Dog Rescued After Tumbling Down Mineshaft
Shelley the German Shepherd fell 400 feet into an abandoned mineshaft near Central City Colorado. Pat Garvey abandoned hope, then organized rescue with Norm Blake and Bill Russell. Blake descended in an ore bucket, found Shelley at 110 feet, and she rode to the surface unharmed.
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Cental City
Colo
UPI
Shelley
Dog
Pat Garvey
Garvey
Lost
Norm Blake
Denver
High Court Rules Against Private Oil Shale Claims
The Supreme Court ruled 4 to 2 that private claims to oil shale on U.S. lands are lost if no or token improvements are made. Six Colorado groups had their claims canceled in the 1930s under the 1872 General Mining Act. The decision favors the Interior Department while allowing further appeals on potential procedural or agency actions.
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High Court
Washington
Supreme Court
West
Interior Department
William O. Douglas
U.S
Colorado
Federal District and Appeals Courts
Black
Brennan
Blackmun
Douglas
Burger
Stewart
Harlan, White
Marshall
Pair Nabbed Held Son of Banker for Ransom
In Los Angeles two men, George Forrens and Thomas LeRoy Coleman, were held for kidnapping for ransom after abducting banker William Spath's 20 year old son Lee from Granada Hills and demanding more than 100000 dollars. The son was found alive in a car trunk after the suspects were stopped on a freeway.
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Blakely Boulevard
Jamie Turner
Donald Turner
Cedar Rapids
Mercy Hospital
Los Angeles
Lee Spath
William Spath
Young Spath
George Forrens
Thomas LeRoy Coleman
Spath
Granada Hills
Glendale
Bank of America
Reagan Shunning Favorite Son Bid in 1972 Nomination
Gov. Ronald Reagan says he will attend the 1972 Republican convention as a Nixon backer, not as a favorite son candidate as in 1968. He has not discussed Nixon’s nomination with the president and hopes Nixon will be the nominee.
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Sacramento
Calif
Ronald Regan
Nixon
Reagan
Judge rules man innocent of stealing porn magazines
Fulton County Judge Dan Duke acquits Archie Julks 39, after ruling the 17 porn magazines were worthless contraband. The decision cites a Fifth Circuit view that possessing such materials cannot be illegal when they have no value, leaving Julks freed after six weeks in jail.
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Atlanta
Fulton County
Dan Duke
Duke
Archie Julks
Julks
H.L. Ownbey
Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Julka
Soviet Defense Budget Set At 19.8 Billion Dollars For 1971
Moscow reports the 1971 Soviet defense budget at 160.8 billion rubles, about 19.8 billion dollars, with defense taking 11 percent of the total. Finance minister Garbuzov says industrial production rose 8 percent in 1970 and consumer goods will rise 7.4 percent in 1971, while Baibakov notes wage levels and calls for quicker adoption of modern technology.
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Moscow
Fiat
Volga
Togliatti
Baibakov
Vasily Garbuzov
Supreme Soviet
Soviet Union
Garbuzov
Nikolai Baibakov
Economic Planning Commission
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C.R
Gazette
John McIvor
Las Vegas
Lice
FORDS
Men's Sho
Wright Arch Preservers
Wright Arch Preserver
Wrights
Wright Alok
Bank Americard
Polaroid
Tor
Baylor
Solid State Novelty
Clairol
Lindale Plaza
Sun
Zales’ Jewelers
General Electric
Kremlin
ABC Evening News
Howard K. Smith
Harry Reasoner
TV 9
Zen'th
Kroehler
Philco
Simmons
Maytag
Eureka
Phileas
Bigelow
First Avenue SE
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