Surviving Mao Enemy Bears No Grudges
Chang Kuotao, 78, last surviving cofounder of the Chinese Communist party, lives in Toronto nursing home after defecting to the Nationalists in 1937. He says post Mao power struggles are likely but bears no grudge, noting Mao's death marks a mortal end for both leaders. Chang fled to Hong Kong by 1949 and moved to Canada in 1984 to live with his son, Joseph.
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Dole Courts Reagan Supporters in Texas Stop
Sen. Bob Dole promoted the national GOP ticket before an audience leaning toward Reagan despite Reagan’s Kansas City defeat. He spoke at the State Republican Convention as Reaganites fought to keep their power, while Dole expressed confidence about Texas in November.
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Tex
Bob Dole
Ronald Reagan
Kansas City
Dole
Texas
Ford
Golden Glass Bank
John Connally
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Connally
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Capital Eye
Dolph Briscoe
Jimmy Carter
Miss America Finalists Show State Ties and Movements
Atlantic City AP report notes finalists’ varied origins and ties to states. Several contestants held prior titles or lived elsewhere, with explanations from Miss America executive director Albert A. Marks Jr. on residency rules requiring six months in a state or college enrollment.
Tampering With Auto Tops Leads August Juvenile Referrals
A August report by Rodney T Nebel shows 205 juvenile referrals in the 12th circuit counties Audrain Montgomery and Warren. Tampering with motor vehicles tops charges with 49 cases followed by vandalism 41 stealing 33 traffic 23 and buying or receiving stolen property 11. Of the 205 referrals 180 were boys and 190 from Audrain County with 17 from Montgomery and eight from Warren. Sixteen juveniles were held at the detention center for 91 days total averaging about five days each.
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Court Services
Audrain County
Montgomery
Warren County
12Th Judicial Circuit
Landon vows to keep his morning river rides
Alf Landon, aged 89, says he is not ready to quit his daily horseback rides along the Kansas River. The Topeka elder statesman will mark his birthday with a luncheon honoring him for enabling Kansas State University to use his name for the Landon Lecture Series. He expressed satisfaction at the warm reception to his speech at the Republican National Convention.
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Alf M. Landon
Kansas River
Landon
Kansas State University
Nevada Missouri works glamour into license plates style
Nevada Missouri emerges as a hub for graphic license plates, with 3M’s Nevada plant designing colorful graphics that states can apply to plates at low cost. The process allows multi color designs while maintaining legibility and safety standards as states, including Minnesota Alaska Hawaii and others, roll out glamorized plates. Missouri has yet to adopt graphics.
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Missouri
George Remarcke
Nebraska
Virginia
Lee Vann
Minnesota
Vann
Alaska
Hawaii
West Virginia
South Dakota
Remarcke
McCarthy petition to place on Missouri ballot denied by court
In Jefferson City Missouri U S District Judge Elmo Hunter refused to order the secretary of state to accept more signatures for Eugene McCarthy to appear on the November ballot He will rule next Thursday on whether Missouri election laws discriminate against independent candidates The case notes the July 31 deadline and suggests two of five districts lack required signatures while other parties also miss the mark with insufficient valid names.
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Eugene McCarthy
Missouri
U.S
Elmo B. Hunter
James C. Kirkpatrick
McCarthy
McCarthy Group
Robert Sears
Hunter
Marlene Barrett
Kirkpatrick
ACLU
Communist and
Socialist Workers Parties
Kansas City Sister Charged With Sister Death
Barbara Jones a 54 year old Kansas City woman and sister of Dorothea Reid 67 faces second degree murder charges in Reid's death. Reid was found battered and drowned in a bathtub at her Country Club home after Jones's conflicting statements and a suicide attempt. The case proceeds to a psychiatric evaluation. Jones is hospitalized.
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Barbara Jones
Miss Jones
Dorothea Jones Reid
Country Club
Jackson County
Reid
Menorah Medical Center
Mrs. Reid
James Zimmerman
Zimmerman
End of Pruitt-Igoe as City Discards Idea of High Rise Housing
The Pruitt-Igoe 33 building complex in St Louis was demolished after years of decay crime and relocation plans. HUD and local officials blamed management and design while a highway plan threatens the site, with debate over future use from industry to housing.
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Pruitt-Igoe
H.R. Crawford
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Crawford
John G. Roach
Pruitt- Igoe
HUD
Roach
Housing Authority
State Highway Department
Missouri
Ichord Sees Airport Plan Reversal in Illinois Fight
Rep. Richard Ichord predicts Congress will overturn Transportation Secretary Coleman’s Illinois airport plan for St. Louis area. Missouri senators filed federal suit to block funding. Ichord urges dual governor consent before land purchase amid looming deficits.
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St. Louis
Ilinois
Richard Ichord
D-Mo
Coleman
Minois
Missouri
Stuart Symington
Thomas Eagleton
Columbia-Waterloo
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Schard
Tlinois
Ichord
Gene Taylor
Taylor
Manson Gets 100 Letters A Month
San Francisco AP reports Charles Manson has received about one hundred letters monthly since his 1971 mass murder conviction. Richard Rubacher, author of an unpublished book, says Manson wants the truth out and will share his side of the 1969 Tate LaBianca murders.
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Charles Manson
Manson
Richard Rubacher
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