Entertainer Disrupts Nixon White House Event
Carol Feraci of the Ray Conniff Singers flashed a silk banner with Stop the killing during a White House Medal of Freedom event. Nixon, Mrs Nixon, and guests including Dewitt and Lila Wallace heard her remarks before Conniff halted the set. Feraci, a Toronto-born Canadian living in Los Angeles, said she sought national publicity and questioned the Vietnam War. Secret Service questioned her about the incident for over an hour. Comedian Bob Hope called it shameful as Nixon praised the performers after God Bless America.
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Helen Thomas Washington
UPI
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White House
Carol Feraci
Ray Conniff Singers
George
Martha Washington
Jesus Christ
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Daniel Elisberg
Dewitt Wallace
Reader’s Digest
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Coniff
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Los Angeles
Toronto
Vietnam
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Hope
America
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Mahalia Jackson to Be Buried February Fifth in New Orleans
Mahalia Jackson, famed gospel singer born near a Mississippi levee, will be buried in New Orleans on February 5. A family spokesman asked Mayor Moon Landrieu to allow her body to lie in state at Municipal Auditorium. Jackson died in Chicago on Thursday.
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UPI
Mahalia Jackson
Miss Jackson
Chicago
Allen Clark
Moon Landrieu
Municipal Auditorium
Tampa coach interview targets three candidates
Earl Bruce of Ohio State is among three coaches invited for interviews for the University of Tampa head football coaching job. Gus Dielens named Charles McCullars and Chuck Stobart as the others, with Bruce set to be interviewed today. A separate Belgrade report notes a 22-year-old stewardess in a coma as the sole survivor of a DC9 explosion.
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UPI
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Vesna Vulovic
Mystery Woman Identified in Hughes Autobiography Case
New York UPI Clifford Irving says his wife is Helga R. Hughes who handled $650,000 from publishers. Questions linger if Irving truly interviewed Howard Hughes or was duped by an impersonator amid a $155 million libel suit over Fake.
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New York
UPI
Clifford Irving
Howard R. Hughes
Helga R. Hughes
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Hughes
FDA freezes saccharin use amid rat tumor findings
UPI reports the FDA will freeze saccharin use at current levels after rats fed high doses developed bladder tumors. The agency cautioned the results are preliminary and that a ban is possible only if further tests show a cancer hazard. The FDA stressed causation is not yet established.
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Washington
Norwalk Bank Robber Identified From Past Heist
The bandit who escaped with 3200 from a Norwalk bank on Friday may need funds for car repairs after the bank manager, wearing a blond wig and fake beard, disrupted the getaway by disconnecting three spark plugs. Police linked the suspect to a prior two month old robbery.
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Norwalk
Calif
UPI
Weather and notices from Norwalk area
Partly cloudy and very cold with highs 8 to 15 and a chance of light snow tonight. Southwest winds today then southerly tonight. Norwalk high 25 low 2. trace precipitation. Births Mr and Mrs Kenneth Stephens Willard welcome a son. Death Howard O Dell Sr 59 Wakeman.
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Norwalk
Kenneth Stephens
Willard
Downtown truck crash under investigation by police
A truck plowed into a downtown storefront causing a spectacular crash. The store owner is Carl Carnabuci. Police were probing the incident at press time with no injuries reported.
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Loose
Carl Carnabuci
Fire damages at Durable Mat Co in Norwalk
Estimated loss of 80 000 dollars reported by plant manager William Gilbert after a December 26 fire at 75 N Pleasant St. Most loss covers inventory scrap and some equipment. Two Norwalk youths admitted throwing railway flares that started the blaze. firefighters and workers battled flames for about two weeks.
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Durable Mat Co
N. Pleasant St
William Gilbert
Norwalk
Job Revision Means Out In Davis' Wages
Norwalk water official Donald Davis faces a ten percent pay cut after duties split between water filtration and generating plants. He will be removed from water plant duties as a full or part time reassessment is made with review by the water council ahead of February legislation. A separate city parking lot bond bill will be prepared by Cleveland firm Squire, Sanders and Dempsey and is not ready for Tuesday night.
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Norwalk Water and Light
Donald Davis
Davis
Herbert Krogh
Goodsite
Wayne Goodsite
Squire, Sanders and Dempsey
Cleveland
Inmate Cleared After 30 Years Receives Michigan Token Gift
Charles Lee Clark, freed after a 1968 exoneration, received a $10,000 tax free check from Gov. William G. Milliken. Clark spent three decades jailed for a 1938 murder later deemed a wrongful conviction. He plans to use funds for back legal fees and taxes.
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Chris Mead
Lansing
Mich
UPI
Charles Lee Clark
William G. Milliken
Clark
State of
Michigan
Milliken
Americus
Detroit
County officials seek new terms amid party bids and tax levies
Bick and two Democrats filed petitions for county board seats with Norwalk trustee Bick seeking the county commissioner's post starting January 3 1973. Incumbent Donald Robertson and Ralph Walcher also declare. Kenneth Kirk a 20 year old OSU student from New London is running for clerk of courts. Jean Englehart seeks city treasurer. Probate Judge Antrim and County Coroner Holman seek reappointment. Two health district tax levies of five years and two tenths and three tenths of a mill filed. Bellevue exempted from county ballots.
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Clayton Fo Bick
Donald Robertson
Ralph Walcher
North Airfield
Kenneth Kirk
New London
Huron County
Clark Hunter
Kirk
Ohio State University
First United Methodist Church of
Jean A. Englehart
Bellevue
Boards of Elections
Greiners Satisfactory After Kidney Transplant at Cleveland Clinic
Harry Greiner who received a transplanted kidney at the Cleveland Clinic on Wednesday is listed in satisfactory condition. His uncle Lester Greiner is also reported in satisfactory condition.
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Cleveland
Harry Greiner
Cleveland Clinic
Lester Greiner
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