Las Vegas businessman guilty of paying IRS bribe
Leo Crutchfield, a Las Vegas businessman and former Nevada Car Corp. stockholder, was found guilty in U.S. District Court of paying a $15,000 bribe to an Internal Revenue Service agent to alter a 1970 71 tax audit. Sentencing set for November 21 before Judge Bruce Thompson.
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Las Vegas
U.S. Dist
Roger Foley
Crutchfield
Nevada Car Corp
Sarno
Mallin
Oscar Goodman
IRS
U.S. Attorney’s Office
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
Fire at Maverick Truck Stop Evacuates Cheyenne, No Injuries
A blaze at Maverick Truck Stop on Las Vegas Boulevard North in Cheyenne caused an eight o clock evacuation of scores of trucks. No injuries were reported as a car driven by Marci Jarvis struck a gasoline pump, flames spread to a shade shelter and cash booth, and truckers drove rigs onto Cheyenne Road amid a traffic jam. Trip valves protected underground tanks from ignition.
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Maverick
Cheyenne
Las Vegas Boulevard
Caus
Marci Jarvis
North
Las Vegas
Cheyenne Road
Oklahoma City Police Walkout Over Pay
More than 500 officers of the Fraternal Order of Police walked out in Oklahoma City over a pay dispute. The march began when members tossed their badges on a table and city authorities brought in highway patrol and sheriff's deputies for coverage. The city council held a special meeting to address the action.
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Oklahoma City
UPI
Fraternal Order of Police
Dick Boyd
Police Union
Ryan Wood
City Hall
Upifoto
Editor Defends Press Amid Nationwide Criticism
A columnist argues newspapers require human judgment and cannot be automated. The piece discusses editor challenges, uses a hypothetical Ford visit, and references Oklahoma City police strikes with Governor Boren and local officials responding to a personnel dispute.
House Solons Approve Tax Cut Plan For 1976
The House Ways and Means Committee backed Ullman 12.7 billion in tax cuts to extend 1975 reductions into 1976. Ford’s linked spending cap concept was rejected. debate split along party lines with 21 Democrats supporting Ullman and opposing Ford. The plan would preserve standard deduction increases and offer a per family 2 percent tax credit on the first 12,000 of income with a $30 minimum per dependent.
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Washington
UPI
House
Ways and Means Committee
Ford
Congress
al Ullman
D-Ore
Joe Waggonner
D-La
Ullman
House Budget Committee
Waggonner
Wilbur Mills
Dark
Omar Burleson
D-Tex
Andrew Jacobs
D-Ind
Chuckler Notes Postal Service Timing Jibe
A friend quips that the U.S. Postal Service isn’t slow since all his bills arrive on time, implying a steady but blunt take on mail delivery pace.
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Sun Chuckler
U.S
Subscribed SUN readers vie for $2300 Cashword prize
Judges study a large pile of Cashword entries to determine winners for SUN subscribers at 2300 dollars and half that for non subscribers. Results of this week’s contest and the new puzzle will appear in Saturday’s SUN.
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SUN
Armed man held near Ford home near White House
A 24 year old man from Harrisburg Pennsylvania was arrested near the White House Northeast Gate for carrying a loaded .44 caliber magnum revolver in a holster. Park Police Officer James Fedders made the arrest around 1 30 p m EDT without a struggle. The incident posed no threat to the President.
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Washington
API
White House
U.S. Park
Ofc
James Fedders
Pennsylvania Avenue
Addison Young McCandless
Harrisburg
Otc
Donald Jelinek
Park Police
Jelinek
McCandless
Fedders
District of Columbia
Ford
Rights Leader Arrested In LV Jobs Protest
Rev. Albert L. Dunn, 40, president of the Southern Nevada SCLC, was jailed on interfering with a police officer after a rock-throwing melee in the Vegas Heights district of Las Vegas. Two other men and a juvenile were arrested. Dunn was later released on bond.
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Jerry Cox
Ken Langbell
SUN
Vegas Heights
Las Vegas
Metro
Clark County
Albert L. Dunn
Southern Nevada
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
SCLC
Dunn
Donell J. Clark
Charles L. Burns
Highland Drive
Concord
Lexington
Rodney James
James
Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital
Otis Harris, Jr
Ralph Abernathy
Frehner Trucking Service, Inc
Frehner Construction Co., Inc
Dunm
Prentiss Walker
Greater Faith Baptist Church
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Nme
Wwupw
Hank Greenspun
Donald Rumsfeld
Gerald Ford
Boyd
Howard McMahan
McMahan
Patience Latting
Jim Parsons
City Fop
FOP
David Boren
Highway Patrol
National Guard
Latting
Oklahoma
Solons
Ford Home
Boulder City Bridge
Ralph Pearl
Paul Price
Society
Joe Delaney
Stock
Editorial
Johannes Steel
Henderson
Dr. Thosteson
Ann Landers
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