Nixon Special on Menu as Beef Shortage Hits Restaurants
Reports from Wichita and Independence detail restaurants facing beef shortages with owners jokingly adding menu items like a Nixon Special. Breaching supply, Richmond Food Stores ration beef, Safeway stores report lean backups, and meat workers warn of possible layoffs if price ceilings persist. Cattle sales in Iowa plummet and wheat prices reach all time highs on the Chicago Board of Trade.
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United Press International
Howard Barkett
Wrangler
Wichita
Kan
Nixon
Her
Richmond
Virginia
Safeway
Washington State
Alaska
Chicago Board of Trade
Board of Trade
Wrigley
Michigan
Canada
Ohio
del Monte
Beef shortage sparks rustling and price protests
Cattle rustling increases in California as beef shortages force plant closures and market brief shortages. A federal injunction bid over price ceilings failed in San Francisco while packers report 18 closed plants statewide. Citizens express alarm as shortages and rising prices ripple through stores and restaurants.
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UPI
California
Pacific Coast Meat Jobbers Association
Cost of Living Council
Robert F. Peckham
Norm Moffit
Western States Meat Packers Association
Kleindienst says Ehrlichman warned of criminal acts
Former Attorney General Richard G. Kleindienst testified he warned White House aide John Ehrlichman last summer he could be charged with obstructing justice for trying to direct the Watergate grand jury probe. He said Ehrlichman pressed Petersen to limit questioning of Maurice H. Stans, Nixon fundraiser.
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Washington
Justice Department
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Department
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The
Wall Street Journal
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Richardson
White House
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Baltimore
Maywood Named For Corning Elementary School
Corning Elementary School District selects Maywood as the new school name reflecting local history. Construction at Fig Lane site proceeds toward a January 1974 completion, with the West Street School to be rebuilt after Maywood opens.
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Maywood
Corning Elementary
Corning
Vernon J. Freitas
Olive View
West Street
Two Women Complete 140 Mile Death Valley Trek
Jo Ann Claudio-Williams and Anita Perrot both 21 and 22 from San Francisco finished a 140 mile trek across Death Valley. They started July 29 at Saratoga Springs near the southern rim and averaged 15 miles a day past Dantes View Bad Water and Furnace Creek, reaching Grapevine on the northern edge.
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Furnace Creek
UPI
Death Valley
Jo Ann Claudio-Williams
Anita Perrot
San Francisco
Saratoga Springs
National Monument
Dantes View
Badwater
Desolation Canyon
Stovepipe Wells
Dry Bone Canyon
Agnew Notified Of Probe For Extortion and Tax Fraud
UPI reports the U.S. Attorney in Baltimore notified Vice President Spiro Agnew he is under investigation for bribery extortion and tax fraud. The probe concerns Maryland state contracts from 1967 1968 and federal contracts since 1969. Also named under scrutiny are J Walker Jones and I H Hammerman, Agnew fund raisers.
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Washington
UPI
U.S. Attorney’s Office
Baltimore
Spiro T. Agnew
Wall Street Journal
Agnew
Maryland
General Services Administration
Washington Post
Baltimore County
The
Post
J. Walker Jones
Annapolis
I.H. Hammerman
Prices may rise as final Phase IV rules take effect
The Price Control Council announced today that most final Phase IV regulations will allow some price increases of 10 percent or more starting next week. Firms with $100 million plus annual sales face 30 days notice before raising above base levels.
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Washington
Two Youths Hurt in Car That Overturned Near I-5
Two youths, Cathy Secrist 15 and Joni Denhalter 14, were injured yesterday when a car driven by Carol Ann Stotts 28 of Bella Vista went out of control and overturned on the Highway 36 off ramp on Interstate 5. They were taken to St Elizabeth Community Hospital for treatment. In Red Bluff a house car driven by Fred Elwood Robertson 44 of San Pablo drifted off Red Bank Road and struck a telephone pole. Robertson was uninjured but his vehicle had moderate damage. A separate accident near Los Molinos involved motorcycle rider Ben Wesley Spade 23 and car driver Lillian Lockie 65. no injuries were reported.
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Redding
Highway Patrol
Carol Ann Stotts
Bella Vista
Highway 36
Interstate 5
Cathy Secrist
Joni Denhalter
Fred Elwood Robertson
San Pablo
Red Bank Road
Walnut Ave
Red Bluff
Ben Wesley Spade
Los Molinos
Lillian Lockie
Skylab astronauts wrap up record spacewalk voyage
Astronauts Owen Garriott Jack Lousma and Alan Bean completed a 642 hour spacewalk aboard Skylab. They turned on the observatory examined the sun and conducted solar telescope work while advancing medical experiments and planning the return to Earth.
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Thomas G. Belden Houston
UPI
Skylab
Orbital
Owen K. Garriott
Jack R. Lousma
Space Station
Earth
Garriott
Lousma
Alan L. Bean
Mission Control
Release Ordered Of Incarcerated Man In Tehama County
San Francisco man John Jerome Foley, 46, freed after a year and nine months in custody on a probation violation claim later found unsupported. Judge Clyde H. Larimer released Foley in Tehama County Superior Court after his attorney cited the jury verdict showing no probation violation.
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San Francisco
Clyde H. Larimer
Tehama County
John Jerome Foley
Minnie Laurance
State Court of Appeal
Foley
Larimer
City Employees Seek 7 1 2 Percent Cost of Living Increase
Red Bluff City Council will hear a request from city employees for a seven and a half percent cost of living increase at 7 30 p m in the council chamber 555 Washington Street. A public hearing at 7 45 p m will hear protests on weed and rubbish abatement for the 1973 fire season.
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Red Bluff
City Council
Washington St
Weather Outlook and Temperatures Across Regions
Fair through Wednesday with little temperature change. Highs near 95 to 97, lows around 63 to 59, southerly winds up to 15 mph. Thursday outlook fair and slightly warmer. River levels shown as Lake Red Bluff 15.5, Bend Bridge 20.5, Tehama Bridge 203.5, Woodson Bridge 168.2 feet above mean sea level. Sunset 8:17 p.m., sunrise 6:12 a.m. PDT.
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Tehama Bridge
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McLean, Va
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