Small Town Outwits Big City Radio No Contest Contest
Warsaw North Carolina residents turn a ploy by WIS radio into a publicity win for their 2,700 community. The Wilsons win a trip to Warsaw then are feted with a welcome featuring a private plane ride, flowers, champagne, a key to the city, and a pig picking barbecue, as officials award honorary Tar Heels certificates. The town praises the stunt for raising awareness of Warsaw Kenansville and Turkey.
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Warsaw
N.C
Columbia
S.C
WIS
New Orleans
Turkey
Joe
Joy Wilson
Wilson
Wilsons
Milford Quinn
Jim Hunt
Johnnie Powell
Kenansville
Ostriches Loose In Memphis Apartment Strangely Looted
Two former zoo guards aged 24 were charged with grand larceny after two ostriches wandered the midtown Memphis apartment grazing on a shag rug. Officers reported one bird tried to eat a table cloth while a beak tally showed all zoo ostriches were accounted for.
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Memphis
Wilson
Lawton Newspapers Subscription Rates Listed
Lawton Oklahoma publications show monthly carrier delivery rates for Lawton Fort Sill and outside areas. The Constitution Press and Sunday Press combine options vary by day and edition with prices noted for monthly service.
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Lawton Constitution
Sun
Lawton Morning Press
Constitution Lawton Publishing Co., Inc
3Rd & A
Lawton
Okla
Oklahoma
Fort Sill
Constitution-Press
Constitution
Iis
Ccncctei Sons Sinaitichioense Sccocce
Constitution-Sunday
Sungoy
Bold mother subdues hijacker on city bus
Mattie Bussey, 41, a mother of six, restrained the man who commandeered a city bus and threatened to ignite gasoline. Police took the suspect, Bobby Gay, 41, into custody after the bus arrived at the Georgia Capitol.
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Atlanta
Mattie Bussey
Georgia Capitol
W.J. Patrick
George Busbee
Maynard Jackson
Capitol
Patrick
State House
Mrs. Bussey
The
Atlanta Housing Authority
Fake Antique Chairs Fool Dealers in Michigan Dustup
Rhode Island craftsman Armand LaMontagne says he built the Great Brewster Chair as a joke after selling a fake 350 year old Pilgrim relic for nine thousand dollars. He describes the stunt as a laugh at infallible antique experts while others debate its authenticity and provenance.
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Dearborn, Mich
Rhode Island
Armand LaMontagne
LaMontagne
Detroit Free Press
New Hampshire
Roger Bacon
Henry Ford Museum
Donald Shelley
Mass
Maine
Bacon
Henry Ford Museum's famed chair questioned by museum official
Robert Wheeler, the museum official now in charge of the discredited piece, remains philosophical. "It happens, damn it, and we're just going to have to live with it," he said, adding that they still consider the chair great despite the affair.
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Henry Ford Museum
Robert Wheeler
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