Wadena farmhouse drama voted Minnesota news story of the year
In Fergus Falls Minnesota 38 year old ex convict John P Morgan and accomplice William Winans held hostages at a Wadena area farmhouse for 33 hours before the Wegscheid family and four children were released. The 1973 incident dominated state news as voters selected it as the year’s top Minnesota story.
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Wadena
Minnesota
Associated Press
John P. Morgan
Fergus Falls
Minn
Morgan
Wiliam Winans
Elmer
Joyce Wegscheid
Elmer Wegscheid
Minnesota State High School League
Federal Environmental Protection Agnecy
Duluth
DFL
Watergate Scandel
3M Company
Harry Heltzer
Nixon
Dwayne Andreas
Hubert H. Humphrey
Senate House
Minneapolis
Charles Stenvig
Dfler al Hofstede
Rochester
David Torgersen
EPA
Lake Superior
Dflers
Wendell Anderson
Minnesota Corporation
Meir Faces Big Challenge as Labor Party Woes Grow
Tel Aviv reports Labor's Golda Meir campaigned amid a crowded field of 21 parties with Likud rising in polls. Voter uncertainty, youth turnout, and wartime peace talks framed the race as Israelis prepared for Dec 31 election day.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
Golda Meir
Labor Party
Meir
Socialist Labor Party
Moshe Dayan
Mormon Church Leader Harold B. Lee Dies at 74
Harold B. Lee, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and head for 18 months, died at 74 after hospital tests. He passed from lung and heart failure with his wife and family at his bedside. Spencer W. Kimball is likely his successor, followed by Ezra Taft Benson.
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Salt Lake City
Harold B. Lee
Mormon Church
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Mormon
Lee
Joseph Fielding Smith
Church
Joseph Smith
David O. McKay
Council of the Twelve Apostles
Spencer W. Kimball
Kimball
Ezra Taft Benson
Eisenhower
Council of the Twelve
Fern Lucinda Tanner
Helen
Maurine
Freda Joan Jensen
Metzenbaum paid back taxes before Senate appointment
Howard M. Metzenbaum disclosed he paid $118,102 in back taxes on December 17 to avoid misunderstanding as he was named to fill the remaining Ohio Senate term. IRS seeks further sums for 1967 and 1968, while Metzenbaum argues deductions were improperly disallowed. tax court action continues. He, like Gov. Gilligan, is a Democrat.
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Washington
Cleveland
Howard M. Metzenbaum
U.S
Ohio
Metzenbaum
John J. Gilligan
William B. Saxbe
Internal Revenue Service
Hearing into death of guard continues in St. Paul
A Ramsey County Juvenile Court hearing for three Minneapolis youths charged with killing store security guard Hazel Synstegard in St. Paul is continued to Jan 9. The state seeks certification of two 16 year olds and one 17 year old for adult prosecution on second-degree murder charges. The youths remain in Woodview Detention Home without bail pending the certification hearing.
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Likud
Mrs. Meir
Meir
Egypt
Syria
ST. Paul, Minn
Minneapolis
Montgomery Ward
St. Paul
Ramsey County
Archie L. Gingold
Richard O'Reskie
Hazel Synstegard
Crime drops in Mill City and Duluth
The Justice Department released crime statistics showing fewer reported offenses in Minneapolis and Duluth for the first three quarters of this year versus 1972. Duluth saw a decline from 3,155 to 3,051 offenses.
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Associated Press
Justice Department Today
Minneapolis
Duluth
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Highland
Kien Duc
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Winans
David Fogel
U.S. Steel
Walter Mondale
University of Minnesota
Malcolm Moos
Alpha Smaby
Northern States Power Co., Board of Directors
IRS
Louisiana
Gilligan
Saxbe
Northwestern Bell
Mill City
Austin
Herald
Oakland Ave
Oxfords
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