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Newspaper
Bemidji Pioneer
Location
Bemidji, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1975
Page
8
Public Safety Commissioner Edward G. Novak announced that starting January 1 left turns will be legal when made from a one way street into an intersecting one way street with traffic moving from right to left. Drivers must stop at red, yield to pedestrians and traffic, and ensure no signs prohibit the turn.
Taxi drivers accounting for 90 percent of Minneapolis cabs planned a 5 am strike against Yellow Cab Blue and White and Suburban Yellow. About 35 Red and White cabs, from a different union, would operate. The strike was authorized December 3 and the guild rejected the companies final offer December 16.
The TU144 started its first regular mail and freight service flying Moscow to Alma Ata, covering 2050 miles in 119 minutes at 57000 feet. The flight averaged over 1000 mph. Passengers will wait until late 1976. Western journalists were barred from the flight.
In Newport Tennessee a gunfight at the Red Lantern Inn left four dead and two wounded. Officials say Jackie Layman a 24 year old prison escapee opened fire at about 3 a.m. on Christmas morning and may have sought revenge for an ambush a week earlier that wounded Laymon outside his mother's home.
The State Health Department screening of 50,892 Minnesotans identified 6,638 with high blood pressure. The report notes a strong link between overweight and hypertension. A University of Minnesota physician says lowering blood pressure could greatly reduce strokes and heart and kidney disease.
A widow Judith Saneck 34 and her three children Michael 12 Joleen 9 and Joselyn 7 plus a male friend were found shot dead in their rural Phoenixville area home. State Police say all five died from a self-inflicted gunshot. The killings occurred near Valley Forge Park about 25 miles west of Philadelphia.
The Associated Press notes four people died in Minnesota holiday incidents on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. A light plane crash near Newport killed Mary Cunningham and injured five others including her husband and children. a stillwater ice accident claimed Lorna Timmers and her 20 month old son. a West Concord fire killed Timothy Layman as his family escaped.
The Minnesota Supreme Court affirmed a Martin County jury verdict convicting Thomas L. Schweppe 31 for making terroristic threats against a Fairmont youth and his mother on May 7 1973. The court found sufficient evidence Schweppe intended his threats to be communicated even if not directly.
Jehovah's Witnesses allege a campaign of beating rape torture and detention in Malawi due to refusal to join the Malawi Congress party. They say abuses began in 1964 with arson and arrests, and accuse President Banda of seeking to suppress the sect across southern Africa.
Emma Bates, 72, survived after a 400 pound lion named Keba mauled her at Lion Country Safari. Dennis Pruitt, 20, an employee, rescued her by beating the beast with a rake as Bates sought safety in her car. she remains in satisfactory condition despite broken jaw and facial wounds.
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