End Was Bitter for Losing Zealots
West Virginia’s vote put Ford over Reagan, triggering fury and walkouts from California, Colorado, and Arizona alternates. While some calmed with resolve to back Ford, others vowed to oppose Carter or Reagan’s influence, amid a tense, somber convention night ending in tears and admonitions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jules Loh
Associated Press
Kansas City
Ronald Reagan
West Virginia
Ford
California
Colorado
Arizona
Bob Lindsay
San Jose
Jimmy Carter
Virginia
John Feliz
Los Angeles
Saraccino
Reagan
Dorothy Kranhold
San Bernardino
Carter
Charles Thomas
Richard Wohl
Phoenix
Citizens Band Calls To Patrol Total 99,000
Jefferson City Missouri AP reports that over 99,000 citizen band contacts were made to the Missouri Highway Patrol during the first year of CB monitoring. About 62 percent in August 1975 to July involved requests for assistance or reports of dangerous road conditions, with the rest tied to criminal or highway law violations. The patrol logged more than 4,600 arrests and 3,200 warnings, and nearly $50 of these contacts reported felonies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jefferson City
Missouri Highway Patrol
Charles Campbell Suffers Injury To Both Eyes
Charles Campbell former resident of Mexico now living near Centralia is in satisfactory condition at Audrain Medical Center after eye injuries from drain opener sprayed into his eyes at home Friday night. His father Ray Campbell reports severe damage to the left eye and lesser damage to the right, with Campbell likely hospitalized through Saturday. He had tried to open a can lid with a knife, punched the top, and the contents sprayed into his eyes. Campbell works at A. P. Green Refractories Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Campbell
Mexico
Centralia
Audrain Medical Center
Ray Campbell
Campbell
A. P. Green Refractories Co
Profits Grow Slower For U S Corporations
Washington AP reports profits of U S corporations rose at an annual rate of 1.4 billion in the April to June quarter to 81.1 billion, slower than the first quarter's 5.6 billion rise, with inflation and inventory effects eroding funds for expansion and job creation as undistributed profits fell from 20.6 billion to 16.8 billion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.S
Governent
Commerce Department
Tidal Waves Triggered Earthquake Toll In Mindanao
The Philippines faces a disaster aftermath with 3,131 confirmed dead, 4,117 missing, and 89,274 homeless after a quake on Mindanao and the Moro Gulf generated 30 foot tidal waves. Brig. Gen. Villanova led relief efforts as bodies drift along the coast and survivors recount coercive fear. President Marcos ordered $3.5 million for medicine and launched Operation Compassion while military planes and U S helicopters rush relief supplies to the stricken coast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manila
Philippines
Moro Gulf
Mindanao Island
Zamboanga Peninsula
Antonio Villanova
Gloria Bitancor
Pagadian City
Manila Times Journal
Eir
Ferdinand Fe.cos
National Disaster Coordinating Center
Navy
Marcos
Operation Compassion
United States
Tripoli
Air Force
Missourians Use More Gasoline
Missouri fuel use rose 7.6 percent in July 1976 from July 1975, state Revenue Department figures show. July consumption reached 260.5 million gallons, a record for the month, marking the fourth record month of the year and giving a 6.6 percent year over year increase overall to 1.6 billion gallons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jefferson City
Missouri
State Revenue Department
Viking 2 Aims for Mars Utopia After Landing Delays
Pasadena AP reports Viking 2 shifts from two hazardous landing sites to Mars northern Utopia, about 4 000 miles from Viking 1. Target touchdown set for Sept 3 around 1 p.m. EDT, with what looks to be a crater free area and potential for life due to ice.
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Pasadena
Calif
Viking 2
Utopia
Mars
Viking 1
James Martin
Martin
Michael Carr
Celebrities complain of bus crowds harassing Roxbury Drive
Beverly Hills residents including Lucille Ball Jimmy Stewart and Glenn Ford face busloads of gawking tourists who picnic on lawns and harass stars. Attorney Bernard Greenburg says as many as 64 buses in eight hours have rolled by. stars fear for safety and burglaries while some visitors picnic on front lawns. He seeks action from the state Public Utilities Commission to curb the traffic andstop unauthorized tour operators. city officials note drivers restrict passenger exit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beverly Hills
Calif
Lucille Ball
Jimmy Stewart
Glenn Ford
Roxbury Drive
Bernard Greenburg
Steve Lawrence
Eydie Gorme
Miss Gorme
Lucy
Greenburg
Gary Morton
Lacy
State Public Utilities Commission
John Doe
Kansas
Green- B
Justin Farmer
Nurses Seek MNA as Bargaining Agent for St Louis County
About 140 county nurses filed with Missouri Board of Mediation to designate the Missouri Nurses Association as exclusive bargaining agent. A spokeswoman cited organizing work since May and asserted county officials refused recognition, citing some petitioners as management. Lorraine Rickelman said an election is needed. nurses reported no raises in 18 months and only a 3 percent increase in the prior year. Also, Mexico High School Pep Squad members may collect uniform slacks at Montgomery Ward from 9 am to 5 pm today, with uniforms ready for the first home game Sept. 3 against Hannibal.
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MNA
Jefferson City, Mo
St. Louis County
State Board of Mediation
Missouri Nurses’ Association
St. Louis County Hospital
Lorraine Rickelman
Mexico
Montgomery Wards
Hannibal
Drug Seller And Woman Are Killed in Kansas City
In Kansas City AP report, Donald F. Dumas, 2, once jailed and facing another trial, is shot dead in his apartment along with Loretta L. Minor, 17, a convicted prostitute. Two men entered the unit seeking money and drugs. Bobbie J. Paul, 31, was wounded but escaped to a neighbor’s house with taped hands and police called. Authorities seized televisions, furniture, projection equipment, and cameras from Dumas’s two rented apartments near 34th and Charlotte. Dumas, a known pimp and drug seller, had previously been sentenced to five years for manslaughter in a 1966 high school knife attack.
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Kansas City
Donald F. Dumas
Dumas
Loretta L. Minor
Bobbie J. Paul
34Th and
Charlotte
Betty Booker
Manual High School
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