China Frees Bishop Walsh After 12 Years Captivity
AP report from Hong Kong says Roman Catholic Bishop James Edward Walsh was released after about 12 years in Communist captivity. The Chinese stated another American, Hugh Frances Redmond of Yonkers, killed himself in prison three months earlier. Redmond reportedly died after self‑inflicted wounds with a razor, with cremation and Red Cross notification. Walsh, arrested in 1958 and convicted of espionage in 1960, was said to be on the way to Hong Kong for rest and may not be photographed or interviewed immediately. Eight other Americans were known to be in Chinese captivity or believed held.
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Red China
James Edward Walsh
Hugh Francis Redmond
Yonkers
N.Y
Border Bridge
Shanghai
Trias
Crete
Bishop
Bishop Walsh
Beoriec
China
Walsh
Francis Hsu
United States
Hsinhua
Peking
U.S
Redmond
Red Cross Society of China
Red Cross
Hans Brst
Regula
Sol Friedman
Europe
Maryknoll
Catholic Welfare Bureau
William C. Walsh
Cumberland
Hugh
Sato Says Japan Will Not Take Military Role in Asia
Tokyo states that Japanese people would refuse to assume a military role in Asia and the Pacific after U S withdrawal, amid talks on future regional defense. In Washington a split House Senate panel weighs the Cooper Church amendment curbing Cambodia funds. Other AP items note Nixon policy probes, Walsh release, school desegregation suits, a nuclear study, Sweig perjury verdict, Rogers talks, and a helicopter wreckage recovery near Saigon.
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Eisaku Sato
United States
Asia
Pacific
Japan
Ferdinand Marcos
Washington
U.S
Cambodia
House- Senate
House
Steele Site is Choice For New Prison
Missouri selects the World War II landing field near Steele in Pemiscot County as the preferred site for a new maximum security prison costing up to 7.5 million dollars. Steele offers land donation, strong community services, and a 2,300 population ready to support about 120 jobs. other locations faded due to lack of land donation, topography, or water and labor constraints.
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Steele
Fred Wilkinson
Missouri
Pemiscot County
Boothee Heel
Wilkinson
Board of Public Buildings
Steee
Brookfield
Sikeston
Caruthersville
Callaway ‘County
Bowling Green
Columbia
Holt’s Summit
Callaway County
Corrections Department
MU Board In Session On Budget
University of Missouri curators met in a closed session to approve the 1970-71 budget amid state lump sum funding of 80.7 million for all four campuses. They face personnel issues after student and faculty antiwar protests and a pay docked case involving Dr. Bill Wickersham. AAUP may review potential censure and academic standing impact.
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Columbia, Mo
University of Missouri
U.S
Cambodia
American Association of University Professors
Bill Wickersham
Daryl Hobbs
AAUP
Hobbs
Lloyd Jorgenson
Wickersham
Rabid Skunk Warnings After Two Men Bit in Missouri
Jefferson County health and law enforcement issued warnings after a skunk that bit one of two St Louis men at Indian Foot Lake near Perry Sunday tested rabid. Donald Henry and Lonnie Henry began antirabies treatment. the skunk was captured for examination.
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Hillsboro
Jefferson County
Frank L. Kozal
St. Louisi
Indian Foot Lake
Pevery
Donald Henry
Pine Lawn
Lonnie
St. Louis
Nixon admin moves to desegregate southern schools
Justice Department filed suits against 27 districts across Mississippi, South Carolina, Arkansas, and Florida to dismantle 48 dual education systems and desegregate about 95 000 black and 100 000 white students in 361 schools. Atty Gen Mitchell said more actions would follow to end voluntary delays. Governor Maddox criticized perceived unequal standards, calling federal moves tyranny in government.
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Mississippi
South Carolina
Arkansas
Florida
Washington
Mississippi State
Justice Department
Jerris Leonard
Civil Rights
Leonard
Texas
Georgia
Tennessee
Virginia
Louisiana
North Carolina
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People Legal Defense Fund
Atty
John N. Mitchell
Lester Maddox
South
Maddox
Mexico Area Vocational Technical School to Pick Courses
The advisory committee will meet Tuesday night to select adult night classes for the Mexico Area Vocational Technical School and Mexico Evening School for the first semester. Courses offered last year covered math, shop trades, secretarial training, nursing aide, data processing, and home arts. Adults may suggest courses by calling the director of adult education at 581-5684.
