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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1976
Page
15
Diane Wentland of Cheektowaga N Y has her ankle taped by a male classmate during bivouac for the Class of 1980 field training at West Point. They have been at bivouac since August 26 and will march 10 miles back to West Point on Tuesday.
Ford and Carter win approval for face to face debates as the FEC rules the League of Women Voters debate expenses are not bound by campaign finance laws. Mondale criticizes administration arms sales while Greenspan cites a pause in the recovery and Carter pushes for unstructured debates.
Chelsea Mass honors Stella Young 80, the Salvation Army's first doughnut girl in World War I France. The Fifth and Chestnut corner outside the Salvation Army Church is named Brigadier Stella Young Square to recognize nearly 50 years of wartime service and aid to servicemen stateside and abroad.
Gov. Milliken ordered an emergency ban on open fires across 33 northern Lower Peninsula counties and 15 Upper Peninsula counties as a massive forest fire roars through the Seney National Wildlife Refuge and Manistique State Forest. The blaze, described as Michigan’s worst in 40 years, has burned tens of thousands of acres with 7,000 more acres consumed over the weekend. highway 28 near Seney to Shingleton remained closed.
A Kroger store manager driving a tractor-trailer was shot on Interstate 40 in Nashville while defying a Teamsters strike. Bob McGinsey, 30, was treated for a chest wound and released. A security guard was unharmed. Police have no suspects. Earlier, protesters injured in rock-throwing incidents at Kroger headquarters as Local 327 went on strike over a wage offer.
A Denver grand jury indicted Raynor W. Palmer Jr. and James D. Sickafoose for promoting a chain letter scheme in which $25 Savings Bonds were mailed instead of cash. Up to 200 Colorado residents attended weekly meetings, and participants passed lists to gain profits. The case marks the first successful use of the Lottery Statute against a chain letter operation.
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