Inaugural Handicap Opens Platte County Meet
Six speedsters eye the $5,000 Inaugural Handicap at Platte County Agricultural Park Track on opening day. Dust Wave tops the field at 123 pounds with Bold Debut 121 Miss Mido 120 Line Dancer 115 No Big Deal 114 and Clinton Street 10 among the entries. An $2,100 allowance for 2year-olds follows in race eight. two routes appear in races five and nine. First post is 4 p.m. as the Columbus Races run through Oct 1 under Platte County Agricultural Society supervision.
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Platte County Agricultural Park Track
Miss Mido
Line Dancer
Clinton Street
Agricultural Park
Columbus
Platte County Agricultural Society
Warren Albert
Four Arrested In Plan To Steal Elvis Body
Memphis police detained four men suspected of plotting to break into Elvis Presley’s Forest Hill Cemetery mausoleum and steal his body for ransom. Officers arrested three near the mausoleum around midnight. the fourth was captured at Baptist Hospital after injuring a knee while fleeing. The group reportedly carried burglary tools but did not damage the mausoleum door.
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Memphis, Tenn
UPI
Elvis Presley
E. Winslow Chapman
Forest Hill Cemetery
An At
Chapman
Baptist Hospital
Slayings in Hackettstown Shocks Warren County Community
Fourteen year old David Galvin was among six victims gunned down in Hackettstown and nearby Mansfield Township. Emile Benoist, 20, killed himself after a two hour death spree. Authorities seek motive as a large manhunt followed the shootings. Benoist, a tattooed ex Marine with past arrests, was described as troubled by acquaintances.
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Hackettstown
UPI
David Galvin
Hackettstown High School
David
Warren County
Emile Pierre Benoist
Mansfield Township
John Joe
Benoist
John
Rhodesia peace plan briefing and second talks
U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young and British Foreign Secretary David Owen briefed South Africa's John Vorster on a last chance Anglo American plan for Rhodesia. Police seized anti-Young placards as a second session was called for 5:30 PM. Owen and Young pressed for an internationally acceptable negotiated settlement while warning that violence could persist without agreement. Smith was said to reject one plan condition, disbanding Rhodesia's army, amid white voter concerns.
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Pretoria
South Africa
UPS
U.N
Andrew Young
David Owen
Rhodesia
Owen
Vorster
Young
Johannesburg
Lusaka
Zambia
Qwen
Britain
Tan Smith
Smith
Salisbury
Banker says Lance loan to Budget Director was ordinary
Tennessee banker Jake Butcher says his $443,000 loan to Burt Lance is current and won't be called, calling the loan ordinary. Butcher, possible 1978 gubernatorial candidate, says integrity and ability to repay remain intact. He notes Lance’s stock, scrutiny, and past collateral details tied to a $515,000 loan in 1976, with modest principal payments since.
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Memphis, Tenn
UPI
Tennessee
Jake Butcher
Burt Lance
Lance
Butcher
Knoxville
National Bank of Georgia
Carter
Georgia Bank
United
American Bank
Mild Nebraska Weather From High Iowa High
An area of high pressure over central Iowa brings mild weather to Nebraska with mostly partly cloudy skies. Light variable winds near five to ten mph shift to southerly tonight. midday temps in the 60s to 70s, peaking in the 70s and 80s this afternoon. Overnight lows range from 45 to 59 with highs Sunday near 64 to 78 and a Tuesday outlook of partly cloudy skies and cooler highs.
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United Press International
Iowa
Nebraska
By Tonight
Sidney
Grand Island
Lincoln
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Omaha
North Platte
Motor vehicle homicide charged in pedestrian death
A coroner's jury indicted Charles Kraus 18 of Cedar Rapids for felonious motor vehicle homicide in the death of John Holtz 70 of 1468 33rd Avenue who died after an accident Friday near 14th Street and 31st Avenue. Kraus held without bond awaiting arraignment. Other weekend highway victims include Rodney Snide 20 Avoca Co Van Nguyen 46 Bellevue David J Majerus 26 Lincoln and Tod Rae Green 40 Omaha.
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John Holtz
33Rd Avenue
Holt
14Th Street
31St Avenue
Nebraska
Rodney Snide
Avoca
Co van Nguyen
Bellevue
David J. Majerus
Lincoln
Tod Rae Green
Omaha
Liddy hid weapons in prison cell for protection
Watergate figure Gordon Liddy concealed a club and pipe in his Allenwood Federal Prison Camp cell during a summer transfer. Regional Commissioner Joseph A. Nardoza said officials reported no penalty and parole would not be delayed, noting the incident did not warrant change and Liddy had served long enough. He faced a 20 year term for Watergate and 18 months for contempt.
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Washington
UPI
Gordon Liddy
Allenwood Federal
Joseph A. Nardoza
Philadelphia
Liddy
Nardoza
Allenwood
Liidy
U.S
Lewisberg
Nordoza
Baycott
Beause
Carter
Beermann estimates petitions to force 1977 school aid election
Lincoln Nebraska UPI reports Secretary of State Allen Beermann says he expects enough signatures to place LB3, the 1977 school aid measure, on the 1978 general election ballot. If approved, state aid would rise by 20 million dollars annually for three years, with about 46 thousand valid names needed.
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Lincoln
Neb
UPI
Donald Dworak
Columbus
Allen Beermann
Beermann
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Gene
Deb Gondririger
Elvis
John Vorster
Roelof Botha
Lement
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Sunger
Charles Kraus
Cedar Rapids
Kraus
Platte County
Jerry Rouse
Galen Tessendorf
J. James Exon
Exon
School Aid
State Board of Equalization
Risco
Howard Hansley
Yallopool
Hansley
Risca
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