Fatal gunfight erupts in racially mixed project
In Kings Mountain North Carolina a Monday gunfight left 22 year old Beverly Mauney dead and four men wounded amid a dispute between white and black families at a public housing complex. Henry Boone 33 was arrested on second degree murder charges.
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Kings Mountain
N.C
T.W. Harper
John Belk
Beverly Ernestine Mauney
Ernest Mauney
Eugene Mauney
Herman Queen
Henry Boone
Forest City
Cleveland County
Shelby
Boone
Mauney
J.D. Barrett
Belk
Garris
Bob Hayes
Bessemer City
Chesterfield
Toddlers Spot Dad With Ease At Topeka Church Abandonment
Two sandy haired toddlers Ben and Charlie found abandoned in a Topeka church shouted Dad as Dennis W. Best of Edwardsville Ill. claimed custody. A judge granted temporary custody while their mother had left them with a note saying she could not care for them. Best had not seen the boys in six weeks and believed they were traveling with their mother to Hawaii.
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Topeka, Kan
Ben
Charlie
Dennis W. Best
Edwardsville
Ill
Topeka
Best
Hawaii
Associated Press
Record Highs Spread Across Nation
Heat wave bakes the South and Southwest while the central Plains to the Great Lakes set new highs. At least 11 more deaths bring the toll to 154 as forecasters warn of more 100 plus degree days. An Iowa silo collapse killed one man and injured another, blamed on sticky soy meal from extreme heat. Six Georgia deaths during the Fourth of July weekend are linked to the heat in Columbus.
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Central Plains
Mississippi Valley
Great Lakes
mid-Mississippi Valley
Plains
Rockies
Chicago
O'Hare
Manning
Iowa
Kenneth Weets
Georgia
Columbus
Carter heads to Tokyo for Ohira memorial and Hua meeting
President Carter leaves Plains for Tokyo to attend the Ohira memorial service and to meet Chinese Premier Hua Guofeng. In Detroit, he will hold a 45 minute morning session with auto industry leaders as Mondale promises relief steps for automakers during the shift to smaller cars.
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Plains, Ga
Carter
Tokyo
Masayoshi Ohira
Hua Guofeng
Detroit
Walter Mondale
White House
Japan
Edmund Muskie
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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