Escapee Chism recaptured after three day barefoot chase
Larry Chism, 33, a Dickson prison escapee, was recaptured in Viola Arkansas after a three day barefoot evasion in northern Arkansas woods. A high speed pursuit followed a roadblock crash into a state police car. Chism was among four inmates who escaped during a bowling alley trip in Tennessee.
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Mountain Home
Ark
Arkansas
Larry Chism
Chism
Fulton County
Viola
Dickson, Tenn
Tennessee
Floyd Ray Brewer
George Bonds
Ferguson claims pact award was not illegal
Ohio State Auditor Thomas E Ferguson says the contract awarded to Alexander Grant & Co. of Columbus for a state food program was proper though the firm was the second lowest of four bids. He fired May who testified to a Franklin County grand jury about alleged misconduct, while Ferguson calls the accusations politically motivated and presses a stay on further probe.
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Columbus
Contrac
State Health Department
Alexander Grant & Co
Jerry Jay
Franklin County
Grand
Ferguson
May
Ohio Supreme Court
George C Smith
Grand Jury
Smith
Winter Weather Warnings Hit Western States
The Associated Press reports snow warnings for northeastern Nevada and high elevations in western Montana northern Utah and the Cascades and Siskiyou range. A winter storm watch covers western Wyoming while Midwest farms face flash flood warnings. Showers stretch from north Texas to the Great Lakes and Atlantic coast with temperatures from 26 to 85.
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Nevada
Montana
Utah
Cascades and Siskiyou Mountains
Oregon
Wyoming
Midwest
Iowa
Nebraska
Kansas
Missouri
Texas
North Dakota
Mississippi Valley
Oho Valley
Great Lakes
Atlantic Coast
New England
Gulf Coast
Houston
Maine
Ardmore
Oklo
Japanese envoy’s 1943 dispatch aided Allied D‑Day planning
U S declassified records show Japan's ambassador Hiroshi Oshima unknowingly fed detailed German fortifications plans to Tokyo, including coast defenses, troop numbers, and V2 rocket data, enabling Allied revisions of German force estimates before Normandy. The revelations come from notes decoded by the U S and now housed at the National Archives.
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Washington
Japan
Germany
France
Hiroshi Oshima
Tokyo
Oshima
United States
National
England
Peenemunde
Friedrichshafen
Divorce filings in Hamilton Common Pleas Court
Peggy Jean Doud and Roy Hensley each have divorce complaints filed in the Hamilton Ohio Common Pleas Court Domestic Relations division. Doud case OR76 08 1735 cites gross neglect of duty with 28 days to answer after October 2 1978, while Hensiey case OR786 1429 requests divorce on grounds of gross neglect of duty with a 28 day deadline from July 23 978.
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Peggy Jean Doud
Thomas Lee Doud
Common Pleas Court Division of Domestic Relations
Hamilton
Ohio
Edwards Robb JR
Gracie White
Edward A. Forshaw
Pit
Snv. & Loan
Middletown
Onio
Roy Hensiey
Sally Hensiey
Edwards Robb, JR
Terrence M. Wilacker
First Ave
Crowds line for King Tut exhibit at Met in New York
More than 2,000 people formed a five block queue outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art hours before advance tickets went on sale for the Treasures of Tutankhamen exhibition. Tickets are free at the museum and via Ticketron with a 60 cent service charge. The King Tut show opens Dec. 20.
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King Tut
New York Metropolitan
Viaseum of Art
New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Egypt
Huth Street
Fifth Avenue
Joanne Ingles
Auth Street
7Th Street
Ticketron
Tutankhamen
Mexican air workers strike stalls flights nationwide
Air traffic controllers walked out in Mexico causing near total flight paralysis. Government replaced with substitutes from the Communications Ministry and air force, but pilots refused to fly until the union verified competence. Nearly 1,000 pilots and about 200 flights canceled, affecting US routes and resort airports across the country.
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Mexico City
Mexico
Yucatan Peninsula
Communications Ministry
Air Force
AeroMexico and
Mexicana
United States
Ganges Recedes After record floods in northern India
Calcutta report says the Ganges and its tributaries are falling from peak flood levels. The death toll since late June tops 1,200 as thousands of villages remain submerged.
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Calcutta
India
Ganges
Notice of Divorce Filing in Ohio Case No ORT8 08 1756
James D Moore and Reno Moore are cited in Hamilton Ohio regarding a divorce action filed August 25 1978. Case details list Edwards Robb Jr as filer with addresses in Middletown and Hamilton. Court dates include Sept Oct 186 25 and other dates.
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Board of Education
Middletown City
Butler
Warren
Ohio
Betty York
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Walnut Ridge
Ronald Lyons
Cincinnati
Lyons
Memphis Commercial Appeal
Baxter County
Jack Gregory
Gregory
Fice
FBI
William Kell
Nashville, Tenn
Chargin
Kell
Carl Hensley
Bexar
Hensley
Elinda
Memphis
Lonoke County
Woodlawn
John
Faye King
Covington
Thomas E Ferguson
The
Associated Press
West
Union Sanitary
By Ellis Hall
Hall's
Yankee Road
Canada
Waualipaper Store
James D Moore
Reno Moore
Edwards Robb. JR
First
Tuney
ARTS
Civic Centre Plaza
Verity Pkvy
Churchill
Berea
Figurmagic
Aparatus
Sur
Ruth Surgenor
IFTER
Ays
Ted
Higur
Germal Jon A
Central Ave
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