Man Kills Four In Courthouse in West Virginia
A man drove to the Mason County Courthouse with a shotgun and a bag of dynamite, fired into the bag, and triggered an explosion that killed the man, his wife, and two police officers, injuring 11 others. The wife had been jailed on a charge related to killing their infant daughter.
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Point Pleasant
W Va
Mason County
Bruce Sisk
Harriet
Pete Wedge
Kenneth Love
Wedge
Huntington
E.R. McCarty
Sisk
McCarty
Coretta King Speaks at Church Council on Employment
Coretta Scott King, widow of Martin Luther King Jr., addresses 140 delegates at Ebenezer Baptist Church on full employment. The council debates a statement to heal ecumenical divides while warning on nuclear power and waste storage amid calls for stricter reactor controls.
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Atlanta
National Council — of Churches
Martin Luther King Jr
Coretta Scott King
Council
Board of Governors
Ebenezer Baptist Church
King
Charles Birch
University of Sydney
Australia
Gregory Minor
General Electric
Minor
San Jose
Calif
Alabama
China
Brown's Ferry
Tennessee Valley Authority
Congress
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
William A. Anders
The
Commission
House
Senate Atomic Energy Committee
School Workers the Indicted In Embezzlement
Charlotte AP Mecklenburg County Grand jury indicted two women on embezzlement of student activity funds at local schools. Wyona Brewington 27 former bookkeeper at Myers Park High School is said to have a 364 shortage and resigned last August. Marie Knight former secretary at Couldwood Junior High School faces a 270 shortage alleged and was indicted after being suspected last November.
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Charlotte
Mecklenburg County
Wyona Brewington
Myers Parkigh School
Marie Knight
Couldwood Junior Gh
Mental Test Ordered For Williston Girl
Bertha Mae Hutto fourteen pled guilty in Barnwell General Sessions to throwing her newborn baby in a fireplace. Judge Rodney Peeples ordered sixty days of psychiatric testing in Columbia before sentencing under the youthful offenders act. An autopsy by MUSC in Charleston showed the infant was alive when placed in the fire and died shortly after.
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Barnwell
Williston, S.C
Columbia
Barnwell General Sessions Court
Bertha Mae Hutto
Miss Hutto
Barnwell County
George Hogg
Rodney Peeples
Hogg
Peeples
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston
Postal Service weighs nationwide ad push to boost letter writing
The Postal Service seeks a 5 percent rise in personal correspondence to revive finances. Tests in Atlanta Minneapolis St Paul and Columbus Ohio hint at progress with ads akin to long distance campaigns. If scaled nationwide this could add about 150 million dollars annually while mail rates rise to 13 cents.
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Washington
Postal Service
Telephone Company
J. T. Ellington
Atlanta
Minneapolis- St. Paul
Columbus
Ohio
Ellington
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Coretta King
Church Council
James Farley
Point Pleasant Hospital
Farley
West Virginia
Ohio Highway
Point Pleasant City
Davie Calline Sisk
Sheriff's Office
U.S. Postal Service
Williston
Cview
Aiken
Pt of S
Fantasy
Rocking Chair
Madeline Kahn
Aes Jae
Lucista Calsule al Ee
Edward
SALE
Azalea’s
Wigin
Huaraches
Natural Oxford
Children's Raggedy Ann
Fantastik
Califax
America
Aiken & Clearwater
Juliette
Reg
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