Skylab astronauts end record 28 day mission and prepare to return
Space Center Houston reports Skylab 2 crew Charles Conrad Jr Joseph Kerwin and Paul Weitz wrapping up a 28 day stay. They will splash down in the Pacific 830 miles southwest of San Diego at 7 50 a m MDT Friday aboard the Apollo command ship after filming testing and packing samples. Recovery will be by USS Ticonderoga with a no helicopter pick up due to deconditioning risks.
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Inflation climbs as May CPI signals slow subsidence
Government data show living costs rising six tenths of a percent in May, slowing from April, with a 7.2 percent annual rate. After tax take home pay averaged 125.12 dollars, up 87 cents from April but inflation cut real earnings by four tenths of a percent. The May figures partly reflect meat price ceilings imposed March 29 and the ongoing 60 day price freeze.
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Labor Department
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Herbert Stein
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Ex Annapolis cadet sues Navy over degree policy
William Farley Jr a New Jersey man who resigned from the Naval Academy to seek conscientious objector status sues to force the academy to award his bachelor of science degree He says the Navy denied him graduation to punish his CO stance and thwart his NYU law school Root Tilden fellowship The Navy argues he failed aptitude and thus was not entitled to graduate with four years of paid education at stake a potential $53 000 value Farley seeks due process and property rights protections amid a Baltimore hearing set by Judge Frank Kaufman.
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Shelby to host 1973 National Gopher Derby in Montana
Shelby Montana announces the 1973 National U S Open Gopher Derby set for July 19 to 21 on an eight lane 24 foot track. Registration costs one dollar with a trained gopher provided if needed and the winner on July 22 advances toward the World Gopher Derby in Eston Canada.
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27 Die in Mexican Jet Crash Near Puerto Vallarta
A Mexican Aeromexico DC9 with 11 Americans aboard crashed after a stop in Monterrey while en route from Houston to Mexico City. All 27 on board were killed, including 23 passengers and four crew. Rescue pilots reported all bodies recovered from a jungle mountain site about 14 miles from the Puerto Vallarta airport.
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Mexico City
Miguel Chacon
Perry resigns as Boulder River School superintendent
State Institutions Director Edwin G. Kellner announced the resignation of Robert M. Perry as superintendent of the Boulder River School and Hospital in Boulder effective August 30. Perry, in office since February 1970, offered no reason in his brief resignation letter. The facility serves slightly over 600 mentally retarded patients and the search for a successor will begin immediately.
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Colorado
Boulder
U S and Soviet nuclear forces contrasted in new analysis
A Washington report compares American and Soviet arsenals noting 41 Polaris subs with 16 Poseidon missiles and 14 warheads per missile. The USSR fields 45 subs but lacks independent warhead capability. both sides pursue MIRV upgrades with Minuteman IIIs leading US efforts while the Russians target their own MIRV readiness by 1975.
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Washington
United States
Nixon
Farm bill advances to House floor with subsidy cap change
The House Agriculture Committee approved a comprehensive four year farm bill 31 to 4. It sets a 37 500 per crop subsidy ceiling and targets prices for three crops, covering wool beekeepers food stamps and rural fire departments. Chairman Poage expects floor action in July amid White House veto threats.
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House
Agriculture Department
Findley
Boedecker urges Supreme Court test of utility fair value method
Montana Public Service Commission chairman Louis G. Boedecker argues the agency should seek a state Supreme Court ruling on whether the fair value approach to setting utility rates should be discarded. He notes a dissent in the Montana Dakota Utilities rate case where 85 percent of the request was granted. Boedecker says ratemaking should rely on original cost minus depreciation and cites a 1944 U.S. Supreme Court ruling on regulatory discretion.
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Bill Aids Oldsters 5.5 Percent Social Security Increase
Senate Finance Committee approved a 5.5 percent cost of living increase for about 28 million Social Security recipients effective January next year. The measure, costing around 2.75 billion dollars, passed 12 to 2 with only senators Bennett and Fannin opposing.
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Senate Finance Committee
Wallace F. Bennett
Rutah
Paul J. Fannin
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