Chance Puts New Facility Into Operation
CENTRALIA A B Chance Co expanded its nonferrous complex with a ductile iron casting facility now running as an extension of the main foundry. Shake down began in early December as Works Manager Dick Flink called the unit a fine addition that will ease production bottlenecks and boost work for existing foundry staff.
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Centralia
A.B. Chance Co
ductiJe
Dick Flink
Chance
Hickman Street
Tlinois Central Gulf Tracks
Dick Hanson
Nick Mody
al Hajduk
Flink
Chance Foundry
Cleveland
Holy Year Opens With Pope Paul VI Hammering Holy Door
Vatican City AP Pope Paul VI strikes a silver hammer on the St. Peters Holy Door to inaugurate a Holy Year focused on reconciliation amid global conflict. The ceremony will be televised in 45 nations as the door is dismantled brick by brick and the year begins with calls for peace in Jerusalem and the Middle East.
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Vatican City
Paul VI
St. Peter's Basilica
College of Cardinals
Pope Paul
Northern Ireland
Vietnam
Middle East
Holy Land
Jerusalem
Paul
Vatican
Pius XII
Rome
Boniface VIII
Urban VI
Jesus Christ
Paul II
Heinz halts shipment of instant baby cereals
The H. J. Heinz Co suspended all instant baby cereal shipments while investigating reports of twisted metal slivers found in two eight ounce boxes of instant rice cereal sold in Charlotte. Heinz spokesman Harry Carroll said shelves already stocked products remain, but Charlotte only recalls apply. Two families reported the contamination from Lot BP144 at the same supermarket.
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Charlotte
N.C
H. J. Heinz Co
Heinz
Harry Caroll
Pittsburgh
Amendment to allow public textbooks to parochial schools proposed
In Jefferson City Missouri AP reports a proposed constitutional amendment would let the state send textbooks to parochial and private schools. Sen Lawrence Lee D St Louis sponsors the measure which would go to voters if the legislature places it on the ballot following a supreme court ruling last July that struck down a loan program for private schools alleging church state separation issues. A revision of 15 state licensing boards to include a public member is also offered for consideration.
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Jefferson City
Lawrence Lee
D-St. Louis
House
Senate
Supreme Court
Sextuplets hospital bill near sixty thousand dollars
Jolene Lange, sole survivor of the Lange sextuplets, faces rising hospital costs at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center as officials warn the bill could reach 60 000 dollars. Four brothers and a sister died from respiratory issues after a premature birth on December 8. Jolene, the first born, survived, with initial delivery costing 570 dollars deemed a goodwill gesture. Daily care ran about 100 dollars per child for eight days, pushing costs over 20 000 dollars, and another 75 days of specialized care could add 20 000 to 40 000 more.
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San Jose
Calif
Jolene Rene Lange
Lange
Santa Clara Valley Medical Center
Jolene
Charlotte Lange
Alvin
Dies In Crash After Prison Escape
AP reports two Missouri inmates involved in a high speed escape. Larry A. Brady, 26, died when the stolen pickup crashed four miles west of here, pinned in the wreck. Norman C. Hamilton, 48, from St. Louis, escaped the truck. Jerry Bolen of the Missouri Department of Corrections said they were moving furniture for the Missouri Department of Revenue at the time. Brady’s mother lamented his short time left before parole. Both men were trusties.
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Jefferson City
Missouri Penitentiary
Highway Patrol
Larry A. Brady
U.S. 50
Here
Norman C. Hamilton
St. Louis
Jerry Bolen
Missouri Department of Corrections
Missouri Department of Revenue
Kansas City
Lena Brady
Brady
Three Ledgerlanders Named National Merit Scholars at MU
Three Ledgerland students are among over 130 National Merit Scholars at the University of Missouri in Columbia. Marvin Duane Hinton of Martinsburg is a junior in education, Melanie R. Boicourt of 10 Lakeside Place is a junior dually enrolled in education and arts and sciences, and Mary Kathryn Farnen of 946 West Boulevard is a sophomore in arts and sciences.
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Ledgerland
University of Missouri At Columbia
Marvin Duane Hinton
Martinsburg
College of Education
Melanie R. Boicourt
Lakeside Pl
Mary Kathryn Farnen
W. Boulevard
College of Arts
Candidates Advised To Keep Records
AP Kansas preps for new campaign finance law as Secretary of State James C. Kirkpatrick urges early compliance. He names Joseph Schoeberl to head the Elections Division while disputing Governor Bond on enforcement timing. The law requires detailed economic statuses and frequent reports for campaigns over 500 dollars even before full forms are ready.
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Jefferson City
James C. Kirkpatrick
Kirkpatrick
Joseph Schoeberl
Elections Commission
Christopher S. Bond
State Supreme Court
Bond
Schoeberl
Joplin
Disappearing British MP Is Arrested
A British MP John Thomson Stonehouse, who vanished in Florida five weeks earlier, was arrested in Melbourne Australia for entering on a false passport. He may face Christmas Day court, with police saying he had been in Melbourne post offices and sought to flee. Stonehouse, Labor MP since 1957 and former aviation minister, disappeared November 20 after telling friends in Miami Beach he would swim.
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Melbourne
Australia
Florida
Mick Patterson
John Thomson Stonehouse
Stonehouse
Markham
Interpol
International Police Organization
Patterson
Perth
Miami Beach
Fla
England
Labor Party
House of Commons
Harold Wilson
Labor
United States
Barbara
London
Miami
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Frolik
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Bangladesh
Nigeria
Mexico
Weiss’ Dress Shop
Bethlehem
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