Young girl earns seat on San Anselmo Parks Board
Atha Mathieu, 12, won a youth seat on the San Anselmo Parks and Recreation Commission, becoming possibly the youngest commissioner in the country. She attends meetings, schedules office hours, and pursues projects from pinball machines for a teen club to girls softball uniforms and fair use of tennis courts for youths.
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San Anselmo
Calif
UPI
Atha Mathieu
Atha
San Francisco
Parks and Recreation Commission
Commission
Gary Howell
Plea bargaining through history and fiction
Washington writer Dick West muses on how plea bargaining might have altered famous cases from Robin Hood to Dracula and Dr. Jekyll. He imagines Sheriff Nottingham, Count Dracula, and others striking deals to drop major charges for lesser offenses while keeping public scrutiny to a minimum.
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Dick West Washington
UPI
Leon Jaworski
Boston
Robin Hood
Merry Men of
Sherwood Forest
Nottingham
Maid Marian
Robin
Count Dracula
Transylvania
Dr. Jekyll
Mr. Hyde
Tornadoes Hit Central Iowa Killing Two and Damaging Areas
Tornadoes pounded central Iowa late Tuesday night and today causing at least two deaths in Ankeny near Des Moines. Des Moines and Ames faced heavy damage with 70 mph gusts. Ames saw hail and street flooding. Gilbert Kelley and Richardsville also reported touchdowns while storms spread from the Great Lakes to the West. In Tampa lightning struck a church day care, cutting two people from flying glass.
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United Press International
Iowa
U.S. Weather Bureau
Ankeny
Des Moines
Ames
Gilbert, Kelley
Richardsville
Great Lakes
Texas Panhandle
Rockies
California
Tampa
Fla
Tyer Methodist Church
Parallax View stars Beatty as hardened investigative journalist
Warren Beatty headlines The Parallax View a suspense drama based on Loren Singer novel. The film marks a shift in Hollywood reflecting newer character realism as Beatty portrays a rough reporter pursuing the assassination of a U S senator.
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Hollywood
UPI
Warren Beatty
Loren Singer
United States
Beatty
Space tracking plan eyed by NASA for 12 year program
NASA details a space tracking system costing 49 billion dollars through 1991. The program centers on the space shuttle design, with 725 flights planned to carry satellites and payloads. The shuttle, modular and reusable, will launch from Cape Canaveral and land like a conventional aircraft after orbital missions.
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Howell
William
Mills College
Oakland
Parks Commission
Mathieu
Robert Benchley
Friar Tuck
Peking
Conn Classic Guitars
Conn Steel Folk Guitars
Ventura
Hikari
Lompoc
North
Northside Shopping Center
Edwards Air Force Base
Cape Canaveral
Lompoc, Calif
Jorgensen Jewelers
Lompoc Shopping Center
McMahan’s
Nney Custom Decorating Sale
Penneys At-Home
Santa Maria
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