Rural Missouri drug problem grows beyond city limits
Jefferson City report from Col. Sam Smith and Missouri State Highway Patrol details the spread of illegal drugs into rural areas. Bob Ashurst notes cocaine and heroin appear in small towns, with 502 narcotics investigations in 26 counties since 1970. The unit works undercover, relies on local officials, and emphasizes long, costly cases with few payoffs but high court convictions.
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Jefferson City
Bob Ashurst
Missouri State Highway Patrol
Sam Smith
Missouri
Highway Patrol
Ashurst
Ord
Wong
Earl Sites
Boone County
Sites
Emmett Fairfax
Pettis County
Fairfax
I, and I
Department of Public Safety
Litton Forms Campaign Committee for Senate Run
Rep. Jerry Litton of Missouri formed a campaign committee in Kansas City as he weighs a Senate bid to replace retiring Stuart Symington. He stops short of declaring candidacy, saying he does not want to be a candidate for a year and a half. Norman Sanders chairs Missourians for Litton with Dan Zimbalist as vice chairman and Sharon Litton as treasurer amid criticism from Warren Hearnes and James Symington over campaign timing and fund spending.
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Kansas City
Jerry Litton
D-Mo
U. S. Senate
Stuart Symington
Chillicothe
Heagenes
Symington
Hearnes
Federal Communications Commission
Litton
Lit
SEC Adds McDonnell To Probe
The SEC expanded its inquiry into possible securities violations to include overseas sales by McDonnell Douglas and Boeing. Spokesmen for both firms acknowledged SEC information requests. McDonnell Douglas cited fees and related dealings, while Boeing gave no further comment. The probe, following scrutiny of Northrop and Lockheed, covers bribes and overseas political contributions and disclosures in financial statements.
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Los Angeles
Securities and Exchange Commission
McDonnell Douglas Corp
Boeing Co
Los Angeles Times
SEC
McDonnell Douglas
Boeing
St. Louis
Seattle
Northrop Corp
Lockheed Aircraft Corp
Burbank
Northrop
Lockheed
Ashland Oil, Inc
Gulf Oil Co
United Brands Co
NRA hunter safety class offered in Mexico Missouri
A National Rifle Association hunter safety class in cooperation with the Little Dixie Gun Club and the Missouri Department of Conservation will be held at the VFW hall on North Jefferson in Mexico. The session runs from 5:30 to 10:30 PM on Saturday October 4, followed by an NRA safe hunter certification exam. For information contact Jim Badaracco at 581-1489 or Conservation Agent Larry Abraham at 581-1381.
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National Rifle Association
Little Dixie Gun Club
Missouri Department of Conservation
VFW Hall
North Jefferson Street
Mexico
NRA
Jim Badaracco
Larry Abraham
Electronic Gadgets To Be Used In Sinai
The Pentagon will deploy six monitoring stations in the Sinai to track the latest Middle East peace accord. Equipment includes radar for distant troop movements, seismic sensors buried in sand for vibrations, and highly sensitive acoustic sensors to distinguish troop sounds from background noise.
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Washington
Pentagon
Sinai Desert
Middle East
Sinai
Vietnam
U.S
McCloskey Warns of U S Apathy at Washington Univ
Rep. Paul N. McCloskey warned students at Washington University in St. Louis that voter apathy threatens the nation as it nears its 200th birthday. He argued third party reform is misguided and urged honest, nonemotional views of communism, saying danger lies in domestic corruption, not in Russia or Red China. He reflected on his 1967 election victory and delivered the Thomas Hennings Memorial Lecture.
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ST. Louis
United States
Paul N. McCloskey
Rcalif
McCloskey
Washington University
America
Russia
Red China
Shirley Temple Black
Thomas Hennings
Bank Deposit Boxes Hold Weird Items
In Columbus Ohio bank safety deposit boxes yield odd finds beyond jewels and cash. A Franklin County audit group inventoryed 1325 boxes after owners died, uncovering items from a lunch pail to jars of condiments and notes detailing posthumous bequests. Cash, silver bars, gold nuggets and furniture notes also appeared, with values ranging from small sums to as high as 1.5 million.
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Columbus, Ohio
Franklin County
Harry Fell
Fell
Cais
Felj
State Taxation Department
Lem Jones Dies Kansas City Civic Leader Passes At 79
Kansas City civic and business figure Lem T. Jones Sr. died Saturday at his home, apparently of a heart attack. He was 79. Survived by his widow Jessie and his son Lem T. Jones Jr., a Kansas City state senator, among others.
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Kansas City
Lem T. Jones Sr
Jessie
Lem T. Jones Jr
West Coast and Midwest score tops for Living Quality
A federal MRI study of 243 metro areas ranks cities by quality of life. Portland Oregon leads large cities, Eugene Oregon tops 200k-500k, and LaCrosse Wisconsin leads under 200k. Across sizes, the West Coast and Midwest dominate, with Jersey City Mobile Laredo at bottom.
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Kansas City
United States
West Coast
Midwest
Portland
Ore
Midwest Research Institute
MRI
Eugene
LaCrosse
Wis
Ben Liu
Liu
Environmental Protection Agency
Washington
Sacramento
Calif
Seattle-Everett
Wash
San Jose
Minneapolis-St. Paul
Rochester
Hartford
FBI Hunts Missing Pennies From 1972 Aluminum Mint Batch
The FBI probes the loss of 13 aluminum pennies once issued to Congress and Treasury officials in 1972 as a potential copper substitute. Mint officials say 11 coins are missing from Capitol Hill and two from Treasury, with collectors valuing them well above face value.
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Washington
FBI
Treasury Department
Capitol Hill
Bureau of the Mint
Congressional
Mint
Frank MacDonald
MacDonald
Treasury
Jack Anderson
House
Senate Banking Committees
Wiretappers Called In Hunt Trial In Texas
Government prosecutors summon three convicted wiretappers as leader witnesses in the wiretap trial of Bunker and Herbert Hunt. The defense argues the investigators were hired to protect ailing father’s companies and not to commit crimes.
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Lubbock
Tex
Dallas
H.L. Hunt
Hunt Brothers
Bunker 49
Herbert
Hunt
U.S. Atty
Frank Mettown
Fort Worth
Richard Stephens
Dilas
Travis Shelton
Philip Hirschkop
South Plains
Southwest
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