Probe Kickbacks to Club Sergeants by Entertainers
Senate probe probes kickbacks in Vietnam club systems as entertainers paid fees to sergeants managing clubs. Marehem Corp linked to illicit profits. Maj. Gen. Turner faces medal revocation over alleged personal gain. Wooldridge investment cited. 5th amendment could be invoked.
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D-Conn
Bayh Attacks Haynsworth Over Ethics in Nomination
Senator Bayh presented a bill of particulars criticizing Judge Haynsworth for ethical concerns tied to stock holdings in litigants before the Fourth Circuit panel. The panel faced defections from GOP senators amid a White House push led by Vice President Agnew, while supporters urged confirmation by a comfortable Senate majority.
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GI War Toll Dips to 64 in Week
U S headquarters reported two American aircraft downed Wednesday. An F4 Phantom fighter was downed near Da Nang. crewmen escaped unhurt. A small army helicopter was shot down near Saigon, wounding two crewmen. South Vietnamese battlefield deaths fell to five month low. enemy dead also at a low, with 209 government soldiers killed and 189 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops killed in the week. The South Vietnamese toll surpassed American fatalities for five months as ground combat slowed but remained active in spots. A mortar barrage preceded an attack that killed eight Marines and wounded 16 near the DMZ, with an AC47 gunship aiding the defense.
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Panel OKs Tax Exemption for State and City Bonds
Washington reports the Senate finance committee tentatively approved keeping state and municipal bonds tax exempt. Sen. Albert Gore said the vote was by show of hands after a closed meeting, a victory for mayors and governors who argued the House reform bill would raise borrowing costs and force higher local taxes. Gore noted some discussion of an alternative plan but gave few details.
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Reagan Unruh Would Run For California Governor
A forthcoming book quotes Ronald Reagan and Jesse Unruh as saying they would seek the California governorship in 1970. The book Ronnie and Jesse A Political Odyssey by Lou Cannon, Sacramento bureau chief for the San Jose Mercury News, is due in California October 17 from Doubleday.
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Jesse M. Unruh
California
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Jesse
Lou Cannon
San Jose Mercury and News
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Jungleland Animals Auctioned
Jungleland Inc the bankrupt private zoo auctioned off over 1800 wild and semi tame animals including big cats hippos hyenas and walabies bidders came from Europe Middle East and Brooklyn N Y The top price 25700 for six dromedary camels led a two day sale while a humorous hammer bid about an untrained female tiger drew laughs and a sale price of 325 for the buyer a bearded man. Governor Reagan was quoted on leaving a job half finished and intending to run for re election as California governor with Unruh hinting at a possible bid for governor and San Francisco Mayor Joseph Shite also seen as a race entry.
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Joseph Sliote
San Francisco
Marine Guard Kills Fellow GI at Saigon Embassy
A Marine guard at the American Embassy in Saigon shot and killed a fellow Marine and wounded another. Embassy spokesman said the assailant appeared to fire at several guards, then was arrested two hours later in his quarters. Albert L. Smith, 22, of Coolidge, Arizona, was taken into custody.
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Coolidge, Ariz
Ex-Male Claimant Announces Birth Of Miracle Child
Dawn Langley Wall Simmons a British born writer who married a Negro mechanic says she has given birth to a seven pound daughter born in the Midwest on Sept. 16. She plans to bring the child to Charleston in about three weeks and parade her on the Battery. Simmons claimed the baby is a miracle and will bless black people. Her husband John Paul Simmons, a shrimp-boat worker, married her January 23 after a sex change operation at Johns Hopkins.
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