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Dubuque Telegraph Herald (Newspaper) - August 22, 1976, Dubuque, Iowa Briefs matchbook plan scrapped Washington up a largely As a result of Public reaction the government has scrapped its plan to make matchbooks harder to open. The consumer product safety commission had announced april i thai it planned a new regulation requiring changes that would make it difficult for children to open matchbooks the commission announced Friday that it decided to give up the proposal As a result of comments received from the Public. A no significant data was available that would support a Contention that a child resistant cover on matchbooks would actually reduce injuries Quot it said longer trial delayed Aspen Colo. Up a a judge Friday delayed Claudine Longet a trial for the slaying of her Lover pro skier Vladimir Quot spider Quot Sabich until Jan. 3 because of the prosecution Appeal of his ruling suppressing the singers diary from trial evidence. District judge George Lohr said the Colorado supreme court probably would not hear the Appeal until december at the earliest and said a we certainly Are not going to Start the trial until the Appeal is disposed in Chr said however he might move the trial Date to november if a supreme court ruling on District attorney Frank Tucker Appeal was made sooner than expected miss Longet a trial had been scheduled to begin aug. 30. No nicknames on ballot Augusta Maine up a his Campaign posters May say Quot Jimmy Carter Quot but if the democratic presidential candidate wants his name to appear on Maine a november election ballot he will have to Register it As Quot James e a Quot James Earl Quot or Quot a. Maine attorney general Joseph Brennan said Friday his state s Law requires a candidate s full name to be represented on the ballot a the first Given name plus a Middle name or Middle initial if there is one or an initial and the Middle name. Quot further Quot Brennan said in an opinion rendered at the request of Secretary of state Markham Gartley Quot the first name should be the actual first name a not a a thus if the candidates first name is the name James should appear followed by a Middle name or initial not the name a Jimmy a Brennan said. Not to be biased. Brennan added Quot similarly if the candidate s first name is a Gerald a the name Gerald should appear on the ballot followed by any Middle name or initial not a nickname such As Jerry a Quot Railroad merger okayed St Louis up a Missouri Pacific Railroad will merge with the Texas and Pacific railway and the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad sept. 7. The action was cleared last week when the interstate Commerce commission denied appeals from is May to order approving the merger. The inc authorized the merger to begin 20 Days from the Date of its denial of the Appeal. The three railroads that will make up the new Missouri Pacific operate More than 12.000 Miles of Railroad in 12 states in the Midwest South and Southwest extending from Chicago to the Gulf of Mexico and from St. Louis and Memphis to Omaha Pueblo Colo., and Elpaso Tex graveyard thief charged los Angeles up a Danny Harwood Mitchell. 22, has been charged with stealing $20,000 Worth of Art objects from three cemeteries Mitchell who surrendered to police monday was charged with two counts of grand theft. Police who revealed his identity Friday said he was being held in lieu of $5,000 bail. Funeral urns jewelry coins statues and other Art objects were stolen from Forest Lawn. Glendale and Cypress and Hollywood memorial Parks. Mitchell has Only been charged with the Glendale thefts comedian Sim dead London up a Alastair Sim the jowly comedian of dozens of movies and countless stage roles died at his London Home Friday. He was 75. Sim was a serious actor in his youth and Middle age but it is As a comic character actor that he was Best known the Bald Pouch eyed master of the double take who starred in so Many movies he declined to list them in his Quot who a who Quot entry. Sim bom cd a to. 9. 