California’s strange crime lore mirrors a freewheeling culture
AP Newsfeature writer SID MOODY surveys California’s blotter to ask if the state’s environment fosters human variety. He cites events from the Dairyland School District bus theft to the Manson Family, Symbionese Liberation Army, Hearst, Zodiac, and would-be presidential assailants, noting California’s image as a frontier mixed with dreamers and seekers.
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Symbionese Liberation Army
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Juan Corona
Squeaky Fromme
Sarah Jane Moore
Ford
Fire Damages Light Panel At Opry House
Fire damaged the dimmer panel that controls stage lights at the Grand Ole Opry House early Saturday but did not force cancellations. An emergency electrical system was set to provide lighting for the three Opry performances. The damaged panel should be restored in a day or so.
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Grand Ole Opry
Opry
Opry House
Ron Canady
Opry House and i Trading
Advacement Park
Ope
Canady
Opryland
Bud Wendell
Wendell
Illinois man plans underground cave home in October
ARMINGTON Illinois AP A 47 year old electrician Andrew Davis and his wife Margaret will move their family into a cave house built on hillside land the couple bought. The 2000 square foot underground home costs about 30000 dollars with two baths three bedrooms a long living room den kitchen and sauna. It will be wired for electricity with a wind powered generator planned. Davis says the design cuts insurance needs and tornado risks and aims for year round produce via a rooftop greenhouse. The cave features include glass entrance lighting rock formations animal decor and built in furniture.
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Andrew Davis
Davis
Margaret
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Butz Accused of Hurting South Carolina Tobacco Farmers
A federal suit filed in Florence charges Secretary Earl Butz with causing irreparable damage to South Carolina tobacco farmers by pulling buyers from the state market. The complaint seeks to stop reducing SC buyers. a July 29 hearing is set in U.S. District Court before Judge Robert F. Chapman. Plaintiffs include the South Carolina Warehousemen's Association, with Senator Thomas E. Smith as spokesman. Farmers were told July 19 that nine buyers would move Aug. 2 to North Carolina and Virginia, a move critics say came too soon and last year caused a shortened selling season.
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