Illness and cast changes hit The Waltons
Los Angeles AP reports Ellen Corby suffers a stroke and remains in stable condition. Richard Thomas announces he will not return next season as his Lorimar contract expires in January. Grandma Corby will be written out during recuperation and the show will reflect her absence. Thomas plans stage work in February.
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Los Angeles
the Waltons
Ellen Corby
Richard Thomas
John- Boy
Lorimar Productions
Miss Corby
Lorimar
Grandma
Ira Teller
Thomas
Teller
Richard
Waltons
John Boy
New York
Earl Hamner
America
Walton
Diabetes education week promotes clinics in banks notices
During Diabetes Education Week November 14 20 industries promote diabetes clinics with banks enclosing announcements in statements to urge a diabetes check up. Mrs Graham notes interest and cooperation to detect diabetes and slow complications. For more information call Cooperative Extension Office 777 5771 or County Health Unit 777 2191.
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Graham
Cooperative Extension Office
County Health Unit
Arkansas pharmacists boycott Medicaid prescriptions
Pharmacists from 11 western Arkansas counties will stop filling Medicaid prescriptions starting February 1 over low state payments. Spokesman Joe McCutchen says about 40 000 people, many in nursing homes, will be affected as drug reimbursements have remained at two dollars per prescription for three years, subsidizing state and federal programs by 12 to 17 percent.
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Fort Smith
Ark
Arkansas
Joe McCutchen
Little
McCutchen
Public urged to mail Christmas items earlier due to UPS strike
The Postal Service asked the public to mail Christmas parcels by Dec 3 and letters by Dec 10 amid a nationwide United Parcel Service strike. It warned continued disruption could worsen first class mail, and noted added temporary workers and overtime at bulk mail centers. Mediators in Washington were negotiating with the Teamsters and UPS to end the strike.
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Washington
United Parcel Service
Postal Service
United Parcel
Maine
South Carolina
New York
UPS
Teamsters Union
Jury Selected For Hood Theft Murder Trial In Arkansas
A jury of five men and seven women was chosen in Jasper Arkansas for the trial of James Hood 36 of Colorado Springs Colorado on possession of stolen property. Prosecutor Kenneth Smith said a pickup was stolen from a Harrison lumber yard in 1972 around the time three people were murdered on a Newton County farm. Hood and Kathy Wilson 32 of Fergus Falls Minnesota face murder charges in the case with the badly decomposed bodies found last July.
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Jasper, Ark
James Hood
Colorado Springs
Colo
Kenneth Smith
Harrison
Newton County
Hood
Kathy Wilson
Fergus Falls
Minn
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Standard Automotive Components Division
Champion Parts Rebuilders, Incorporated
Ernest Graham
Hempstead County
Consumer Health Education Advisory Committee
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Cape Canaveral
Lynn
Xerox
Savin Sess
Tre
Dan Cook
Office Outfitters
Garden Oak Center
Camden
Coca-Cola
Chicken Country
67 East
National Laundry & Cleaners
Pine Bluff
Newman Fixture CO
Monticello
CB Radio
Conway
Are
Gap Creek
Dennis Daniels
Citizens National Bank
Conpac
Camben
Monroe, LA
Sawin
Sewier
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