Squaw Valley goes up for auction in California
Gov. Reagan's administration puts Squaw Valley on the auction block citing annual losses up to 300000 while concessionaires profit under state leases through 1988. Bids open April 2 as officials seek an acceptable offer amid a 1200 acre site and 25 million invested.
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Sacramento
Calif
Squaw Valley
California
Ronald Reagan
Sierras
Uaw Valley
Eugene A.chappie
Robert H. Meyer
State Parks and Recreation Department
Meyer
Olympic Commission
Britain Blames 91st Congress for Nixon Troubles
British media critique the 91st Congress as muddled and unproductive. Balogh urges Nixon to shift economic policy toward wage and price controls. Reports cite North Vietnam POW list issues and U S policies toward Japan as contradictory.
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London
Britain
Financial Times
91St Congress
Nixon
London Evening Standard
U.S
91St
Congress
Lord Balogh
Evening Standard
Washington
le Monde
North Vietnam
Jacques Amalric
Mayor Curran Acquitted of Bribe Charges
San Diego police chief and seven other officials faced charges after a grand jury indicted them. mayor Frank Curran was acquitted of two bribery counts and one conspiracy count after nine hours of deliberations. Curran received $3,500 in campaign contributions described as payoffs for influencing a fare increase. He defended the judicial system but warned about harming candidacy for public office.
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San Diego
Calif
Frank Curran
Curran
Charles A. Pratt
Yellow Cab Co
Fice
Virginia counties urge primary date shift to September
Virginia Association of Counties executive director George R. Long proposes moving the primary to September from June to avoid redistricting after July 1. The VAC also seeks changing eligibility declaration to a window between 30 and 75 days before the primary, tightening the current 60 to 75 day rule.
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Charlottesville
The
Virginia Association of Counties
Giys
VAC
General Assembly
George R. Long
Pentagon Scouts Seek Paths to Unaccounted Military Aid
Pentagon officials told a Joint Economic subcommittee that tracing Food for Peace funds converted to arms is extremely difficult. They estimate total military aid costs at about seven billion dollars in fiscal 1970 and note wartime conditions hinder cataloging money funneled to foreign troops. Critics accuse mismanagement as officials pledge to uncover figures though progress is slow.
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Washington
Pentagon
Armistead I. Selden
Defense
U.S
J. W. Fulbright
D-Ark
Vietnam
Selden
Defense Department
William Proxmire
D-Wis
State to hold seven city meetings on air study plan
The State Division of Aeronautics will confer with planning district officials local governments and other interested parties in seven Virginia cities to outline a proposed air passenger and air cargo study Two division representatives will meet in Richmond Hampton and Portsmouth on Tuesday Lebanon and Roanoke on Wednesday and Staunton and Fredericksburg on Thursday.
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Richmond
State Division of Aeronautics
Virginia
Hampton
Portsmouth
Lebanon
Roanoke
Staunton
Fredericksburg
Retired Naval Academy Teacher Dies at 71
Allen Blow Cook, 71, a retired English and history professor at the U S Naval Academy, died Wednesday at his Virginia home. Services are Friday at Ft Myer Chapel with burial at Arlington National Cemetery. He graduated in 1921, earned a Phi Beta Kappa key at UVA, and taught at the academy from 1929 to 1967.
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Norfolk
Allen Blow Cook
U.S. Naval Academy
Annapolis
Cook
Virginia
Ft. Myer
Arlington National Cemetery
Academy
University of Virginia
Naval Academy
Institute Graduates First Judicial Management Class
The Institute for Court Management, funded by a Ford Foundation grant, graduated its first class of 31 in December. Alumni include Missouri’s first state court administrator W. Wayne Bruckner and Delaware Superior Court administrator Andrew Talley. The program trains future federal court administrators to manage courts and budgets.
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Denver
U.S
The
Institute For Court Management
Institute
Lastear
Ford Foundation
W. Wayne Bruckner
Missouri
Andrew Talley
Delaware
American Judicature Society
Institute For Judicial Administration
American Bar Association
University of Denver Law School
Robert Yegge
Law School
Thomas
Yegge
Early Sunday School Founded 1785 at Oak Grove Church
Oak Grove Methodist Church in Accomack County on Virginia's Eastern Shore hosts a Sunday School dating from 1785, claimed to be the nation's oldest still in existence.
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Oak Grove Methodist Church
Accomack County
Virginia
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