Starving artists spared by mice and meals inspire art
In Detroit AP report a trend of young artists turning hunger into art emerges as students at Brookside School and others create murals from food items and edible scraps. Harold Smart, a 139 year old art teacher, recalls mice reclaiming early works and jokes about beauty in many things found in unlikely materials. The projects use aroni beans lentils sugar vitamin pills coffee grounds and mice to craft murals and sustain creativity amid scarcity.
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New York
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Judy Gaining After Surgery on Open Heart
In Ann Arbor a 3-year-old girl Judy Lynn Funsch recovers after open heart surgery. A heart specialist stays at her bedside as her parents observe from the recovery room. Doctors found Judy was born without a left pulmonary vein, the birth valve remained open, and the left lung has not functioned. Surgery closed the valve and doctors warn only one lung may function long term.
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Assault Brings Term In Jail For Fremont Driver
Fremont truck driver Conrad W. Hixon, 24, received 11 weekends in Alameda County Jail as part of a three year probation after being convicted of an assault on Richard W. Ayala. The incident occurred at Carlos Pizza Parlor in Fremont and involved a confrontation after drinking beer.
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Arrests in Royal Wedding Protests in Amsterdam
Anti German demonstrations clouded Crown Princess Beatrix and Claus von Amsberg nuptials with police clashing, 19 arrested mainly youths for smoke bombs, several hospitalized, and violence easing after royal appeal for peace.
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Woman Defends Payroll Site Against London Robbers
Maj. Marion Dunn of the Salvation Army disrupted a payroll heist at Bow Street London by rallying housewives to block the robbers. Two couriers Samuel Peters and Andrew Peters were hospitalized with head injuries as the trio fled. the robbers failed to steal the money.
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Gemini Flight Nears Moon Landing With Two Satellites
Gemini 8 readiness advances as a simulated one hour test completes without issues. Neil Armstrong and David Scott prepare for a three day orbital mission including the first two satellite docking and a world circumnavigation.
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Reagan Dinner In Hayward Theme Spaghetti and Confetti
The Ronald Reagan for Governor Club of Southern Alameda County schedules an 8 p.m. dinner tomorrow at Hill and Valley Civic in Hayward. Ben Cooper, state wide Reagan speaker and actor, will headline the event after a 6:30 p.m. no host cocktail hour.
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Group Sets Minimum Pay Raise For ’66
Rep. Adam Clayton Powell says after months of negotiation organized labor key House leaders and the Johnson administration have agreed to raise the minimum wage from 1.25 to 1.60. The plan would take effect by February 1, 1988 and cover 6.9 million more workers. No raise this year. a $1.40 wage would take effect February 1 next year.
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Death claims Rabbi Adler amid Detroit synagogue attack
Rabbi Morris Adler, 39, was fatally shot during a bar mitzvah service at a Detroit synagogue in front of about 1,000 worshipers. The assailant, Richard Wishnetsky, died after shooting himself following a four-bullet volley and a speech denouncing Jews.
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UPS
Morris Adler
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Richard Wishnetsky
AMA apologizes for depicting labor leader as threat in 1963 materials
The American Medical Association apologized for portraying United Steelworkers director Paul Normile as a hardnosed labor figure who warned of the graveyard shift if doctors did not contribute to the AFL-CIO political fund. It said recordings and pamphlets from 1963 were destroyed and AMPAC had distributed them to boost its campaign funds amid AFL-CIO medicare legislation battles.
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Soviet ruling cites Molt death as self-inflicted
The Soviet government said Newcomb Molt, a former Sheffield Massachusetts book salesman, died by his own action while en route to a Soviet labor camp after months of silence on the case.
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UPI
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Price Tag Approved for Lake Chabot Area Campus Site
East Bay Municipal Utility District directors gave final approval to a $538,500 purchase of 133 acres of land near Lake Chabot Road for a future South County Junior College District campus. The site, north of Castro Valley, overlooks the lake and includes leased Nike missile base land. the district plans a campus serving San Leandro and Castro Valley.
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Castro Valley
Captain Shot On Leave Home
BOGALUSA La AP An Army captain home on leave before reporting to Vietnam was wounded when an assailant fired four shots from close range at about 2 a.m. in a service station office. Officer AC. Ter Tell said Army Captain Donald Reims of Sun La was shot once while talking on a coin telephone.
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Two Released By Kidnapers
CAPETOWN South Africa UPI fun-loving university students released Kenneth Gibbs and Robert Smith sons of Rhodesian Premier Ian Smith and Loyalist Gov Sir Humphrey Gibbs who were kidnapped as a college prank The kidnapper said the release would occur if their fathers met with them over a beer to discuss Rhodesia's problems The elder Smith dismissed the act as a joke Gibbs remains in Salisbury as the crown's representative and the stunt is tied to Rag Week
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South Africa
UPI
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Experts Pump Away Chlorine at Charlemont Rail Tanker
Chemical experts in Charlemont Massachusetts oversee the pumping of deadly chlorine from a rail tanker that overturned. The incident prompted evacuations of about 4000 people from four nearby communities as authorities work to contain the leak.
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Mass
UPI
Retail sales rise 6 percent from last February
Washington AP reports the Commerce Department estimated total retail sales for February at 20.72 billion dollars on a seasonally adjusted basis. The figure edged slightly below January but remained six percent higher than February last year, indicating steady consumer activity.
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