Letter to Ton Duc Thang on POW treatment urges mercy
The San Diego Union letter to North Vietnam’s Ton Duc Thang appeals for immediate release of 450 American POWs and 1,150 missing, arguing mercy would prove life is sacred and peace possible. It frames POWs as soldiers who served their country and families deserve reunion, urging compassionate action to world opinion.
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Hanoi
North Vietnam
Ton Duc Thang
U.S
San Diego
Calif
Union
Armed Forces Journal
Vietnam
Doves
Hawks
America
United States
Court orders full DDT ban and public hearings
A US appeals court orders the federal government to seek a total DDT ban and mandates public hearings before administrative pesticide decisions. The ruling comes amid a series of unrelated AP dispatches from Washington and abroad including security, policy, and conflict news.
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Washington
Diary killer identified after hitchhiking death near Joplin
JOPLIN Mo AP a man in his 60s identified as Edward Slavitsky alias Edward Kane found by FBI fingerprints in a diary on his body after he was struck by a car that did not stop near Interstate 44 six miles east of Joplin. He had no permanent address and a Memphis police record dating back to 1922.
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Joplin
Highway Patrol
Don Richardson
Edward Slavitsky
Edward Kane
Memphis
Tenn
Richardson
Slavitsky
FBI
Washington
Interstate 44
Refrac Courses Begin With Algebra At Mexico Area Voc Tech
Enrollment opens for six 15 week refractories courses at 7:00 PM Monday January 18 at the Mexico Area Vocational Technical School. Courses cover Algebra Chemistry Ceramic materials calculations high temperature reactions refractories technology drying and firing for workers and job seekers in refractories plants.
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Mexico Area
Stan Hemphill Wins Park Award
Stan A Hemphill son of Harold E Hemphill Rte 1 Mexico has been awarded a 100 Lucy Wortham James Scholarship by the Missouri Park and Recreation Scholarship Charitable Trust He is a 21 year old senior at the University of Missouri at Columbia with a 315 GPA majoring in recreation and parks administration He was among 14 MU Columbia and Central Missouri State College Warrensburg students receiving scholarships this year from the Missouri Park and Recreation Association which grants annual awards to juniors and seniors entering professional park and recreation work.
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Stan A. Hemphill
Harold E. Hemphill
Rte. 1
Mexico
Lucy Wortham James
Missouri Park and Recreation Scholarship Charitable Trust
Hemphill
University of Missouri At Columbia
Central Missouri State College
Warrensburg
Missouri Park and Recreation Association
Owens Plant To Collect Glass in Alton
Owens-Illinois plant in Alton will sponsor a weekly glass collection drive starting Saturday. Plant manager Joseph Lemieux said the company will pay one cent a pound for all clean empty bottles and jars separated by color and delivered to the plant on Saturdays, equal to 20 a ton.
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Alton
Ill
Owens-Illinois
Joseph Lemieux
Lemieux
Hunt Buys Oliver Concrete Co in Missouri and Illinois
Hunt Concrete Co of Warrenton has bought Oliver Concrete Co of Mexico. Paul Hunt says Oliver will operate as before with John Oliver on the board and Bill Hase named local manager. A portable plant will be installed at Perry and new radio gear will link company vehicles across northeastern Missouri. Oliver marks the 10th Hunt plant in the two states.
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Hunt Concrete Co. Inc
Warrenton
Oliver Concrete Co
Mexico
Paul Hunt
Oliver
John
Pete) Oliver
Hunt Concrete
Bill Hase
Missouri
Hunt Company
Illinois
Montgomery City
Bowling Green
Louisiana
Vandalia
Perry
Paris
Troy
Pittsfield
Ill
Warren County
Vint
Missouri Ready Mixed Concrete Assn
Nation Ready Mix Association
Rocket Fire Wounds Danish Boy At New Year Party
Vagn Larsen a 17 year old in Aarhus Denmark is in serious condition after accidentally swallowing a cardboard rocket that fired in his mouth and exploded in his chest Doctors at Aarhus Municipal Hospital performed urgent surgery and say the wound behind the heart is healing The incident occurred during a delayed New Year celebration when Larsen tried to light the fuse with a cigarette and swallow the rocket to throw it aloft The blast produced a rain of colored sparks and injured his gullet and chest
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Aarhus
Denmark
Vagn Larsen
Larsen
Reinhard Named To Board Again
Gov. Warren E. Hearnes named Paul Rava of St. Louis and David Morton of St. Joseph to the State Council on the Arts replacing Leigh Gerdine and Mrs. Harry Spradling Sr. Their terms expired. He re-appointed Martin Hecht and James R. Reinhard to state college boards.
