Community notices and meetings across Okaloosa County
Local groups announce Monday events including school lunch menus at Okaloosa County and St Marys schools, a Navarre Chamber meeting on Navarre Pass and Santa Rosa waters, Mental Health Association board, Playground Gem and Mineral Society program, West Florida Stamp Club, Okaloosa Island Garden Club work days, Spanish drama night, Bruner Band Parents, Alanon, Boy Scouts roundtable, TV cancer program, Destin Legion post, and Valparaiso City Commission session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cone Agra Enes
Okaloosa County
St. Mary’s
St. Mary's
Holly-Navvarre Chamber of Commerce
Holly-Navarre Chamber of Commerce
Holiday Inn
Navarre Beach
Navarre Pass
Santa Rosa
Mental Health Association
Mental Health Association of
Fort Walton Beach
Playground Gem and Mineral Society
Good Shepherd Lutheran Church
Shalimar
Pat Anderson
Florida Stamp Club
West Florida Stamp Club
Lynn Parrish
Okaloosa Island
Choctawhatchee
Boy Scouts of America
Knights of Columbus
American Cancer Society
Joseph Harper
Okaloosa
W. L. MacKown
Caner
Kenneth Woolsey
Reach To Recovery
Walter Ruckel, Jr
Destin Legion Post 296
Destin American Legion Post 296
Board of Directors
Water chlorinators heat Miami Beach water supply
Two chlorinators borrowed from the federal government were heating Miami Beach water as engineers finalize emergency plans for four permanent purifying plants. Residents are still cautioned to boil drinking water.
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Miami Beach
UPI
Hanoi agrees to release list of POWs as swap proceeds
North Vietnam promised to turn over a list of U S prisoners of war to be released on Monday. A U S spokesman said 1 900 Vietnamese POWs would be swapped Monday and South Vietnam would free 700 captured Communists at Loc Ninh. Prisoner release efforts continued amid sporadic ceasefire violations and a grenades booby trap that killed two South Vietnamese police.
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Saigon
UPI
North Vietnam
U.S
Hanoi
Loc Ninh
Chon Thanh
Bong Son
Mili
South Vietnam
Tam Ky
Duc Pho
le Trung Hien
Joint Military Commission
JMC
Duc Pho-Tam Ky
Phuong Nam
United States
Nam
International Commission For Control and Supervision
ICCS
Lac Ninh
Property Tax Reform Gap Stalls State Efforts
A Senate subcommittee survey finds 28 of 48 states lack professional standards for tax assessors and 11 require training. Only 16 states have green belt laws protecting farms and wilderness. Presidential candidates vow federal aid for relief. In Vietnam, prisoner releases face delays as joint commissions probe incidents near Duc Pho and Tam Ky.
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Washington
UPD
Senate
Senate Subcommittee On Intergovernmental Relations
Hawaii
Edmund S. Muskie
Charles H. Percy
R-N
Nixon
Congress
Advisory Commission On Intergovernmental Relations
District of Columbia
Sudan denies Palestinian arrest in Khartoum raid aftermath
Sudanese Information Minister says reports of PLO official Abdel Latif Abu Hajala being arrested are false and he may leave Sudan at will. Vice President Bagir links Fatah to embassy raid planning and says two Sudanese Fatah reps will face trial with Black September. Khaled rally backs crackdown on Palestinian actions in Khartoum. Arab Labor Organization cables Numeiry to treat eight militants as national revolutionaries.
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Cairo
UPI
Omar Haj Moussa
Sudan
Palestine Liberation Organization
P1o
Khartoum
Middle East
Moussa
PLO
Abdel Latif Abu Hajala
Palestine
WAFA
Abu Hajala
Mohammed Al-Baqir
al Fatah
Bagir
Fatah
Black September
Arab Labor Organization
Jaafar Numeiry
Government weighs Penn Central fate as liquidation looms
Federal Railroad Administrator John Ingram says liquidation would be acceptable if Congress cannot agree on a rational plan to save Penn Central, with District Judge Fultam urging trustees to prep for October shutdown. He rejects nationalization or federal track modernization schemes as unworkable.
