SIU to Expand Medical School Campus in Springfield
Gov. Daniel Walker announced $7.2 million for the second phase of Southern Illinois University School of Medicine's Springfield educational facilities building. The project will reuse Memorial and St Johns hospitals for clinical studies, with completion aimed for summer 1975 after a first phase of $1.8 million already underway.
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Walter E. Wolff Lindsay
SIU
Carbondale
Memorial Hospital
State Capitol
Tion
Springfield
St. Johns and Memorial Hospitals
Walker announces $624 million road plan for 1974
Gov. Daniel Walker unveils a $624 million road program for fiscal 1974, including $268 million in federal funds and $131.2 million in bond money for the supplemental freeway system. The plan covers 72 miles of interstate, 81 miles of supplemental freeways, and 646 miles of other roads with major Illinois projects listed across multiple counties.
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Springfield
Daniel Walker
Walker
Richard B. Ogilvie
Ogilvie
Southern Illinois
Rt. 13
Carbondale
Murphysboro
Int. Rt
Alexander County
Sparta man wiggles way to free dinner on TV show
Ronnie Pirtle a 34 year old from Sparta amused the Johnny Carson Tonight Show studio audience by wiggling an ear to win dinner for two. While vacationing in California he was among several contestants invited to display unusual talents as Joey Bishop guest hosted. He later wiggled the other ear to win two additional dinners.
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Ronnie Pirtle
Sparta
NBC
Burbank Calif
Pirtle
California
Joey Bishop
Bishop
U. S
White House
Moscow
Brezhnev
Henry Kissinger
Jury Deliberations Begin in Pass Yablonski Murder Trial
Erie Pennsylvania AP report notes jury deliberations start in the murder trial of Albert E. Pass 53 of Middlesboro Kentucky former UMW official charged with three counts of murder in the Yablonski family killings. The case centers on the December 31 1969 slayings linked to UMW power struggles.
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Erie
Albert E. Pass
United Mine Workers
Yablonski
Pass
Middlesboro
UMW
W A
Tony” Boyle
Joseph A
Jock” Yablonski
Boyle
Arnold Miller
Dean to Testify Nixon Knew of Coverup Link
Senate Watergate inquiry sources say John W. Dean II will testify next week that President Nixon knew of the coverup. Prosecutors seal and dating evidence to support Dean’s testimony and immunity. Nixon logs show one substantive meeting with Dean on Sept. 15 with Haldeman as aide. Ervin signals White House dropped claims of privilege.
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Michael Putzel Washington
Senate
White House
John W. Dean II
Nixon
Dean
Watergate Committee
Watergate
James Neal
Senate Committee
Solent
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Jack Anderson
Anderson
Cox
Administration
H. R. Haldeman
Haldeman
Gerald L. Warren
Sam J. Ervin Jr
D-N. C
Ervin
Two Men Die In Underwater Sub Rescue Off Key West
Rescuers announced that the two men in the rear compartment of the Johnson Sea Link minisub are dead after 31 hours trapped underwater. Clayton Link, 31, son of inventor Edwin Link, and Albert Stover, 51, veteran diver, had been unconscious since Monday morning as the sub was freed from the destroyer wreck 15 miles southeast of Key West. The forward chamber occupants, Archibald Menzies, 30, and Robert Meek, 27, were pronounced 100 percent fit after rescue.
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Key West
John Maurer
Clayton Link
Edwin Link
Albert Stover
Navy
Maurer
Robert Meek
Archibald ‘Jock’ Menzies
Skylab battery revived as astronauts finish rapid space walk
Commander Charles Conrad Jr and Paul J Weitz exited Skylab to repair a stuck battery regulator. They completed the three hour mission in half the time and retrieved 30,242 sun photographs from film canisters. The crew prepares for a Pacific splashdown.
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Conrad
Joseph P. Kerwin
Pacific Ocean
Rusty Schweickart
Weitz
Nixon Brezhnev sign four cooperation accords on eve of trade talks
Nixon and Brezhnev witnessed signing of four bilateral accords on transportation oceanographics agriculture and cultural exchanges. The leaders then began their second day of talks focusing on Soviet long range economic relations and MFN status with the United States.
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Washington
Nixon
Leonid I. Brezhnev
State Department
William P. Rogers
Andrei Gromyko
Brezhnev
Moscow
Soviet Union
Nixon Presents Brezhnev With Lincoln Continental
Nixon gifts Brezhnev a 1973 dark blue Lincoln Continental to be delivered in Moscow. This follows a previous Cadillac given during Brezhnev’s visit and a hydrofoil boat Nixon received from the Russian leader last year.
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Washington
Nixon
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Brezhnev
Moscow
Soviet Union
Biscayne Bay
Florida
White House
Pat
Firestone executive kidnapped near Buenos Aires
John Thompson 55 a U S citizen and Firestone Argentina executive was abducted as he left the plant 15 miles south of Buenos Aires. Ten armed men in five vehicles intercepted his limousine and forced him into a getaway car with security vehicles. No ransom demand reported.
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Buenos Aires
Firestone Tire & Rubber Co
John Thompson
U. S
Firestone Argentina
Thompson
Firestone
Akron
Ohio
Argentina
International Telephone and Telegraph
Eastman Kodak
Coca Cola
First National Bank of Boston
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