Waterfield ordered to undergo nine days of psychiatric testing
Santa Barbara California UPI reports Superior Court Judge Mark Brandler ordered 9 days of presentence psychiatric testing for Robert "Bucky" Waterfield 20 son of actress Jane Russell and ex husband Bob Waterfield after his conviction for involuntary manslaughter in a tavern shooting. He drank heavily before firing a pistol at a tavern sign killing Oscar Hernandez.
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UPI
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Gibbsville Airs On NBC In Dark 1940s Tale Of Exposed Plot
NBC debuts Gibbsville from John O'Hara stories as a nighttime soap with Gig Young and John Savage set in a 1940s Pennsylvania town. The premiere covers a coal company explosion and a reporter’s push to expose a cover up while other NBC projects and Nielsen delays frame the week.
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Probation sought for Iowa man who plotted wife’s murder
Wayne D. Gustavson 23 of Honey Creek pleaded guilty to advising murder to kill his wife Nancy 23. He was arrested May 17 and sentenced by District Judge Paul Sulhoff for December 13. Gustavson could face up to 20 years in prison.
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Iowa
UPI
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Honey Creek
Wayne D. Gustavson
Paul Sulhoff
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John C. Hanson
Omaha
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Clean-up drive in Mexico City stalls amid broken trucks
UPI reports a two week effort to clean city streets is failing due to broken garbage trucks and a lack of brooms. Viviano Cruz Noriega, head of the street sweepers union, says drivers are inactive with as many as 50 percent of trucks unusable and crews forced to push hand carts.
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Mexico City
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Smokey Bear buried at Capitan New Mexico
Smokey Bear was laid to rest near Capitan New Mexico at Smokey Bear Historical State Park after dying in sleep at age 26 at the National Zoo in Washington DC. A graveside service is planned next week with attendees expected to include Ray Bell and Elliott Barker, survivors who helped make Smokey a national fire prevention symbol.
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U.S. Forest Service
Lincoln National Forest
L.W. Simmons
Bell
State Game Department
Santa Fe
Barker
Forest Service
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Trinity LCW Meeting At Trinity Lutheran Church
Trinity Lutheran Church Women met at the church with Mrs. Lee Jenkins and Mrs. Harold Dunlap Jr. in charge of the program Praise His Wonderful Name. Forty persons attended. Officers installed include Mrs. Ramon Jacobson as president and Mrs. Don Mott as vice president. Donations and reports on sugar, soup labels, quilts, and Martin Luther Home contributions were noted.
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Harold Dunlap Jr
Clifford Jensen
Harold Jacobson
Ramon Jacobson
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Martin Luther Home
Wilson Flood
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Topeka
Kan
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George Weller
Margaret Lundquist
Education
Divorce Petition Alleges Sobriety Rationale
Las Vegas report says Terry Joe Stuart seeks a divorce from Sue S. Taylor on grounds of sobriety. He states he was too drunk to know what he was doing at their November marriage and only after sobering up did he decide he did not want to be married.
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Las Vegas
UPI
Terry Joe Stuart
Sue S. Taylor
Stuart
Driver who killed eight is free to live in his own jail
John Kremer aged 22 faced eight counts of vehicular homicide after a March crash that killed eight Celina High School students. In Celina Municipal Court he pleaded no contest to one count. his license was suspended for a year as he expressed lifelong remorse and judges noted the lasting psychological toll.
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Richmond
UPI
Virginia
William Scott
Columbus, Nebraska
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Celina
Ohio
John Kremer
Kremer
John
James Myers
David Shuffleton
Gregory Moorman
St. John’s Catholic Church
Maria Stein
Mark Brandewie
Joy
Leroy Westerheide
Scott
Virgil Moorman
Rebecca
Two men charged with burglary in university board member’s office
Richard Myers, 20, and Peter Schmidt, 29, both of Grand Island, were charged with burglary of the office of Dr. Robert Koefoot, a University of Nebraska Board of Regents member. Bond set at 500 and 2,000 dollars respectively. about 4000 dollars in checks and cash taken. office ransacked with damage.
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Grand Island, Neb
UPI
Robert Koefoot
University of Nebraska Board of Regents
Richard Myers
Peter Schmidt
Grand Island
Bondon Schmidt
Myers
Nebraska GOP to Meet November 20 in Lincoln
The Nebraska Republican executive and central committees will convene in Lincoln on November 20 to review the fall elections. Officials say the 1978 ballot will include another Senate seat and the fee as well as the three House posts.
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Lincoln, Neb
UPI
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