Governor Walker faced new fundraising allegations in Chicago
A Chicago Sun-Times report claims aides pursued a plan to enlist regulated industry executives to sell tickets for a March deficit dinner. The scheme, aimed at wiping Walker’s deficit, was scrapped after poor turnout and no officials attended. The governor defended the reports as inaccurate.
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Daniel Walker
Chicago Sun - Times
Walker
Chicago
Sun - Times
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Norton Kay
Chicago Daily
News
Aide admits spying role with McGovern campaign
Lucianne Goldberg says she traveled with Senator McGovern in 1972 and acted as a $1000-a-week spy for Nixon's re election committee. She reports code named project Chapman's Friend directed by Murray Chotiner to gather intelligence including personal habits of people aboard McGovern's campaign jet aircraft.
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Robert Walters
Washington Star - News
George S. McGovern
Nixon
Lucianne Cummings Goldberg
Chapman
Murray M.S. Chotiner
Chotiner
Washington
Goldberg
Possible fatal gas escape shocks Carson area
Clouds of noxious sulfur trioxide escaped from a chemical plant in Carson California on Saturday prompting evacuations in surrounding areas up to 40 miles away. The Poison Information Center warned the gas could be fatal and cause coughing and choking. Several plant workers and about 10 nearby residents were hospitalized as ambulances ferried the stricken from areas with heavy gas.
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Poison Information Center
Children’s Hospital
Elderly man says he endured six months in pump house
Victor Hartman, 85, held in a 14 by 5 foot pump house near a fence with barbed wire for over six months in Miami. Bonnie Blanchard, 55, is charged with false imprisonment after police say she collected Hartman’s $186 monthly Social Security for room and board. Hartman told reporters he was treated “all right” and preferred living there at times, while officials say the charge will stand.
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Bonnie Wilkie Blanchard
Hartman
Hopsital
Ralph Page
Blanchard
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Miami
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Moore
Gilbert
Christopher
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Marsha Jean Moore
Gwendolyn Sue Moore
Mary Ann Riley
Tuscola
Jo Burkitt
Mulkeytown
Bob
Clarksville
Tenn
Larry
Senate Watergate probe to continue, top staff says
Rufus Edmisten, deputy counsel, said the Watergate committee will absolutely not pack up its investigations or surrender to the courts. Two or three days of public hearings are planned for the week of Sept. 10 with sworn testimony from Charles Colson and E. Howard Hunt.
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Nixon
Rufus Edmisten
White House
Charles W. Colson
Watergate
E. Howard Hunt
Agnew Defends Innocence Amid Maryland Corruption Probe
Vice President Spiro Agnew reaffirmed his innocence in a Baltimore grand jury probe of Maryland political corruption. He attacked newspaper reports from unnamed sources and criticized a Watergate atmosphere while endorsing State Sen. Robert E. Bauman in the special election to fill Rep. William Mills’s seat. More than 300 supporters attended a bull roast amid threatening skies raising $10 per plate.
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Washington Star - News
Centreville
Agnew Friday
Maryland
Baltimore
Robert E. Bauman
William C. Mills
Agnew
Agnew campaign donation denied by pensions official
Frank R. Taylor, 76, a retired J. E. Greiner Co. official in McLean Virginia, denies contributing 2500 dollars to Spiro Agnew's 1966 gubernatorial campaign despite an official report listing the sum. Harry M. Brown, another former Greiner official now deceased, was also listed as having given 2500 dollars with an address in Baltimore.
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Spiro T. Agnew
Frank R. Taylor
J. E. Greiner Co
Taylor
McLean, Va
Greiner Company
Harry M. Brown
Brown
N. Charles St
Baltimore
St. Augustine
Fla
Rescuers Hope to Free Two Trapped Miners
Rescue crews battled smoke and heat to reach two men trapped 1,200 feet underground in a Casa Grande copper mine since Friday. The state mine inspector predicted a rescue was imminent.
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Casa Grande
Ariz
Man Named Moore Found Dead After Marion Killing Suspected
Boyd Moore 43 pursued in killing of Virginia Barbara in Marion county. Moore found dead by gunshot in a wooded area near Christopher. A note signed by Moore confessing to the murder was nearby, with police verifying handwriting. Autopsy planned. investigation ongoing.
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Christopher
Marion
Moore
Williamson County Sheriff's Department
Virginia Barbara
Moore’s
Hodge
Williamson County
Russell Oxford
Barbaro
James R. Wilson
Barbara
Herrin Hospital Opens New Wing Open House
Local open house today showcases Herrin Hospital's new wing with photos on page 8. Other items include waste cleanup stories, column, and coverage of Crime Stoppers patrols. The Nixon message to the nation appears on page 30.
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Herrin Hospital
Bess Meyerson
Richard Nixon
Beef price freeze upheld by federal appeals court
A federal appellate court sustained the beef price freeze ruling on Saturday. It rejected industry arguments that the Cost of Living Council acted arbitrarily and beyond its authority. The council kept beef price ceilings until September 12 while easing restrictions on other meats.
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Washington
Cost of
Kelley says files needed on arrestees despite innocence
FBI Director Clarence M. Kelley says the agency must keep vast files on persons arrested for crimes even if they are later found innocent. He blames state and local police for not providing follow-up data and notes complete records await courts to be linked to the national crime computer.
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FBI
Clarence M. Kelley
Kelley
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