1900, usually played the fool on stage but in private life he was anything but. He had been a lecturer in elocution at an Edinburgh College and was Rector of Edinburgh University for three years until 1951 batiks on trial Iii Moscow Moscow up three americans will go on trial tuesday in a soviet court on charges of smuggling 62 pounds of heroin through Moscow Airport according to officials the Trio faces sentences of up toll years in prison if they Are convicted As charged under article 78 of the soviet criminal code. . Regulations prevent embassy officials from identifying the group that goes to trial tuesday in the Moscow City court but a soviet Magazine named them As Dennis Robert Burn. Paul Brawer and Gerald Amster no other personal details were available Frisco arca tremors Danville Calif up a two mild earthquakes rippled through the rolling Hills around this san Francisco Bay area Community within two minutes Friday shaking residents but causing no damage the tremors registered 4,0 and 3 8 on the Richter scale at the University of California seismographic station in Berkeley a spokesman said the epicentre was 15 Miles Southeast of Berkeley near Danville the Contra Costa county sheriffs office said the quake Quot must have been mild Quot because there were no distress Calls from residents Farmers delay building Mexico City up a six Dairy Farmers and their cows Are holding up a new housing project a few blocks from Mexico City s stylish main Avenue. Pase de la Reforma nobody seems Able to explain How the cows got into the Urban area a surrounded by skyscrapers a in the first place but architect Raul Octavio Marisca has called them a Quot nuisance Quot he said All but about 20 owners in the City Stepto District have accepted the developers offer of $40 a Square Yard to move off among those who Haven to Are the six stable owners a they Are physically supported by gangs of Dairy workers who have stopped a lot of work from being started Quot Mariscal complained. National International muscle flexing at Doz Seoul South Korea up North Korea accused the United states saturday of committing a a Large scale military provocation Quot by sending a heavily armed Force into the Panmunjom truce Village to Cut Down the tree where two . Army officers were killed earlier this week. The accusation carried by the official North korean Central news age i it v came As the 7th Fleet aircraft Carrier Midway accompanied by a missile Cruiser and four frigates was reported steaming from Japan toward korean Waters two squadrons of . Fighter bombers already have arrived in South Korea. The communist Agency said the . Action involved about 700 men and a helicopter Quot creating a terrible War the Agency in a report intended for the North korean Domestic service said the United states helicopter flew Over communist territory and accused the . Of trying to Start a new korean War according to monitors in Washington. The attack wednesday came As a five Man work party escorted by . And South korean Security guards tried to prune a tree in the demilitarized zone near Panmunjom 35 Miles North of Seoul. North korean guards tried to Block the workers according to the United nations command then attacked with pikes and axes hacking to death my Arthur bonifas 33, of Newburgh n.y., and 1st it. Mark Barrett 25, of Columbia . Early saturday the unc headed by a a a . Army Gen Richard g. Stilwell sent a work group into the truce Village and Cut Down the tree. According to the korean Central news Agency report monitored in Seoul Quot More than 300 military brigands including . Troops in full combat trim were sent into the truce zone. It said they were backed up by a Over 400 armed personnel. And a helicopter creating a terrible War . Army officers reported no incidents along the Border saturday. A a a Dubuque in victims rites Travis fab Calif. A a Dubuque Man was a pall bearer Here yesterday in ceremonies for the two american army officers killed by North korean guards last week in the Koren demilitarized zone. Army pfc. David t. Kane 21, son of mrs. Lucille Kane of 2555 Rhomberg ave. In Dubuque., is stationed at the Presidio army base in san Francisco. An Honor guard color guard and military pall bearers from Presidio took part in the military ceremonies. A i Vietnam bids for . Seat United nations up the socialist Republic of Vietnam applied for membership in the United nations Friday an official . Spokesman said the application was signed by prime minister Pham Van Dong and included a pledge that Vietnam was ready to assume its obligations under the . Charter. In 1975, North and South Vietnam established observer missions to the United nations but a . Veto in the Security Council barred them from membership. Since unification of the country this year the two Vietnam merged their observer missions under ambassador Dinh Bathi who previously had represented South Vietnam. The . Opposed admission of the two Vietnam last year on the grounds that no information had been furnished on a number of americans missing in the Vietnam War. Since unification the vietnamese government has repatriated a group of americans. Japan scandal probe corrals sex transit Boss Tokyo up former transportation minister Tomisaburo Hashimoto 75, a