Cemetery Country and Cigarette Mortality Debate
A leading cancer specialist warns that longtime smoking leads to near certain death within about 20 years. The World Cancer Congress cites 200,000 cigarettes as a rough span to cemetery country. Public interest remains while cigarette sales continue. Sam Huff returns to the Redskins as linebackers coach after an unsuccessful political run. He recalls a pig roast incident in Farmington that swung labor votes against him.
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Marlboro
Cemetery Country
John W. ‘Turner
Wwth International Cancer Congress
Memphis
Tenn
Sam Huff
Washington Redskins
Congress
Farmington
Sam
Ohio Father Files $6 Million Suit Over Kent State killings
Arthur Krause of Pittsburgh sues Ohio officials in U S District Court alleging wrongful death of his daughter Allison Krause, one of four Kent State students killed as National Guardsmen faced protesters on May 4. Defendants include Gov. James Rhodes and guards leaders Gen Sylvester Del Corso and Brig Gen Robert Canerbury.
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Cleveland, Ohio
Allison Krause
Kent State University
Ohio
Arthur Krause
Pittsburgh
U.S. District Court
James 4. Rhodes
Ohio National Guard
Sylvester T. del Corso
Robert H. Canterbury
Reward in Memphis Dropped
A 20000 dollar reward for the murder of Memphis millionaire George L. Lenox will be withdrawn on June 19. Betty Lenox and business associate Payid Gwaltney will donate 5000 dollars to police efforts, with 2500 dollars each sent to Tennessee and Mississippi authorities to aid investigations.
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Memphis, Tenn
Memphis
George L. Lenox
Betty Lenox
Payid Gwaltney
Outbreak of Locusts in Some Areas
The 17 year cicadas have emerged in wooded areas of the East and Midwest. Heavy concentrations were reported in parts of Indiana and northeast Indianapolis along Fall Creek. Minor tree damage occurred in Yall Creek, West Virginia. Minneapolis found the outbreak not severe. Columbus and other Midwest areas had outbreaks but none troublesome. New York State reports avoiding a major infestation. The spokesman notes they do not defoliate like Biblical locusts.
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Associated Press
East
Middle West
Indiana
Fall Creek
Indianapolis
Yall Creek
West Virginia
Minneapolis
Columbus
Ohio
Midwest
New York State Conservation Department
Hot Springs Woman Leads Bid for Mayor and City Manager Change
Kathryne Watson Gladdis, the first woman to run for Hot Springs mayor, vows to push for a city manager form of government. She criticizes incumbent Dan Wolf as outdated while sharing a globe trotting history and 4 year old son George Jr. as she campaigns in the Democratic primary.
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Hot Springs
Ark
Kathryne Watson Gladdis
George Frederick Gladdis
Isle of Wight
George Frederick Jr
Coolers to Have New Safety Value
Washington AP report says ice chest makers will add emergency escape devices to new models to prevent toddler deaths. Since 1961 at least 16 children suffocated in picnic coolers, with many other cases possibly unrecorded by the Commerce Department officials.
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Washington
Commerce Department
Union Man Rescued by Policemen At NYC Postal Strike Meeting
New York union leaders of the National Association of Letter Carriers faced a near riot as supporters of an immediate strike clashed with the leadership. Gus Johnson, president of Branch 36 with 6,000 members, was rescued by police from a seventh floor meeting room during the thwarted vote to renew the walkout, which began with the March 18 carrier strike.
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New York
Gus Johnson
Johnson
National Association of Letter Carriers
Branch 36
Manhattan
Brong
U.S
Deadline set for county state filing Tuesday noon
Deadline is Tuesday noon for candidates filing for county and state offices. Donal Parker, Hempstead County Democratic chairman, will assist in the courthouse little courts room from 8 a.m. to noon Tuesday. Local Democrats on file include Finis Odom for County Judge Jimmie Griffin Henry Singard for Sheriff Jim Cole for Circuit Clerk Mrs Pat House for County Clerk Carter Sutton for Tax Assessor Harry Hawthorne for County Treasurer John T Honeycutt for Coroner Mack McLarty for State Representative. Other filings include Alex Sanderson Texarkana for Chancery Judge John Goodson Texarkana for Circuit Judge W H Dube Arnold Arkadelphia for Prosecuting Attorney Olen Hendrix Prescott for State Senator. Two filed for Constable Lynn Gathright Saline township Wayne Marcum Bois D Arc township. JP incumbents seek re election. Primary Aug 25 General Sept 8. Voting registration deadlines Aug 4 Aug 1 Oct 13.
