Ed Sullivan Dies of Cancer At 72
New York AP obituary notes Ed Sullivan beloved host of The Toast of the Town died of esophageal cancer at 72 at Lenox Hill Hospital. A lifelong New Yorker, Sullivan hosted the big Sunday night program from 1948 to 1971 and influenced pop culture with guests like the Beatles Elvis Presley and Jerry Lewis. Survivors include his wife Sylvia and daughter Betty Precht. funeral arrangements pending.
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New York
Ed Sullivan
Stone Face
Lenox Hill Hospital
Carmine Santullo
Sullivan
Bob Precht
CBS
the Beatles
Elvis Presley
Dean Martin
Jerry Lewis
Dick van Dyke
Manhattan
Port Chester
N.Y
John Crosby
Frank Sinatra
Delmonico Hotel
Park Avenue
Sylvia
Betty Precht
Scarsdale
Charles Sullivan
Hugh Murphy
Burger Says Court Load Too Big For Supreme Court
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger calls rapid caseload growth at the Supreme Court urgent to curb. He stops short of backing a national court of appeals to filter cases, though study groups and ABA panels have proposed such a court. The week’s conference closed with 1,011 cases, a record, as the court kept many appeals and petitions pending.
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Washington
Warren E. Burger
Supreme Court
Burger
National Court of Appeals
Harvard Law School
Paul A. Freund
Advisory Council For Appellate Justice
American Bar Association
William J. Brennan
William C. Douglas
Douglas
30 Year Old Divorcee Bets On Victory Over Mills
Judy Petty, 30, Arkansas Republican, expresses strong optimism about defeating Representative Wilbur Mills next month. She points to Mills’s Tidal Basin incident and dairy industry donation questions as factors, campaigns vigorously with 26 stops in one week, and explains her move into politics after a 1967 divorce to support her daughter Debbie.
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Little Rock
Ark
Judy Petty
Wilbur D. Mills
Tidal Basin
Washington
Mills
Petty
House
Ways and Means Committee
Wilbur Mills
Wilbur
Watergate Committee
Draft Mills
Young Republicans Organization
Arkansas
YA National Federation
Arkansas Women's Political Caucus
Robbery Arrests Linked to Vienna Rape Case
Michael Williams age 25 of Dixon and Richard Ziet Vogel 18 of Highland were charged with armed robbery and rape in connection with an attack on a Vienna area residence. David Buckheim, 35, Highland, also charged with armed robbery. Bonds set at 35000 for Williams and Ziet Vogel and 10000 for Buckheim. Preliminary hearing Oct 24. Three men roused a couple, bound the man, raped the wife, and stole six guns, jewelry, and credit cards. items later recovered.
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Vienna
Rolla
Michael Williams
Dixon
Richard Zietvogel
Highland
Maries County
David Buckheim
Williams
Zietvogel
Disaster pay rules for Audrain County farmers under 1974 wheat program
Audrain County farmers may qualify for disaster payments if area planted and production are recorded. Substitution rules apply: farms with wheat and feed grain imbalances require measurements for both crops. non substitution cases need records for the affected program.
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Audrain
Mary Bosler
ASCS
Episcopal Bishops Consider Special Convention on Women Priests
Episcopal bishops meeting in Oaxtepec Mexico set to consider a special general convention to lift the ban on ordination of women priests. A spokesman noted many bishops favor reconvening to reassess the policy during the six day session.
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Mexico City
Episcopal Church
House of Bishops
United States
Oaxtepec
Jury awards nearly two million to disabled boy hit by bakery truck
A San Francisco Superior Court jury awarded $1,989,200 to 6-year-old Terry Lee Spears, who is blind and partially paralyzed after a bakery truck struck him. The verdict cites future medical costs, with the jurors noting the boy’s prolonged unconscious period of six weeks.
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San Francisco
San Franisco
Three Die In Pickup Crash With Freight
At least 15 people died in Missouri traffic last Sunday across three fatal crashes. Monroe City residents Cindy Whiston 16 Robert Potterfield 20 and Wayne Utterback 18 perished when their pickup collided with a Norfolk and Western freight train. Emmett E Miller 77 Dessie J Miller 75 and Donald M Ratcliff 53 were killed in a head on collision near California Missouri during rain. Norma Lee Helmig 22 died in a solo crash near Jefferson City. John House 13 of De Soto died from injuries after a parked car overturned while he was nearby.
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Associated Press
Missouri
Cindy Whiston
Robert Potterfield
Wayne Utterback
Monroe City
Norfolk and Western
Emmett E. Miller
Dessie J. Miller
Barnett
Donald M. Ratcliff
California
Miller
Ratcliff
Norma Lee Helmig
Linn
U.S. 50
Jefferson City
John House
DeSoto
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W. Liberty
Auxvasse
Walgreen Agency
Theoly
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