Grandmother kills mountain lion with butcher knife
In Rapid City South Dakota an 18 month old boy named Jason Cowden survived a lion attack after his grandmother Mrs Peter Underdahl 53 of Anoka Minnesota used a butcher knife to stab the animal as it mauled the child in a motor home at Bear Country park The lion leaped through a window and the grandmother described praying for strength and the right spot to strike while the child was pulled free by his mother The park operator was not faulted and the family credited park rules and the quick actions of the grandmother and mother
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Rapid City
S.D
Peter Underdahl
Anoka
Minn
Jason Cowden
Bear Country
Underdahl
Edwardsville man sues over drug raid claims of home seizure
Edwardsville salesman John Meiners 27 files a 1.4 million suit alleging federal Drug Abuse Law Enforcement agents illegally raided his home on April 21. He says warrantless searches damaged his house, beer was consumed, a stereo stolen, and a gun pointed at his head. Other local raids in a 50 mile Southern Illinois area are noted with additional suits.
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Edwardsville, Ill
Edwardsville
John Meiners
U.S. District Court
Springfield
Collinsville
Herbert Gigoletto
Donald Askew
East St. Louis
Ilinois
Meiners
Gerald McGivern
Alton
Justice Department
McGivern
Drug Enforcement Administration
Washington
U.S
Plan to desegregate Columbus schools approved
The Ohio Civil Rights Commission approved a Columbus public school desegregation plan. It includes student transfers and teacher reassignments, with 50 percent implementation by September and full completion by the 1974-75 school year.
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Columbus, Ohio
Columbus Public Schools
Ohio Civil Rights Commission
Planes strike rebels south of Phnom Penh in support of government units
American planes attacked insurgent positions ten miles south of Phnom Penh near Highway 3 and Rural Route 38 to aid encircled Cambodian battalions. Cambodian command said three battalions were ringed near Kompong Kantuot, with about 1,800 enemy troops and four government battalions plus 20 APCs facing the two bridges. A bridge-defending battalion was encircled for a second day as relief forces pressed from the second bridge half a mile away.
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Phnom Penh
Cambodia
U.S
Takhmau
Kompong Kantuot
Sunken treasure stored in jail
The Florida state archives seized a portion of the Nuestra Senora de Atocha and La Margarita treasure, valued by Treasure Salvors at 750000 dollars, and housed the 500 pounds in an abandoned Leon County jail drunk tank under armed guard. The haul includes 1172 Spanish pieces of eight, 62-pound silver bars, silver spoons, plates, and golden coral rosary beads.
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Tallahassee
Fla
Florida
State of Florida
Nuestra Senora de Atocha
la Margarita
Key West
State Archives
Leon County
Treasure Salvors Inc
Robert Williams
Williams
Florida Marine Patrol
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