Blight Resistant Corn Heads Midwest Bound From Hawaii
Hawaii grown blight resistant hybrid seed corn totaling 1100 acres will be shipped to the Midwest to bolster spring planting. Metcalf Farms on Kauai cultivates the crop for Pride Seed Co and four other firms supplying 25 to 30 percent of the nation’s seed corn.
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Honolulu
Hawaii
Garden Isle
Kauai
Metcalf Farms
Pride Seed Co
Glenn Haven
Wis
Department of Agriculture
Harold Barr
Metcalf Farm
Richard Metcalf
Pride Seed
Metcalf
Waimea
Kilauea Sugar Co
Kilauea Sugar
Cambodian Front Holds Kompong Seila Under Fire
Lon Nol toured the southwestern front along Highway 4 as Kompong Seila, 65 miles from Phnom Penh, faced daily attacks. Cambodian forces press New Year efforts to open the highway despite limited progress while reports say over 1,000 enemy troops loom near Pich Nil. In South Vietnam a U S Army OH58 helicopter was shot down near the DMZ wounding three Americans as other U S aircraft killed two enemy soldiers.
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Phnom Penh
Lon Nol
Highway 4
Kompong Seila
Pich Nil
Elephant Mountains
South Vietnam
U.S
Demilitarized Zone
Giving Till It Hurts Takes Scarcely Any Give
A compact saying suggests people endure strain with little relief as endurance becomes habitual. The phrase implies a social or emotional toll where patience and sacrifice are expected without easing friction. It reflects a mood of resignation about ongoing demand or hardship.
Good Year Reported By Hoover
WASHINGTON AP FBI Director J Edgar Hoover reports 1970 as a very good year with record profits from investigations 422 million dollars and 1 60 return per dollar. 468 organized crime convictions 32000 fugitives tracked including Angela Davis among ten most wanted.
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Washington
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Hoover
Atty
John N. Mitchell
Angela Davis
California
Miss Davis
New York
Dole and Griffin Move Toward Unified GOP Leadership
Kansas Senator Dole met with fellow Republicans Scott and Griffin to ease opposition and pledge respect for their directive on legislative strategy. He said he would speak as an individual senator and party chairman only when Nixon policies face partisan attack and will not challenge their re-election. Meanwhile Morton to name a nominating committee to propose a new GOP chairman, with Nixon to be briefed first and favored Dole.
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Griffin
Dole
Kansas
The
Post
Scott
Nixon
GOP
Morton
Labor push for more Negro job opportunities meets wage fight
AFL CIO voices clashes with the Nixon administration over welfare reform and a Senate compromise on a $1.20 to $1.60 wage floor. The federation backs a $1,600 floor for all families but opposes substandard jobs and no strings on federal revenue sharing. Labor seeks public service job funding and labor reforms amid presidential vetoes on job programs.
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Capitol Hill
AFL— Cio
Labor
Nixon
Senate
Labor Federation
Bank fund report shows pre election donations to incumbents
The year end filing details Muskie and other incumbents receiving funds from the bank fund. It notes 34 additional incumbents and six more House Banking Committee members accepted smaller sums. The fund raised over 200000 and left 119633 unused after expenses.
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Bank Fund
Muskie
William E. Brock
R-Tenn
Albert Gore
House Rules Committee
House
House Banking Committee
Thomas L. Ashley
Dohio
Garry Brown
R-Mich
Charles H. Griffin
D-Miss
William S. Moorhead
D-Pa
Benjamin R. Blackburn
R-Ga
Richard T. Hanna
D-Calif
Boggs
Ford
H. Allen Smith
Rcalif
Moorhead
Edith Green
D-Ore
Albert H. Quie
Broyhill Campaign Committee
Omar Burleson
D-Tex
Harold R. Collier
R-Ill
James C. Corman
John N. Erlenborn
Joe L. Evins
D-Tenn
Richard Fulton
James Harvey
Ray J. Madden
D-Ind
William M. McCulloch
Ohio
John E. Moss
John M. Murphy
D-N. Y
Claude Pepper
D-Fla
James H. Quillen
Dan Rostenkowski
D-Ill
B.F. Sisk
John Young
Roman, Pucinski
Barber B
Conable Jr
R-N.y
Death of Sonny Liston Shocks Las Vegas Police
Charles Sonny Liston 38 a former heavyweight boxing champion was found dead in his Las Vegas home. Police said he had been dead about one week with no immediate cause known. Liston held the title from 1962 to 1964 before being dethroned by Muhammad Ali. Seihei Okuyama 69 president of the Tokyo News Service died today. The service published Shipping and Trade News and co-founded the Tokyo Evening News which became the Asahi Evening News.
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Las Vegas
Nev
Charles
Sonny’’ Liston
Liston
Muhammad Ali
TOKYO
Seihei Okuyama
Tokyo News Service
Shipping and Trade News
Tokyo Evening News
Asahi Evening News
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Barr
Cong Shen
America
Nashville
Tenn
Vanderbilt University
Florida
Gore
Congress
Agnew
Howard Baker
Afl-Cio
Pecos Enterprise
Reeves County
Pecos
Texas
Pecos Enterprise, Inc
South
Cedar Street
Ford Love
Joyce Miller
Dan Dominguez
Goodyear
Goodyear Service
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