Volunteers Search Woods For Suspect Near Locust Grove
More than 250 volunteers and law enforcement officers hunted a 10 square mile area near Locust Grove Oklahoma for Gene Leroy Hart the suspect in the slayings of three Girl Scouts. Hunters used bloodhounds dogs and a helicopter with a rain improving scent overnight.
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Locust Grove
Okla
Oklahoma
Mayes County
Glen “Pete” Weaver
Gene Leroy Hart
Skunk Mountain
Camp Scott
Tulan
Weaver
Carter Blocks Sale Of Computer To Reds
The Commerce Department rejected a $13 million export of the Cyber 76 computer to the Soviet Union after a two year review. Officials said its vast capabilities could enable military use, despite Soviet claims it would aid weather forecasting. Control Data Corp. called the decision political rather than technical.
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Commerce Department
Control Data Corp
United States
Soviet Union
Fall Skilled Classes Chosen By Mexico Area VO-Technical School
The Mexico Area Vocational-Technical School advisory committee selected fall offerings including AC Refrigeration Auto Body Repair Industrial Electricity I II and more. University Extension courses Real Estate Appraisal Pre-Business Workshop Home Insulation and data processing related classes were noted along with several college credit options.
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Mexico Area
C.P.R
Don Foreman
Bill Williams
Jim Keller
Ray Travis
Lawrence Puntney
Arthur Gresham
Marilyn Kiburz
Dick Koppenhafer
Gene Sefrit
C.T. Loyd
John Parker
University Extension
Cliff Howard
Charles Elam
NEMU
Kirksville
Joe Meissert
M.N. Barnes
Donald Palmer
Joe Hodgin
Don Bristow
William K. Maloney
Birth Tina Michelle Barr in Vandalia
A daughter was born Thursday at 12 44 p.m. at Audrain Medical Center to Mr and Mrs Barr EB Barr Jr of Vandalia. The baby Tina Michelle Barr weighed eight pounds and has a brother Shawn Michael Barr. Grandparents are Earl Barr Sr Vandalia Rex Brown Perry. Great grandparents are Richard Robinson Center and Gladys Brown Perry. Mr Barr works at Harbison Walker Refractories and farms.
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Barr EB. Barr Jr
Vandalia
Audrain Medical Center
Tina Michelle Barr
Shawn Michael Barr
Earl Barr Sr
Rex Brown
Perry
Richard Robinson
Center
Gladys Brown
Barr
Harbison-Walker Refractories
Blumenthals to Separate After 26 Years of Marriage
Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal and his wife Eleanor are separating after 26 years of marriage. A Treasury spokesman said the decision was mutual and the result of long and searching thought. They were married September 8, 1951, and Mrs. Blumenthal has a doctorate in education with a scientific research job.
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Washington
Treasury
Michael Blumenthal
Eileen
Maryland May Sue Schord For Taxes
Missouri congressman Richard Ichord blasts Maryland as corrupt and refuses Maryland income taxes, saying he earns $57,500 in D C. He admits no Maryland returns 1972 through 1975 and notes burglaries at his Maryland home while noting higher real estate taxes. He threatens to challenge taxes in court.
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Washington
Missouri
Maryland
Richard Ichord
District of Columbia
Ichord
Maryland Comptroller's Office
Annapolis
Missouri Democrat
University of Missouri
Prince Georges County
Committee Heading For Energy Showdown
Washington AP The House Ways and Means Committee debates timing and size of a gas guzzler tax as part of Carter energy plan. The plan would tax worst mileage cars starting 1979 to as high as 3856 dollars by 1985, with rebates rejected and tax delayed from 1978 models.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Carter
al Ullman
D-Ore
Committee
Court Hands Prisoners Two Defeats in Supreme Court
The Supreme Court ruled two prisoner rights cases with 72 votes, denying state prisoners the right to unionize and limiting federal court access to overturn convictions. Justice Rehnquist wrote the majority in the union case, saying confinement curtails rights such as speech and association. The Arcadian Florida defendant’s murder conviction also faced a ruling narrowing federal review.
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Washington
Supreme Court
William J. Brennan Jr
Thurgood Marshall
William H. Rehnquist
North Carolina
Man relocates lawn to dodge high Grand Junction water rates
Grand Junction residents faced higher summer water bills as city officials sought to curb usage. Jim Sloggett moved his lawn to Clifton and Orchard, where water rates are cheaper, to keep his monthly cost around $15 instead of $43. It remains unclear if the lawn will return to Grand Junction in the fall.
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Grand Junction
Colo
Jim Sloggett
Sloggett
Clifton
Orchard
MU Appeals Gay Ruling in Recognition Dispute
In Columbia Missouri the U.S. Court of Appeals was asked to reconsider a June 8 decision ordering the University of Missouri to recognize a homosexual student group. University lawyers filed for rehearing and will await its outcome before deciding on an appeal to the Supreme Court.
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Columbia, Mo
the &Th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Univerity of Missouri
van Williams
Board’ of Curators
Toi
U.S. Supreme Court
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Jack Warden
Will Sampson
Kim Novak
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King Kong
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Schafer Cafe
Martinsburg
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