Thumbprint checks trial cuts bad-paper fraud in Redwood City
In a four month test at 100 stores, fingerprinted checks deter fraud and reduce NSF returns. Sears in San Francisco asks for fingerprints on checks over ten dollars, with ID and mug shot for refusers. Merchants report about ten thousand dollars saved and a 32 percent drop in fraud versus last year.
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Redwood City
John McDonald
McDonald
Pieper
Sears Roebuck and Co
Steve Belavich
Sears
San Francisco Area
Deaths in three states remembered with rites and survivors
Mrs. Oscar Landsom 74 of Spring Grove dies in La Crosse hospital. Services at Highland Lutheran Church with burial in Trinity Cemetery. Surviving Milford Landsom and four daughters, 16 grandchildren, five great grandchildren. Mahlon Armstrong 87 of Tomah dies in local hospital. Burial in Oak Grove Cemetery. Survived by widow Emma, a son Harold, sister Charlotte Tuttle, three grandchildren and three great grandchildren. Leonard Rowe 74 former area resident dies in Bloomington. Burial in Oak Hill Cemetery, Minneapolis. Mrs. Joseph Hovde 73 of Westby dies in nursing home. Services at Westby Lutheran, burial Coon Prairie Cemetery. survivors include two daughters and 11 grandchildren. Matthew Koenig 88 of La Crosse dies in La Crosse hospital. Funeral at Steffen in Caledonia and St Peter's Church. survivors include son Leo and daughter Mrs. Herbert Beeskau.
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Oscar Landsom
Spring Grove
Minn
la Crosse
Highland Lutheran Church
Emil Martinson
Trinity Cemetery
Engels-Roble
Oslo
Norway
Lars Benson
United States
Ray
N.D
Milford
Loren Holty
Mabel
Leslie Ingvalson
Josephine Rank
Leslie Wennes
Mahlon Armstrong Tomah
Wis
Mahlon Armstrong
Tomah
White
Arnold Nielsen
Oak Grove Cemetery
Emma
Harold
Milwaukee
Charlotte Tuttle
Baraboo
Leonard Rowe
Gill Brothers
Minneapolis
Bloomington
Oak, Hill Cemetery
Hesper
Iowa
Herbert Rowe
Vida Camp
Robert Larson
Inez Moon
Cedar Rapids
Nora Griswold
Santa Ana
Calif
Clyde Bender
West Liberty
Cyril
Ridgefarm, Ill
Viroqua
Westby-Coon Prairie Lutheran Church
H. O. Aasen
Coon Prairie
Vosseteig
Westby
Martin Brendum
Joseph Hovde
L. D. McMurry
Memphis
Tenn
Alvin Blackdeer
Onalaska
Elmer Hovde
Paul Buros
Howard Crum
Matthew Koenig
Caledonia
Steffen
St. Peter’s Catholic Church
Leo Neudecker
Calvary Cemetery
Freeburg
John Koenig
Mary Hosch
Leo
Herbert Beeskau
Peter
Julius Stoltz
Ransom Paid for Kidnaped Woman in Dallas
Joe M. Dealey paid 250000 dollars for the release of Amanda Mayhew Dealey 22 who was found unharmed after two and a half days of captivity. The abduction prompted FBI and local police action and notes described the ransom delivery location.
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Dallas
Dallas Morning News
Joe M. Dealey
Amanda Mayhew Dealey
Complaints Named Lamppa and Lavin in Wisconsin Securities Case
Criminal complaints and warrants charge securities law violations in Wisconsin stemming from Lake Havasu Estates, Inc. The defendants Ernest A. Lamppa formerly of Green Bay and Kenneth R. Lavin of Phoenix are tied to illegal land contract sales and unregistered securities in Wisconsin. The action references a 1971 cease and desist order.
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Madison, Wis
Ernest A. Lamppa
Green Bay
Jeffrey Bartell
Bartell
Kenneth R. Lavin
Phoenix
Ariz
Wisconsin
Arizona
Lake Havasu Estates, Inc
Houston Man Dies From Hokah Crash Injuries
An 84 year old Houston County man Albert Brevig died after a car left Highway 44 in Hokah and plunged down an embankment. Driver Valerie Bottcher, 43, La Crosse, was hurt and undergoing treatment in Lutheran Hospital. Burial at Stone Church Cemetery. Rev. Duane Everson officiated. Brevig born Aug. 11, 1887. Survived by sisters Clara Maggart and Bertha McCune.
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Hokah
Minn
Houston County
Highway 44
Albert Brevig
Houston
la Crosse
Valerie Jean Bottcher
S. 27Th St
Lutheran Hospital
Minnesota State Patrol
Cross of Christ Lutheran Church
Duane Everson
Stone Church
Hill Funeral Home
Yucatan
Targe Brevig
Clara Maggart
Bertha McCune
Libel suit defense costs Wisconsin taxpayers $3291
Wisconsin taxpayers paid 3291 to defend a libel suit by Howard Hazen against lawmakers Laur ence Day and William Rogers. The Assembly Committee on Organization approved the payment to Lawton and Cates, with Judge Sachse n noting the officials acted on legitimate concerns of their offices. Also reported, a baby girl Melanie Larson died in a Columbus County crash, raising the 1972 toll to 1131.
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Madison
Wis
Wisconsin
Capital Times
Committee On Assembly
Lawton and
Wisconsin Electricians and Electrical Contractors Association
Assembly
Norman Anderson
Dane County Circuit Court
William Sachtsen
Rogers
Day
Associated Press
Melanie Larson
Barry Larson
Paynette
U.S. 51
Columbia County
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San Francisco
Oscar Pieper
Identicator Corp
Joseph
Myrtle) Hovde
la Crosse Tribune
Ene
Felix R. McKnight
Dallas Times Herald
Dealey
Joe M. Dealey Jr
Dallas Morning
Galveston News
McKnight
Dealey Jr
University Park
Federal Bureau of Investiga
Dealey Sr
FBI
Washington
Dallas County
Clarence Jones
Highland Park
Amanda Dealey
National Weather Service
Fdra
U.S. Dept. of Commerce
State Street
IS Featuring
Seaboard
West
Great Plains
Southwest
Rockies
Mrs
Baby
Erolly Old St. Nick
U.S.A
Moen
Teleprompter Cable
Main—La Crosse
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