Carter Seeks Senate Support for Panama Canal Pact
President Carter mounts a four pronged drive to secure Senate ratification of the Panama Canal treaty, courting lawmakers and pressuring allies while touting enhanced U S security, Latin American relations, and aid. A separate accident report from Vandalia cites Joey Runyon sustaining serious injuries in a Route W crash.
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Senate
Gerald R. Ford
Henry A. Kissinger
United States
Latin America
Panama
Congress
Soviet Union
Canal Zone
U.S
Sol Linowitz
Ellsworth Bunker
Panama Canal
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Slurry Sealing Schedule Outlines Week of Road Work
Gil Patrick city engineer says slurry sealing on Mexico streets continues next week with Kent Road from Beacon to Bennington Streets first. Daily crews then tackle Robin Hood, Breckenridge, Missouri, Coal and Dorcas streets from Tuesday through Friday as part of the repaving plan. The note adds broader political context with President Carter promoting the pact amid opposition from Thurmond and Helms.
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Bennington
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Curtis
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Clark
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Missouri
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Monroe
Bowevard
Dorcas
Luther
Hendricks
UMW Chief Tries To Stop Strikes
United Mine Workers President Arnold Miller heads to coal fields to persuade about 66,500 wildcat strikers to end the walkout over health benefit cuts. The executive board warns penalties including fines and expulsions if strikers refuse back-to-work orders, as funds deplete from health and pension trusts financed by royalties on union mined coal. Miners in West Virginia and carloads across Kentucky Ohio and Pennsylvania complicate the effort.
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United Mine Workers
Arnold Miller
Miller
UMW
West Virginia
Kentucky
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Larry Nibert
District 17 Executive Board
Charleston
W.va
Pension Trust
Keller Named 1977 78 Mexico Community Chest Head
Jim Keller of Mexico Route 2 was named chair of the 1977 78 Community Chest drive by Larry Webber. Keller, Audrain Medical Center personnel director, led last year’s fundraising at the medical center and will oversee budget reviews from 12 participating agencies. The drive unofficially kicks off September 13 with a 6:30 dinner at Todd’s.
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Mexico
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Jim
Chest Board
Larry Webber
Community Chest Board
American Red Cross
Arthritis Foundation
Audrain County Cerebral Palsy School
Boy
Courtney Child Care Center
East Central Missouri Mental Health Association
Girl Scouts
Head Start
Mexico Recreation Corporation
Social Service For
Salvation Army
USO
Community Chest
Handi-Shop
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Highway 54 South
Steve Erdel
Bob Rivers
J. C. Pollard
Jim Dye
Louis Leonatti
Jim Frazer
Ernest Gantt
al Gatioto
Steven W. van Matre
Kentucky
Audrain Medical Center
Brennan Locke
William van Matre
E.N. Locke
Manchester
Sam P. Locke
Thompson
van Matre
van Matre and
12Th Judicial Circuit
Widow of Pvt Slovik Loses Army Insurance Claim
Washington AP report details Army Secretary Clifford Alexander upholding Pvt Eddie Slovik’s wartime conviction and execution. His widow Antoinette Slovik cannot collect about 70,000 in life insurance. She laments timing and seeks broader justice while an appeal to President Carter is anticipated.
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Antoinette Slovik
Army
Clifford Alexander
Eddie Slovik
Alexander
Mra. Slovik
Slovik
Bernard Edelson
France
Edelson
U.S
McCoys Fight Plan to Move Randall McCoy Grave
Huntington native O R McCoy, 73, opposes moving the 1914 grave of Randall McCoy from Dils Cemetery in Pikeville to clear space for a $6 million civic center and parking lot. Cemetery owners sue to block the move. city seeks dismissal with no hearing date set. McCoy recalls the funeral and a grave marked with an M.
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McCoy
Hatfields
Randall McCoy
Pikeville
O.R. McCoy
Dils Cemetery
Civic Center
Dils
Berkowitz Lawyer Denies Selling Tapes To Daily News
New York AP report says David Berkowitz's lawyer Philip Peltz denied offering the six hours of taped Berkowitz conversations for North American Sunday rights at $50,000 to the New York Daily News. The paper declined the offer as Berkowitz undergoes psychiatric examination after arrest for the Son of Sam killings.
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David R. Berkowitz
Sam
New York Daily News
Berkowitz
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News
Peltz
Stacey Moskowitz
Son of
Nathan
Securities and Exchange Commission
Chip Carter to leave White House return to Plains
Chip Carter, 27, moves out of the White House and back to Plains Georgia to work at the Carter peanut warehouse while his wife Caron 26 and their six month old James Earl IV stay in Washington. The First Lady's press secretary declined to comment on a possible marital separation or living arrangements. The Carters married in 1973 and have lived at the White House since January 20. Caron is a Hawk in s ville native, Macon Wesleyan graduate with a master's in Early Childhood Education from Georgia State.
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Leon Stern
Berkowitz
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Brooklyn
Robert Violante
Ronald Aiello
Aiello
Queens
Albany
Hugh Carey
State Crime Victims Compensation Board
Washington
Chip Carter
White House
Plains
Mary Finch Hoyt
Hoyt
Chip
Democratic National Committee
Carter
Billy Carter
Caron
James Earl IV
Camp David
Carters
Jody Powell
Jeff Carter
Amy
Hawkinsville
Macon Wesleyan
Georgia State
Billy Carter to resign peanut business post
President Carter's brother Billy Carter will resign as managing partner of the Carter peanut business in Plains Georgia. Trustee Charles Kirbo confirms the move saying Billy has left and Chip Carter may join to run operations. Billy will keep a 15 percent stake while other family holdings include a service station, 173 acres in Sumter County and a 3,000 acre Carter farm.
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Plains
Charles Kirbo
Billy Carter
Kirbo
Chip
Sumter County
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