Senate Panel Ponders State Budget Proposal
The Senate Ways and Means Committee considered a 1.921 billion dollar state budget with 210 million for interstate highways and a general pay raise. The plan, 24 million above Gov. Askew's recommendation, faces votes in both chambers with conference talks ahead.
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Tallahassee
UPD
Senate
Ways and Means
Reubin Askew
House Appropriations Committee
House Committee
Jim Williams
D-Ocala
House
Williams
Community notices and events from Okaloosa area week
Local notices advise groups to submit items in typewritten form to Playground Daily News for print space. Menu items for Okaloosa and St Marys schools list Thursday meals. Meetings and events include Twin Cities Senior Citizens postponement, VFW Poppy Sale details, Choctawhatchee Band concert, New Heights PTO Open House, Ocean City PTA meeting, Twin Cities Rotary Club gathering, and a piano recital at Niceville High School.
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Okaloosa Digest
Playground Daily News
PGDN
Okaloosa County
St. Mary's
St. Mary’s
Twin Cities
VFW
Choctawhatchee
Choctawhatchee High School
Jimmy Ray Jones
Dick Reinke
Vannabons
Mitch Frisch
Tulsa
New Heights
PTO
Ocean City
PTA
Ocan City Elementary
Physical Education
Niceville-Valparaiso
John Sims Parkway
Niceville
Carole Lee Ward
Niceville Senior High School
First Americans Summit Dhaulagiri Peak Climb
Two members of a 16 man U S expedition, Louis Reichardt and John Roskelly, reached the summit of Dhaulagiri 26 795 feet on May 12 after a May ascent aided by Sherpa guide Nawa Samden. Expedition leader James Morrissey, a California surgeon, accompanied them.
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Katmandu
Nepal
UPI
Dhaulagirii
Foreign Office
Louis Reichardt
Palo Alto
Calif
John Roskelly
Spokane
Wash
Sirdar Nawa Samden
James D. Morrissey
Stockton
Playground Daily News Want Ads Circulation Notes
Classified snippet from the Playground Daily News lists contact numbers for main office and circulation departments, with multiple area codes and a string of digits indicating ad placement lines. No complete items or specifics beyond contact references are provided.
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WALP
Niceville
Crestview
Skylab Engineers Race Against Time to Cool Station
In Houston engineers outlined two solar shade methods to protect Skylab astronauts as they prepare for a Sunday launch. Crews must be trained, a flight plan updated, and the cooling system restored from 110 degrees to about 65 to 70.
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Houston
UPL
America
Earth-orbiting
Space Station
Earth
Don Puddy
Skylab
Space Agency
Supreme Court Vacates Pensacola Rape Convictions
The Florida Supreme Court overturned the convictions of two Black men, McDole and Blackwell, for rape, ruling police beatings likely coerced confessions. Justices cited bruises and inconsistent waivers, ordering a new trial and criticizing the handling of the voluntariness issue.
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Ernest E. Mason
Dames Steddo McDole
Henry Blackwell
Pensacola
McDole
Blackwell
McDalle
Jetliner Diverted To Denver In Bomb Hoax
A Northwest Airlines jet with 125 aboard was diverted to Denver after a threat of a pressure bomb unless the plane stayed above 5,600 feet. FAA called it a hoax as searches found no bomb aboard. The flight from New York to Japan was diverted during Alaska airspace.
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Denver
UPI
Northwest Airlines
New York City
Japan
Dave Olds
Federal Aviation Agency
FAA
Panama City Woman Improves After Highway 98 Crash
Mrs Estelle Acreman, injured in a one car crash on Hwy 98 Tuesday, has improved. A hospital spokesman said she is no longer serious, moved from the intensive care unit, and is doing well.
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Estelle Acreman
Panama City
Woman hijacks unmanned train in Florida derailment
A well dressed mother of four seized controls of an unmanned 28 car Sea Board Coast Line locomotive in Seminole County. The train traveled 40 miles from Sanford to Pierson before it derailed after being steered onto a spur. Mary Lane Pipkin, 25, was arrested and charged with grand larceny. No clear memory of the event is reported, and investigators note possible unknown factors.
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Sanford
Fla
UPT
Sea Board
Pierson
Mary Lane Pipkin
Seminole County
Ton Hennigan
Hennigan
Habo
M. R. Herring
SCL
Tie
Andre
PSC Standardizes Utility Bill System
Florida PSC proposes uniform billing for all regulated electric utilities with a May 30 comment deadline. The plan requires five days written notice before disconnection for nonpayment and separate notice from the monthly bill. Bills would show monthly fuel adjustment and delinquent date to clarify charges. Delinquency would wait 20 days from mailing. hearings may be held on the order.
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Tallahassee
UPS
Florida Public Service Commission
PSC
Wall Street Broker Charged in Secret Campaign Contributions
John L. Loeb, 70, senior partner at Loeb Rhodes and Co., allegedly used eight employees to write 18 checks totaling 48008 from personal accounts to the Humphrey committees. The charges, filed in Manhattan, center on violating the 1971 Federal Election Campaign Act which requires disclosures for contributions after April 7, 1972.
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New York
UPI
Wall Street
Hube Shumphrey
John L. Loeb
Senio
Loeb, Rhodesan Co
U.S. District Court
Manhattan
U.S. Attorney’s Office
U.S
Loch
Loeb
Humphrey
George McGovern
California
House Debates Authority To Censure Lt Gov Adams
Speaker Sessums rejected claims that the Florida House lacks power to censure Lt. Gov. Tom Adams as an alternative to impeachment. Rep. John Savage argued the constitution only authorizes impeachment votes. Sessums backed Rules Chairman Dubbin that censure authority exists. He noted no state precedent but cited congressional precedent and ruled on the point of order.
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Tallahassee
Terrell Sessums
House
Tom Adams
John Savage
St. Petersburg
Rules Committee
Sessums
Murray Dubbin
Miami
Savage
Nouse
Sessumns
Eugene Tubbs
Merrill Island
Adams
Tubbs
Senate
Rhodesian Border Fire Kills Two Tourists
A Rhodesian government spokesman said Zambian troops fired across Victoria Falls gorge killing two Canadian girls and wounding an American man. Names and details of the victims are given, with Rhodesia protesting the incident and asserting proof of responsibility by Zambian troops.
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Salisbury
API
Victoria Falls
Rhodesia
Ottawa
Canadian External Affairs Department
Christine Louise Sinclair
Guelph
Ont
Marion Iduma Drijber
Rockwood
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Kimberly Schaner
Wayne
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ST. George's
Caribbean
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Your Freedom
Florida
Freedom Newspapers Inc
Eglin Parkway
Ft. Walton Beach
Fort Walton Beach
United Press International
Carriae
Audit Bureau of Circulation
Skylab Engineers
Cape Kennedy
Walter J. Kapryan
Kapryan
Supreme Court
MecDole
FBI
Tarm
Batzlsnov
Mississippi Valley
Middle
North Atlantic
Stiles
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Great Lakes Area
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Pray
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