Goose-pluckers list trips up freeloaders on Eastern Shore
Maryland goose plucking records exposed 59 top Pentagon officers and contractors guests at Rockwell and Raytheon lodges. Lists tied geese plucks to visitors, revealing 37 officers and 22 civilians including several flag and procurement officials during 1972 73 and 1974 75 hunting seasons.
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UPI
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Rockwell International Corp
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Joint Congressional Committee On Defense Production
Proxmire
Rockwell
Raytheon
Ten die in New York tenement fire
A three alarm blaze on the Upper West Side killed seven children aged 1 to 12 and three women in a six story walkup. Officials said carbon monoxide poisoning likely caused the deaths after the fire spread from a first floor living room couch through pipe recesses to upper floors. Police released victim names and described a distraught relative seeking word from family in Santo Domingo.
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NEW York
UPI
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John T. O’hagan
O’hagan
Blue Angel
Harold Vienjuste
Veronica Daverne
Candida Couiscou
Amelia Desla
Ford admits welfare mess but sees no easy solution
President Ford calls the welfare system a mess but sees little chance of reform before 1980. In his Boston Herald American interview he cites a sweeping overhaul by decade's end, urges alternatives to busing, supports quality education, crime hardening, and more prisons, and cites Brooke and Richardson as superb public servants.
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UPI
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HEW
Massachusetts
New England
Solar Energy Institute
Edward W. Brooke
R-Mass
Commerce
Elliott Richardson
Bayh pushes rail funds for AMTRAK CONRAIL
UPI reports presidential hopeful Birch Bayh urged full funding for Amtrak and Conrail rail service. He criticized President Ford for budget excess and proposed a $259 million contingency fund to improve rails, cross ties, stations, and emergency bridge repairs for Boston New York Washington routes.
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UPI
Birch Bayh
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Conrail
New England
Bayh
Senate Transportation Appropriations Subcommittee
Boston
New York
Washington
Man held for threat to judge in Massachusetts
John McCann a 24 year old from Wellesley was ordered to Medfield State Hospital for 20 days observation after police said he carried the makings of a bomb and planned to kill U S District Court Judge W Arthur Garrity Jr. The case against him was continued. Garrity oversaw desegregation rulings in Boston.
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UPI
Wellesley
U.S
W. Arthur Garrity Jr
John McCann
Medfield State Hospital
Daniel H. Rider
McCann
Garrity
Boston
NAACP
Loo animals get day off at Mexico City zoo
Mexico City's Chapultepec Park Zoo relaxes schedules with Mondays off for its 2500 animals to reduce stress amid about six million yearly visitors. Director Jean F. Schoch says fewer visitors will lower heart attack risk and aid conservation of 315 species.
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Mexico City
UPI
Jean F. Schoch
Chapultepec Park
King's assassin again seeks to alter plea in King case
James Earl Ray, imprisoned for the 1968 Memphis murder of Martin Luther King Jr., asks to change his plea claiming innocence. He contends his 1969 guilty plea was coerced by former attorney Percy Foreman, and seeks a new trial via a 6th Circuit appeal heard Tuesday.
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UPI
Martin Luther King
James Earl Ray
Ray
James Lesar
U.S. 6Th Circuit Court of Appeals
King
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Tenn
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Nashville
Lesar
Percy Foreman
Foreman
Tennessee
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court debates Bartley-Fox gun law
Six justices of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court opened hearings on the Bartley-Fox gun law arguing about constitutional issues of separation of powers due process and cruel and unusual punishment The law enacted in 1974 requires a minimum one year sentence for gun law violations with no probation or suspended sentences The hearing discussed rationality of the statute and whether the judiciary has power to use pre sentencing methods in such cases
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UPI
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Robert Brancher
Suffolk County
Richard Voke
Braucher
Voke
Commonwealth
Clyde Bergstresser
Massa
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Bartley-Fox
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