Night-long solo Pacific flight by Kawamoto shocks UPI
Japanese WWII ace Shoji Kawamoto landed 400 miles from target after a 34 hour solo nonstop flight in a single engine Comanche 260 from Tokyo to a northern California field. He said he did it for the Bicentennial spirit and noted sleepiness and disorientation near the coast.
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Crescent City
Calif
UPI
Shoji Kawamoto
Pacific
California
Seattle
Wash
Kawamoto
Marchibroda Will Return as Colts Head Coach
Ted Marchibroda has agreed to return as head coach of the Baltimore Colts by mutual agreement after resigning Sunday following a dispute with owner Robert Irsay and General Manager Joe Thomas over team control.
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Baltimore
UPI
Ted Marchibroda
Baltimore Colts
Colts
Marchibroda
Robert Irsay
Joe Thomas
Record Low Temperatures Hit Ohio Over Labor Day Weekend
United Press International reports Toledo reached 39 degrees, breaking a 1939 low. North Canton registered 40, Mansfield 43, and Cleveland 40, all near or breaking all-time lows across Ohio with light frost in Mansfield and several spots dipping into the 30s.
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United Press International
Toledo
Ohio
Mercury
North
Canton
Mansfield
Cleveland
Traffic Deaths Rising Over Labor Day Weekend in Ohio
Ohio State Highway Patrol reports at least 25 people killed on roadways during the Labor Day weekend, 12 more than last year. The toll trails 1966’s record 44, while last year’s death count was the lowest since records began.
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United Press International
Ohio
State Highway Patrol
Vandals Fail to Steal Marilyn Monroe Tomb Plaque
Three young men attempted to pry the bronze plaque from Marilyn Monroe's pink marble tomb at Westwood Memorial Park with a crowbar on Monday but fled when confronted by visitors. A fragment of stone was chipped from the crypt. the tomb was not seriously damaged.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Marily Monroe
Westwood Memorial Park
Mortuary
Weather and notices in brief for Arlington to Norwalk
Clear to mild weather with lows in the 50s and sunny 80s notches. Marriage licenses listed for several couples in Arlington Willard and Willard area. Birth announced for a son to Mr and Mrs Russell Sexton in Huron. Deaths include Mrs Florence Cooley 58 Berlin Heights Mr Warren Cook 52 Berlin Heights Mr George W Hamilton 62 Rural Wakeman Mrs Katja Wissner 51 Norwalk Mrs Ellen V Scott 88 Norwalk.
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Florence Cooley
Berlin Heights
Warren Cook
George W. Hamilton
Wakeman
Katja Wissner
Norwalk
Ellen V. Scott
Norwalk readers weigh bicycle licensing and asylum votes
Opinion Line asks if Norwalk Council should repeal bicycle licensing. Readers split with 65 percent for repeal and 35 percent against. Calls encourage votes on asylum for a Soviet pilot who landed in Japan.
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Norwalk
Defector Viktor Belenko to Fly to United States
Soviet air officer Viktor Ivanovich Belenko, 29, who defected after landing his MIG25 Foxbat in Hakodate, was secretly moved to Tokyo and will fly to the United States Wednesday. Tokyo authorities confirmed asylum talks with Washington and quoted Belenko saying life in the Soviet Union lacks freedom.
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Tokyo
UPI
Japan
Viktor Ivanovich Belenko
See
Air Self Defense Force
United States
Lenko
Hakodate City
Paris
U.S
Henry A. Kissinger
Kiichi Miyazawa
Foreign Ministry
Miyanzawa
Washington
Elation
Moscow
Belenko
National Police Agency
Soviet Union
Siberia
Chitose
Air Self-Defense Force
Ohio districts begin teacher strikes amid pay dispute
Mad River Township Meigs Local and Parma City schools started strikes today affecting about 31 thousand students. Bellaire OAPSE continued walkouts with a 28 cent hourly raise demand. Meigs Local schools of Pomeroy also walked out as talks stalled since 1975. Parma district resumes classes Wednesday for 21 thousand pupils.
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United Press International
Mad River Township
Meigs Local
Parma City
Bellaire City
Ohio Association of Public School
Bellaire
OAPSE
Meigs
Pomeroy
Ohio River
David Bowen
Eachers Association
Bowen
Don Dixon
Deputy Registrar Charged Over Fifty Thousand Shortfall
Columbiana County Deputy Registrar Fred Gosney faces charges from State Auditor Thomas E. Ferguson for failing to deposit 50 265 35 in motor vehicle license plate sales covering 15 March 1974 to 3 February 1975. Most shortages stemmed from commercial truck trailer and farm plates.
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Bloch
Martin Lewis reunite on telethon surprises Lewis
Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis staged a surprise reunion during a muscular dystrophy telethon engineered by Frank Sinatra. The pair, split for 20 years, appeared briefly together before parting, with Lewis noting no plan to revive their duo. Sinatra arranged Martin’s entrance and presented Lewis with $6,000 as they embraced.
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Myram
Las Vegas
Nev
UPI
Martin and
Lewis
Sunshine Boys
Dean Martin
Jerry Lewis
Frank Sinatra
Frank
Martin
Nantnanall
Sinatra
Gua
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