Moscow recalls Tom McCall's early Idaho journalism days
Moscow citizens honor Tom McCall at the Chamber of Commerce dinner. McCall, Idaho governor and former Moscow News-Review reporter, recalls his 1937 start in Moscow earning 22.50 a week. He describes fierce local paper battles and a Grange Hall cooking demo that led to his marriage, noting politics interest even then.
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Moscow
Idaho
UPI
Tom McCall
Daily
Idahonian
University of Oregon Journalism School
Moscow News- Review
Citizens of
McCall
Chamber of Commerce
Stanford University Neiman
University of Idaho
Washington State University
Pullman, Wash
Star-Mirror
News-Review
Moscow Grange
Grange Hall
Leary son claims father would betray friends to win freedom
Jack Leary, 24, of Berkeley, tells reporters his father Timothy Leary would tell on anyone to gain release from prison. He cites lies, potential accusations against family, and Leary’s grand jury testimony as evidence of fabrications. Notable figures like Allen Ginsberg, Jerry Rubin, and Richard Albert Ram Dass weigh in on Leary’s alleged manipulation.
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San Francisco
UPI
Timothy Leary
Jack Leary
Berkeley
Calif
Leary
U.S. District Court
Chicago
Jerry Rubin
Crew backs French liner mutiny at sea near Le Havre
The struck crew of the luxury liner France vows to stay disciplined as the ship sits three miles offshore after Transat canceled the final crossings and farewell cruises. Officials say the ship’s operations are halted to save a $24 million annual subsidy as the vessel heads toward withdrawal.
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LE Havre
France
UPI
Marcel Roland
Transat
Compagnie
Azores
United States
Canada
Fourth victim of flash flood found
Nelson Landing Arizona United Press International reports the discovery of Tsutomo Kinugasa a 19 year old from Monterey Park California identified as the fourth victim in a devastating flash flood that wrecked Eldorado Canyon and flooded Lake Mojave. Three bodies have been recovered with seven more presumed dead. Crane crews lift mud and silt while park service work on excavation continues. Soundings probe lake bed to assess mud depth versus pre flood depth.
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Nelson Landing
Ariz
UPI
Eldorado Canyon
Lake Mojave
Tsutomo Kinugasa
Monterey Park
Calif
Kinugasa
Clark County
National Park Service
Siamese twins Clara and Alta Rodriguez separated in rare operation
In Philadelphia at Children's Hospital surgeons separated 13 month old Siamese twins joined at the middle and lower trunk. Dr. C Everett Koop led a 23 member team with a 44 hour surgery finalizing a delicate reconstruction. They will sit up together, may need time to walk, and recover on respirators over the next two to three weeks.
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Philadelphia
UPI
Clara
Alta Rodriguez
Children’s Hospital
C. Everett Koop
Dominican Republic
Koop
Alta
Floods force evacuations in Abilene Texas suburbs
Nation''s weather reports the worst flood in three decades forcing evacuation of at least 200 families in Abilene and surrounding low income areas. Police say waters expected to crest after midnight while flash flood watches persist across central and southern West Texas.
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United Press International
Abilene
Tex
J.T. Sanders
West Texas
Lubbock
Hoffa would burn Watergate tapes if owner
James R. Hoffa, former Teamsters leader, told Dinah Shore he would have burned the Watergate tapes and kept them private if they had been his. He praised President Ford for Nixon’s absolute pardon, saying it showed courage and loyalty to the American people.
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Los Angeles
UPI
James R. Hoffa
Teamsters
Hoffa
Dinah Shore
CBS
Ford
Richard M. Nixon
Textbook protest leader jailed as others protest in Charleston
Rev Ezra Graley slept in a jail cell after violating a court injunction restricting picketing at the Kanawha County board of education. Clergyman Rev Marvin Horan condemned the harassment while Rev Charles Quigley faced fines and bond. Parents were removed as the board rejected calls to dismiss the schools superintendent and remove the texts, opting to a 30 day study committee instead.
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Charleston
W. Va
UPI
Ezra Graley
Marvin Horan
Graley
Kanawha County
County Board of Education
Kenneth Underwood
Doris Day wins $22 million fraud suit against attorney
Actress Doris Day was awarded about $22.8 million after Superior Court found her attorney Jerome Rosenthal guilty of gross negligence and defrauding Day and her late husband Marty Melcher in oil well speculation and hotel projects, with $3 million in punitive damages.
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Doris Day
Los Angeles
UPI
Jerome Rosenthal
Superior Court
Lester E. Olson
Rosenthal
Miss Day
Marty Melcher
Texas
Oklahoma
Kentucky
Kootenai Tribe Vows to Fight for Land Rights and Roads
The 67 member Kootenai tribe vows to block roads and toll passes starting at midnight to demand 128000 acres be set aside as a reservation and cash compensation. They seek fishing and hunting rights with BIA and Justice Dept involvement, while Governor Andrus threatens troopers. The dispute echoes Wounded Knee tensions.
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Bonners Ferry
Idaho
UPI
Kootenai
Kootenais
Bureau of Indian Affairs
BIA
Morris Thompson
Amelia Trice
Doug Wheaton
Boise
Cecil Andrus
Wheaton
Wounded Knee
S.D
Kootenas
Thompson
United States
Former Vallejo Hell's Angels head sentenced in gun bomb case
Theodore L. DeWilde, ex-president of the Vallejo chapter, receives eight years for illegal possession of a machine gun and illegal possession and sale of a dynamite bomb. He admitted selling to an undercover agent and a fellow member for 200 dollars, claiming entrapment and a plan to remove weapons for police aid.
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Sacramento
UPI
Vallejo
Hell’s Angels
Theodore L. DeWilde
U.S. District Court
Thomas MacBride
DeWilde
Hell's Angel
Oakland Police Department
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Cuba
Miami
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African Republic of Tanzania
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