Skeletons Identified in Lake Lavon Area Remains
A skeleton found near Princeton Speedway was identified as Dallas woman Elvalda Joy Gann, while investigators work to confirm the second skeleton found last week in Blue Ridge Park near Lake Lavon. Collin County officials and Texas Rangers planned a meeting in McKinney to refine the description of the second victim.
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Princeton Speedway
Dallas
Collin County
Royce Abbott
Texas Rangers
McKinney
Blue Ridge Park
Lake Lavon
Elvalda Joy Gann
Elvaldo Joy Gann
Jerry Burton
Miss Gann
Plane Police Dept
Tommy Ashley
Mike Newman
Melissa
Anderson
Abbott
Plano area FFA wins awards at district leadership contest
Plano Senior High School FFA placed second in sweepstakes among 14 teams at the District V Area V Leadership Contest in Frisco. Williams High School students won a first and second in skills contests. Senior High earned fifth in conducting team led by Valerie Eldred. Williams placed first in Greenhand farm skills and second in chapter farm skills with a seventh in radio. Haggard's Greenhand team placed fifth in leadership. other officers and teams earned sixth in greenhand quiz. A separate local homicide case involved missing Dallas waitress, Miss Gann, found dead with investigators linking to other cases. medical examiner to ID remains.
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Plano Senior High School
Future Farmers of America
Frisco
Williams High School
Valerie Eldred
Debra Tarrant
Mellisa Carter
Tim Moore
Susie Harrison
Colflesh
Robby Myers
Mark Stanford
George Ridpath
David Peckham
David Reid
Bill Harrington
Haggard
Greenhand
Mark Smith
Melanie Pringle
Yelynda Carter
Joe Thomas
Bryan McGee
Kathy Furrh
Susan Banfield
Lee Craiglow
Curtis Fuller
Lisa Yowell
Dallas
Collin County
Jerry Burton
Abbott
Miss Gann
Sandra Kay Beddow
Allen
far north
Plano
Carol Marie Anderson
No Winter Power Shortage Seen Despite Conservation Warning
WASHINGTON based Federal Power Commission reports ample reserve generating capacity for 1975 76 winter but urges continued energy conservation. Peak load seen at 329157 megawatts with 477919 megawatts dependable capacity giving 45.2 percent cushion.
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WILLIAM E. CLAYTON WASHINGTON
UPI
Federal Power Commission
FPC
Burglary Suspect Arrested in Plano
Plano police arrested a juvenile suspect in a residential burglary last week. Four others were taken into custody including three illegal aliens and a shoplifter. Dairy Queen on Avenue K reported theft and burglary with an undetermined amount of money taken. A major accident at 15th and K left two with minor injuries. A 1974 Chevrolet and a 1970 Opel collided at 10:20 p.m. Crasbtree and Ricky Luttrell were hospitalized.
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Plano
Avenue K
15th and
Michael Samuel Wallis
McKinney
William Paul Crabtree
Dallas
Crabtree
Ricky Glenn Luttrell
Plano General Hospital
Brush fires reported around Crossbend and Los Rios area
The Plano Fire Dept says a brush fire occurred at 12:55 a.m. south of Crossbend and a separate tree fire was put out at Los Rios Country Club near the golf course at 6:28 p.m. on Wednesday. Firefighters also handled a grease fire at 3393 Sherwood and checked a false grass-fire alarm.
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Roundrock
Crossbend
Plano Fire Dept
Los Rios Country Club
Sherwood
Carson offered $1 million to star in Nightworks film
Johnny Carson was offered a $1 million movie role in Irwin Shaw’s Nightworks on NBC television by Shaw’s agent Irving Lazar. Carson quipped about playing Joan of Arc for a million, while NBC said he was considering the offer. The role is the lead night clerk in a flophouse.
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BURBANK
Calif
UPI
Johnny Carson
Irwin Shaw
Nightworks
Tonight Show
NBCTV
Shaw
Irving ‘ Swifty
Lazar
Carson
Joan of Arc
NBC
Warwick wins divorce from Bill Elliott in Los Angeles
Singer Dionne Warwick aged 34 is granted divorce from actor Bill Elliott 41 after 10 years of marriage. Warwick receives custody of their two sons aged 2 and 6. Community property division to be decided at a trial next year.
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LOS ANGELES
UPI
Dionne Warwick
Bill Elliott
Miss Warwick
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FFA
Daily Star-Courier
Plano Independent School District
Jarvis, Putty and Jarvis
Batson-Cook Co
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