Parents Rally For One Room Shiloh Schoolhouse
In Shiloh Michigan 26 families enroll 23 children at the 100 year old one room wooden Shiloh School. Parents fund over 30000 yearly to keep teacher Linda Hausserman guiding kindergarten through sixth grade while state tests show above average math and reading results for recent cohorts. A local board led by Barbara Beamon and June Leland vows to persist unless compelled to close amid broader district consolidations.
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Shiloh
Mich
Linda Hausserman
June Leland
Grand Rapids
Barbara Beamon
Michigan
Ionia County
Ms. Hausserman
Linda Emelander
Piper
Shiloh School
Ms. Emelander
Teressa Staten
State Department of Education
Emelander
Elsie Haynor
NATO Missiles Signal Step Toward Arms Control
NATO will deploy 572 Pershing II and Tomahawk missiles in West Germany Britain Italy possibly the Netherlands and Belgium starting 1983 as a move toward arms control. The United States will withdraw 1000 old warheads to show sincerity while negotiating reductions with the Soviet Union.
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Brussels
Belgium
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Europe
Carter Administration
West
NATO
United States
West Germany
Britain
Italy
Netherlands
U.S
Cyrus R. Vance
Senate
Lawyer Wants Mistrial In Scarpelli Libel Case
A defense lawyer for four black KU medical students seeks a mistrial in a libel suit in Wyandotte County. The motion cites an anonymous juror letter alleging jury harassment and pressure to convict, claiming possible impropriety tainted a $44,000 verdict for white plaintiff Dr Dante G. Scarpelli.
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Kansas City, Kan
James I. Meyerson
NAACP
Wyandotte County
Meyerson
Dante G. Scarpelli
University of Kansas Medical School
Northwestern University
Evanston
KU Medical School
Scarpelli
Colombia Quake Toll in Six Towns Rises to 133 Dead
An offshore earthquake in southern Colombia killed 133 and injured up to 2,000 in six coastal towns. Rescue teams faced collapsed huts, fires, and ruined communications as authorities declared a disaster area near the Ecuador border. Emergency officials reported widespread damage and aftershocks lasting an hour.
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Bogota
Colombia
Red Cross
Ecuador
Julio Cesar Turbay
Charco
Jose Pablo
Tumaco
Curval
Gural
Olaya Herrera
Timiti
San Juan
Iscuande
Scott Paper Co
Quito
Lawsuit Would Stop The Rock Island Line Sale
Federal judges in Chicago deferred action on a bid by six railroads to block Southern Pacific from taking over a 992 mile Rock Island line from Santa Rosa New Mexico to St Louis. Railroads warn of irreparable economic harm and large annual revenue losses if the transfer proceeds.
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Chicago
Southern Pacific Railroad Co
Rock Island
Southern Pacific
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Santa Rosa
N.M
St. Louis
Interstate Commission Commission
Kansas City Terminal Railway Co
Kansas City
St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company
ICC
Tucumcari
Richard Hautzinger
Union Pacific
Santa Fe
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Wittenberg
East Germany
Leonid Brezhnev
U.S. Geological Survey
Golden
Colo
Main
Ota
The
George Huff
Appeals Court
Chicago and Northwestern
Missouri-Kansas-Texas
Norfolk and Eastern
Missouri Pacific
California
Oregon
East
Midwest
Delco Freedom
North Poplar
Ottawa
Kansas
Hallmark
Hallmark Cards, Inc
Mullen’s
Hallmark Shop
Ottawa Herald
S. Cedar
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