Cabbies Enlisted as Unpaid Police in Crime Battle
New York AP report details taxi drivers and truckers aiding law enforcement since 194 era in a program dubbed Operation Crime Stop. Cab companies, City officials, and police chiefs discuss cooperation, warning risks to drivers but noting rapid police response with driver radio links.
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New York
Rex Taylor
Los An- Clock
Hergeles
San Francisco
Oak
Whiteland
Calif
Panies
Kansas
Richard C. White
D- Tex
O.W. Wilson
Chicago
Orment
Tom Jeans
Rickhard
Detroit
Forrest Garrison
Frank Dyson
Cal Police
Kansas City
Police Staffias
Tex
Police Department
Services Division
Pittsburgh Faces Major Facelift Under Penn Park Plan
Two Middletown Miami campus faculty members Dr C Eugene Bennett and Dan Niswonger join Pittsburgh Renaissance project sponsor PRR to revitalize 148 acres along the Allegheny with modern offices high rises and parks. Young an Armco engineer becomes industrial technology instructor. Niswonger formerly taught math in Ohio schools and authored a magazine article.
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Pittsburgh
Gateway Center
PRR
Penn Park
Saunders
Finneytown High School
Hamilton County
Young
Middletown High School
University of Cincinnati
Armleo Steel Corp
Carbon and Aloys Group
Armco
Niswonger
Louisiana State University
Klansman Shoots Estranged Wife in Athens
Joseph Howard Sims, 43, a Ku Klux Klansman once acquitted in a 1964 murder, fled Athens in a 1948 model car and remains at large. His wife Betty, 35 and mother of eight, is hospitalized in fair condition with a bullet in her cheek after being shot Thursday at the Athens General Hospital nursery in front of witnesses.
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Athens, Ga
Sims
Betty
Athens General Hospital
City to Use Goats for Lawn Care in Christopher Ill
The Christopher Illinois city council rejects a $1000 yearly grass mowing contract for city land and approves a plan to hire goats for lawn care. The measure cuts costs and aims for cleaner, closer trimming of municipal parcels under goat management.
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Christopher, Ill
Vote Irregularities Charged In Alabama Sheriff Race
The Justice Department accuses about 41,700 Black voters of being disenfranchised in Dallas County Alabama's Democratic primary to favor Sheriff James G Clark. It seeks to overturn the county Democratic Election Committee ruling and order a runoff after disputes over ballots in six precincts. Wilson Baker, Clark's rival and public safety director, would win if the minority votes are counted. The suit cites the Voting Rights Act and recalls prior demonstrations and arrests.
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James G. Clark
Dallas
U.S. District Court
Mobile
Clark
Wilson Baker
Baker
Democratic Election Committee
Justice Department
Tragic Geauga Tractor Accident Kills Two Boys
In Chardon Ohio a Geauga County family mourns after a tractor overturned Thursday night killing two boys. Victims are six year old Robert Thomas and his sixteen year old brother Michael, sons of James and Mrs. Thomas.
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Chardon, Ohio
Geauga County
Robert Thomas
Michael
James Thomas
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Dolores Goodman
Middletown
David Young Industrial Tech
Danniswonger
Albers
Betty Lykins
Anna Rogers
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ARNEL
Alabama
Selma, Ala
Charles St
Key Largo
Mickey & Cindy
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