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Washington
UPS
Penn Central
Congress
John Ingram
Federal Railroad Administration
U.S
John Fultam
Philadelphia
Ingram
Vance Hartke
D-Ind
Lower Weicker
R-Conn
Northeast Transportation Authority
Auto Makers Cry Too Soon On Exhausts
Washington reports EPA hearings begin Monday on a one year delay to 1975 exhaust emission standards. Ford General Motors Chrysler and American Motors say they cannot meet the 90 percent reduction target and seek attainable interim rules while EPA decision on April 11 hinges on good faith efforts.
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Washington
UPI
U.S
Ford
General Motors
Chrysler
American Motors
Environmental Protection Agency
EPA
William D. Ruckelshaus
Ruckelshaus
Ruekelshaus
Richard C. Gerstenberg
Rooftop Trio Charged With Trespassing
William Randall Kyle 9 of Fort Walton Beach and two juveniles were arrested Friday at 11 45 p m on the Beltway Shopping Center roof for trespassing and charged with breaking and entering the Tas T O donut shop. Kyle arraigned before Judge Howard Gill with bonds set and juveniles placed with juvenile authorities.
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William Randall Kyle
North Bear St
Fort Walton Beach
Okaloosa County
Kyle
Beltway
Jales Borio
Howard Gill
Congress Hears FBI Showdown Amid Watergate Tangles
Senate scrutiny tightens as Judiciary Committee weighs subpoena of White House counsel John W Dean II in relation to the FBI Watergate break in. Nixon warns executive privilege while Mansfield signals a renewal vote on extending the Economic Stabilization Act and wage price controls.
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Wardh
Congress
White House
Senate
FBI
L. Patrick Gray
Senate Judiciary Committee
Gray
John W. Dean II
Nixon
Dean
Democratic
Watergate
Senate Democratic
Mike Mansfield
Mansfield
Senate Banking Committee
Fort Walton Beach Newspaper Rates and Contacts
A brief notice lists the Playground Daily News main office numbers and local bureaus at Niceville Crestview and details subscription rates for daily and Sunday editions including monthly and yearly prices and payment terms. It notes circulation figures and membership in the Audit Bureau of Circulation.
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Your Freedom
Playground Daily News Division
Florida
Freedom Newspapers
Nc. IV
Eglin Parkway
Ft. Walton Beach
Audit Bureau of Circulation
Gaullists Win In France Defeat of Communists Links to West
Paris reports President Pompidou's Gaullists maintained power for five more years, defeating a Communist Socialist alliance. With 483 of 490 constituencies counted, they held a 90 seat majority, promising continued alignment with the American led Western bloc. The Interior Ministry noted Gaullists won 46.0 percent of the vote and 90 seats ahead of the United Left Wing’s 46.8 percent and reform groups.
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Paris
UPI
Georges Pompidou
France
Michel Poniatowski
Elysee Palace
Pompidou
Raymond Marcellin
Gaullists
Union of the Left
National Assembly
Interior Ministry
Consumer Advocacy Outbids Farm Efforts in Florida
In Tallahassee the Consumer Services director argues the agency is misnamed, noting 80 percent of work is consumer oriented. Gov Askew seeks to place it under his supervision as the consumer protection role spreads across departments and a 1972 reform created a consumer advisor with mixed results and refunds totaling thousands of dollars.
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Tallahassee
UPI
Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
Consumer Services
Robert J. Bishop
Bishop
Agriculture Department
Gov. Reubin
Askew
Also Mentioned on This Page
Okaloosa Digest
Playground Daily News
PGDN
Choctaw
Bruner Band
Alanon
Westminister Presbyterian Church
Ocean City
Valparaiso
Commission
Karachi
Associated Press of Pakistan
APP
Larkana
Zulfika Ali Bhutto
New York
H.R. Haldeman
Newsweek Magazine
Haldeman
Newsweek
Pacific Northwest
Rockies
Texas
Mos
Texas A&m Rotc
Conroe
United Press International
Wasp-Niceville
Crestview
United
Reform Group
Robert Shegin
Arthur Bingland
Miami
Glenn Turner
Caf
Dare-lohe
Shevin
Fengland
Bishop's Division
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