Californians convicted in whisky investment scheme
Two Westlake men Isaac Silver and Ronald Pepperman were found guilty of conspiring to defraud investors in White Abbey whisky by promoting it as a $1-a-gallon top investment with hoped-for profits. A third partner was convicted previously. Investors handed over 830 to 11900 each to store whisky in British warehouses.
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New York
UPI
Manhattan
Isaac Silver
Ronald Pepperman
Westlake
Calif
Perthshire Scotch Whisky Ltd
Arthur Schuffman
Reseda
White Abbey
Whitehouse uses blasphemy law to sue Gay News over poem
Anti-pornography campaigner Mary Whitehouse wins permission for criminal proceedings against Gay News under blasphemy law. She claims a poem by James Kirkup depicting Jesus in homosexual acts constitutes a vile libel on Christianity. The case marks a 54 year gap in such prosecutions and carries potential life imprisonment. Kirkup teaches at Amherst College in Massachusetts.
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London
UPI
Mary Whitehouse
Massachusetts
Whitehouse
Christ
James Kirkup
Amherst College
Carter’s hair style described as top heavy then refined
Betty Swims-Gray, Carter’s barber, recalls his hair was long on top and short at the ears when he first came to her shop. She says he resisted growing it out despite advisors urging longer hair and later adopted a fuller, movement filled style that highlights his smile and eyes.
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Atlanta
UPI
Jimmy Carter
Betty Swims-Gray
Carter
Gerald Rafshoon
AFT plans sidewalk recruiting push for teachers
The American Federation of Teachers Local 2170 will recruit off school grounds after district court orders restricted on-site activity. Duane Oaks says January will bring sidewalk parties and hotel breakfasts to explain the union and sign up members with contests offering trips and bonds as incentives. The group seeks 1,800 members to beat the Clark County Classroom Teachers Association and claims about 1,300 signer support for decertification.
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American Federation of Teachers
AFT
Duane Oaks
Oaks
Las Vegas
Clark County Classroom Teachers Association
Hawaii
Mexico
Psychiatrist Links Manson Fan to Triple Slaying
Drabing 21, house painter, admitted to stabbing Lloyd and Phyllis Schneider and their daughter Terri after reading Helter Skelter and listening to the Beatles record. Psychiatrist Albert Ludin testified Drabing sought Manson’s ideas, claimed rich people should die, and acted in a frenzied state with a hunting knife and rope.
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UPI
Michael Drabing
Lloyd Schneider
Charles Manson
Helter Skelter
Albert Ludin
Springfield
Ill
Drabing
Manson
California
Ludin
Terri
Schneiders
Jeffrey Richardson
Richardson
Lydia
Sheryl
Ford
Abraham Lincoln Hospital
Lummis Seeks Court OK to Sell Helicopter Abroad
William Lummis, Summa Corp chairman, filed in district court for permission to sell a Hawker Siddeley helicopter in Hatfield England that bears a British registry and cannot be flown to Clark County for sale. The sale is set for airing Dec. 22, with First National Bank as coapplicant. A related filing on Hughes estate lists handwriting experts who may testify in the Jan 10 trial on the Mormon will authenticity.
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Summa Corp
Howard Hughes
District Court
Hatfield
England
Clark County
Lummis
First National Bank
Hughes
Annette Gano Lummis
Donald Doud
Milwaukee
Wis
Lucille Lacy
Houston
Texas
Sherwood Morrill
Sacramento
Calif
Nevada Museum Eyes Lorenzi Park Southern Branch
The Nevada State Museum plans a Las Vegas Lorenzi Park site for a transportation museum and ghost town with old trains. Trustees scrapped Tropicana Arville Drive land, aiming to work with city officials on Lorenzi Park parcels. A trustee said the museum could own 304 acres south of Carson City by January. project timeline is 30 to 40 years.
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UPI
Nevada State Museum
Lorenzi Park
Las Vegas
Joe Guild
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