Miss Rend Lake Crowned At Rend Lake Festival
Nancy Lou Dugger of Lesser was crowned Miss Rend Lake at the Rend Lake Water Festival pageant in Benton. Inez Lunneman and Robin Moss finished first and second runners up. Dugger, 21, won 1000 dollars, the crown and bouquet. she also earned Miss Swim Suit and Miss Congeniality honors. More than 1,000 attended the 8 p.m. ceremony at Benton Consolidated High School gym.
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Nancy Lou Dugger
Lesser
Rend Lake
Benton
Inez Lunneman
Cutler
Robin Moss
Benton Country Club
Dugger
Joe Browning
Ann Lacy
Pinckneyville
Miss Dugger
Browning
University of Tennessee
Leonard Lunneman
Miss Moss
SIU
Robert Moss
Benton Woman’s Club
Miss Rend Lake
Amy Elizabeth Andrews
Michael Mundell
Miss Andrews
Henry Andrews
Mundell
Roger Mundell
Michael
Herbert Mundell
Benton Consolidated High School
Little Miss
Mr. Rend Lake
Butch Nevious
Illinois Senate backs salary adjustment plan despite critique
The Illinois Senate approved a non direct salary raise method creating a seven member commission that could suggest increases for legislative and other state salaries. If not vetoed within 60 days the recommendations take effect automatically starting 1975. Opponents call it sneaky and say it bypasses direct votes. The measure also risks broader automatic pay raises for state officers. The house and other reforms on mental health and veteran discharge protections followed.
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Springfield
Illinois Senate
Senate
House
Congress
Illinois
Bradley Glass
R-Northfield
Glass
Hudson Spurs
R-Peoria
Commission
Saigon Windup Ends Viet Nam Cease-Fire Talks
U S Envoy Sullivan and South Vietnam foreign minister Tran Van Lam wrapped an 11 point plan to end fighting in Viet Nam and Cambodia after a seven hour session. Sullivan will fly to Phnom Penh for more talks with Kissinger and Le Duc Tho aides said officials reported technical progress. No formal substance announced.
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U. S
William H. Sullivan
South Vietnam
Vietnam
Cambodia
Sullivan
Tran van Lam
Phnom Penh
Henry A. Kissinger
Hanoi
le Duc Tho
Probe May Continue In Madison County Drug Raid Case
A Madison County grand jury, after ad journing Thursday, recommended that its successor continue the investigation into two mistaken drug raids by federal narcotics agents. The April 23 raids targeted homes of Herbert Giglotto and Donald Askew in Collinsville.
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Madison County
Federal Office of Drug Abuse Law Enforcement
Herbert Giglotto
Donald Askew
Collinsville
Court blocks penalties for Walker disclosure order
Judge J Waldo Ackerman issued a temporary restraining order halting penalties tied to Gov Daniel Walker s executive order requiring state workers to file disclosure forms. The Illinois Association of Highway Engineers warns the order violates privacy and equal protection while more than 7000 forms were mailed.
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Daniel Walker
J. Waldo Ackerman
Circuit Court
Illinois Association of Highway Engineers
Astronauts In Orbit Seek to Salvage Skylab Mission
Three American astronauts Conrad Kerwin and Weitz launch aboard a Saturn 1B to pursue the crippled Skylab 2,500 miles ahead in orbit. They aim to cool the overheated lab with a sunshade and free a jammed solar panel to restore power as they close the 690 mile gap in a 72 hour chase.
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Howard Benedict
Cape Kennedy
Skylab Space Station
Charles Conrad Jr
Conrad
Joseph P. Kerwin
Paul J. Weitz
Space Handymen
United States
Globe
Hunter
Hunted
Weitz
Witness to testify without immunity in Watergate case
U S attorney Harold H Titus Jr says a key Watergate conspirator has agreed to plead guilty without immunity and testify at trial. Parties named include Jeb Stuart Magruder and Herbert W Kalmbach, with possible comprehensive indictments in 60 to 90 days. Washington report notes ongoing pleas talks and Cox urging prosecution continuity.
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Washington
U. S
Herbert W. Kalmbach
Nixon
Kalmbach
Watergate
General Accounting Office
Justice Department
Titus
Watergate burglars claim they followed orders without question
Lawrence L. Knutson reports Barker and Baldwin defend their actions as obedient to orders in the Watergate affair. Barker pursued alleged Castro campaign links. Baldwin sought steady FBI work. Hearings in the Senate caucus room feature security tightness and emotional testimony from the trio.
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Lawrence L. Knutson
Washington
Bernard L. Barker
Watergate
FBI
Albert C. Baldwin II
Barker
Senate Watergate Investigating Committee
Fidel Castro
Bay of Pigs
Baldwin
Connecticut
State Supreme Court
Senate
Nixon defends secrecy in White House prisoner rally
President Nixon addressed over 600 former POWs at a White House event for 676 ex-prisoners and 1,300 guests praising secrecy in national security and opposing leaks. He warned against publishing secrets, framed as a counter-offensive in the Watergate era, and thanked the prisoners for their support.
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John D. Herbert
New York Times
Washington
Nixon
White House
Hugh Scott
Senate
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Carbondale
Hubler Motors
Department of Public Health
Illinois House
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Chicago
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Edwardsville
Skylab
Magruder
Archibald Cox
Senate Appropriations
John L. McClellan
D-Ark
Gray
Vernon Walters
CIA
Richard Helms
H. R. Haldeman
Walters
Mexico
Clark MacGregor
John Mitchell
Haldeman
Secretary of the Treasury
George P. Shultz
John J. Caulfield
McCord
Gerald Arch
James W. McCord
Cuba
Castro
Hunt
Los Angeles
Daniel Elisberg
State Department
America
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