Gulf Oil Unit Pleads Guilty In Nixon Campaign Donations
Washington (UPI) Gulf Oil Corp and VP Claude C. Wild Jr pleaded guilty to making a 100000 illegal contribution to the 1972 Nixon campaign and 15000 to Democratic hopefuls. Judge Hart fined Gulf 5000 and Wild 1000. The case links to Watergate prosecutions of corporate campaign contributions and notes similar admissions by other firms including Braniff and Goodyear.
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Wild
Gulf
Watergate
Leon Jaworski
Nixon, Contribution, and Company
Wilbur
D. Mills
D-Ark
Sen. Henry
M. Jackson
D.wash
Jaworski
Shatanati Bete
Boardeo
Ashland
Phillips, Petroleum
HEW Rejects Desegregation Plans as Inadequate
HEW announced rejection of desegregation plans for nine state college systems under court order. Arkansas Florida Georgia Louisiana Mississippi North Carolina Oklahoma Pennsylvania Virginia received notices. Maryland sent a partial plan awaiting full submission. Civil rights director Peter E. Holmes said plans were on track but still unacceptable and gave 90 days to improve.
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Washington
UPI
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
HEW
Office For Civil Rights
Arkansas
Florida
Georgia
Louisiana
Mississippi
North Carolina
Oklahoma
Pennsylvania
Virginia
Maryland
Peter E. Holmes
Holmes
Britain declares national emergency and gasoline rationing
The British government declares an emergency and warns of gasoline rationing in days. Gasoline ration books are stockpiled and expected at post offices, with rationing to begin after a three phase plan. The first phase cuts power and fuel use by government departments and nationalized industries by ten percent and asks the public to voluntary reductions.
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London
UPI
Britain
Middle East
Utah suspends nearly 20000 dormant shell corporations
Utah Secretary of State Clyde L. Miller announced the state will dissolve dormant corporations that fail to pay franchise taxes within a year under a 1973 registration act. The list includes about 19 900 firms, some dormant since turn of the century, revealing the shell capital label and addressing abuses by stock manipulators and sham cures.
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Salt Lake City
UPI
Utah
Clyde L. Miller
Miller
Shell
David L. Wilkinson
Secretary of State
Harvard Hinton
Shipbuilder executive testifies on 1972 Nixon contributions
A Cleveland American Shipbuilding executive testified before the Watergate Committee that he and eight colleagues were paid 1972 bonuses by the company and ordered to turn part into Nixon campaign contributions. He described a $5000 bonus with a $3000 check to the Committee for the Re-Election of the President and a $700 cash share. He said he later told the FBI the truth to the Watergate grand jury and that $100,000 in checks went to Kalmbach, Nixon's lawyer, while Kalmbach denied illegal acts.
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Washington
UPI
Cleveland Shipbuilding
Senate ‘Watergate Committee
Matthew. E. .Clark Jr
American Shipbuilding, Co
Robert, E
Bartlome
The
Company
Clark
FBI
Watergate Grand Jury
Senate Committee
Cleveland
George M. Steinbrenner
American Shipbuilding
Nixon
Herbert W. Kalmbach
Kalmbach
Senate Approves Alaska Pipeline Right of Way
The Senate granted final approval to a 789 mile Alaska North Slope pipeline project authorizing a government land right of way. The measure moves to President Nixon who faces a potential veto from the administration while Sen. Henry M. Jackson warns of delay if blocked.
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Washington
UPI
Senate
Alaska
Nixon
Henry M. Jackson
D-Wash
Jackson
House
Judge Vacates FIC Octane Posting Order
UPI reports a federal judge vacated an order blocking the FTC from requiring octane ratings on gasoline pumps. The court initially said the FTC lacked authority, but appeals court upheld the agency. Refiners challenge to Supreme Court. Robinson vacated the ruling to allow the proposal to proceed.
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Washington
UPI
Federal Trade Commission
FTC
National Petroleum Refiners Association
U.S
Aubrey E. Robinson Jr
Supreme Court
Robinson
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Goodyear
U.S. ‘District
George i Hart Jr
Braniff
Lawrenceé
Sears
Turkey
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