Kidnapping charge filed in Jacksonville case
State officials filed a kidnapping charge against Jack McWilliams 39 for abducting Linda Jaffa wife of a Jacksonville developer and holding her to a post for four days and nights She was found alive and in good condition after a $200000 ransom demand was made The loader of the suspect is his sister in law and a friend helped in the abduction McWilliams will be moved from Baker County Jail to Jacksonville for processing
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Jacksonville
Fla
Jack McWilliams
Edward Austin
McWilliams
Austin
Baker County
MacClenny
Sheri Linda Jaffa
Wayne Ellis
Burton
Touchton
City to Act on Diseased Trees in Lawrence
Lawrence city commissioners will authorize the city clerk to issue 10 day notices to owners of diseased trees. Owners already received 30 day notices. noncompliant trees will be removed by a city contracted crew and billed to owners. The program aims to reduce elm disease and replace with maples and oaks.
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Lawrence
Mike Wildgen
City Commission
Wildgen
Share A Long Week Proclaimed for Sweet Adelines Service
Public notice lists Oct 1 5 1976 as Share A Long Week honoring the Sweet Adelines. Includes a letter from Nell Mitchell urging matching funds and multiple items on public works and ordinances in Lawrence Kansas.
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Nell Mitchell
Jayhawk Area Agency On Aging
Bernice Williams
Country Club West
West 17Th St
City of Lawrence
Country Club Terrace
6Th Street
Rug left over floor furnace causes early fire
Lawrence Fire Department reports a fire at 1205 Connecticut Avenue the home of John G. Pinder. A rug left over a floor furnace sparked the blaze causing about 25 dollars in damage.
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John G. Pinder
Conn
Lawrence
KU Receives Phillips Grant For Professional Development
Phillips Petroleum Co. awards Kansas University a 5500 grant from the Professional Development Fund to support student and faculty growth across engineering, business, law, and liberal arts. The grant, presented by Stanley Alleman and J W Davison, funds travel, speakers, publications, and related three departments and the EU Endowment Association.
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Phillips Petroleum Co
Kansas University
Archie Dykes
KU Endowment Association
Phillips
Stanley Alleman
J.W. Davison
Phillips Fund
Engineering, Business and Law
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Man's body found in East Lawrence home
The partially decomposed body of 62 year old Meyrl LeRoy Groninger was found in his kitchen by a neighbor around 8 a.m. today. Dr. Laurance Price said death appears natural. Groninger lived alone at 1237 Prospect and planned to retire from the Department of Social and Rehabilitative Services. A small dog named Spot remained inside the house. Funeral services are set for Tuesday at Rumsey Funeral Home with burial in Oak Hill Cemetery. survivors include a brother Clarence of Logansport and several nieces and nephews.
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East Lawrence
Laurance Price
Meyrl LeRoy Groninger
Prospect
Mr. Groninger
Cecil Miller Sr
Miller
Robert Sanderson
Groninger
Department of Social and Rehabilitative Services
Sanderson
Spot
Indiana
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Rumsey Funeral Home
Robert Freitag
Oak Hill Cemetery
Clarence
Logansport
Ind
U.S. backs Rhodesia transition amid African leaders' stance
Five African presidents from Zambia Tanzania Botswana Mozambique and Angola met in Lusaka and rejected a white chaired state council while backing a two year transition and a constitutional conference. They urged Britain to convene talks for a black majority government and signaled guerrilla force suspensions with a caretaker regime forming in Rhodesia.
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Washington
United States
Ian Smith
Rhodesia
Zambia
Tanzania
Botswana
Mozambique
Angola
Lusaka
Smith
Council of Ministers
Britain
Henry A. Kissinger
John Vorster
State Council
State Department
U.S
Kissinger
Africa
Julius Nyerere
Kenneth Kaunda
Iowa man held after vandalism at Ramada Inn
Des Moines resident Benjamin Breed, 21, cited for criminal destruction of private property after a witness saw him damage parking lights at the Ramada Inn on Sixth and Iowa. Police chased two suspects. one escaped while Breed was arrested on the motel third floor and released on a $75 bond to appear October 8 in Municipal Court.
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Benjamin Breed
Des Moines
Iowa
Ramada Inn
Breed
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