Remarkable six year old fights disease in Great Bend
Susan Clark a six year old from Great Bend has battled an incurable kidney disease since infancy. Once given a year to live she now shows signs of improvement with kidney function normal and possible future dialysis options. Her family aims to fund medical needs with remaining donations while hopes for a transplant grow as she gains weight. Susie enjoys meeting fans, celebrating a sixth birthday, and dreaming of new idols Shaun Cassidy and the Fonz.
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Debra Oswalt
Great Bend
Susan Clark
Susie
Henry Winkler
the Fonz
ABC
Michael Clark
California
Disneyland
Mickey Mouse
Kansas City
University of Kansas Medical Center
Craig
Pam
Susan
Clarks
Shaun Cassidy
Johnny
Rain Not Deter Old Time Fiddlers Convention Goers
In Union Grove North Carolina about 130000 revelers crowded J Pierce Van Hoy pastureland for the 54th Old Time Fiddlers Convention. Preliminaries featured 200 bands with $1000 top prize for best fiddler while authorities reported around 40 arrests for traffic and drug charges at the grounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Grove
N.C
J. Pierce van Hoy
Maui
Hawaii
Rich Weinbrough
van Hoy
Charlotte
van Hoys
Hell’s Angels
Rod Justin
Convention
French Police Foil Ransom Drop In Baron Kidnapping
French police thwarted an 8.6 million dollar ransom drop for Baron Jean Edouard Empain. One gunman died, another wounded, two officers hurt. three kidnappers fled in a car south of Paris while the wounded suspect was captured. Ransom was reportedly between 10 and 20 million.
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Paris
Jean-Edouard Empain
Empain
Val de Marne
Europe
Empain-Schneider Group
Arcueil
France
Relic Shop Owner Dies In Civil War Shell Blast
Irvain Richard Swain Jr. died when a century old artillery shell he tinkered with exploded at Rick's Relics in Ayden NC, injuring two teens. The blast wrecked the shop roof as Pitt County residents were treated for critical and minor injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ayden
N.C
Irvain Richard Swain Jr
Greenville
Arthur Earl Sutton
Vance Moore Jr
Pitt County
Sutton
Pitt County Memorial Hospital
Moore
Irrigation Drives Haskell to Kansas Corn Crown
A 25 year irrigation expansion turned Haskell County into Kansas's top corn producer in 1977 with 13.28 million bushels, while NE counties no longer rank in the top ten. The shift shows western, irrigated counties leading statewide output.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
Haskell
Carter Cuts Navy Expansion Plans and Farm Yields Reported
The Carter administration plans to cut Navy shipbuilding by more than half over five years, down to about 70 new ships and 13 modernizations by 1983 from a Ford era plan of 156 ships. Congress may restore some, amid cost and delay disputes totaling about 2.7 billion. Also, a Kansas harvest report shows production of 161.3 million bushels, irrigation boosting yield to 106.6 per acre versus 65.7 without irrigation, led by Finney County with 11.47 million.
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Washington
Defense
Harold Brown
Navy
W. Graham Claytor
Pentagon
Ford Administration
Finney County
Gray
Thomas
Stanton
Sherman
Grant
Wichita
Wallace
Sheridan
Brown County
Women Offenders Get County Jail Option
Gov. Robert F. Bennett signed a law changing how women convicted of misdemeanors are imprisoned. Women serving sentences over 30 days may now be held in county jails rather than at Lansing, aligning with men. The measure also gives corrections officials flexibility on felony confinement.
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Postal Service
The
Rate Commission
Commission
Reader's Digest
Time Inc
the Associaton of American Publishers
Magazine Publishers Association
Direct Mail Marketing Association
Mail Order Association of America
Parcel Shippers Association
National Association of Greeting Card Publishers
Topeka
Kan
Robert F. Bennett
Kansas Correctional Institute For Women
Lansing
Bennett
Secretary of Corrections
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Sheriff's
Max Shaver
Baron
Carter
President Carter
Postal Rate Commission
Rick
Truman
Independence, Mo
Harry St. Truman
George Curtis
Curtis
Iran
Saudi Arabia
U.S
Congress
House Armed Services Committee
Navy Shipbuilding Program
Saffron Glass CO
Aaer
Ottawa Herald
Business and Professional Guide
Pharmacists
Aneyeynolds
Exall Drugs
John Reynolds
Ottawa
Auto Service
Willard Anderson
Wis
N. Cherry
Optometrists
James A. Eaton
Optometrist
Chiropractors
Brockway & Brockway Martin
John
Dennis L. Smith
S. Main
Rodney McClay
Ste
McArdle
York-Borg-Warner
Bud
Betty McArdle
Jweers
Ottawa Sheet Metal
General Sheet Metal Lennox Dealers Welding
TAX Service
Jim Baldwin
Income Tax
Otis and
Paul Goodwin
Wes Ottawa
Witcher's Floor
J. C. South
D.C
Motney Chiropractic Office
Don L. McKelvey
Chiropractic
Orthopedics
W. 15Th St
Pieroc Jatonal Life Inurance Company
Dewey S. Cook
Brown’s Hardware
Richardson’s
Franklin County Mental Health Clinic
Your Community Mental Health
Cea
Ashers
A-1 Cab CO. and
CHY & Top Hat Tax
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