Negotiations Expected By Auto Industry Leaders
Ford vice president Ben Bidwell said significant talks between industry and government were likely after the 90 day price freeze ends. He noted potential jawboning on 1972 pricing as Ford kept domestic models at 1971 tags and revisited Pinto pricing while awaiting tariff plans and possible surcharges on imported cars.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Company
Ben Bidwell
Bidwell
Ford
Germany
Italy
Americas
Red Tide-like organism seen off Florida coast
A rust colored patch of a Red Tide-like organism was spotted about one mile offshore along the Florida East Coast marking the first such report in the region. Laboratory samples contained dynoflagellate, a single celled organism, though officials said bathing beaches remain unaffected.
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Daytona Beach
Fla
Atlantic Ocean
Florida
St. Augustine
Ponce de Leon Inter
New Smyrna Beach
Elton Woodward
Daytona Beach Community College
Shevin Moves to Halt Tallahassee Power Rates
Florida Attorney General Robert Shevin asked a Leon County circuit court to declare the Tallahassee electric rates exorbitant and to order refunds to all local consumers including the state. The suit targets the City of Tallahassee and the Florida Gas Transmission Co over power costs tied to the city’s generating station, invoking public policy and Nixon era goals.
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Tallatasser
Fla
Florida
Robert Shevin
Crcuit
Pallahassee
United States of America
Nixon
Shevin
Leon Ctreut
Tallahassee
Lindsey challenges donations in city budget
Lindsey, a longtime local businessman and former mayor, calls donations in the current budget excessive and urges the city council to screen proposals more carefully. He notes broad citizen support for his stance while emphasizing that funds were earmarked for worthwhile groups and recalls past council debates on legality and legitimacy.
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Lindsey
Andrews
Youths Charged In Val-P Marijuana Patch
Valparaiso officers say two local youths Harvey Eastman and Guy Sadler were charged with possession of marijuana and released on bonds of five thousand dollars each. A Florida Bureau of Law Enforcement spokesman noted arrests followed discovery of a cultivated marijuana patch three and a half miles east of Niceville with 36 plants. deputies Cecil Donaldson and Bill Welch participated with state officials.
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Valparaiso
Harvey Eastman
Edge Ave
Guy Sadler
Glendale Ave
Florida Bureau of Law Enforcement
Niceville
Cecil Donaldson
Bill Welch
Boy Hurt In Bike Mishap At Ocean City Intersection
An 11 year old Fort Walton Beach boy was admitted to Eg lin AFB Hospital after his bicycle collided with a car at Lafitte and Bradford roads in Ocean City. Virginia Kemp, 21, Crestview, drove the other vehicle. No charges filed.
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Fort Walton Beach
Eglin Afb Hospital
Florida Highway Patrol
J. M. Williams
Lafitte
Bradford Roads
Ocean City
Lafite
Virginia Kemp
Crestview
Bradford Road
Wo Hams
EEE Victim Still In Coma in Gainesville Florida
Olle Philips a 43 year old Madison resident remains in a coma for the sixth day as health officials confirm the first United States case of Eastern Equine Encephalitis this year. The disease is mosquito transmitted and not human to human. In Crestview Jimmy Scott Bunn escapes from county jail after church service and is captured in Smithville North Carolina.
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Gainesville
Fla
APY
Olle Philips
Madison, Fla
John Ross
State Division of Health
Crestview
Jimmy Scott Bunn
Smithville
N.C
Sheriff's Department
Bunn
Rocky Bayou
Northeastern Stewardesses Plan Picket At Miami Airport
North eastern Airlines stewardesses announced a Friday picket at Miami International Airport to press for a retroactive 19 percent pay raise over two years, despite Nixon's 90 day wage freeze. About 50 stewardesses would join the demonstration as contract talks stall since the Aug 1 1970 expiry.
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Associated Press
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Miami International
Marylou Connors
Miami
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Paper Co
International Association of Machinists
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International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Gulf County
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Commission
Jess Yarborough
Southern Bell Telephone Co
Florida
Fort Walton Beach High School survey on dress code
Fort Walton Beach High School students backed abolishing the dress code by a nearly two to one margin in a survey of 1,107 respondents. Of those, 745 favored abolition and 362 preferred keeping the code, with administrators facing questions about changes and parental input urged through letters to the editor.