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Mexico Area
Mexico Evening School
Mexico
Bill McIntyre Earns Missouri St Louis Waiver Scholarship
Bill McIntyre has been awarded a Waiver of fees scholarship at the University of Missouri at St. Louis valued at $400 a year. The award recognizes his high scholastic rank in Mexico High School's 1970 class. Son of Mr and Mrs Warren O McIntyre of 807 Washington, he works this summer at Kelsey Hayes Axle Co in Elkhart Indiana.
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Bill McIntyre
University of Missouri At
St. Louis
Mexico
Warren O. McIntyre
Washington
Bill
Kelsey- Hayes Axle Co
Elkhart
Ind
Governor appoints embalmers board member and judges
Governor Warren E Hearnes appoints O Garlan Ricks of Elsberry to the State Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors replacing C H Cozean of Farmington. He reappoints George Flexsenhar of Jefferson City as director of the Division of Industrial Inspection and names John M Brewer of Brookfield as presiding judge of Linn County Court replacing George H Alexander of Brookside.
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Jefferson City
Warren E. Hearnes
O'Garlan Ricks
Elsberry Democrat
State Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors
C.H. Cozean
Farmington
George Flexsenhar
Division of Industrial Inspection
John M. Brewer
Brookfield Democrat
Linn County
George H. Alexander
Supreme Court to hear challenge to sodomy laws
Texas argues states may ban private sexual acts while Boshaoe ts and Strickland seek a broad constitutional privacy protection. The case tests whether state sodomy statutes violate the right to privacy, with the high court weighing whether marital sex differs from sodomy for legal purposes.
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Washington
Dallas
Supreme Court
High
Texas
Sate relation of husband and wife and sodomy law debate
A Mississippi ledge fragment discusses a Texas appeal and a potential new sodomy law. It notes a judge saying matters of taste are protected from regulation unless necessity appears and comments on Supreme Court involvement and the Texas legislature’s possible actions against prosecutions of married couples and homosexuals.
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Supreme Court
Texas
High Court
Junkyard Operator Jenkins Jailed Over Cleanup Order
Fulton Mo Jake Jenkins operator of a junkyard across the Missouri River from the state capitol was jailed Wednesday by Circuit Judge John M Cave. The judge set July 1 to clean the yard or face 120 days in jail plus 25 dollars a day for contempt retroactive to November 14 1968. Action was initiated by the State Highway Commission under Missouri law junkyards must be screened from highway view.
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Fulton
Jake Jenkins
Missouri River
State Capitol
U.S
John M. Cave
Cave
Jenkins
Missouri
State Highway Commission
Escapees Caught Near Walnut Ridge After Prison Farm Break
Two men who fled from the Fordland honor prison farm near Springfield Missouri were captured near Walnut Ridge Arkansas. The suspects are David L Reed 35 and Charles Mid-Gieton 45 both of Jefferson City Missouri. They were in a car stolen at Hardy Arkansas where another car had been abandoned. They fled the prison farm on July 5.
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Ark
Fordland Honor
Springfield
Charles Suiter
Arkansas
David L. Reed
Charles Mid- Gieton
Jefferson Ity
Suiter
Hardy,ark
Man Gets Prison Term For Armed Robbery In Poker Dispute
Walter Lee Ramsey, 25, was sentenced to 10 years in prison after deputies testified he pulled a gun during an August poker game when he ran out of money and could not play on credit. He returned, held the gun to the dealer’s head and fired, then fled on a motorcycle with the poker stakes.
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Ventura
Calif
Walter Lee Ramsey
Black Girl Wins Pageant Talent Honor in NC
Pauletta Rashelle Pearson, 19, Miss Newton-Conover, scored top talent honors at the Miss North Carolina Pageant preliminaries in Raleigh. The Lenoir Rhyne College junior from Newton sang Valley of the Dolls theme, outperforming 15 competitors.
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N.C
Newton-Conover
Pauletta Rashelle Pearson
Newton
Miss Pearson
Lenoir Rhyne College
Hickory
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