Revenue-Sharing in Trouble at Nation’s Mayors Meeting
Congress and the nation’s mayors debate Nixon era revenue sharing reform. Aimed at replacing seven HUD programs with automatic grants for community development, the measure faces opposition over national goals, funding levels, and how funds should be spent including housing and slum elimination. The plan would start July 1 1974 and target cities with over 50 000 residents.
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San Francisco
Nixon
Congress
Floyd Hyde
Department of Housing and Urban Development
U.S. Conference of Mayors
Hyde
Inflation Could Grow Worse in Coming Years
Basel Switzerland AP one of the world s leading monetary authorities warned inflation now plaguing the United States and other industrialized countries could worsen in coming years Jelie Zijlstra chairman of the BIS said inflation could rise to two or three times its earlier rate The BIS report attributed the dollar’s drop to Nixon era policies and noted governments have retreated from fighting inflation The bank cited wage and living cost rises and global factors as key drivers of higher prices.
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Basel
Switzerland
Jelie Zijlstra
Bank For International Settlements
U.S
United States
West Germany
Italy
Falls Short At Wentzville Rock Festival
Officials in St. Charles County estimated 1 000 spectators over the two day event at Berry Park while a spokesman put the crowd between 5 000 and 5 500. the festival had been moved from a Jerseyville farm after a court injunction was denied.
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Wentzville
Here
St. Charles County
Berry Park
Jerseyville
Jersey
Three Drivers Escape Injury In State Rd 46 Crash
Two Vigo County residents and one Parke County resident escaped injury Sunday evening when three autos nearly collided on State Rd 46 near Rockville. John Helton Jr. crossed two lanes while Wendel Sickles skidded 90 feet and hit Helton’s car, and Daniel Taylor swerved to avoid the crash. Deputies Loudermilk and Roberts investigated. no arrests were made.
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Vigo County
Parke County
State Rd
Sheriff's Department
Helton
Daniel R. Taylor
N. 39Th St
Loudermilk and Roberts
Skylab astronauts set record as longest space flight
Skylab 1 crew Charles Conrad Jr Joseph Kerwin and Paul Weitz became the era's longest flying space travelers surpassing the previous 23 day 18 hour 22 minute record. They still had four days left in a 28 day mission as Skylab 2 and 3 missions are planned later this year.
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Africa
Conrad
Kerwin
Weitz
Pacific Ocean
San Diego
Neil Hutchinson
Nixon
Mission Control
Secret communicator wedding roses prompt confession
Conrad reveals he secretly ordered twenty red roses via a hidden communicator and admits he wasn’t thinking ahead. The exchange hints at a personal moment tied to romance.
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Conrad
Beltone Free Tiny Hearing Aid Offer in Chicago
A Beltone advertisement offers a free non operating model of the smallest Beltone aid to anyone responding. It promises no cost or obligation and asks readers to write to Dept. 2517, Beltone Electronics Corp., 4201 W Victoria, Chicago Illinois.
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Chicago
Ill
Beltone
Beltone Electronics Corp
Victoria
Submarine Rescue Efforts Underway As Crew Remains Trapped
Four crew members await rescue in a midget submarine trapped inside a scuttled destroyer at sea near Key West Florida. Air could run out by noon EDT while carbon dioxide levels rise. Navy divers use a rescue bell as a biologist from Santa Barbara and pilots from West Palm Beach are identified among the trapped crew.
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Key West
Fla
Atlantic
Navy
John Maurer
Cmdr
William Smith
R. H. Brisbing
San Diego
Calif
Fred T. Berry
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, D.C
Claytor. Link
Edwin A. Link
Archibald
Jock’’ Menzies
Scotland
Robert Meek
Santa Barbara
Albert Stover
West Palm Beach
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Capitol
Washington
Leonid Brezhnev
Soviet Union
Brezhnev
Camp David
Maryland Mountains
By Michael J. Sniffen
Resolutions Committee
Mayor's Conference
Grams
Rene Larre
French Finance Ministry
Milton Gilbert
N. 7Th St
Eighth & Ohio
Skylab
Howard Benedict
AP Aerospace Winter
Jane Conrad
By Robert Cooper
Pizza Hut
St. Louis
Allegheny
Allegheny Commuter
Vercon Air Service
Indianapolis
Oy Vercoa Air Service
Jet
Sar
Hulman Field
Terre Haute
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