High Court Case Affects 20 States
The Supreme Court agreed to review whether imposing and carrying out the death penalty for the murder of a police officer is constitutional, a decision with potential impact on about 20 states with death row inmates. The case centers on mandatory death sentences and jury discretion, with related actions on Nixon records, prison guard height rules, prison union rights, and Puyallup fishing rights.
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Washington
Harry Roberts
Supreme Court
New Orleans
High Court
Roberts
Louisiana
North Carolina
Florida
Georgia
Texas
Nixon
Congress
General Services Administration
Alabama
Boy Scouts
Jaycees
Puyallup
Skeleton Identified As Nevada Girl
Springfield police identify the skeletal remains of 17 year old Tina Sue Spencer of Nevada Missouri as a homicide. Police say she disappeared January 5 1976 and was last heard from in March from Florida. A knotted belt and an implanted steel plate aided identification.
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Springfield
Tina Sue Spencer
Nevada
Richard Moses
McDaniel Lake
Shirley Jane Rose
Rose
Spencer
Florida
Moses
Two Lincoln County Men Convicted in Rock Port Killing
In Pike County Missouri, Michael Wayne Thompson 21 and James Stillwell 39 were found guilty of murder in the death of Starr Applegate. Thompson received 50 to 100 years, Stillwell 75 to 200 years. Both defendants are from Whiteside Missouri.
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Pittsfield, II
Lincoln County
Rock
Pike County
Michael Wayne Thompson
James Stillwell
Starr Applegate
Thompson
Stillwell
Whiteside
Mexico Ledge Publication Rate and Hours Notice
Mexico Ledge lists daily publication schedule with Sunday and holiday editions, address at 300 N Washington St Mexico Mo. Rates include carrier area 2.50 monthly and 27 yearly, Audrain county 20 yearly, all Mo counties 26 yearly, 6 months 17, 3 months 13, out of state 29 yearly, 18 six months, armed forces 1.50 per month. Office hours 7:30 to 5:30 Monday through Friday, 7:30 to 1:00 Saturday.
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Mexico Ledge
Washington St
Mexico
Audrain
APO
Kenya Train Plunges Into Flooded River
The Mombasa Nairobi passenger train derailed from a washed out bridge into a flooding river in southeast Kenya. At least 12 killed. bodies trapped inside wrecked cars after the plunge into the river. A railway spokesman said six passenger coaches a mail car and the locomotive crashed into the river. Authorities feared hundreds dead as the submerged wreck was reported by government radio.
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Nairobi
Kenya
Mombasa
Overqualified Engineers Agency to Close in Michigan
DETROIT AP Aimed at placing engineers and scientists, the REVEST program closes after the U S Labor Department denied a $250 000 expansion grant earmarked for hard core unemployed and young job seekers. Director Don Bennett notes 405 helped, 255 placed, 300 resumes prepared, and 6 000 job referrals in four years.
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Detroit
Don
Bennett
Revest
Michigan Employment Security Commission
Wayne County Office of Manpower
The
Engineering Society of Detroit
U.S. Department of Labor
Wendy Yoshimura used multiple aliases amid fugitive life
In Oakland, prosecutor Jeff Horner outlined Wendy Yoshimura's 34-year flight with fugitives, claiming at least five aliases and an arsenal of weapons. He traced her activities from Aug 3, 1971 renting a Berkeley garage to store weapons, the 1972 raid, and her 1975 arrest with Patricia Hearst.
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Oakland
Calif
Wendy Yoshimura
America
Jeff Horner
James Largon
Horner
Miss Yoshimura
Berkeley
Patricia Hearst
European Economic Problems Wait For Carter Inauguration
The Common Market nations urge postponing the North South conference until after Carter's inauguration and possible oil price moves by OPEC. They warn Western Europe’s stagnating economy would worsen if oil prices rise, with a 10 percent hike costing the bloc about 4.9 billion dollars next year.
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Carter
Hague
Netherlands
Jimmy Carter
Paris
Garrett Fitzgerald
Ireland
Tok
United States
U.S
Helmut Schmidt
Fitzgerald
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
OPEC
Iran
Iraq
Venezuela
Middle East
Common Market
Western
Europe
Circuit Court Upholds Lobbying Law Ruling
Jefferson City Missouri A Cole County Circuit Court judge upheld a magistrate ruling that registering as a special interest lobbyist does not compel filing lobbying activity reports. John Costello of the Mid America Gasoline Dealers Association was cleared of failing to file after last session.
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Jefferson City, Mo
Cole County
James T. Riley
John Costello
Mid- America Gasoline Dealers Association
Costello
Riley
Randall Waltz
Waltz
Virginia Burmeister
Missouri State Teachers Association
Vernon Dandy
Teenager faces murder charge in Bragg City case
Roger Jackson, 18, arraigned on a capital murder count for the death of Patricia Joy Holt. He says he was hired by Holt's husband to kill her for 1000 dollars. Bond set at 25000. Holt’s husband Eugene also faces capital murder charges and awaits arraignment. Holt was found shot four times in her Bragg City home on November 23.
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Caruthersville, Mo
Roger Jackson
Bragg City
Jackson
Patricia Joy Holt
Pemiscot County
Sidney Chaffin
Granddaughter Born to Spokane Wilsons at Audrain Medical Center
Jennifer Dawn Wilson, child of Mr and Mrs Thomas L Wilson of 1515 Springdale Spokane Wash, arrived Saturday evening weighing seven pounds 15 ounces. Grandparents are Mr and Mrs Harry Hansen and Mr and Mrs Roy Wilson of Spokane and the baby’s father is an electrical engineer at Kaiser Refractories.
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David Wayne McMorris
Robert P. MceMorris
Vandalia
Audrain Medical Center
McMorris
Rogers Cartage Co
Louisiana
Harry Hansen
Roy Wilson
Spokane
Wash
Jennifer Dawn Wilson
Thomas L. Wilson
Springdale
Wilson
Kaiser Refractories
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