respected elder of Japan s ruling party was arrested saturday in the widening investigation into the $12-million Lockheed bribe scandal. He was the third ranking member of parliament from the Liberal democratic party to be arrested in connection with Carbon tests on Mars soil Pasadena Calif. Up Viking i s Lander scoop dropped a fresh Sample of red Martian dust in a test chamber for scientists waiting saturday to learn if Carbon molecules essential to any life form Are present on Mars. It was the second test in the robots organic molecule analyser. The first one was negative. A final decision was to be made shortly on a Landing site for Viking 2. The spacecraft was photographing Mars from its Polar orbit. A tentative decision had been made earlier to put the second robot Down in the Utopia Region in the Northern latitudes one of three possible Sites the new soil Sample was the first full Load of red dust to go into the test instrument the Gas chromatograph mass spectrometer an earlier attempt managed to get Only a tiny bit of matter into the chamber the unit tests for Complex Carbon molecules which Are the building blocks of All life forms on Earth. The first test findings were a disappointment to project biologists. A spokesman said at the time however it did not indicate there was no organic matter on Mars but that none was found at the level of one part per million. Alleged payoffs by Lockheed aircraft corp. Between 1958-75 to promote the Sale of its planes in Japan. Prosecutors questioned Hashimoto at his Home and then placed him under arrest on suspicion of accepting $16,667 secretly from the California aircraft manufacturer. Hashimoto was transportation minis ter in 1970-71 when Lockheed a Effort to sell its wide bodied tristan iou Jet transports to All Nippon airways a major Domestic airline in Japan was getting into full swing. He is suspected of postponing plans for japanese airlines to Purchase Airbus Type Craft in order to give Lockheed a Chance to catch up with its rival Mcdonnell Douglas corp., in the Japan Market. On Friday the prosecution task Force set up on orders of Premier Takeo Miki jailed Takayuki Sato 48. Former parliamentary vice minister of transportation on suspicion of accepting a $6,667 Lockheed gratuity. Former Premier Kakuei Tanaka was arrested july 28 and later indicted on a charge of accepting a $1,667 million Lockheed bribe. He is now free on bail. S. Africa rounds up dissidents Johannesburg South Africa up a a White couple shot their Way through a gang of about 20 knife wielding Blacks wounding at least five in one of the first attacks by Blacks on Whites in South africans spreading racial strife. Demonstrations sporadic arson attempts and looting were reported in at least nine towns in All four of South africans provinces saturday and police continued a nationwide Roundup of dissidents in an attempt to smash the a Black consciousness Quot movement the government blames for the violence. In seven weeks of racial upheaval the worst in South african history at least 250 persons have been killed Many by riot squad gunfire according to police figures. More than too Black schools have been burned Down or damaged in arson attacks. Johannesburg newspapers reported at least 176 persons have been rounded up and held in detention without trial. In one of the few attacks by Blacks on Whites outside a segregated Black township a gang forced a Middle aged couple diving 16 Miles South of Johannesburg off the Road and stabbed the Driver in the head and leg with a screwdriver. Police said Martin Bourbon setting out on a Hunting trip fired a Quot few shots before his gun jammed. Five injured attackers were hurried away by Quot accomplices Quot police said. South african authorities Friday announced a new housing plan for Blacks that will permit them a for the first time a to own their own Homes in All Black townships around Johannesburg Blacks previously could Only rent their Homes. Christians launch Tripoli assault Beirut Lebanon up a chistian forces unexpectedly attacked the Northern port of Tripoli saturday opening a third front in Lebanon a civil War following rejection by both sides of the latest cease fire plan. Leftist and rightist militiamen traded machine gun and artillery fire in Beirut and in the rugged mountains Northeast of the Capitol despite Arab league efforts to head off new Battles. Terror shelling in Beirut made All movement unsafe and wounded 64 in the North chistian gunmen led by Toni Franjieh son of no Hist president Suleiman Franjieh attacked leftist and palestinian positions on the approaches to Tripoli the country a second largest City. Rightist commanders