King Day marches highlight unemployment drive and rights
Civil rights era theme returns as Coretta Scott King leads a march with over 15,000 people from Ebenezer Baptist Church to downtown Atlanta to demand jobs and full employment, while signs urge jobs not welfare and a national holiday for King's birthday. Similar events occur in Columbia DC and New York. police guard Mrs King with Andrew Young and union leaders present. In Los Angeles a burglary case involves Joanne Carson and Philip Vandervart pursuing a thief who was later arrested with cash and jewelry recovered. Thatcher reshuffles shadow cabinet, excluding Edward Heath.
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Farenthold Named First Woman President of Wells College
Sissy Frances Farenthold, Texas lawyer and politician, is named the first woman president of Wells College, a Cayuga Lake NY liberal arts school founded in 1858 by Henry Wells. The 43 year old mother of four replaces John Wilson, who left to join Virginia Tech as vice president for academic affairs.
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Sissy" Farenthold
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Welsh baron fined for cannon fire at yacht fort
Baron 4 Welsh baron fined $50 after a cannon fired at a yacht's sail, claimed as a youthful joke. Lord Newborough, WWI hero who escaped Colditz, defended the action as a misfiring joke from his Belan Fort in the Menai Strait area. Also notes Graham wife of Billy Graham in hospital for chest pains and Rumsfeld to attend NATO Nuclear Planning Group meeting in Hamburg.
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One dead five injured in Lake Charles worksite violence
At Payne Kelter Co construction sites in Lake Charles, a forklift crashed through a gate as 100 men breached the area. One man died and five were hurt amid a four day stretch of labor unrest linked to a rival union struggle. Houston damage nears one million as police restraining orders hold.
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