Aftershocks Spark Evacuations in Los Angeles Area
More than 1,000 dwellings condemned after the major quake. Four aftershocks, magnitudes 3.5 to 3.9, rattle Los Angeles area as San Fernando Valley residents seek shelter. Six Red Cross centers aid evacuees. Van Norman Dam holds as inspectors warn of imposters.
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Miss Missouri In 1st Official Visit to Mexico Pageant
Marcia Mossbarger Miss Missouri 1970 makes first official visit to Mexico for the Miss Mexico Pageant at Presser Hall after touring 30 000 miles in seven months in Olds official car appearances include parades centennials and the Springfield J C Penney store opening She will perform a tap dance to Rain Drops Keep Falling on My Head state sesquicentennial opened with Gov Hearnes Feb 5 She previously placed first runner up in Miss REA 1969 in Las Vegas and retired to Brookfield Jaycees prompted entry She is a Northeast Missouri State College graduate active in Pan Hellenic Alpha Sigma Alpha and student senate hobbies photography travel cheerleading lead Missouri State cheerleader captain.
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Gov. Hearnes
Chillicothe
Nashville
Tenn
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Widespread manhunt as deputy shootings unfold in Dallas
A 33-year-old ex convict is accused of fatally shooting three of five kidnapped deputy sheriffs with one survivor wounded. The AP reports an associated wave of updates across Vietnam war actions, trials, and government inquiries from Washington to Ankara.
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South Vietnam
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Cambodia
Kidnap Case Shocks Ankara as U S Soldier Returns
A U S Air Force investigator questioned a kidnapped American at the Ankara military complex while Turkish police hunted a five man leftist extremist gang led by Deniz Germis. Sgt Jimmy Ray Finley of Fort Worth Texas was abducted at 3 am near an American installation and released unharmed later that day. The incident sparked renewed anti American sentiment and tightened security around U S installations in Turkey amid a wave of violence linked to extremist groups and prior bank robberies in the city.
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White House Sees Laos Success Aimed at Nixon Move
White House officials predict political gains from continued Laos operations while signaling more troop withdrawals in April. They argue the Laos push cuts the Ho Chi Minh trail, supports Viet Namization, and may bolster Thieu ahead of next fall’s election. Critics say Cambodia venture hurt Republicans in off-year elections.
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Colonel In Pot Trial Gets 3 Years
SAIGON AP A U S Air lift squadron commander Col Gerald V Kehrli was found guilty on seven marijuana charges. He received three years in prison and a $15000 fine. Kehrli was acquitted on one count and will remain eligible for retirement with pension. The courtroom heard testimony from five sergeants and an airman who said they smoked with him.
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Elevators Installed At Audrain Medical Center Unit
Three hydraulic electric elevators will be installed at the Audrain Medical Center's new long term care unit by Hollister Whitney Co. for 54809 dollars, city inspector Taylor Sewell said. A permit was issued to TG&Y at West Plaza for a street sign costing 1200 dollars by Deitz Sign Co. James H. Williams received a permit to remodel a house at 1009 Carrico Street for 1000 dollars. Jerome McCarthy was issued a permit to place a mobile home on a rental lot at 322 E. Orange Street.
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Missouri Voting Power Shifts Prompt Local Ballots
Voters across Missouri faced several local ballot questions in a Springfield special election on seven charter changes, Henrietta's $490000 industrial bond to aid foil reclaiming against air pollution, Nevada's zero tax levy to fund a hospital conversion to convalescent care, and St. Joseph's $5750000 school bond plan for two new schools a former building and new middle school programs.
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Henrietta
Nevada
Old City
Nursing Home Board
St. Joseph
Heart Surgery Youth Now Plans Army Career
John Clemmer, who required open heart surgery as a child, is nearing completion of basic training at Ft. Lewis. He becomes the first known Army recruit after open heart surgery and plans a lifelong Army career. His recovery allowed him to become a skilled athlete and he hopes for a commission.
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U.S. Army
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Lettie Sweet
Women’s Army Corps
Shumway
Army
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Wash
Mexico Ledger subscription and office hours notice
Mexico Ledger lists publication details with address at 300 N Washington St Mexico MO 65266 and postal rates. It shows rates by delivery area including local carrier, Audrain county, surrounding Missouri counties, out of state, and armed forces members with office hours 8 to 5 thirty and Saturday shortened.
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Program Aims At Innercity Jobs In St Louis
The St Louis Regional Industrial Development Corporation launches a three year plan to create about 600 innercity jobs, boosting black employment by 3 million dollars annually. D Reid Ross says the aim is to provide opportunity and eventual black control of economics, with five black operated businesses planned. Funded by the Danforth Foundation, RIDC will implement the program with the DOJ Community Relations Service.
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St. Louis
Dation
RIDC
Department of Justice
Mrs Kemp Home From Hospital Recovery Return
Mrs Maurice Kemp, after ten weeks in intensive care at Audrain Medical Center, has recovered sufficiently to return home at 921 Be. Monroe Street to recuperate.
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R E Lee Photo Costs Him Job
Waynesboro Georgia principal Pickney Love says he was ousted for removing pictures of Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis from the school auditorium walls. He attributes nonrenewal of his contract to political pressure and says the images looked bad on display. School officials declined comment.
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Pickney Love
Waynesboro
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