Jackson Opens New Hampshire Campaign HQ Pledges Bold Leadership
Jesse Jackson opened his New Hampshire campaign headquarters with promises of fundamental change and bold leadership. He urged Americans to find common ground, cited issues from education to healthcare, and urged support for a broad, inclusive agenda while criticizing current foreign policy.
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Jackson
N.H
Manchester
White House
Jesse Jackson
New Hampshire
America
Concord
Jay
Maine
Raleigh
N.C
Middletown Council approves funds for pipe replacement
Middletown town council unanimously authorizes 22000 to replace 2000 feet of galvanized water pipe feeding the spring off Coxy Brown Road. Panhandle Pipe supply Co will supply 4 inch PVC pipe at 4.48 per foot with Bidle Brothers excavating handling digging and town staff performing labor over about two weeks in December.
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Middletown
Floyd C. Main
Water and Sewer Committee
Coxy Brown Road
Myersville
Main
Panhandle Pipe & Supply Co. Inc
Martinsburg
W_Va
Bidle Brothers Inc
Burgess Bill 4. Williams
Williams
Panhandle
Wiliams
The
Lion's Club
Deva Owners Plan to Move and Dissolve HDC Battle
Deva owners plan to move unloading from Main Street as trucks clog narrow streets. Coker scrapped plans for a new building to keep industry nearby. A dispute with the Historic District Commission spurred neighbors to support dissolving the HDC. Town officials circulated opinions. majority favored dissolution. Mayor proposed planning regulation changes to abolish the HDC and shift duties to the Planning Commission.
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Coker
Historic District Commission
HDC
Paul Smith
Gerald Palmer
Deborah Aughenbaugh
Planning Commission
Burkittsville
Two Frederick juveniles charged with trespassing at Staub residence
Frederick County's Sheriff's Department arrested two Frederick youths aged 16 and 17 for trespassing at the Charles Newton Staub home on 7904 Clearfield Road. Staub saw them jump the fence into the yard, approach a barn, and tamper with a rear door lock before they left the area.
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Frederick County
Space Monkeys Survive 13 Day Soviet Flight
Tass reported two space monkeys landed in pine forests near Mirny in Yakutia after a 13 day mission, surviving in minus 4 degrees. The chilling off course return and wildlife protection challenges were noted as experts logged the recovery. Deputy Chester Claggett led the inquiry into separate property destruction at Pinecliff Park and a local auto crash on Md. 355 near Grove Road.
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Moscow
Siberian
Tass
Mirny
Yakutia
Chester Claggett
Staub
Pinecliff Park
Gary Morton
MD. 355
Grove Road
Sheriff's Department
Phillip Stephen Gangeld
Route 1
Smithsburg
Edna Irene Lenhart
Catalpha Road
Frederick
Lenhart
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Car Bomb Explosion Wounds Dozens Near Harare Mall
An explosion outside a suburban Harare shopping mall injured at least 18 people, wrecked cars, and shattered windows for blocks. Police and witnesses say a car bomb caused the blast with the parked vehicle torn in two. no deaths reported. Five seriously hurt, 13 treated and sent home, per Parirenyatwa Hospital officials.
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Harare
Zimbabwe
Parirenyatwa
Central Hospital
Zimbabwe Inter-African
Doreen Shennan
Avondale
Landon 1936 landslide loss marks political history
The Associated Press notes Alf Landon died at age 100 in Topeka after a 1936 landslide loss to Franklin Roosevelt. It details his 131 percent share of electoral votes defeated by Roosevelt’s 523, and compares historic landslide patterns, popular votes, and subsequent changes in U.S. presidential elections.
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Alf Landon
Franklin Roosevelt
United States
Topeka
Kan
Landon
Maine
Vermont
Roosevelt
Ronald Reagan
Walter Mondale
Minnesota
District of Columbia
Alaska
Hawai
George McGovern
Massachusetts
Richard Nixon
William Tait
Theodore Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
James Cox
Warren Harding
John Davis
Calvin Coolidge
Herbert Hoover
Hoover
McGovern
Barry Goldwater
Mondale
Alf Landon dies at 100 former GOP leader and 1936 nominee
Alf Landon the Kansas governor and 1936 Republican presidential candidate who carried only Maine and Vermont died at age 100 in Topeka two days after discharge from Stormont-Vail Regional Medical Center. He leaves behind wife Theo and a lifetime of public service described as elder statesmanship by President Reagan and by fellow Kansans including Bob Dole and Mike Hayden. Landon born 1887 in West Middlesex Pennsylvania built a varied career in law oil and politics and remained active in advising party leaders well into his century.
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Topeka
Kan
Alf Landon
Franklin Roosevelt
Stormont-Vail Regional Medical Center
Landon
Theo Cobb Landon
Reagan
Nancy Kassebaum
U.S. Senate
Bob Dole
Mike Hayden
Robert F
Maine
Vermont
Kansas River
West Middlesex
Kansas
Margaret Fleming
OU City
Margaret Anne
Pa man hurt in a 50 foot fall at Weverton Cliffs
David Cook, 23, of Jacobus Pennsylvania, fell more than 50 feet from the face of Weverton Cliffs in Washington County. A friend hiked to a phone to call for help as Brunswick Volunteer Ambulance crews spent over an hour navigating rugged terrain to reach him. Cook suffered a fractured ankle and was released after treatment at Frederick Memorial Hospital.
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Pennsylvania
Weverton
Washington County
David Cook
Jacobus
Cook
Brunswick Volunteer Ambulance
Frederick Memorial Hospital
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