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#38495
(Studio) Govt., banks and auto makers release figures with regard to economy
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(DC) Unemployment rate is 8.6%. [Commissioner, Bureau Labor Statistics Julius SHISKIN - says we're in turning zone. Can expect improvement soon.]
REPORTER: Dan Cordtz
(NYC) Wholesale prices fell 0.1% in June; prices usually drop more in June. Meats, fruits, vegetables and petroleum products up in prices. Car sales up 7% from May, but 11% behind last June's sales. 1st National City Bank raises prime interest rate to 7%.
REPORTER: Dan Cordtz
#38496
(Studio) Conoco Oil Company reports gasoline price increase of 3 cents per gallon. Senator Birch Bayh calls it curious irony that increases come at start of summer vacation period. His Senator antitrust and monopoly subcommittee to hold hearings on hikes.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
#38497
(Studio) Council on Wage and Price Stability persuades 3 aluminum producers: Alcoa, Reynolds and Kaiser to delay price increases for 30 days. 4th company, Alcan Aluminum Corporation agrees to delay; hasn't informed council
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
#38498
(Studio) New York City garbage crisis over. Mayor gets power under agreement to collect $300 million in new taxes.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
(NYC) [President uniformed sanitation men's association John DELURY - says agreement reached. All may resume work.] Teens had set piles of garbage ablaze. All of 3000 laid off probably won't be rehired. [STRIKER - says wants agreement in black and white.] Garbage being picked up.
REPORTER: Gregory Jackson
(Studio) Mayor Abraham Beame says 20,000 city employees will be laid off.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
#38499
(Studio) 5000 Pennsylvania workers ordered back to work. State seeks injunction to limit picketing at state facilities.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
#38502
(Studio) Report on floods in Minnesota and North Dakota.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(Fargo, North Dakota) 1 million acres farmland under water. 15% of United States sugar beets under water. Oats, wheat and soybeans also gone. [Farmer Don ATHERTON - says doesn't know how young farmers will be able to carry on.] Feared moisture-caused blights will destroy rest of crops. Sandbags used to protect against rising rivers.
REPORTER: Ron Miller
#38503
(Studio) Chicago under layer of polluted air due to temperature inversion.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(Chicago, Illinois) City under yellow alert. Motorists, mfrs. and other polluters asked to restrict their activities.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner (narrates)
#38504
(Studio) President Ford visits Cincinnati, Cleveland.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
(Cincinnati, Ohio) Crowd small at airport. Republican national committee paid for trip. Environmental research center dedicated. President says he'll introduction legislature to fix liability for oil spills. [FORD - says United States symbol will never be empty beer can in river of garbage. Cntry. must pursue goal of clean air and water, but must also pursue goal of max. jobs and economy progress.] Speaks to business leaders [FORD - criticizes Congress for not deregulating natural gas. Inaction resulted in serious gas shortage.] Attends fund-raising dinner in Cleveland that raised nearly $500,000 for GOP.
REPORTER: Tom Jarriel
#38505
(Studio) Harris poll shows Senator Edward Kennedy 1st choice for Democratic party nomination. He received 31%; George Wallace 15%; Senator Henry Jackson 8%; Senator Hubert H. Humphrey 7%; Senator Edmund Muskie 6%; Senator George McGovern 4%.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
#38507
(Studio) "San Diego Evening Tribune" reports United States nuclear sub and Soviet ballistic missile sub collided in USSR waters last year Photo shown of United States sub after collision. Rptd. United States submarine getting information with regard to Soviet naval base when accident occurred.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
#38508
(Studio) Lebanon's new cabinet discusses security and police. 290 died in 10 days of street warfare. Palestine guerrilla leader, Yasir Arafat, says 5th Mideast war imminent. Says guerrillas stepped up activities. Israel ambassador Simcha Dinitz flies to Virgin Island for talks with Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
#38509
(Studio) Able-bodied men in India ordered to join vigilante group to combat sabotage. Premier Indira Gandhi says democrat gives too much license to people.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(New Delhi, India) Anyone can be arrested without charges and held for 6 mos. without trial. Groups over 5 can't congregate. "Washington Post" reporter, Lew Simons, expelled. [SIMONS - says often compared India favorably to US. Censorship in any country repugnant.] Police move in to interrupt interviews. [MAN - says we're democrat nation] [POLICEMAN -breaks up interview.]
REPORTER: Jim Bennett
#38511
(Studio) Ex-Florida Senator Edward Gurney says once denied knowing about improper fundraising for himself because not obligated to have affairs tried in newspapers. Admits knowing of fund raising.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
#38512
(Studio) Last Watergate grand jury discharged. Only jury to get testimony from ex-President Richard Nixon. Reg. impanelled grand juries to continue Watergate work. 1 of Watergate figures Egil Krogh filled in for host of radio talk show.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(San Francisco, California) Krogh shown recing. calls on radio show. Went to prison for part in Watergate. He's aide to California Congman., Paul McCloskey. Most of callers civil to him. [KROGH - says what was done in 1971 was wrong. Wishes he had been more aware of president restrictions.] Krogh says he was nervous about radio job.
REPORTER: Ed Leslie (KGO-TV)
#38513
(Studio) Ex-Attorney General John Mitchell disbarred in New York.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
#38515
(Studio) Rptd. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger advised Ford not to meet with exiled author, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn on his Washington, DC visit.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
(DC) He visits Lincoln Memorial. To visit Williamsburg, Virginia, Friday
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith (narrates)
#38516
(Studio) United States players Jimmy Connors and Arthur Ashe both win Wimbledon semifinals. Ashe beat Tony Roche; Connors beat Roscoe Tanner.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
#38517
(Studio) Civil Service Commission says known homosexuals may not be denied fed. employment unless there is a rational connection between job performance and homosexuality.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
#38518
(Studio) Report on fireworks.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
(La Palma, California) California forbids sale of fireworks that explode, shoot in air, or move on ground. Consumer Products Safety Commission says 6500 required hospitalization for injuries in 1973. 5-10 killed each year 215 killed in 1909. [Vice President Red Devil Fireworks Company Fred BROOKINS - describes safe places and how to shoot off fireworks.] Sparklers dangerous if improperly used.
REPORTER: Tom Schell
#38520
(Studio) Reporter cites bits of good news and accompanying bad news.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
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