Oldest man in North America meets Charlie Smith in Bartow Florida
The Bartow attraction is 136 year old Charlie Smith who claims to have been born in 1842 in Liberia and sold as a slave in New Orleans. He says he lived with a Texas rancher before drifting to Bartow to be near his son. Tourists flock to hear his stories and snapshots of a long life. He spends his days in a convalescence home and earns little beyond Social Security and occasional TV appearances.
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Ronald Trumbull
Trumbull
Texas
Newspaper Enterprise Alsn
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Mormon farm labor charity doubles as welfare effort near Patterson
In California a 2000 acre Mormon Church welfare farm near Patterson employs 100 volunteers, including Safeway executive Lorenzo Hoopes, to raise sugar beets wheat and alfalfa and to feed cattle. Crops and meat fund church aid via the Oakland bishop storehouse.
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Stake Area
Church
Baby Sarah Marks First Birthday on IV Fueled Diet
In Burgersville Indiana a blue eyed infant named Sarah Vandeventer turns one today while fed entirely by an intravenous diet after most of her small intestine was removed. Doctors expect oral feeding may start in five years. Her family reports she loves hamburgers and ice cream, though nutrition comes through a pump and IV line. Insurance covers 85 percent. Crippled Children Fund helps cover the rest as her parents juggle bills and hospital costs that exceed forty eight thousand dollars.
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Sarah
Indianapolis
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Anti-Catholicism rises in America says Greeley Moynihan Norton
UPI religion writer cites Rev. Andrew Greeley Daniel Moynihan and Eleanor Holmes Norton warning that anti-Catholic bias persists in the United States. They describe bias as institutional and unconscious rather than personal. Moynihan Packwood and Norton discuss impact on policy and work force access.
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UPI
Andrew Greeley
America
Daniel Moynihan
Dn.y
Eleanor Holmes Norton
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
United States
John F. Kennedy
Houston
Ku Klux Klan
Greeley
Moynihan
Mrs. Norton
Robert Packwood
Independent
National Catholic Reporter
Norton
National Catholic News Service
Official
Catholic Information Agency
Packwood
Sex Pistols member Sid Vicious charged with murder
Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols, whose wild stage acts defined British punk, was charged with murder in the stabbing death of his girlfriend Nancy Spungen at the Chelsea Hotel. Vicious, 21, called police to say he found Spungen dead and later admitted killing her during a dispute.
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Nancy Spungen
Ritchie
Thomas Kilroy
Miss Spungen
Huntington Valley
United States
Kilroy
Paul Cook
Steve Jones
Johnny Rotten
Pistols
Max
Kansas City
Ivan Bernstein
Sid
Computer selects new pope by Chicago computer
The University of Chicago National Opinion Research Center computer picked Cardinal Corrado Ursi of Naples as pope, two days before the real conclave to choose Pope John Paul I’s successor. It ranked Cardinal Salvatore Pappalardo second and Ugo Poletti third, with Bernardin Gantin as top non Italian choice.
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Vatican
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John Paul I
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Bologna
Sergio Pignedoli
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