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Fort Walton Beach High School
David Lemak
Lemak
Fort Watton High
Lomak
New Educa
Fort Watton Beach
Playground Daily News
Sutven
Community Affairs Chief Criticizes Governor Staff
Florida secretary of Community Affairs Athalthe Range accuses Gov. Askew's staff of failing to arrange contact before firing Carl P. Wallace the $20 000 a year director of the Division of Economic Opportunity Range says an anonymous letter about Wallace was not brought to her attention and that she spoke to the governor only through staff she did not contact the governor directly Wallace had falsified job applications to both Florida and California posts various claims about his education and football career were untrue and he was offered resignation instead of firing
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Askew
Wyoming
Wallace
California
James Apthorp
Range
Division of Economic Opportunity
Associated Press
Tallahassee
WCTV
Long Beach
Commission On Economic Opportunities
Florida
College of the Pacific
University of Southern California
San Diego Chargers
Bahamas Hunt Is Called Off After Skiff Disappearance
The U S Coast Guard suspended the search for four boys ages four to eight who drifted into the Atlantic from Delectable Bay on Acklins Island. Disappearance occurred Saturday. authorities said they lack information indicating the children are alive, prompting the call off.
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Bahamas
Atlantic Ocean
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U.S. Coast Guard
Miami
Delectable Bay
Acklins Island
Okaloosa Digest Notices Arrive by Written Request Only
Local notices from organizations must be submitted in writing to the Playground Daily News office. Representatives of the groups, not PGDN staff, should deliver their items. telephone submissions are not accepted.
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Playground Daily News
PGDN
Meigs Orientation Cancelled for Construction
Meigs orientation day is cancelled due to ongoing construction. Parents will receive letters containing all necessary information to start school on August 30, according to principal Chet Cline.
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Meigs
Chet Cline
St Marys PTA to host fish fry on school grounds
The St Marys PTA sponsors a fish fry from 3 to 7 p.m. Sunday on the school grounds. Dinners are $1 and sandwiches 50 cents. Both dine in and carry out service will be available.
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St. Mary’s Pta
Fort Walton Beach Jaycees Dinner Announced
The August dinner meeting of the Fort Walton Beach Jaycees starts at 7 30 tonight at the Elks Lodge on Okaloosa Island. Governmental Affairs Night features speakers Mayor Maurice McLaughlin County Commissioner Dan Merrill and City Councilman Dutch Van Buskirk. All men aged 21 to 35 interested in community development are invited.
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Fort Walton Beach
Jaycees
Elks Lodge
Okaldosa Island
Maurice McLaughlin
Dan Merrill
Dutch van Buskirk
Okaloosa CAP Board Meeting Tonight at Annette P. Edwin Elementary
The Board of Directors of the Okaloosa County Community Action Program will hold its regular monthly meeting at 7 30 p m today in the Annette P Edwards Elementary School cafeteria City O Neal in the Office of Economic Opportunity will be present The public is invited to attend.
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Okaloosa
National Secretaries Association Meeting Tonight
The National Secretaries Association will hold its regular monthly meeting at 6:30 p.m. today at Mrs. Marguerite Sharp's home 20 Elm Avenue SE Fort Walton Beach. The program is parlamentary procedure The Right vs The Wrong. For information contact Mrs. Jacqueline Shaw at 242-2121.
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National Secretaries Association
Marguerite Sharp
Elm Avenue SE
Fort Walton Beach
Jacqueline Shaw
Paradise Luau Night at Hawaiian Law at Playground
An evening event titled Paradise Luau will be held Friday night at the Playground with a Hawaiian soloist a tap dancing routine and comedy acts during intermission. The Luau accompanies the August Birthday party sponsored by the wives of the 48th ARRS Group at Eglin, with prizes for best costumes though outfits are not required.
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Paradise
ARRS
Eglin
Back-to-School Dance Sponsored by Fort Walton Jaycees
The Fort Walton Beach Jaycees sponsor a back-to-school dance on Friday August 27 at the Community Center from 7 30 to 11 30 p m. Classique Rok will provide the music and admission is 1 50 per person.
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Fort Walton Beach
Texas reports 109 Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis cases
Matagorda County was briefly listed among affected Texas counties before being removed after officials found the horse owner used a Matagorda address though the animal was in Victoria County. Nationwide vaccination progress shows Texas with 570,142 inoculations, about 86.2 percent of the state’s equine population, amid high coverage in Oklahoma and Louisiana and strong figures across the 10-state effort.
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Houston, Tex
Matagorda County
Texas
Carter
U. S. Department OF Agriculture
Wnr
Matagorda
Victoria County
Houston
Defense Department
Alabama
Fflipinot
Oklahoma
Louisiana
Arkansas
Mississippi
New Mexico
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