warned at Radiological Society of North America that lung cancer nears national calamity with 1975 ACS estimates of 91 000 cases and 81 000 deaths. He linked smoking to most cases and noted rising female deaths, saying most patients are diagnosed too late for surgery and survival rates remain very low.
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Chicago
American Cancer Society
Spain
Bernard Roswit
New York
Roswit
Radiological Society of North America
Veterans Administration
Bronx VA
University students lead Brownie troop in Menomonie
In Menomonie Wisconsin university students John Lamirande and Jim Nichols colead a 14 member Brownie troop. They joined Girl Scouts to qualify as Brownie leaders and perform standard activities such as field trips and crafts while planning presents for mothers in December.
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Menomonie
Wis
University of Wisconsin- Stout
John Lamirande
Jim Nichols
Girl Scouts of America
Nichols
Lamirande
Nichol
Pioneer 11 eyes Saturn in bold two billion mile plan
Scientists at Ames Center outline a Saturn approach for NASA's Pioneer 11 after its Jupiter flyby. They seek a route that maximizes data while avoiding Saturn’s rings meteoroids. The probe, hurtling at 30,000 mph, was 1.5 million miles from Jupiter and faced intense radiation and magnetic field findings.
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Mountain View
Calif
Jupiter
Saturn
John Wolfe
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
Ames Research Center
Pioneer 11
Earthound
North Pole
Earth
Pioneer 10
Congress Overrides Ford Veto on GI Education Benefits
Congress voted overwhelmingly to override President Ford's veto of a 22.7 percent boost in GI education benefits. The bill passed 394 to 10 in the House and 90 to 1 in the Senate, with 1.5 million veterans to receive back increases retroactive to September, in checks within about 15 days and the January cycle.
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Washington
Congress
Ford
House
Senate
Robert P. Griffin
Michigan
Veterans Administration
County judge clears docket of old cases
West Texas Howard County Judge A G Mitchell says he cleared about 1600 misdemeanor cases from the docket because they were years old. Ranging from traffic violations to aggravated assault and petty theft some had sat for as long as nine years. He plans to leave office in January and urges other courts to clear old cases roughly every ten years.
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Big Spring
Tex
West Texas
Howard County
A.G. Mitchell
Mitchell
Ford
Richard Nixon
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G.A. Davison
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T.C. Davis
Leo Eickhoff Jr
Porter Mitchell
Marvin C. Reed
Donald Shaffer
Trans World Airlines
Paris Mountain
Bluemont
TWA
Oks Water Standards
Charleston
W. Va
United Mine Workers
UMW
Scotrun
Pennsylvania
Columbus
New York City
Cabana
Atoyac DE Alvarez
Mexico
Lucio Cabanas
Cabanas
Goodyear
Akron, Ohio
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co
Beaumont
H.L. Hunt
Hunt
Baylor Hospital
Houston
Henry Maier
Milwaukee
National Conference of Democratic Mayors
Saudi Arabia
France
Sultan bin Abdul Aziz
al Hayat
Administration
Alan Greenspan
William J. Fellner
President’s Council of Economic Advisers
Japan
Tokyo
Takeo Miki
Liberal-Democratic Party
Kakuei Tanaka
Tomahawk
Minneapolis
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