Nixon seeks nonpartisan election reform commission
President Nixon asks Congress to create a 17 member Nonpartisan Commission on Election Reform to study the federal electoral process and campaign practices. The panel would report by December 1 and consider limits on contributions and a possible constitutional amendment for term lengths.
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Washington
Nixon
Congress
Nonpartisan Commission On Election Reform
Commission
House
Senate
Ervin Committee
Federal Elections Commission
White House
Mike Mansfield
Mansfield
Hugh Scott
Pennsylvania
Roswell Council Approves 36 Cent Water Contract
The Roswell City Council approved a contract with the Berrendo Cooperative Water Users Assn at 36 cents per 1000 gallons, plus water rights for use of the city supply. The vote followed news of a $320,000 federal loan for a rural water system north and east of Roswell. The meeting also discussed city water rights, humane society shelter operations, and a sidewalk sale tied to Crazy Daze on June 2.
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Berrendo Cooperative Water Users Assn
Roswell
City Hall Chambers
Berrendo Cooperative
Cumberland
L. C. Stiles
William F. Brainerd
Berrendo
Cumberland Water Cooperative
Midway
Stiles
Brainerd
L. L. Stiles
Roswell Humane Society
Police Committee
City
Humane Society
Animal Shelter
New SAC Base Commanding Officer Arrives for Orientation
Lt. Col. Elmer Funderburk Jr. arrives at Roswell Industrial Air Center Thursday noon for a two day orientation visit before assuming command of Detachment 1, 22nd Bomb Wing. The visiting B52 from Grand Forks AFB will proceed to Biggs AFB after deplaning. Col. Denis O'Brien hosts the visit.
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SAC
22Nd
Roswell Industrial Air Center
Elmer Funderburk Jr
Grand Forks
Afb
N.D
Walker Afb
Funderburk
Biggs Afb
el Paso
Denis O’brien
Federal charge over direct contributions to Humphrey campaign
In New York the federal government charged a senior partner at a Wall Street brokerage with making 48 000 in illegal contributions to Senator Hubert H Humphrey's presidential primary campaign last year. In Washington SEC chairman G Bradford Cook announced his resignation on Wednesday.
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New York
Wall Street
Hubert H. Humphrey
Washington
G. Bradford Cook
The
Securities and Exchange Commission
Roswell RIAC runway bid goes to local firm
Armstrong and Armstrong won the RIAC north–south runway upgrade contract for 512830, beating Wiley Brothers 598770 and Brown Construction 574366. The project totals 654000 with funding from Four Corners Commission 417090 FAA 236910 and city. Construction to begin in about 30 days pending FAA approval. field lab tests and pavement surfacing dominate costs.
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Roswell Industrial Air Center
Armstrong and Armstrong
RIAC
Roswell
Albuquerque
Wiley Brothers Contracting Co
Brown Construction Co
Earl Cook
Gordon Herkenhoff
Four Corners
Skylab picks shade plan as heat threat tops NASA aims
Skylab temperatures rise to 150 degrees inside the lab at Cape Kennedy forcing NASA to consider sending astronauts Charles Conrad Jr Joseph Kerwin and Paul Weitz to install a 12 by 40 foot aluminized shade. If approved the launch could slip from Sunday to Friday May 26.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
Skylab Space Station
Space Agency
Orbiting Laboratory
Charles Conrad Jr
Joseph P. Kerwin
Paul J. Weitz
Mission Control
Saturn
William C. Schneider
Conrad
Kerwin
Weitz
Don Puddy
Skylab
Johnson Space Center
Houston
Tex
Escaped convicts hunt tied to Georgia family killings
Authorities pursue three escaped convicts after six members of the Alday family are found slain in Georgia and a wife’s nude body found later. Victims Ned Alday and five relatives were shot. Mary Alday was raped and killed. Suspects are Carl Isaacs Jr, George Dungee, and Wayne C Coleman, linked to a Maryland escape. A stolen car and threats against police are noted in the investigation.
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Reynoldsville
Dan White
Seminole County
William Beardsley
Alday
Ned Alday
Jerry
Chester
Jimmy
Aubrey
Mary
White
Mary Alday
Dungee
Isaacs
FBI
Coleman
Maryland
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Associated Press
Armstrong and Armstrong Contractors
Don Langford
Farrell McLean
Bill Bouivinis
the Contracting Company
Roswell City
Mack Thomas
Council
City Company
Cook
FAA
Georgia
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