Nixon Would Nix Urban Programs
President Nixon proposed scrapping most federal urban programs and replacing them with a 2.3 million annual flexible grant system. The Better Communities Act would curb categorical grants and give communities more leeway to address local needs, with July 1, 1974, as the target start date.
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Washington
UPD
Nixon
Congress
Camp David
John D
Ehrlichman
H. R. Haldeman
White House
State of the Union
Snake bites during rattlesnake demonstration in California
Edward Gill a former boxing champion from Compton visited Arcadia to learn snake handling. While showing how to pull fangs the rattler bit him, he sucked the wound then collapsed five minutes later. Gill remained in serious condition at Metropolitan Hospital.
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Arcadia
Calif
APD
Edward Gill
Roger Moorhart
Gill
California
Compton
Moorhart
Methodist Hospital
Oklahoma
Minidoka City Teachers Seek 6600 Base
Minidoka County teachers representatives preliminarily approved a new salary schedule in Rupert Idaho proposing a base pay of 6600 dollars The schedule approved by the salary committee Tuesday would grant a 3 percent raise for each year of experience up to 13 years and top out at 10280 dollars for a master’s degree plus 30 credits and three years of experience
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Rupert, Idaho
UPI
Minidoka County
Weicker reports safe with Watergate records opened
Senator Lowell P. Weicker says a safe holding Watergate bugging materials was found open by his aides after being locked the night before. Fingerprint experts were summoned and Capitol police collected prints from the drawer area, though officials caution no papers are confirmed missing.
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Washington
UPI
Lowell P. Weicker
R-Conn
Senate
Weicker
William Wickens
Wickens
Capitol
Bill Wickens
Bob Herreman
Top aide fingers Dean Mitchell in Watergate case
Eight cartons of documents including plans to bug the Watergate and lists of Nixon campaign contributors were reportedly hidden by an unnamed client and returned to the Committee to Re-elect before the elections. Peter H. Wolf sought court protection from contempt for not naming his client.
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Wesley G. Pippert
Washington
UPD
White House
Democratic National
Peter H. Wolf
U.S. District Court
Wolf
U.S
John J. Siriea
Sirica
Nixon
John N. Mitchell
John W. Déan DT
E. Howard Hunt
FBI
Hunt
Committee
Richard G. Kleindienst
John W. Dean
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Elizabeth Engwall
Pata Thompson
Walt Frostad
Coeur d’Alene
Eagles
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Dean
Mitchell
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