Youth Paper Drive Aims To Expand Fairgrounds
Winchester Frederick youth groups led by 4 H FFA Ruritans and others start a Youth Paperton Drive to raise funds for 22 acres of Frederick County Fairgrounds, ease paper shortages, and promote recycling. Main collection is Nov 10 with pre collection pickup by call in. Collection points include James Wood High Frederick County Junior High and Ayler Junior High.
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FFA
Raritans
Handley Key Club
Ruriteens
Frederick County Fairgrounds
Steve Locke
James Wood High School
Frederick County Junior High School
Ayler Junior High School
Senate cuts U.S. land strength abroad by forty percent
The Senate voted to slash by 40 percent the U S land based strength abroad. In Denver the Stanek sextuplets mother Edna Stanek 34 returns home with five surviving babies to leave hospital next month. Babies born Sept 16. In Mexico Hurricane Irah strongest of the season hits Baja California peninsula causing damage and one injury. Senate sustains Nixon veto on disaster loan expansion after seven times this year. Saigon fighters attack Le Minh camp. 2000 Saigon troops to retake the base face tough terrain.
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Denver
Stanek
Edna Stanek
Colorado General Hospital
Mexico City
Pacific
Baja California Peninsula
Saigon
Pleiku
Tornado Toll Rises Across Kansas and Plains Regions
Aerial and ground reports from the central plains indicate at least three killed with dozens injured as 20 or more tornadoes hit Kansas and neighboring states. Clay Center suffered a four block wide swath. Greenleaf evacuations followed an ammonia tank rupture. rail damage and widespread mobile home destruction reported.
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Associated Press
Kansas
Central Plains
Kansas Highway Patrol
Nebraska
Clay Center
Salina
Red Cross
Greenleaf
Highway Patrol
Niles
Union Pacific Railroad
Hanover
Agnew asks House hearing on corruption case
Speaker Carl Albert said the House will take no action now on Vice President Agnew s request for a hearing into kickback and bribery charges. Agnew argues constitutional protection bars criminal action while in office and seeks a House review or possible impeachment route.
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Washington
Carl Albert
House
Spiro T. Agnew
House of Representatives
Agnew
Justice Department
Atty
Elliot L. Richardson
Baltimore
Nixon
Capitol Hill
Albert
Maryland
Richardson
John J. McFall
California
Judiciary Committee
Skylab 2 astronauts return to Earth in good health
Doctors report Alan Bean Owen Garriott and Jack Lousma in excellent spirits with normal vital signs after their 5912 day mission. They underwent medical checks aboard the USS New Orleans and will continue tests and diet guidance for 18 more days before returning home near Houston.
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Pacific
San Diego
Alan Bean
Owen Garriott
Jack Lousma
Uss New Orleans
Alan L. Bean
Owen K. Garriott
Jack R. Lousma
Calif
Earth
New Orleans
Royce Hawkins
Houston
Johnson Space Center
Buchanan defends integrity as Watergate probe opens
Patrick J. Buchanan accused the Senate Watergate committee staff of m aning his reputation and denied involvement in any sabotage against Democrats. He called the alleged campaign a violation of committee rules and asked how the panel can police ethics if it cannot control internal critics. He said Republicans were not responsible for Muskie's downfall or McGovern's nomination. The committee began its inquiry into political dirty tricks as the Watergate probe proceeds.
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Washington
Patrick J. Buchanan
Senate Watergate Committee
Buchanan
Sen
Edmund S
Muskie
White House
Nixon
George) McGovern
McGovern
Maine
Pair Survive 72 Days Drifting in the Pacific
Bob Tininenko and James Fisher survived 72 days at sea in a capsize trimaran after their vessel capsized off California. Tininenko, 34, arrived in Honolulu smiling, while Fisher, 26, was hospitalized in serious condition and dehydrated. They were rescued by a British freighter Benalder after a 42 hour flight from Midway, and Tininenko spoke of his late wife Linda who died in the accident.
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Honolulu
Robert Tininenko
James Fisher
Tininenko
Pacific
Longview
Wash
Midway Island
Fisher
Moses Lake
Coast Guard
Castle Memorial Hospital
Benalder
Hawaii
California
Midway
Coast
Stafford
Amnesia victim recalls past as two lives merge
John R. Crosswhite of Cape Girardeau vanished after a 1943 trip. declared dead in 1940. In recovery from a stroke, he revealed a second life as John R. Cross in Joplin, marrying twice and raising a family, while family members seek to verify his memory.
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Joplin, Mo
John R. Crosswhite
Cape Girardeau
St. Louis
Crosswhite
John R. Cross
Joplin
Cross
Martha Jane Barker
St. John’s Medical Center
Crosswhites
Enid
Okla
Frank Crosswhite
Hennessey
Frank
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