FBI Reports Police Fatalities in March 1978
The FBI states three law enforcement officers were killed in March 1978, with 14 officers killed in the first quarter of 1978 across regions: seven Southern, five Western, one Northcentral, and one Northeastern. Causes include traffic law enforcement, robberies, burglaries, investigating suspicious persons, ambush, and handling a mentally deranged person. firearms were used in 13 killings, 12 of them handguns, and 11 of the 14 slayings have been cleared.
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FBI
Not The One Identity Crisis Creeps Into News
A fragmented newspaper item hints at identity confusion or a personal crisis affecting an individual or group. The readable portions mention public interest and confusion but lack concrete names, dates, or places to specify a clear event or outcome. Further text is needed for precise summary.
Not the One column sparks new journalistic idea
Ray Lynch notes a Daily Telegraph trend where a brief column titled Not the One clarifies that a suspect is not the neighbor with the same name to ease public fear. The piece imagines Clark Kent chasing a bombing story, facing a crowd, and seeking authoritative attribution from Officer Bill Jones about the arrested man George Jones, amid a sea of similarly named individuals.
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Daily Telegraph Star
Daily Telegraph
Jessee James
North
Dodge Street
Mercer County
Clark Kent
Scott Street
Kent
Superman
Krypton Lane
Bill Jones
Security
Jones
Force
O.K
George Jones
Mr. Jones
Princeton
Unknown Road
Bluefield
George
Matoaka Man Charged In Shooting Death
A 24 year old Matoaka man, David E. Bell, is charged with murder in the death of Arlice Farmer, 40, shot four times on Farmer’s porch early Saturday. Bell, previously charged with malicious wounding, was jailed in Mercer County awaiting a preliminary hearing after officers investigated the homicide.
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Matoaka
Mercer County
David E. Bell
Princeton
Bell
Arlice Farmer
Farmer
D. R. Bowman
Jack Coburn
Dwayne Earnest Sr
State
Charleston
Seaver Mortuary
Indicted in Firearms Violations Linked to Gun Rings
A McDowell County man and a Brooklyn resident, Roy Via and Willie Armstrong, face federal indictments for obtaining guns under false names from dealers and selling them in New York. Also named are former Pike County deputies Charlie Daniels and Andy Dotson for receiving stolen weapons from Mayhew's Gun Store in Jaeger on December 24, 1977, with five others charged in the theft. Daniels and Dotson have resigned as deputies.
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McDowell County
Brooklyn
N. Y
Charleston
Roy Via
Willie Armstrong
New York
Pike County
Charlie Daniels
Andy Dotson
Mayhew
Jaeger
Daniels
Dotson
Bluewell Man Found Not Guilty In Copyright Case
A U S district court petit jury in Charleston deliberated about three hours before acquitting James Ernest Law of Bluewell, operator of Quality Dollar Store, on charges of reproducing two eight track tapes for sale. The indictment, issued by a federal grand jury in April, named Law as the defendant with legal counsel Michael Gibson defending him and Jim Arnold and Bob Allen for the government. In another note, it states that hundreds of mushroom species are edible with Agaricus bisporus as the principal commercial mushroom.
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U. S. District Court
Petit
Bluewell
James Ernest Law
Quality Dollar
Law
Charleston
Princeton
Michael Gibson
U. S
Jim Arnold
Bob Allen
Europe
America
Barbs by Phil Pastore t
A humorous columnist mocks morning noise and aging routines with pithy quips about a grating bird at dawn, the Tooth Fairy’s two-bits memory, and an orthodontist’s grafted deal, plus a neighbor who naps with his head and feet on different grills.
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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Identity Crisis
By Ray Lynch
John Doe
Mercer County Schools
James J. Martin
Honcker Avenue
W.V
Jenn-Air
Cocemg
Jenn Av
Centemer
Cabinet House
Jenn Air
W.va
the World Almanac
Antonius Pius
Pope Pius XII
Canada
Toronto
Montreal
Winnipeg
Phil Pastoret
Nate Kustom Kraft Men
OK Corral
Joe Dakota
Ange
Gallery of
the Kendalls
Bland
Virginia
Dry Gulch
Fiesta
Ford Dealer
FORD
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