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Donal Parker
Hempstead Couinty Democrat Central Committee
Little Courts
Democrat Central Committee
Finis Odom
Jimmie Griffin
Henry Singard
Jim Cole
Pat House
Carter Sutton
Harry Hawthorne
John T. Honeycutt
Mack McLarty
Alex Sanderson
Texarkana
John Goodson
W.H. Dube Arnold
Arkadelphia
Olen Hendrix
Prescott
Lynn Gathright
Saline Township
Wayne Marcum
Bois D’arc
Jp’s
Baptists Ban Bible Commentary in Mass Convention Vote
The Southern Baptist Convention with 11.5 million members voted 5 294 to 2 370 to withdraw Volume T of the Broadman Bible Commentary and to have it rewritten to fit a conservative, literalist framing. The decision followed a four day fast by Rev Gwin Turner of Los Angeles who urged the ban as a safeguard for Scripture amid scholarly analysis.
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George W. Cornell
Denver
Colo
Gwin Turner
Los Angeles
Southern Baptist Convention
Farming Decline Predicted In Five-Year U.S. Labor Shift
A statistical bureau forecast shows broad job growth across most sectors by 1975 but a drop in farming to about 3 million workers. Growth centers on professional technical fields, personal services, sales, and managerial roles, while nonfarm laborer categories shrink. The piece notes mechanization reducing farm numbers despite higher output.
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Mary Anita Laseter
Star Measure
Statistical Bureau
United States
Canada Sees Rise of Nationalism Amid Energy Debates
Canadian energy minister J J Greene says a new nationalism is shaping Canada’s identity, sparked by Quebec's language tensions and oil tensions with the United States. He stresses no anti American sentiment and says Canadians aim for a distinct, self defined future while maintaining close ties with the U S.
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Max Harrelson
Associated Press
Ottawa
Canada
Trudeau
J.J. Greene
William E. Timmons
U.S
Timmons
America
Greene
Denver
Quebec
Nixon Blunt in Opinion on Crime Bill
President Nixon urged Congress to act promptly on pending anti crime measures saying failure to act will be remembered in the November elections. Speaking in the White House Rose Garden to U S attorneys he called on Congress to end dead center and pass 13 bills, noting partisanship should not interfer e the crime issue.
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Frank Cormie
Associated Press
Washington
Nixon
Congress
White Hose Rose Garden
United States
Murder suicide ruled in Parks death near Prescott
Coroner John T. Honeycutt ruled murder and death by own action in the deaths of Mr and Mrs Arne old William Parks of Route 1 Blevins. The bodies were found about noon Friday at their home by a relative. Parks had shot his wife and then himself with a 12 gauge shotgun. Parks 50 was a World War II veteran and had worked at Land O Lakes Farm. He is survived by his mother Nettle Parks Prescott a brother Edmund Lee Parks LaMirada California and a sister Donna Stroud Tacoma Washington. Graveside services were set for 10 a.m. Saturday at Liberty Cemetery east of Prescott.
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Land O'Lakes Farm
Blevins
Nettle Parks
Prescott
Edmund Lee Parks
LaMirda
Calif
Donna Stroud
Tacoma
Wash
Liberty Cemetery
Smothers
Ima
Cleon Martin Parks
Wood County
Texas
James V. Kennemer
Longview
Wiliam Meadows
Bill Harding
Cleburne Martin
Mineral
Wells
Verfon Gilbreath
Kermit
Ellie Spigner
Quitman
Buster Freeman
Abilene
Hostages released in Jordan ease civil war brink
The Associated Press reports Jordan moved back from civil war edge as guerrilla leader freed 62 foreign hostages, including 21 Americans, 35 Britons and 6 West Germans. Hussein dismissed two senior relatives from army command, while about 700 people were killed or wounded in five days of fighting. US and other evacuees evacuated from Amman as Lebanon's Beirut hosted arrivals.
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Associated Press
Jordan
Hussein
Amman
George Habash
Popular Front For the Liberation of Palestine
Attens
Avery
Beirut
Athens
Eee
Robert Eago
Mary Tajeche
Riled
Washington
William P. Rogers
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