Fire Kills Young Couple and Two Children in Mentone
In Mentone Indiana a young couple Daryl Wright 22 Tammy 20 and their children Donna 2 Douglas 6 months died in a morning house fire. Sheriff Al Rovenstine said they were found huddled on a bedroom floor as smoke overcome them. Fire began in the living room near a fireplace and investigators ruled death by smoke inhalation.
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Donna
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Garden City Senior Nominated for Service Academies
Garden City High School senior Angela Kelli Clemence is among 15 nominees for U S service academies by Congressman Keith Sebelius. Clemence holds West Point first vacancy as principal nominee and Naval Academy second alter nate. Appointments announced in spring for entrants in July 1981.
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Fort Hays State University
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Fort Hays State
Prime rate hits record as banks raise to 21 percent
New York AP report says major banks boosted the prime lending rate to 21 percent, up from 20, amid higher funding costs and Fed credit tightening. Morgan Guaranty led the move, quickly matched by Manufacturers Hanover, Chemical Bank, First National Bank of Chicago, and others.
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Lloyd Johnson
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Los Angeles
Hijack Odyssey Continues With More Passenger Freed
Guerrillas freed additional passengers from the Avianca Boeing 727 hijacked Monday. The plane, carrying 16 guerrillas and 55 or more passengers, landed in Mexico City after stops in Panama and Barranquilla. President Turbay Ayala linked the hijackers to M 19, aiming to overshadow a Latin summit.
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Oil tank explodes near Satanta in Mesa field
A Mesa Petroleum Co oil tank exploded near Satanta Tuesday morning and caught fire. No injuries were reported though two employees were nearby. Fire crews contained the blaze about 30 minutes after the explosion. The tank held about 140 barrels of unrefined oil valued in the thousands, and the blast rattled nearby homes around 9:40 a.m. Harold Fansler Sr., 87, Garden City businessman, died Tuesday at St. Catherine Hospital. Funeral arrangements are pending with Garnand Funeral Home.
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Sanders dies at 90 leaves KFC empire legacy
Harland Sanders known as the Kentucky Fried Chicken founder died at Jewish Hospital Louisville at 6:40 a.m. CST. He was 90, hospitalized since November with leukemia and pneumonia. In state at the capitol, funeral at Alumni Chapel Baptist Theological Seminary, burial Cave Hill Cemetery. Gov Brown called him a legend and the spirit of the American dream.
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