Public School For Carter's Girl
Amy Carter will enroll in January as a fourth grader at Thaddeus Stevens School in Washington D C making her the first presidential child to attend public school in seven decades Theodore Roosevelt sent his son Quentin to public school 1904 1906 Stevens is 108 years old with a predominantly minority enrollment and a three story brick building about six blocks from the White House The school is public yet unusually focused on its diverse student body
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Quentin
Washington
Force
Stevens
Andrew Johnson
Carters
Amy
Plains
Carter
Jody Powell
Verona Meeder
Holiday Wrecks Claim Fifteen Lives Across State
The Associated Press reports Missouri logged at least 15 traffic deaths over Thanksgiving weekend. A pickup overturned into a creek near Fayette killing three. Holiday span ran from 6 p.m. Wednesday to midnight Sunday.
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Associated Press
Missouri
Fayette
Fusileers and Band to Parade at Chiefs Game in KC
Missouri Military Academy’s Fusileers and Marching Band will perform an eight minute halftime show before about 50 000 football fans at Arrowhead Stadium Kansas City on December 12. They will also take part in pregame ceremonies and the National Anthem marking their first Chiefs appearance since 1968.
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Missouri Military Academy
Arrowhead Stadium
Kansas City
Kansas City Chiefs
Cleveland Browns
St. Louis
Jefferson City
Fusileers
University of Illinois
Kennedy
Johnson
Nixon
Keith Weaver
Oakbrook
Kenneth Mortenson
Dean Davison
Joe
Court weighs new death penalty case for police murder
The Supreme Court agreed to consider whether mandatory death sentences can apply to murder of police officers in Louisiana. The case centers on Harry Roberts, a 1974 death-row inmate, with the court limiting review to the constitutionality of applying death for first degree murder of a police officer. The decision probes the scope of mandatory penalties and jury discretion.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Louisiana
Georgia
Florida
Texas
North Carolina
Harry Roberts
New Orleans
Roberts
Earnings gap widens between men and women in 1974
Washington AP reports the Labor Department says the average man earned about 98,000 more than the average woman in 1974, and the pay gap has widened.
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Washington
Labor Department
Census Bureau
Wom
Ing
Blast at Phillips refinery in Kansas City risks cold fire
An explosion and fire at Phillips Petroleum Co refinery in Kansas City Kansas occurred after 9 p.m. in an alkylation unit used to make high octane gasoline. Firefighters faced 13 degree temperatures and controlled the blaze within about an hour. No injuries were reported and the site houses hydrofluoric acid tanks kept doused.
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Kansas City
Kan
Phillips Petroleum Co
W.J. Snoddy
Snoddy
Cold weather slows Missouri River missing men search
Kansas City AP report says three men missing after their 15 foot boat capsized on the Missouri River are now sought by a lone patrol boat and one airplane twice daily due to bitter cold. Randall Lindsey 23 of Merrill Iowa an Army officer from Ft Hood Texas Robert Peterson 29 and Lloyd Allen 28 both of Kansas City are the missing.
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Kansas City
Missouri River
Missouri Water Patrol
David P. Chitty
The
Water Patrol
Randall C. Lindsey
Merrill
Iowa
Ft. Hood
Ft. Hood, Tex.; and Robert L. Peterson
Lloyd Allen
Fayette Couple Drown In Creek After Truck Overturns
Everett Petty 61 Corine Petty 50 and daughter Tracy 8 drowned when their pickup overturned in Bonne Femme Creek north of Fayette Missouri Officers found the wreck off Route H during a routine patrol Sunday afternoon The family was last seen at a Fayette service station Saturday evening No autopsy to be performed and cause undetermined.
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Fayette, Mo
Howard County
Everett Petty
Corine
Tracy
Bonnefemme Creek
Fayette
Route H
Patrol
Petty
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