Mail carrier ferried to island as flood swallows route
Adrian Picau, a rural mail carrier from St Marys Missouri, is driven across the Mississippi River to Kaskaskia Island by the Army Corps of Engineers. The road and bridge he uses daily are flooded as residents evacuate the island. Andrew McDonald meets him to drive the mail route. Forty seven families refuse to leave the area north of Chester.
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U.S
Adrian Picau
Mississippi River
Kaskaskia Island
Army Corps of Engi
Neers
Picau
St. Marys
Andrew McDonald
Island
Chester
SIU
Southern Illinois University
Carlton Rasche
McAndrew Stadium
Cairo
Washington
D.C
U. S. Army Corps of Engineers
Kenneth J. Gray
D-West
Frankfort
Gray
Jackson
Monroe
Pulaski
Union
Alexander
Granite City
Springfield
Evacuation under way as Mississippi flood hits Kaskaskia Island
Residents of Kaskaskia Island flee rising floodwaters with 293 people evacuated. Corps of Engineers calls the move precautionary as the road to the island floods and levee conditions are evaluated. Flats and pumps are deployed to aid transport and protection efforts amid high water forecasts and past crest records.
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Mississippi
Kaksaskia Island
Corps of Engineers
Cobden to purchase lime yellow fire truck for visibility
Cobden officials choose a lime yellow pumper from Towers Fire Apparatus to boost visibility on emergency trips. Delivery is expected in early June after chassis fitting, with a test color program painting five of 50 trucks. Towers cites lab tests showing lime yellow and yellow outperform red in visibility.
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Cobden
the Towers Fire Apparatus Co
Freeburg
Dale Towers
New Athens
Towers
Nixon imposes meat price ceiling nationwide
President Nixon orders an immediate ceiling on beef pork and lamb prices at or near current levels to curb inflation. The measure applies to retailers wholesalers and processors but not poultry or seafood and requires posting by April 9 with IRS policing. He also urges tariff cuts to boost imports and continues his budget battle with Congress.
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Nixon
U.S
Vietnam
Hanoi
Congress
Senate
Hugh Scott
Internal Revenue Service
Treasury
George Shultz
America
Illinois House Approves Two-Cent Tax Relief Plan
The Illinois House approved Blair's two cent sales tax cut for food and medicine by a 140 to 1 vote. Representative Hunsicker opposed the measure, while Minority Leader Choate voted present. The roll call surged as Democrats shifted from present to yes amid tense debate and party pressure.
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Richard H. Ieen Lindsay-Schaub
Springfield
Illinois House
House
W. Robert Blair
Blair
Senate
Carl T. Hunsicker
R-Pon
Tiac
Clyde Choate
Corneal Davis
Davis
McCord names Haldeman in Watergate bugging plan
The Baltimore Sun reports James McCord Jr. told a Senate committee that H. R. Haldeman was aware of plans to bug the Democratic National Headquarters. GOP officials fear political fallout as allegations surface about Nixon aides in the Watergate case.
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Baltimore Sun Today
James McCord Jr
Senate
Nixon
H. R. Haldeman
the Sun
Haldeman
McCord
Senate Committee
Watergate
Released POWs tell of brutal Hanoi camps ordeal
As the first 32 of the last POW group return home, veterans recount torture and starvation in North Vietnamese and Viet Cong prisons. They describe maggots in wounds, the rope and strap torture, and mental pressure, while noting improved conditions late 1969 and steadfast camaraderie.
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Associated Press
North Vietnam
Philippines
Hanoi
Clark Air Base
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D-Tex
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Annandale
N.J
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Larry Chesley
Burley
Idaho
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Floyd J. Thompson
New Milford
South Vietnam
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Sioux Falls
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Scott Air Force Base
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