claimed they overran the Village of Alma four Miles East of Tripoli but leftist spokesmen denied the report. Leftist and palestinian forces holding Tripoli have been Cut off by can stains to the South and East and by the syrian army to the North for More than a month but the attack on the enclave was unexpected after Christian leaders vowed first to push the palestinians from the Central mountains. Quot the Mountain front is Lebanon s powder Keg Quot a palestinian source said. Quot moderates on both sides want to prevent it from blowing up because a Battle there could last for years. The right spark could touch it Boston schools Bow hire two Black administrators one hour cleaners Boston up the Boston school committee bowing to a Federal court judge s order has approved the appointment of two Black administrators to racially troubled South Boston High school on a 4-1 vote Friday the committee complied with . District court judge w Arthur Garrity a order to hire William Heath or. And Leslie Griffin or As assistant headmasters principals at the school located in predominantly White South Boston. The area has been the Center of opposition to Garrity a two year old desegregation order under which 26,000 students were bused for racial balance in the 1975-76 school year. Garenty issued the order after noting no Blacks had been named to administrative posts at the school since last december when he placed the school under Federal receivership and ordered a new headmaster and assistants appointed the committee which runs Bostons school system said Friday the contracts to Heath and Griffin were subject to review on termination of the Federal receivership and were approved Quot under earlier this week the 1st circuit court of appeals upheld the receivership but suggested it be ended As soon As possible. The committee is appealing the receivership to the supreme court. Reagan says loss due Delegate peer pressure dry cleaning special . August 23-24-25 beautifully dry cleaned any garment $2.20 value each excluded 2 pc dresses 3 pc suits amp dresses formals. Suedes. Furs. Fur trims Manes snowmobile suits and pleats los Angeles up Ronald Reagan arrived at the Republican National convention confident he would oust president Ford. He departed convinced he was destroyed by northeastern Quot machine if he had it to do Over again Reagan said he would have eased up on heavy primary election campaigning in his Home state of California and Given Ohio More attention. Quot i believe that four or five Days of campaigning no More than that in Ohio and we would have carried Ohio. As it was. We went in there for one Day and came out with 45 per cent of the in shirt sleeves and with a Jar of always present Jelly Beans at his Side. The presidential challenger Analysed his defeat in an interview on the final flight Home of his chartered Campaign Jet Airliner. Reagan who came within a narrow 117 votes of Victory blamed the defeat on what he termed establishment politicians in northeastern states applying Strong pressure on both his delegates and uncommitted delegates to vote for Ford. Quot no question we won in the states where the people had a Chance to vote Quot he said Quot we lost in those states where machine politics still exist where they to a Large extent determine who the delegates w ill be and then determine How the delegates will vote Pennsylvania. New York new going into the convention. Reagan maintained he was winning Quot we were not snowing anybody in our optimism before hand a a but he said he did not expect the pressure that would emerge As delegates More politics Page h All week Pillow s special 11tll a Iowa Only we clean your feathers and replace the ticking extra feathers available if needed King and Queen size pillows slightly More j arrived at the convention scene. Quot its one thing for a fellow in his Hometown to get a Telephone Call from his state chairman or whatever and be Able to say a in a for Reagan or in a leaning for Reagan or a in a uncommitted Quot but suddenly what we had t anticipated. There they were literally entrapped with the pressure of their Peers All around them far from their Homes and with All the Force of the establishment in there beating on them a Reagan who gambled boldly in the selection of moderate sen. Richard sch Weiker of Pennsylvania As his designated running mate cited Schweikert a own state As evidence of his argument. He said when Schweikert a appointment was announced nearly a month ago Fords Delegate strength in Pennsylvania fell from 95 to 76 Quot almost when the convention Roll was called thursday night. 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