Walnut Creek sponsors welcome 42 Vietnamese refugees
Cathy Cindy Lorraine and Al Breitweiser host an early Thanksgiving dinner for 42 Vietnamese refugees at their Walnut Creek home. Eighteen adults and 21 children gather to thank the Bretweisers and the Free Evangelical Church of Walnut Creek for helping them start new lives with American first names.
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Cathy
Cindy
Lorraine
al Breitweiser
Walnut Creek
Ered
Free Evangelical Church of
Dung- Nguyen
Hearst to Spend Thanksgiving in San Mateo County Jail
Patricia Hearst will have a Thanksgiving dinner with 35 other female inmates in a San Mateo County jail dining room. Sheriff John R. McDonald Jr. says the meal includes turkey stuffing cranberries vegetables hot rolls green salad and pumpkin pie. Hearst awaits trial on bank robbery charges connected to the April 15 1974 SLA robbery in Redwood City.
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Redwood City
Patricia Hearst
John R. McDonald Jr
San Mateo County
Miss Hearst
Symbionese Liberation Army
SLA
Campaign that made Thanksgiving a national holiday
In New Hampshire and across the nation Sarah Josepha Hale championed a common Thanksgiving. Her letters and editorials in Godey's Lady's Book, starting in 1827, culminated in Lincoln declaring a national Thanksgiving Day in 1863, leading to an official holiday after 1941. Governor Brown planned Thanksgiving events in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
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Newport
N.H
Sarah Josepha Hale
Mary
Plymouth
Sup
North
Abraham Lincoln
Sacramento
Brown
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Beverly Glen Boulevard
Cynthia Kelly
Thousands of autoworkers face next week layoff
Ford plans a one week production suspension impacting about 12 000 hourly workers with 9500 idled at Chicago Kansas City and Louisville plants and 2950 at Lorain Ohio. Chrysler will idle two plants delaying 7960 workers while GM and AMC keep lines running though others remain on indefinite layoff.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Co
Ford
Chicago
Kansas City
Kentucky
Louisville
Lorain
Ohio
Chrysler Corp
Chrysler
Belvidere
Ill
Detroit Lynch Road
General Motors
American Motors
AMC
Actress Denied Jobless Benefits Over Bus Driver Job Refusal
An Albany appeals court ruled that actress Mary Jo Henderson of Suffern could be denied unemployment benefits for refusing work as a bus driver. The Appellate Division upheld the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board decision denying benefits in her case.
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Albany, N.Y
Appellate Division
of State Supreme Court
State Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board
Mary Jo Henderson
The
Rockland
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