Du Quoin Show Debates Package Country Acts
At the Du Quoin State Fair Sunday night a country show faced debate over package formats with Porter Wagoner and others weighing the approach. The event drew 8,000 Saturday and 4,200 Sunday as performers like Mel Tillis Connie Smith and The Kitty Wells Johnny Wright Show performed amid concerns over pacing and show polish.
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Ben Gelman
Ilinois
du Quoin State Fair
Bob Neal
Nashville
Porter Wagoner
Dolly Parton
Wagoner
du Quoin
Wagener
Osborne Brothers
Nat Stuckey
the Sweet Thangs
Connie Smith
the Swingmasters
Melba Montgomery
Mel Tillis
The
Statesiders
Kitty Wells
Johnny Wright
Bill Phillips
Jimmy C. Ruben
Bobby Wright
McHale
Navy
Wayne Manning
Tennessee Mountain Boys
Ben Smathers
Smokey Mountain Cloggers
Glen Campbell
du Quoin Fair Management
Elvis Presley
Johnny Cash
Lynn Anderson
Sonny James
Conway Twitty
Barbara Mandrell
Freddie Wells
Tommy T. Hall
Clayton Delaney
Neal
Hee-Haw
CBS
Beverly Hillbillies
Green Acres
Petticoat Junction
Pointer Wagoner
Illinois teachers vote on schedules amid mixed contract talks
Teachers in several Illinois districts decide to report for classes while some unions reach settlements. Jacksonville teachers voted to strike and join planned work shops with strikers in Elgin Decatur and DeKalb. Settlements came in Barrington Canton Waukegan Charleston and Rantoul. Others in Peoria Freeport Crete Monee and Tolono chose not to block openings during talks.
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Rantoul
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Thieu Maintains Lead in Saigon Vote Amid Attacks
Supporters of President Nguyen Van Thieu looked set for a parliamentary majority in South Vietnam's lower house after Sunday voting, with 58 to 32 in official returns for 140 seats and many independents from the Mekong Delta. Opponents led in major cities including Saigon and in the northern provinces as fighting spiked with nearly 100 weekend attacks by North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces. Casualties listed, with hundreds of civilians and soldiers wounded or killed, as U S forces kept a tight base-only posture.
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Douglas approves bus order in San Francisco case
Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas refused to halt court ordered busing for school children in San Francisco's Chinatown. A four page opinion was released while Douglas vacations in the Cascade Mountains near Yakima Washington. Chinatown parents warned of a boycott as classes open in two weeks.
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Supreme Court
William O. Douglas
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Douglas
Cascade Mountains
Yakima Wash
U.S. 9Th Circuit Court of Appeals
Nixon Plans Freeze Extension and Fed Stance
The Federal Reserve, expected to keep rates stable, may not move to lower rates or aggressively stimulate the economy as Nixon extends the wage price freeze. Analysts say Burns favors orthodox policy but supports the freeze as the main tool, shifting some burden to fiscal measures and dollar defenses.
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Arthur F. Burns
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Nixon
Illinois awards first anti pollution grants for sewage upgrades
Gov. Ogilvie announced 16.48 million dollars in Illinois anti pollution funds to 39 local units for sewage treatment projects. Nearly half goes to 13 projects in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago. federal aid expected to cover 50 to 55 percent.
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Springfield
Richard B. Ogilvie
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Congress
Weather outlook shows warm easing into weekend
Forecast calls for tonight mostly sunny with lows around 58 to 63. Tuesday brings sunny skies and highs near 90, followed by a gradual warmup from Wednesday to Friday with partly cloudy conditions. Lows expected in the 50s north and 60s south, daytime highs in upper 70s or lower 80s, warming to the 60s at night and mid to upper 80s by Friday. Weather details on map page 8.
Dollar declines in Paris and Frankfurt amid thin trading
The dollar slid to the Paris market’s lowest level since the two tier system began and fell in Frankfurt, while Zurich posted a small gain. Tokyo held steady around 341 yen as London markets remained closed for a holiday and turnover stayed light.
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Nixon aide outlines a less severe post freeze program
A top presidential adviser said after the 90 day wage price freeze the next phase will be a less severe program with formal negotiations including organized labor. Paul W. McCracken warned Congress that overshooting could throw the plan off balance as discussions begin on the future economic policy. The aim is a stable price level over a new period to restore confidence in the purchasing power of the dollar and reestablish pricing as an economic signal.
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Paul W. McCracken
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McCracken
Joint Economic Committee
William Proxmire
D-Wis
Grand jury declines to indict policemen in Panther raid
A Chicago grand jury reportedly refuses murder charges against 14 policemen tied to the 1969 police raid killing two Black Panther leaders. The Chicago Sun-Times cites a no bill finding indicating insufficient evidence for indictment.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Nixon wage price freeze keeps most Americans compliant
George A. Lincoln, head of the Office of Emergency Preparedness, says the 90 day wage price rent freeze has drawn about 1,700 complaints and 40 exemption requests. He notes many violators are voluntary and that no legal action has been taken. discussions on post freeze policy continue with possible exemptions and adjustments contemplated before November 13.
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