Nixon pondered resignation amid Watergate tapes crisis
W. Colson said Nixon talked seriously in December 1973 about resigning the presidency if required to surrender Watergate tapes. He noted Nixon doubted Gerald Ford could handle the job and feared control by Henry Kissinger, while hoping four Nixon appointees would back him in court.
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Richard M. Nixon
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Unemployment reaches 8.2 percent in January
The January jobless rate climbs to 8.2 percent, the highest in 33 years, with 7.5 million Americans unable to find work. The rise follows a 1.0 point jump from December and reflects widespread layoffs across blue and white collar sectors, teens, and women.
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Snowy misadventure of a Dallas boy with toy gun
Four year old Dallas Marcum, son of Mrs. Linda Marcum of 209 Sixth Street, wandered Sixth Street with a toy gun looking for a pretend deer. He used the toy gun as a shovel when he met snow drifts, a scene photographed by Carl Skalak Jr.
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Sixth Street
Dallas
Linda Marcum
Sixth St
Carl Skalak Jr
Prostitution Ring Busted at Holiday Inn in Elyria
Plainclothes Elyria police arrested five alleged ring members at the Holiday Inn on Rt. 57 between midnight and 1 a.m. The suspects include Paula Phillips 19 Jonathon Brown 28 Robert Crabb 22 and two 17 year old girls. One 17 year old faced marijuana and solicitation charges while the other was charged as an unruly child. A 17 year old Elyria resident was among the girls. The women were jailed the men to city lockup and the girls to the county detention home. Residents had reported women entering rooms to solicit sex.
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Winkle Rd
Milan
Jonathon Brown
Tremper Ave
Sandusky
Robert L.crabb
Buchanan St
Brown
Leonard Reichlin
Snow Likely With Light Accumulations This Evening
Snow is forecast with up to an inch possible late this afternoon and tonight. Cloudy conditions may bring flurries tomorrow with a 50 percent chance of precip. Tonight and tomorrow, temperatures dip into the single digits and low 20s, with southwest to west winds 5 to 15 mph.
Rhodes proposes 5 percent housing loans
Governor James A. Rhodes announces a June 3 ballot measure to amend the constitution granting unlimited state revenue bonds for low cost housing nursing homes health clinics and senior centers. He argues current powers are unconstitutional and promises bonds at 2 to 4 percent below prime with no taxpayer money. He says expansion of the Ohio Housing Development Board could lower borrower costs to 5 6 percent and revive Ohio housing.
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Lawmakers Move $20 Billion Tax Relief Plan Through House
The House Ways and Means Committee approved a $20.1 billion tax cut plan including up to $200 rebates for all taxpayers and reduced withholding. It boosts 1974 rebates to $4 billion and 1975 personal tax cuts to $8.3 billion, while expanding investment incentives and business cuts. The plan, backed by Rep. Al Ullman, delays final action until late February or early March.
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D-Ore
Wilbur Mills
Senate
Inflation hits gumball machines as prices rise
A February story notes gumball and trinket machines near the Gold Circle Discount Store on Midway Boulevard raise prices from a penny to a nickel and a dime. Leonard Quinn of Confections Products explains sugar costs pushed the change, with many machines now offering three gumballs for a nickel and a “Super Colossal” gumball for a dime.
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Gold Circle Discount
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Leonard Quinn
Confections Products Co., Inc
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