Planned Land Program Aims to Drive Portsmouth Industry
A Portsmouth special report urges city council to reserve 56 acres annually for five years plus 220 acres in 1975 and 220 in 1976 to reach 720 acres of industrial land by 1976. With shipyard closure looming, the plan seeks to lure out of state firms by supplying skilled labor and prepared sites, amid concerns of 5,000 unemployed if 1974 phaseout proceeds.
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Portsmouth
Naval Shipyard
Portsmouth Economic Commission
Seacoast
Defense Department
Robert 5. MacNamara
Arthur F. Brady Jr
Gas Blast Hurts Man In Bay State
Thomas Haugh 52 of Sunset Road Stoneham was critically burned in a gas blast that blew out a wall after a 12 inch main rupture. Fire inspector says gas built up in water pipes and ignited when he reignited a basement oil burner. Mystic Valley Gas and city officials blame each other over the leak and prior reports.
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Stoneham
Mass
Sunset Road
Mystic Valley
Haugh
Sunset Street
Richard L. Fite
Mystic Valley Gas
Government moves to rescue savings and curb rapid withdrawals
Washington AP The government acts to support lending to home buyers by creating a housing certificate of deposit paying 6 percent for two years, aiming to keep several hundred million dollars from leaving the housing market and curb inflation. The program expires next July unless renewed, with a minimum denomination of ten dollars for savers who had deposits last Monday.
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Washington
Federal Home Loan Bank Board
Sells
Preston Martin
Martin
Alan
Inflation Rears Its Head as 1969 Tops Inflation Years
Washington AP reports 1969 as the most inflationary year in two decades with November prices lifting the Consumer Price Index to 130.5, about 30 percent above the 1957-59 base. A typical 100 dollar weekly family today spends 130.50 for essentials, while average pay drops per month for rank-and-file workers, with Nixon outlining anti inflation measures and McCracken predicting a slow response.
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Washington
White House
Nixon
Paul W. McCracken
Government orders special federal grand jury probe into Hampton Clark slayings
U S Attorney General John N Mitchell announced Friday a seven member Justice Department team will direct a special federal grand jury investigation into the December 4 police slayings of Black Panther leaders Fred Hampton and Mark Clark in Chicago. The probe aims to quell rumors and test allegations of rights violations by police.
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Washington
Black Panther Party
Chicago
Atty
John N. Mitchell
Justice Department
Fred Hampton
Wiineis
The
Black Panthers
Mark Clark
Partment
Joel Popkin
Popkin
Mitchell
Oil Problem Clears Door to Winter Oil Supply
Washington A meeting of New England senators and a White House representative was held Friday to solve the region s oil problems. Senator Norris Cotton said a conference with the President will follow as Niven s task force reports. They urged prompt executive action to assure New England an adequate winter supply without prohibitive prices and noted temporary emergency measures may be needed pending the report.
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Washington
New England
White House
Norris Cotton
Niven
Cotton
United States eases trade with Communist China in three steps
The State Department announced a three phase relaxation of rules to ease trade with China effective Monday. U.S. subsidiaries abroad may engage in non strategic trade with China on par with foreign rivals while direct U.S. trade remains banned. Third, the $100 limit on non commercial purchases by Americans ends, aiding tourists and collectors though resale remains prohibited. Senator Hugh Scott praised the art import ease.
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Washington
United States
China
Peking
State Department
U.S
Hugh Scott
R-Pa
Family of Seven Dies In Tennessee Car Crash
The John McMahon family from Cleveland Ohio traveling to Arkansas and Texas for Christmas lost six children when a folding camper caused their station wagon to plunge 35 feet down an embankment on Interstate 40 near a bridge. Jean 13 died later in a Nashville hospital. Parents and two other children were injured.
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Jean
Nashville
McMahon
Geneva
Margaret Mary
John Edward
James Patrick
Timothy Michael
Deborah
Barbara
Vanderbit Hospital
Dickson General Hospital
Maddox May Face Contempt Claim Over Desegregation Order
In Atlanta CAPD OA Justice Department spokesman hinted Maddox could be cited for contempt for resisting the federal desegregation order. Maddox said complying would defy the Constitution and place parents and teachers in conflict with themselves.
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Atlanta
Justice Department
Lester Maddox
Maddox
Senate Democrats vow to fight spending veto
Senate Democrats urged voters to back a challenge to President Nixon over federal spending for health education and welfare, promising action in 1970. The session ends soon as a $21.4 billion Labor and HEW appropriation faces Nixon veto threats amid a broad tax reform package.
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Washington
Senate
Nixon
1St Congress
Senate Democrats
Ralph W. Yarborough
Texas
Party of the People
Fred R. Warris
Oklahoma
Democratic National Committee
Tsay
Harris
Labor
Health
Education
Welfare
Congress
Mike Mansfield
D-Mont
House
White House
Hugh Scott
Pennsylvania
Nixon Gift to Staff Color portrait gift from White House staff
President Nixon and Mrs. Nixon will give color prints of Gilbert Stuart's Washington portrait to official and domestic staff each Christmas. About 3,000 prints were made, enclosed in a red velour cover, 11 by 13½ inches, designed by Sanford Fox and Hallmark.
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Washington
Nixon
George Washington
White House
Gilbert Stuart
Nix
Oval Office
Sanford Fox
Hallmark Co
John F. Kennedys
Jts
Lyndon B. Johnsons
Nixons
U S Aids Granite State In Food Distribution
In Concord New Hampshire Governor Walter Peterson announced a federal grant of 52.08 million to enhance New Hampshire food distribution programs and implement USDA recommendations. He said the funding marks an historic first in federal support for the state surplus food program and would be used to improve administration and reach amid criticism from a prior economic opportunity report.
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Concord
Agriculture
Walter Peterson
U.S. Department of Plus
New Hampshire
Peterson
USDA
Evo
Mmic Opportunity
13 Sailors Injured in Turkey Protest as U S Fleet Arrives
AP reporting that 13 U.S. servicemen were injured and 31 demonstrators taken into custody during protests over the arrival of five ships of the U.S. 6th Fleet in Turkey. None of the injuries serious, as police said Americans were attacked in scattered incidents and cars were stoned. The Columbus, J P Kennedy, Basilone, Warranton, and Spangler began disembarking under tight security as riot police ringed the area.
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Tmir
Turkey
U.S
Air Force
Navy
Chuaser Columbus
Basilone
Warrington
Spangler
Tuckish
Debris Removal Planned After Dolphin Hotel Fire
A contractor won a permit at City Hall to remove debris from the Dolphin Hotel fire site on High Street. The city Building Commission ordered work to start within 48 hours, with a deadline of 2 pm yesterday, as the debris was deemed a hazard after the Dec 1 fire that destroyed the hotel and steak house.
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City Hall
Sity
Wednecias
City Building Commission
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