World belly flop event set in Vancouver July 23
Promoter in Vancouver says Billy Carter brother of President Jimmy Carter will attend the third annual world belly Hop and cannonball diving championships in Vancouver Canada on July 23. Thomas A Butler predicts guests will enjoy fried chicken cheese straws and beer. AFL-CIO President George Meany says the boycott against Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey is lifted after a union contract deal.
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Spelling Bee Opens With Record Contestant Field
The 50th annual Scripps-Howard National Spelling Bee begins in Washington with a record number of contestants. Johnny Barfield, a 3 year old seventh grader from Midwest City Oklahoma, spells identify correctly as the first round starts, while Jana Schroeder of Vandalia Ohio charms with quilt. Eugene Walton of Powhatan Virginia misspells neighborly after a pause, becoming the first casualty. Top prizes total 6200 dollars, winner 1000 dollars plus trophy and school television set. eight finalists to be honored at a banquet with Frank Neuhauser, 1925 winner, present.
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Distracted rider crashes motorcycle into truck near 2131 South Street
A 31 year old man Timothy Phatan crashed his motorcycle into a truck after wandering onto the shoulder while chasing a dog. He broke a leg and an arm and sustained other injuries as fire crews bounded a 50 acre brush fire in Sequoia National Forest, started by lightning and controlled late Tuesday after reaching 150 acres at dawn.
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Moluccan terrorists free hostage on stalled Dutch train
In Assen police and government say South Moluccan gunmen holding about 60 people aboard a train and a nearby school began new mediation talks after freeing a sick hostage. The group demands independence for their homeland and seeks to resume negotiations with Dutch officials amid a high profile crisis.
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Spouse-swappers Trade for Second Time in Michigan
In Pontiac Michigan two couples who swapped partners four years ago have swapped back. After divorcing again last week they remarried their original spouses. Judge Robert Webster granted the latest divorces. The couples asked not to be identified. One woman said she had two good husbands but the couples plan to stop socializing.
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Priceless New York landmark stolen again
Thieves took 358 cast iron sections of the Bogardus Building from storage on Manhattan's West Side, leaving no hope to reconstruct the four story cast iron facade. Beverly Moss Spott, chair of the Parks Preservation Commission, called the loss irreparable, noting the building’s historic significance as the earliest surviving cast iron facade in the world and comparing it to the missing “ink to the sky scraper.”
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