San Francisco fireman exam ruled unconstitutional test
UPI reports U.S. District Judge William T. Sweigert found San Francisco fireman civil service exam failed to prove reasonable relation to the job and violated the Civil Rights Act by biasing against minorities. He ordered fills by oral and physical exams only. This marked the third such federal ruling in three years.
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San Francisco
UPI
U.S
William T. Sweigert
Sweigert
City Civil Service Commission
Plane crash kills Dillingham executive and son
A Dillingham Corp. executive James Bradley 41 and his son Kevin 15 died when the private single engine plane crashed on takeoff at El Dorado County airport in South Lake Tahoe. His wife Heather Bradley 25 was seriously injured with burns over 20 percent of her body and hospitalized in Reno.
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South Lake Tahoe
Caeli
Dillingham Corp
el Dorado
James
Joseph Bradley
Mil Valley
Vin
Will Brown
Heather Bradley
Kevin
Washoe Medical Center
Reno
Nev
Lowell 8. Dillingham
Honolulu
Bradley
Las Vegas Poker Player Wins One to Five Lowball
Las Vegas man Bernstein won the one to five lowball world championship event at Horseshoe Club beating Nick Simpson and Jack Strauss. The event cost 3000 to enter and featured eight players in the lowball final while the world championship moves into three categories with hundreds of contestants anticipated next week.
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Las Vegas
UPV
Dae Bernstein
Club Bernstein
Nick Simpson
Gat- Jena
Calif
Jack Strauss
Houston
Tex
Kansas City
Tiny tot set on fire in Detroit home
A 3 year old girl named Michele Test remained in critical condition with burns over most of her body after a man poured gasoline on her and lit a match in her northwest Detroit home. Her father Robert Test III, 28, said he was drinking with three men and a woman. two men and the woman fled and one man was held on an assault charge. The child's mother Panlotte Test, 24, was away shopping.
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Detroit
Michele C. ‘Test
Northwest Side
Robert Test
Test
Michele
Panlotte
Divorce granted to Willian Peters of Arizona in default
Svetlana Alliluyaya Peters, daughter of Josef Stalin, was divorced by her American husband architect Willian W. Peters in Phoenix, by default on grounds that she left him. Peters, chief architect at Taliesin West, stated the marriage ended after his wife fled the Soviet Union and moved to Princeton Nu. They share their daughter Olga, with Peters awarded custody.
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Phoenix, Ark
UPI
Svetlana Alliluyaya Peters
Josef Stalin
Willian W. Peters
Superior
Peters
Soviet Union
United States
British army says soldier ambushed near Aughnacloy
Belfast dispatch reports a 25 year old Ulster Defence Regiment soldier was shot and killed in an ambush at the end of a country lane near Aughnacloy on the border in Northern Ireland. The attack ends a four day lull after prior bombings and fatalities in sectarian violence.
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Belfast
UPI
Northern Teland
Secur
Alslee
Ulster Defense Regiment
Luiz
Aughnacloy
The
Irish Republic
First Ogden crewman admits guilt
The first of 18 Ogden crewmen from the amphibious assault ship Ogden saving courts martial pleaded guilty at San Diego Naval Base. Airman Gary L. Cormier, 20, of Port Neches Texas, received a rank reduction, $614 in pay forfeiture, and 45 days hard labor for disobeying orders during mine clearing operations off North Vietnam. A crewman said the men disobeyed because safety procedures were violated by command.
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San Diego
UPI
Ogden
Gary L. Cormier
Port
Neches
Tex
Subleac
The
Philip
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