Thousands Slain by Farm Boycott Hits Meat Market
National Farmers Organization members intensified a two month old protest by slaughtering and burying hogs to pressure meat packers for a $23 per hundredweight price. Reports say over 2,000 hogs were killed in trenches near Clermont Indiana and Privy Lake Minnesota, with additional animals near Bellefontaine Ohio. Prices at major Midwest markets Thursday showed hogs at 19 to 20.25, cattle 26.? to 42.50, sheep 26 to 28, while the movement pledged charity donations if demands were met.
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Privy Lake
Minneapolis
Minn
Bellefontaine
Ohio
Ferns
Mother Is Strangled by Her Son in East Bay Tragedy
InSalvajaytte Calif police accuse 21 year old Gregory Busch of strangling his mother and beating his father unconscious with a cane. Gregory found in a coma outside the family home as the elder Busch crawled for help. The family has prior tragedy with a missing sister and a cousin's suicide linked to distant events. The case remains under investigation.
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East Bay
Gregory Busch
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Sonoma Site College
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Oscar Busch
Wilt Disney Nature Mims
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University of California
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Max Osteniller
Salt Lake City
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Bar Patron Fires at Moosehead, Shoots Self in Leg
In Green River Wye James Martin, 25, fired at a Moosehead display above a bar, then wounded himself in the leg while attempting to stow the pistol. He was disciplined by a judge for discharging a weapon and creating a disturbance.
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Wye
Wan Cundy
James Martin
Moosehead
Iown
Barnard student fights housing rules in false address case
Linda LeClair a Barnard College sophomore faces possible expulsion for giving a false off campus address to live with her boyfriend. The nine member student faculty judicial committee hears the case with witnesses and a continued hearing set for April 16. The student calls Barnard rules archaic and cites gender differences at Columbia.
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Linda LeClair
Barnard College
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Miss LeClairy
Elizabeth Meyers
Columbia
Capital Curfew Eased Amid Nationwide Calm After King Assassination
Violence lessened across many cities as curfews relaxed and normal life returned. In Washington D C liquor sale restrictions eased while gasoline limits remained. 33 600 federal troops and National Guardsmen patrolled the capital. Maryland eyed troop withdrawals as Baltimore prepared to defederalize its guard. In Jacksonville a white man faced murder charges in the slaying of a Negro airman. Across the nation, authorities faced criticism over crowd control tactics as rioting subsided in 125 cities with property losses estimated at 125 million dollars and over 20 000 arrests.
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District of Columbia
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Spiro T. Agnew
Baltimore
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Fla
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Memphis
American Insurance Assn
Brando and Baldwin Attend Panther Memorial Prayers
Mourners including Marlon Brando and James Baldwin gathered near the county courthouse for a memorial service for slain Black Panther Bobby Stutton after funeral rites at Ephesian Church in Berkeley. Police say Stutton and others were ordered to surrender during a tense house siege in West Oakland.
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James Baldwin
Aunr
Marlon Brando
Bobby Stutton
Ephesian Church of God In Christ
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Hulton
West
Hutton
Anarma
Mortuary Holds Coed Body Demands Pay
In Freeport Bahamas a New York college student Renee McKee’s body is held for $1400 by Yager funeral home for embalming and hermetic coffin to ship the body. The mother from Lynbrook seeks release of the body but the director says funds are needed and will not ship without a death certificate from the Grand Bahama island commissioner. Police have not found the driver.
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Bahamas
New York
Renee Mckee
Manhattanville College
Helen Dunne
Lynbrook
N.Y
Barney Kroeger
Yager Funeral Home
Kroeger
Grand Bahama Island
Miss McKee
U.S
Phone Strike Near Beire Warns Union Heads
Washington (UPI) President Joseph A Beire of the Communications Workers Union warned a nationwide Bell Telephone strike is nearly unavoidable. About 200 000 members would start April 18 with potential to idle over 400 000 workers if it lasts. The union seeks a 16 percent wage boost. Bell negotiators offered 7.4 percent.
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UPI
Joseph A. Beire
Communications Workers Union
Bell Telephone System
Beime
Beirne
Bell System
Reisne Hrs
Jess
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