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Las Vegas Sun

Location

Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America

Date

Aug 13, 1976

Page

12

New Air Force manpower chief is Mrs. Nita Ashcraft

Mrs. Nita Ashcraft of San Francisco becomes the Air Force assistant secretary for manpower and reserve affairs, the service’s top personnel manager. She was nominated by President Ford and confirmed by the Senate after a decade on California’s State Employment Board, where she chaired 1971 73.

Air Force California State Employment Board California Nita Ashcraft San Francisco U.S. Air Force Defense William Clement Ashcraft Hale

Teen charged with second degree murder in Tot death

A 16 year old runaway from Daytona Beach Florida was charged with second degree murder in the strangulation death of 6 year old Andrea Fruetterer whose body was found in a wooded area near her home in Rochester New York. The suspect Linda Steele was acquainted with the victim’s family and had given differing statements to police before another witness provided new information leading to the homicide charge. Steele faced arraignment in Rochester City Court and no motive was disclosed.

Rochester N.Y UPI Daytona Beach Fla Linda Steele Andrea Fruetterer Miss Steele Pinacle Hill Louis Campanozz Fruetterer Rochester City Court

Kepone Found In Fish Markets

A FDA official reports Kepone tainted fish found in northern city markets and more contaminated catches are expected to surface in other areas.

Richmond, Va UPI Food and Drug Administration Kramer FDA

West Las Vegas bandit sentenced to eight years

Felton Laday Davis, 29, of 120 Cleveland Ave., was sentenced by Judge Thomas O'Donnell to eight years in prison for shooting a man in the parking lot of Henry's Liquors on May 30, 1974. The term runs consecutively with an earlier eight-year sentence for marijuana sales after a guilty plea reducing the original attempted murder charge to battery with a deadly weapon.

Felton Laday Davis Las Vegas Davis Cleveland Ave Thomas O’donnell Henry’s Liquors

Wettest Spot on Mars Guides Viking 2 Landing Plans

Viking 1 fed data as Viking 2 weighs three northern sites for a September landing. The wettest Martian area near Addalia Plains is described as wind blown material like Earth’s Gobi influenced plains and China dust belts.

Pasadena UPI Jet Propulsion Laboratory Viking 2 Gobi Desert Earth Mars Hal Masurky Viking Team Addalia Great Northern Lowlands China

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