Flood waters threaten more states as Nixon tours ruins
Debris-laden rivers crest at historic peaks across eight eastern states with more than 100 flooded communities. President Nixon surveys devastation as death toll climbs to 99 and emergency efforts race to reach survivors amid looming epidemics and widespread property loss.
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Arthur Everett
Associated Press
Nixon
Agnes
Lock Haven
Virginia
Pennsylvania
Red Cross
Potomac
Ohio
Susquehanna
New Cumberland
W.va
Wheeling
Nixon Visits Flood Area
President Nixon toured a flood evacuation center in Harrisburg and spoke to victims along the Susquehanna River in a barefoot moment, landing by helicopter at a Harrisburg high school and praising residents’ spirit.
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Harrisburg
Nixon
Susquehanna
Two Die In Head On Collision West Of Missoula
A head on crash eight miles west of Missoula on Interstate 90 killed a Bozeman man and a Missoula woman and left another Missoula woman critically injured. Larry Livingston identified the victims as Robert Woodworth 57 and Susan McGinnis 23.
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Missoula
Larry Livingston
Robert Woodworth
Bozeman
Susan McGinnis
Glenna Steerman
Montana Highway Patrol
Woodworth
McGinnis
Old convention styles outdated in Democratic nominating process
Washington reports that power brokers lose influence as reform moves and George S. McGovern reshape the party. Miami Beach hosts a largely new delegation with 90 percent attending their first convention, one-third women, 20 percent under 30, and about 15 percent black, signaling a major shift from 1968.
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Washington
George S. McGovern
Miami Beach
McGovern
Shirley Chilsholm
National Committee
Democrats
Breakin at DNC Spurs Buzz on Political Espionage
The June 17 raid on the Democratic National Committee headquarters drew five men with spy gear. DNC Chair Lawrence F. O'Brien filed a $1 million invasion of privacy suit amid questions of who ordered the break-in and possible ties to anti-Castro exile groups.
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Washington
Democratic National Committee
Democratic National
Lawrence F. O’brien
Nixon
O’brien
DNC
White House
Atty
John Mitchell
Committee For
Republican National Committee
Central Intelligence Agency
James W. McCord Jr
Republican Committee
Miami
Cuba
Fidel Castro
Justice Department
FBI
Democratic
Edward Martin
New York
James Breakin
Hijacker Jump Leaves Indiana Search For Missing Air Pirate
A young hijacker who learned parachute use jumped from an American Airlines Boeing 727 near Peru Indiana with 502000 in ransom. FBI and state police search ground air and water for the air pirate amid reports of possible death and unconfirmed clothing findings.
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Peru
Ind
Indiana
FBI
American Airlines
St. Louis
Montana Power profits cited as nation’s highest utility return
Montana Power Co. earned 10.65 dollars per 100 invested in its electric plant for 1970, with Mountain Bell adding 8.50 per 100, totaling a Montana composite return of 9.58 per 100. Public utility consultant Arnold Hirsch cites federal figures, while the Montana Public Service Commission offers a different 6 percent MPC rate of return.
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Helena
Montana Power Co
MPC
Federal Power Commission
Mountain Bell
Montana
Big Sky
Bell System
Arnold Hirsch
Ashington
D.C
Montana Public Service Commission
FPC
Hirsch
Public Power
California
Pacific Gas & Electric Co
California Bellsystem
Miners win back pay after Sunshine Mine entrapment
Ron Flory and Tom Wilkinson, two Sunshine Mine survivors, will receive time and a half for 195 trapped hours and 22 hours of lunch pay after talks with Sunshine Mining Co. they were trapped a mile underground eight days during the May 2 disaster in Kellogg Idaho.
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Kellogg, Idaho
Ron Flory
Tom Wilkinson
Idaho
Mayors seek junked car cleanup plan nationwide
Billings Mayor Willard E. Fraser proposes at the U S Conference of Mayors a rule to remove one junked vehicle for every new car sold in an area. New York Mayor John V. Lindsay co supports. Fraser wants Congress to act to curb a growing automobile wreckage problem.
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New Orleans
Billings
Willard E. Fraser
U.S. Conference of Mayors
Fraser
New York City
John V. Lindsay
Mayors Conference
Congress
Butte Weather Forecast: Showers Likely Today
The bulletin notes showers and possible thundershowers for Butte with a forecast of lower 60s daytime and around 45 at night. More details on page 16.
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Corning
N.Y
Milton J. Shapp
Pittsburgh
Ohio River
Lincoln Memorial
Washington Monument
Clarence Valentine
James River
Richmond
Jess
San Francisco
Regit
Left
Tiger
Michelle Eagan
William J. Eagan
Cliff Moore
Chicago
Flory
Sunshine Mining Co
Autoswap
Butte Weather
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