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Jefferson City
Warren E. Hearnes
Paul Rava
St. Louis
David Morton
St. Joseph
State Council On the Arts
Rava
Leigh Gerdine
Morton
Harry Spradling Sr
Carthage
Hearnes
Martin Hecht
Cape Girardeau
Abolish Death Penalties Urges Wide Federal Overhaul
A 336 page report from the National Commission on Reform of Federal Criminal Laws calls for abolishing the federal death penalty even for treason and presidential assassination and for a ban on handguns. It favors leniency for marijuana users but harsher sentences for dangerous criminals. Leaders caution the plan faces long odds in Congress.
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Congress
Richard H. Poff
R-Va
Sion
Poff
Justice Department
National Commission On
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Sens
John L. McClellan
D-Ark
Sam J. Ervin Jr
D-N.c
California
Edmund G. Brown
Brown
Louis B. Schwartz
Minutemen
Black Panthers
B52 Explodes Over Lake Near Charlevoix Michigan
An eight engine B52 bomber with nine aboard crashed into Lake Michigan near Charlevoix after a ball of fire was seen in the sky. Coast Guard units reported wreckage including two empty life vests and a helmet with no survivors found. The craft, from Westover Massachusetts, was on a training bombing mission at Little Traverse Bay. An SAC team was to investigate.
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Charlevoix
Mich
Lake Michigan
Michigan
Lower Peninsula
Coast Guard
Strategic Air Command
Westover
Mass
Air Force Base
Air Force
Charles Bleha
Bay Shore
Little Traverse Bay
Vietnam
99Th
Family Returns From Funeral for Grover C Atkins
Members of the Atkins family return home after funeral services for Grover C Atkins last week. Among those attending from out of town were Mr and Mrs Selby Atkins and Miss Cathy Atkins of Atlanta Georgia and Mrs Milo Arnold of Denver Cole and Mrs Ed Cole of Phoenix along with Mr and Mrs Ron Botts of Kirksville. Brothers and sisters attending from afar include Mr and Mrs Frank Atkins of Hartford Illinois Mr and Mrs Glenwood Atkins of Birmingham Alabama Mrs Verdie Newman of Tullahoma Tennessee Mrs Flossie Lay of Denver Colorado Mr and Mrs Harley Poe of Rolla Missouri Mr and Mrs Kirk Pitney of Fayette Missouri Mrs Goldie Carey of Higbee Missouri Mr and Mrs Martin Robb of Higbee Missouri Mr and Mrs Clifford Avery and Connie of Center Missouri and Mr and Mrs Chester Avery of Laddonia Missouri.
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Grover C. Atkins
Ala
Verdie Newman
Tullahoma
Tenn
Flossie Lay
Denver
Colo
Harley Poe
Rolla
Kirk Pitney
Fayette
Goldie Carey
Higbee
Martin Robb
Clifford Avery
Connie
Center
Chester Avery
Laddonia
Pay Cut Keeps Swift Plant Open in San Antonio
In San Antonio the Swift & Co meat packing plant, slated to close on April 3, will stay open after employees offered a 14 percent wage cut. Plant manager Kenneth Bruder said the move includes facility modernization, with $3 million annual payroll and 400-plus workers. Despite the cut, workers will get 25-cent raises in Septembers 1971 and 1972 and three cost of living reviews under a three year contract. The decision follows a corporation wide realignment program that has closed many Swift plants in recent years.
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San Antonio, Tex
Swift & Co
Kenneth Bruder
Swift
Bruder
Robinson Questions Illinois Plan for Missouri Depositories
State Treasurer William K. Robinson told two Republican lawmakers his staff is studying Illinois style depository selection for state funds. He said the plan, developed under Adlai Stevenson II, would award deposits by sealed bids rather than political favors, and parts could be adopted by administrative act in Missouri.
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Jefferson City
William KE. Robinson
Illinois
Missouri
Robinson
R. J. King
Clayton
Richard M. Webster
Carthage
Adlai Stevenson II
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