Carter Puts Schoolmate High On List For CIA
President Carter weighs Adm Stansfield Turner as a leading CIA nominee. Carter’s aides say Turner, a Naval Academy classmate and former NATO commander, is among several candidates as he plans Cabinet sessions and a news conference.
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Gas Distributors Profit Spike From Cold Winter
Pittsburg report notes natural gas distributors may see up to 100 percent first quarter profit increases due to bitter cold. Utilities like National Fuel Gas Co. expect a one time surge from higher sales before shortages later in the year. Analysts warn the gains may not persist. Residential customers also pay more as profits rise on selling more gas to profitable buyers.
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Gandhi Forces Mapping New Election Strategy
In New Delhi AP reports disheartened aides reassessing Indira Gandhi’s campaign after opponents led in weekend rallies. Nearly 200000 gathered at the Delhi fairgrounds cheering calls for Gandhi’s ouster and ending the state of emergency. Former President Giri urged civic liberties, while Jagjivan Ram accused a small clique of seizing party control and implicated Sanjay Gandhi.
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Seven Missionaries killed by Rhodesian guerrillas near Salisbury
In Rhodesia, guerrillas killed seven white Catholic missionaries at the Ma Sami mission 36 miles north of Salisbury. Among the dead were two British priests, three Germans and an Irish Jesuit brother. four Dominican nuns were also killed. A Jesuit priest and nun were injured. two priests and one nun were British. three nuns were German. Pope Paul VI mourned the loss and condemned the act. Arch Bishop Patrick Chakaipa condemned the violence as mocking good ideals.
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Long Johns Country Shows Minnesota’s Cold Resolve
Minneapolis faces ferocious winters with a plan: massive snow fighting gear funded by a 2.5 million annual budget, 110 plows and 250 vehicles ready each November 1, plus emergency rules auto-activating after three inches of snow. Officials stress cooperation from business, institutions, and the public to avert panic during blizzards.
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Pet Rock Man Builds Bar Empire From a Craze
Los Gatos California AP reports Pet Rocks once sold for up to four dollars during 1975 holiday season. Dahl, now a millionaire and former ad man, has opened a Carry Nation themed saloon and plans a chain of bars, saying the Pet Rock is gone but may return for a new generation. The tale frames a quirky ascent from hobby to business empire amid novelty trends.
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Raymond Cook dies at 64 in Mexico City area
Raymond Cook 64 of 1410 N Washington St Mexico died this morning at home after 7 60. He was born May 21 1912 in Moberly son of Shadrack and Phebie Cook. A welder at A P Green Refractories Co retired two years ago after 28 years. Surviving include step-brother Charley Buckler of Moberly. Services pending at Precht Pickering Funeral Home. Burial Elmwood Cemetery. Also a Soviet Soyuz 24 mission launched with Col Viktor Gorbatko and Lt Col Yuri Glaskov aboard continuing space station Salyut 5 experiments. All systems normal. They were reported healthy by Tass.
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Ledger Comic Ballot Lets Readers Choose Favorite Strip
Ledger readers vote on Page 10 to pick their favorite comic. The current survey shows The Ryans leading, with Peamita in opposition and Li Abner and Dick Tracy trailing behind. Beetle Bailey Blondie Gasoline Alley Mary Worth Rex Morgan appear in the mix.
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Mexico Garbage Workers to Vote on Unionization
Mexico's full time garbage workers will vote on April 18 to join Local 45 of the Public Service Employees Union in Columbia. The state mediation board set the date after a preconference in Jefferson City as the city weighed exclusive bargaining rights. If approved, the unit will cover full time refuse staff while excluding part timers and administrative personnel, with negotiations limited to wages and benefits under state law.
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Sterner Closes Out 30 Years At Ledger
Longtime Mexico City journalist James E. Sterner retires as The Ledger s managing editor emeritus after 44 years in journalism. The paper notes his memory and skill at capturing council moments and the devotion of editor Robert M. White II. Sterner began as a boy with ink and type, rising through Missouri Valley College and the Intelligencer to public service and World War II drafts.
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