First women officers sworn in with CHP
The California Highway Patrol begins training for an 80 cadet class with 40 women, the first female traffic officers in the force's history. The 16 week academy course in Sacramento covers academics self defense weapons and high speed driving as part of a two year experiment to assess permanent hiring.
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Sacramento
UPI
California Highway Patrol
Patrol
Law Enforcement Agency
California
CHP
Walter Pudinski
Pudinski
Flint the Nations First Unemployment Trouble Spot
Flint Michigan tops the nation in unemployment with 30 200 jobless in August 15 1 percent of the workforce. Buicklinked slump hits the city hard as GM employment and production shape the local economy and future hopes hinge on a Skyhawk small car push and a new UM campus project.
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Flint
Michigan
Frank
General Motors
U.S
Buick
United Auto Workers
George R. Elges
Larry Frank
Detroit
W. C. Durant
Leonard van Dam
Flint Area Employment Security Commission
United Fund
University of Michigan
Soviet Artists Stage Freewheeling Moscow Outdoor Show
Thousands of Russians packed Izmailova Park for a large open-air exhibit by seventy modernists, dismissed by the Union of Artists yet allowed by city authorities. Painters praise the event as a holiday of Soviet art while some members face expulsion threats.
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Moscow
UPI
Oskar Rabin
Izmailova Park
Alexei Tyapushkin
Official
Union of Artists
Tyapushkin
New York Police Stage Dress-Up Party Arrest Ring
Undercover detectives posing as taxi drivers lured 42 suspects to a warehouse party and seized stolen goods totaling over 700000. The Queens fencing operation, begun last April, led to mass arrests with up to 180 expected and as many as 1400 victims receiving property.
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NY Police
New York
UPI
Queens
Richard Ledda
Winter Weather Grips Nation with Freezing Lows
Temperatures fell toward freezing in the upper Mississippi Valley and northern Plains as a second wave of winter weather spread. Light snow fell in northern Minnesota, rain in upper Michigan and parts of New York and New England, and thundershowers hit southern Florida. A cold front pushed readings to freezing in the Great Plains and Mississippi Valley with gusts to 35 mph in Minnesota and northern Wisconsin. Early readings ranged from 19 degrees at Williston, North Dakota to 87 at Blythe, California.
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United Press International
Mississippi Valley
Plains
Minnesota
Upper
Michigan
New York
New England
Florida
Great Plains
Wisconsin
Williston
N.D
Blythe
Calif
Meticulous $1 Million Reno Bank Robbery Planned
Police say three men robbed the First National Bank main office in Reno, fleeing through a side door as a Shriners parade drew onlookers. Police Chief James Parker called the holdup very meticulously planned and professional.
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Reno, Nev
UPI
James Parker
First National Bank
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