Government Won't Pay Consul Ransom
U S officials say they will not meet a $500000 ransom for American consul staffer John Patterson who disappeared in Hermosillo Mexico last Friday The case is linked to the People s Revolutionary Army of Mexico The captivity appears tied to Patterson s companion and the missing fouryearold daughter is believed placed in New York city authorities report Patterson and his wife moved to Hermosillo months ago Patterson last seen leaving the consulate with an unidentified US citizen The house hotel staff note the wife left the hotel but did not return while the daughter reportedly moved to New York The 23rd of September Communist League is implicated in the wider guerrilla activity in Sonora with four members arrested for the Leonhardy kidnapping Also reported is the birth of a daughter to Mr and Mrs David L Koosmann of Montgomery City at Audrain Medical Center weighing eight pounds five ounces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hermosillo
Mexico
United States
Washington
John Patterson
Philadelphia
People’s Revolutionary ‘Army of
U.S
Guadalajara
Terrance G. Leonhardy
Postalire
Patterson
Arizona
Pattersons
New York
People’s Revolutionary Army
University of Sonora
Communist League
Koosmanns
David L. Koosmann
Montgomery City
Audrain Medical Center
Koosmann
Cargill Nutrena
Missouri sales tax crackdown aims for statewide arrests
Missouri Revenue Director James Spradling says more arrests are expected soon in a statewide tax evasion crackdown. A special unit established last fall has two arrests and a first-ever sales tax evasion conviction in Cole County, with three bills under Senate committee review to bolster enforcement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jefferson City Co
Missouri
James R. Spradling
Spradling
Senate
Ways and Means Committee
St. Louis
Kansas City
Internal Revenue Service
Henry Rathert
Cole County
Tom Thumb Head Found in Bridgeport Cemetery
Bridgeport officials recovered the head of a 100 pound Tom Thumb statue first erected in 1857 as a memorial to a 40 inch circus midget. The head was found perched in a tree near the gravesite after vandalism last week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bridgeport
Five Days Jail for Streakers at St Peter's
In Rome a court convicted two American youths Raymond Johnson, 20, of Portsmouth New Hampshire and Robert Mesnard 20 of Devon Pennsylvania of acts against public decency for streaking across St Peter's Square They were sentenced to five days in jail and Johnson received an additional suspended 15 day term for giving police a false name A third man David Dibagno Greensburg Pennsylvania faced resisting arrest charges and the court moved to dismiss those counts The obscenity charge against Johnson and Mesnard was reduced to indecency The prosecutor argued streaking is a return to nature and should not be obscene
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
St. Peter’s Square
Raymond Johnson
Portsmouth
N.H
Robert Mesnard
Devon
Rebibbia
Johnson
David Dibagno
Greensburg
St. Peter's Square
Mesnard
Vatican Streakers Sentence Trial Five Days After Arrest
Police described seven youths streaking through St. Peter's Square near the pope's residence. They fled after warning shots were fired. The defendants, including Johnson and Mesnard, Trinity College students, and Dibagno of Temple University, faced a rapid Italian trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vatican
St. Peter’s Square
Paul VI
Italy
Johnson
Mesnard
Trinity College
Conn
Dibagno
Temple University
Also Mentioned on This Page
Priest Field
Fulton
Dominik Kollinger
Eaglemeister
Germany
Eagle
Reinhold Dembinski
Columbia
Friends of Birds of Prey
Lawr
ABCO
Wee
Ardens
Centralia
ED Gladney
Beltone
Bellone Hearing Aid Service
Roy Parker
South Jefferson
Tom Thumb
St. Peter’s
Miei
Martinsburg
Liberty Church
Auxvasse
Machiniery
John Deere
Woods
Danuser
Truckee International
John Blass
Col Linton C. Vorand
Concerned
ABC
THE
MPL
Missouri Power & Light Company
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!