Gilmore Executed by Firing Squad at Utah Prison
Gary Gilmore was executed by a five man firing squad at Utah State Prison after a stay was lifted. The 36 year old killer admitted to slayings during a motel robbery in Provo and a gas station robbery. Gilmore’s body was donated to medicine and cremation planned after a Provo funeral.
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Point OF the Mountain
Utah
UPI
Gary Gilmore
United State
Larry Schiller
Gilmore
Gary
Bennie Bushnell
Provo
10Th Circuit Court of Appeals
Denver
U.S. District
Willis W. Ritter
U.S. Supreme Court
Byron R. White
Thurgood Marshall
American Civil Liberties Union
10Th Circuit
Ritter
ACLU
U.S
Royal Butters
Smith
David Lewis
Salt Lake City
Lewis
Rockies
Robert Hansen
Hansen
Schiller
Fourth District
Robert Bullock
Vera Damico
University of Utah Medical Center
Damico
Sorensen withdraws CIA nomination announced in Senate
Theodore Sorensen told the Senate he asked Jimmy Carter to withdraw his nomination to lead the CIA. He said the decision came two minutes before the confirmation hearing. Sorensen telephoned Carter from Plains Georgia to report the withdrawal and defended his record before the Intelligence Committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate Intelligence Committee
Sorensen
Carter
Central Intelligence
Plains
Jody Powell
George S. McGovern
D-S.d
Intelligence Committee
Lompoc to hear animal control ordinance and related issues
The Lompoc City Council will hold a public hearing Tuesday at 7 30 p m on an animal control ordinance that would limit pets to those normal to a household and ban many farm and wild animals. Other measures include limits on dogs, prohibition of bees near residences, and exceptions for zoos or educational use.
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Lompoc
Planning Commission
Jack Lam
Council
H and I Streets
Ocean and Cypress Avenues
Time Oil Co
Chestnut and
LAFCO
Schuyler
Bailey Construction Company
Ford unveils 440 billion budget sparking Democratic backlash
President Ford proposed a 440 billion fiscal 1978 budget with a 7 percent defense rise and cuts to social programs. Democrats led by House Speaker O'Neill and senators Muskie and Giaimo criticized the plan as unworkable and unrealistic while noting the expense shifts toward defense energy health and welfare.
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Washington
UPI
Ford
Congress
House
Thomas O'Neill
Senate Budget Committee
Edmund Muskie
Maine
House Budget Committee
Robert N. Giaimo
D-Conn
Giaimo
GOP
White House
Jimmy Carter
Carter
Fillmore students embark for Carter inauguration trip
Thirty-one Fillmore School sixth graders with 11 chaperones travel by bus to Washington D C for the presidential inauguration. The group left Lompoc, stayed with Quander Road School hosts in Alexandria, and planned to arrive Tuesday night. Funds total about $7,350 from the school board and public donations with additional traveler’s checks carried by organizer Bill Yates.
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Jack Helman
Fillmore
Washington, D.C
Jimmy Carter
Vaughn Proctor
Fillmore School
Lompoc
Greyhound
Bill Yates
Sonja Yates
Little Rock
Arky
Memphis
Mahon
Mary
Gloria Wagner
Yates
Freighter Slices Navy Launch Killing 23 Near Barcelona
A Spanish freighter struck a U.S. Navy launch carrying about 120 sailors and Marines returning from shore leave near Barcelona. At least 23 dead, 95 survivors, 18 hospitalized, with many missing and dive teams searching the harbor. Survivors recalled the moment of impact as the boats sank rapidly.
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Barcelona
Spain
UPI
U.S
Guam
Trenton
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CIA
McGovern
Ted Sorensen
Birch Bayh
D-Ind
Mark Hatfield
D-Ore
Howard Baker
Baker
Kiwanis Club
Gary Hart
H And’s Shoe Store
California
Seaboard States
Don Mahon
Louis deStefano
Navy
Middletown, N.Y
Charles Koch
Roebling, N.J
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