Money Found After Utah Jet Hijack Extortion Case
FBI told a Salt Lake magistrate it recovered 499,970 dollars a parachute and a pistol from the premises of Richard Floyd McCoy Jr in connection with a United Airlines jet hijacking. McCoy, a Vietnam veteran skydiver, is charged with air piracy and interfering with a flight crew. A second suspect, Stanley Harlan Speck, was arrested after a Pacific Southwest Airlines hijack attempt in San Diego.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
FBI
U.S
United States
A.M. Ferro
Richard Floyd McCoy Jr
McCoy
Provo House
United Air Lines
Colorado
Stanley Harlan Speck
San Francisco
Pacific Southwest Airlines
Lindbergh Field
San Diego
Calif
Speck
Washington
Northwest Airlines
Pacific Southwest
Milani
Oakland
Arthur Steck
Florida
Steck
United
Brigham Young University
Vietnam
Salt Lake County
Newark
N.J
Los Angeles
Denver
Colo
Robert van Leperen
Teperen
California
Richard Floyd McCoy
Provo
Deep North Vietnam air war as B52s hit Vinh
U S B52 bombers return to air war over North Vietnam for the first time in over four years and strike targets around Vinh 145 miles northwest of the DMZ Deepest penetration by Americas largest warplanes. South Vietnam says its forces have crushed the DMZ spearhead and shifted the battle tide, while An Loc mobilizes 20 000 more troops. Earthquake ravages southern Iran killing over 1000 and possibly up to 4000, with 7 on the Richter scale and thousands homeless. A California man fails to hijack a jet as another Utah man is arrested for air piracy. Nixon to witness signing of a 80 nation treaty banning germ warfare. Apollo 16 countdown to liftoff. Oscar night threatened by a strike while Chaplin to receive honorary award.
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Saigon
North Vietnam
Vinh
Demilitarized Zone
America
South Vietnam
Dmz
An Loc
Tehran
Iran
Geophysics Institute
Tehran University
Nixon Policy Feeds Fat Hungate Says
In Centralia, Ninth District Congressman William Hungate warned that Nixon economic policy feeds the fat and starves the loan, linking 4.5 million agricultural jobs to broader economic trouble. He urged leaders to provide purpose and integrity to reassert U.S. world leadership and noted his upcoming trip to Japan with a Columbia University sponsored delegation.
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Centralia
Nixon
William Hungate
Hungate
U.S
Japan
Columbia University
New York
Melinda Lu Sears Captures Miss Jefferson City Title
Melinda Lu Sears, 5-2 with brown hair and eyes, won the Miss Jefferson City title at the Miss Missouri Pageant held in Mexico in July. She performed a modern interpretative dance to the song Hot Pants to clinch the crown Saturday night.
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Melinda Lu Sears
Jeff City
Jefferson City
Mexico
Hot Pants
Birth of Kristen Jo Fritschie in Audrain Medical Center
Mrs Keith Fritschie and Keith Fritschie of Route 5 Mexico welcome Kristen Jo Fritschie born Saturday at 8 26 am. The newborn weighs 7 pounds 14 ounces and is the couple's first child at Audrain Medical Center.
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Kristen Jo Fritschie
Keith Fritschie
Route 5
Mexico
Audrain Medical Center
Three-year-old triggers fatal Lake Tenkiller accident
A runaway car with a three-year-old inside rolled down an incline into Lake Tenkiller killing Louise L. Corry, 49, of Dewey. Her daughter Karen Douglas, 24, seven months pregnant, was injured but unborn child survived. Gary Douglas observed from the dock as the car entered the water.
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Lake Tenkiller
Okla
Louise L. Corry
Dewey
Karen Douglas
Tulsa
Oklahoma Highway Patrol
Douglas
Corry
Gary Douglas
Pettit Bay
Reichart Named Health Deputy
Dr. Herbert R. Domke state health director appointed Joseph B. Reichart of Westphalia as deputy director of the state Division of Health. Reichart has been assistant director in charge of administration and director of general services and will oversee all division administration and the Bureau of Planning and Development, serving as acting director in Domke’s absence.
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Jefferson City
Herbert R. Domke
Joseph B. Reichart
Westphalia
State Division of Health
General Services Section
Reichart
Bureau of Planning and Development
Domke
Centralia GOP Elects Delegates to District and State
Centralia Republicans in Centralia Township Boone County elected delegates and alternates for the 9th district and state conventions at a mass meeting at city hall Saturday. Delegates to the 9th district convention in Moberly April 29 were Mrs. James Schweitzer, William H. Reinhardt Jr. and alternates Mrs. Joe Arndt, Jerry Staley. Delegates to the state convention May 27 in Springfield are Mrs. Arndt and Mr. Staley with alternates Mrs. Schweitzer and Mr. Reinhardt. The delegates will be uninstructed. The 9th district will pick two delegates and two alternates for the August San Diego National Convention and a presidential elector. Keynote speaker will be Mrs. M. Stanley Ginn. Ten delegates at large will be elected for San Diego along with national committeeman and committeewoman.
