Cigarette Smuggling Boom Triggers Federal Action
AP dispatch notes cigarette smuggling expanding and costing states tax revenue. A cooperative program by law enforcement and the Interstate Revenue Research Center in Indianapolis coordinates investigations across Florida Missouri Michigan Ohio Indiana Minnesota and Illinois. Center estimates five states will lose about 100 million in state and city taxes this year. arrests total 38 with 54000 cartons seized in seven states from April 1975 to September 1970. Reform efforts aim to gain an upper hand as cooperation grows.
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Law Enforcement Assistance Administration
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New Restate
George Stewart
North Carolina
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Virginia
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New York
Center
Stewart
Carter Beats Ford in National Student Straw Poll
In Middletown, Connecticut, Jimmy Carter won a student straw poll with 518,055 votes 61 percent while Ford received 332,974 or 30 percent among more than 850,000 participants. The votes came from students ages kindergarten through 12th grade reading My Weekly Reader and related publications.
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Middletown, Conn
Jimmy Carter
Ford
Sone
My Weekly Reader
Carter
Xerox Education Publications
Robert Kennedy
Fonzi
Utah
Washington
South
Robert Quigley
White House
Replacement For Palm Trees Sought Because Of Diseases
Davie Florida agricultural officials say they will replace dying coconut palms with a new Maypan palm developed in Jamaica. Maypan resists lethal yellowing by about 46 percent. about 150 Maypan seedlings are growing at the University of Florida center. Availability to the public is roughly five years away as researchers test adoption across Florida.
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Fla
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Miami
Henry MM. Danselman
University of Florida
Agricultural Research Center
Donselman
Panama
Jamaica
Danselman
Florida Keys
Coral Gables
Dade County
East
Election polls and church rifts color campaign week
The article notes a near tie in Times CBS and ABC News Harris polls between Carter and Ford with McCarthy at four percent. Carter attends Fort Worth service while Ford attends Buffalo mass. Plains Church membership fight over race and past church stance prompts service cancellations. Carter defends inclusive church policy amid pastor agreement. Also reports Merle Haggard’s disappearance and missing concert appearances in Denver and Salt Lake City with no official missing person filing.
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Carter
Ford
the Times
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McCarthy
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N.Y
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Fort Worth
Tex
Plains Baptist Church
Albany
Plains Church
Salt Lak City
Merle Haggard
Denver
Salt Lake
Reno
Haggard
Salt Lake City
Okie
Muskogee
Henry Hilton
Hilton
KSOP
Fuzzy Owens
Maggard
Owens
Haggard Enterprises
Bakersfield
Calif
Navy Recovers Phoenix Missile From Sunken F14 Jet
A U S Navy team in rough Atlantic seas near Scotland retrieved a Phoenix missile from a sunken F14 Tomcat that fell with the John F Kennedy carrier six weeks earlier. The jet and missile were found in 3,500 feet of water about three miles from the site of the recovery. The weapon remains intact with light damage but its usability is uncertain. officials worry Soviet acquisition if any portion was recovered. The recovery used a nuclear submarine and a surface support ship after divers attached to the missile and hoisted it to the surface. The Kennedy encountered a control malfunction during an NATO exercise when the jet plunged overboard.
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