Nixon aims to lift most wage and price controls after April
The Nixon administration told Congress it plans to end mandatory wage and price controls after April 30 except for health and petroleum sectors. Cost of Living Council would become an umbrella agency to monitor inflation and coordinate federal and local actions.
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R. Gregory Nokes
Associated Press
Washington (Ap
Nixon
Congress
U.S
Cost of Living Council
John T
Dunlop
Senate Banking Committee
Federal Energy Office
Campaign Practices Act trimmed by Senate Rules Committee
Legislators were removed from the Campaign Practices Reform Act as the Senate Rules Committee slashed the bill. The measure would have covered all campaigns, but amendments pared it to cover federal and statewide races, dropping legislators and local elections. A companion bill on financial disclosures passed.
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Marjorie Beck
Santa FE
Senate Rules Committee
R. E. Thompson
D-Chaves
Roswell
Thompson
Thomas T. Rutherford
Bernalillo
Senate
Rules Committee
New Mexico
Bruce King
Common Cause
League of Women Voters
C. B. Trujillo
Hearst kidnapping: progress in nationwide search
Police report some progress in locating Patricia Hearst, the 19 year old granddaughter of William Randolph Hearst. Randolph Hearst urged abductors to contact through the press and return their daughter unharmed. No ransom has been requested and no word on her whereabouts.
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Berkeley
Calif
Patricia Hearst
Randolph A. Hearst
San Francisco Examiner
Miss Hearst
William Randolph Hearst
Hearst
Steven A. Weed
Miss Heart
Nixon proposes national health plan with $5.9 billion spend
President Nixon sends Congress a new national health insurance plan claiming it would boost federal outlays by 5.9 billion dollars yearly while avoiding tax hikes. Other items note wholesale gasoline price hikes and legal rulings in Virginia and New Mexico.
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Washington
Nixon
Congress
Food shortages warned as truckers strike escalates
The Associated Press reports a trucker was shot dead on a Delaware highway amid a nationwide truckers shutdown. Governors mobilized National Guard troops to protect convoys while warning of looming food and fuel shortages. Thousands more job losses and widespread industry cuts followed, with officials urging continued actions despite violence and government freezes.
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Associated Press
Delaware
Leonard Fleet
Council of Independent Truckers
Nixon
Olympia
Wash
J. W. Edwards
Independent Drivers Association of America
Claudie Nix
St. Stevens
S.C
U.S. 13
Missouri Highway Patrol
Everett Moore
Brookfield
Churchill Truck Co
Hannibal
Moore
Pennsylvania
New Mexico
Iowa
Ohio
Kentucky
Wendell H. Ford
Ford
West Virginia
Arch A. Moore Jr
National Guard
Michigan
Wisconsin
Ilinois
Missouri
Indiana
Evansville
Ind
National Association of Retail Grocers
New England Food Stores
Dynamite Found by Roswell Resident During Cleanup
A Roswell resident uncovered 25 pounds of 15 year old dynamite in a storage shed on East Second Street. The Army desensitized and burned the explosive with kerosene at a site east of Roswell, after which residents were urged to report any finds and avoid handling such devices.
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Roswell
East Second Street
Roswell City
Col
Carroll Teague
Teague
U.S. Army
John E. Morgan
Michael C. Spencer
Ft. Bliss
Tex
Army
747 Tours Set For Roswell Display This Weekend
Continental Airlines will display a Boeing 747 at Roswell Industrial Air Center on Saturday from 10 am to 4 pm. The moth balled jet will be parked east of the terminal with Continental staff guiding tours from cockpit to tail. American Airlines also has two 747s here with more expected today due to fuel costs. School groups and others are invited to tour the aircraft.
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Roswell
Continental Airlines
Roswell Industrial Air Center
Tinental
American Airlines
Truck Driver Assaulted During Nationwide Trucker Strike
State police report two men in a pickup threw bricks at a Safeway transport truck, stopping it and assaulting the driver near Carrizozo, about 11:30 p.m. The incident may have occurred near a Roswell area truck stop amid a nationwide independent trucker strike over diesel costs and speed limits. Officer Charles Mason of Clovis later found a bullet hole in his truck door near Portales after loading in Artesia.
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Associated Press
Safeway
Alamogordo
Carrizozo
Clovis
Charles Mason
Mason
Artesia
Portales
Roswell
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Tenn
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Luna County
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Ferguson
Corporation
Henry C. Sanders
John Kelly
FBI
San Francisco
Kelly
University of California
Weed
Associated Press and Record News
Alexandria
John W. Dean III
Virginia State Circuit Court
Dean
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State Court of Appeals
Grady Lee Billington
Hobbs
Billington
Federal Energy
William E. Simon
H. P. Borgeson
State Board of Medical Examiners
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