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Centralia
Boone County
Moberly
James Schweitzer
William H. Reinhardt Jr
Joe Arndt
Jerry Staley
Springfield
Arndt
Staley
Schweitzer
Renhardt
Injured in fall, Michael Darrin Inlow: 2 broken arms
Michael Darrin Inlow, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Inlow of Centralia, fractured both arms in a fall Saturday afternoon at his grandmother Mrs. Margaret Curtis home. He is also grandson of Mrs. Dan Henneberry of 707 E Promenade St.
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Michael Darrin Inlow
Arthur Inlow
Centralia
Margaret Curtis
Dan Henneberry
Promenade St
Kirby selects name for newborn son in Audrain County
Mr and Mrs Oney FE Kirby of Route 3 Mexico welcomed their first child, a son named Matthew Eugene Kirby, born Friday at Audrain Medical Center. The baby weighed 7 pounds at birth.
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Oney FE. Kirby
Route 3
Mexico
Audrain Medical Center
Matthew Eugene Kirby
Beltone offers free tiny hearing aid sample in Chicago
Free non operating model of Beltone’s smallest aid will be mailed to readers who reply to the ad. No cost or obligation, no vest, device weighs under one ounce, ear level one unit with no wires. Send request to Beltone Electronics Corp Dept 9615, 4201 W Victoria, Chicago IL 60846.
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Chicago
Jil
Beltone
Beltone Electronics Corp
W. Victoria
Countdown Begins For Moon Launch Apollo 16
The Saturn 5 rocket powers up as the Apollo 16 countdown starts at 8 30 a m EST aiming for a Sunday liftoff. Astronauts John W Young Charles M Duke Jr and Thomas K Mattingly II rehearse descent liftoff and rendezvous while planning a moon surface stay of 73 hours near Descartes with three seven hour excursions to study volcanic history and take photography and geochemical data.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
Moon
Crater
Descartes
John W. Young
Charles M. Duke Jr
Thomas K. Mattingly II
Young
Duke
Mattingly
Apollo 16 crew defend moon rocks over Luna samples
Apollo 16 astronauts John W. Young Charles M. Duke Jr and Thomas K Mattingly II argue the moon rocks to be gathered will outpace Luna missions both in quantity and scientific value They describe placing science stations on the surface and cameras and instruments in orbit to study moonquakes magnetic properties and volcanic history and say unmanned missions cannot match crew observations and sample context.
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Cape Kennedy, Fla
Moon
Russia
John W. Young
Charles M. Duke Jr
Thomas K. Mattingly II
Earth
Duke
Young
Apollo
Mattingly
al Worden
Lunar
Byrnes Dies at 92. Full Life in Public Service Ended
James F. Byrnes, who left school at 14 to support his mother and rose to congressman, Supreme Court justice, secretary of state, and South Carolina governor, died after a prolonged illness. He was 92. In-state funeral arrangements were announced with flags at half-staff.
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Columbia
James F. Byrnes
U.S. Supreme Court
U.S
South Carolina
Byrnes
Statehouse
Trinity Episcopal Church
Charleston
Franklin D. Roosevelt
War Mobilization
Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman
Missouri
Nixon
John West
Jimmy Byrnes
Aiken County
Space expert on lunar missions and long term goals
The speaker argues that understanding the universe helps solve Earth energy issues. He notes the early moon landings have raised more questions than they answered and that each new question leads toward a complete answer as knowledge grows.
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Earth
James Byrnes Life Charted From Judge to Secretary of State
A biographical sketch traces James F. Byrnes from admission to the bar at 24, editor of the Aiken Journal and Review, and early political rise to Congress. It notes his 1924 Senate loss, Spartanburg law practice, 1930 Senate terms, 1941 Supreme Court appointment, 1945 economic stabilizer post, 1947 resignation, and 1952 shift toward Eisenhower. It mentions his Columbia home with wife Maude Perkins Busch, no children, and his James F. Byrnes Scholarship Foundation serving orphans since 1948.
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Baror
Byrnes
Aiken Journal and Review
Judicial Circuit
Congress
House
Spartanburg
Senate
Roosevelt
U.S. Supreme Court
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
U.N. General Assembly
Harry F. Byrd
D—Va
Columbia
Maude Perkins Busch
Aiken
James F. Byrnes
Argentine General Juan Carlos Sanches Killed in Drive-By
In Rosario Argentina a car sprayed machine gun fire killing Gen Juan Carlos Sanches commander of Argentina's 2nd Army and one of the nation's top military chiefs. A bystander woman also died and the general's chauffeur was seriously wounded in the attack.
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Rosario
Argentina
Juan Carlos Sanches
2Nd Army
Mexico Ledger Subscription Rates and Office Hours
Mexico Ledger lists publication details with pricing by mail and area, plus office hours. Rates include in-state and out-of-state options and military members, with daily operations 8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. weekdays and 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Saturdays.
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N. Nashington St
Mexico
Audrain
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