Alderson inmates stage sit in over Attica killings
About 100 inmates at the Federation Reformatory in Alderson WV staged a peaceful sit in in response to the Attica State Prison killings. Twenty five corrections officers from the Kennedy Youth Center Morgantown were sent to bolster the eight man force. The warden said a memorial service was held before the sit in began and normal activities were being restored. No injuries were reported.
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Riot details emerge from Attica takeover investigation
New York congressmen toured Attica State Prison after the five day uprising. Pepper said inmates were near agreement before the attack and some would drop amnesty demands with federal marshals present. Separate probes started as six guards and three workers were buried. In Edinboro, three students died in a Route 99 crash.
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Midway
Washington County
Rosemary Grzywinski
Natrona Heights
Alleghenie Wae
Gerald A
Kowalski
Snow sweeps through national midsection with record lows
Cold airmass blankets the Midwest and West as temperatures fall into the teens in the northern Rockies and into the 30s across the Great Plains. Record lows are reported in Grand Junction Colorado Albuquerque New Mexico Missoula Montana Midland Texas Denver Colorado and Lubbock Texas. Snow depths reach three feet at Caribou Colorado with drifts up to sixteen feet while light snow continues in the Rockies and Edith remnants bring rainfall to the Appalachians.
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Muskie urges consumer credit as antidote to Nixon policies
Senator Edmund S. Muskie backs a trickle up consumer tax credit up to 100 for major durable purchases excluding autos. He criticizes Nixon welfare reform and wage price controls, calls for guaranteed jobs, and argues environmental laws exist more on paper than in practice at the recent West Virginia Democratic Women convention.
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West Virginia House aims at stronger air pollution laws
West Virginia House Speaker Lewis McManus calls for tougher air pollution laws citing FMC’s American Viscose plant in Nitro as an example of weak rules The Air Pollution Control Commission has fined the plant but doubts authority after 10 years of operation It seeks a 1000 per day penalty per offending smokestack He also pledges legislative caution on surface mining and more study before action to protect the environment.
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House of Delegates
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Mideast tensions flare as Israel and Egypt clash again
Israeli Phantom jets attacked Egyptian ground troops along the Suez Canal and Egyptian missiles hit an Israeli transport in a renewed cease fire breach. Lebanese border fighting also erupts with civilian casualties and a kidnapping reported.
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Pittsburgh papers set to publish after wage pact
Pittsburgh photoengravers voted to accept a new two year wage contract with Pittsburgh Press Co paving the way for daily publication to resume on Monday for the first time in 128 days Local 16P the photoengravers union was the last of 11 craft unions to reach terms with the company which had not printed a newspaper since May 14 when 400 printers walked out Contracts with other crafts expired before or during the strike as the company sought return to work agreements to restart printing.
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UPI
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Pittsburgh Press Co
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Local 16P
Congress to move toward federal strip mining rules
Congress readies two days of hearings on 19 strip mining bills as the House subcommittee opens national regulation talks. Industry bodies like the National Coal Association and American Mining Congress back a federal framework with state enforcement, citing past reclamation efforts of 245,000 acres since 1967.
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Congress
House Committee On Inferior and Insular Affairs
Ed Edmondson
Oklahoma
House of Representatives
American Mining Congress
National Coal Association
McGovern cites Communist Paris talks on POWs withdrawal
Sen. George S. McGovern reaffirmed his account of what the Communist side told him in Paris. He said they demanded a withdrawal date of December 31 for U.S. forces in Vietnam in exchange for returning prisoners of war, a point within the Communists seven point package.
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