Pony fund inspires tax letter to IRS clerk
A 10 year old Meadowbrook girl Marcela Kessler pleads for a week of tax relief to buy a pony. the IRS cannot stop withholding but volunteers collect enough to buy her two ponies. Linda Ruzin, 21, a Mount Clemens bootblack nicknamed Sparkle, profits from shining shoes at Bill Bade's barber shop as she funds her Eastern Michigan University art studies. Her earnings rise as older customers tip more, with Bade noting her quick business impact and talent.
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Seymour S. Friedman
Internal Revenue Service
Marcela Kessler
Meadowbrook
Friedman
IRS
Marcia
Marcia 2 White
Linda Ruvzin
Eastern Michigan University
Bill Bade
Mount Clemens
Mich
Bade
Linda
YMCA
Chicago indicts policewoman and two precinct captains for vote buying
A federal grand jury in Chicago indicted policewoman Wilma K. Burns and two Democratic precinct captains Thomas F. Cannon and John J. Janow on charges of paying skid row inhabitants to register in the 1968 elections. The scheme involved paying hustlers $2 per registrant and 50 cents to others who registered, with several hundred votes affected under a 1965 Voting Rights Act provision.
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Chicago
U.S
Thomas Foran
Wilma K. Burns
Cook County
Thomas F. Cannon
John J. Janow
Precin Cannon
Elmwood Park
Chicago Bureau of Sewers
Janow
Sewer Department
U.S. Attorney's Office
Near West Side
John Simon
Stunt by Driver 21 Sides Six Dead on Turnpike Crash
A coroner's jury in Beaver Walls Pennsylvania attributed the August 4 crash on the Turnpike near Beaver Falls to the "malicious intent" of 21 year old Robert Burris of Struthers Ohio, saying he was pulling a stunt that killed six people including two Illinois couples and left 10 children orphaned.
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Beaver Walls
Robert Burris
Struthers
Ohio
Burris
Beaver Falls
Illinois
D A Seeks Judge for Autopsy in Kopechne case
Wilkes Barre Pa D A Edmund Din flew to seek permission to exhume and autopsy Mary Jo Kopechne. A private session with Presiding Judge Brominski and attorney Flanagan weighed the petition amid parental opposition. Din said an autopsy would aid the inquest. Kopechne and her husband oppose it. Kennedy noted he sympathizes with the tragedy but rejects rumors, while the inquest opens in Edgartown Mass. on September 3.
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Wilkes-Barre
Atty
Edmund Dinis
Laverne County Courts
Mary Jo Kopechne
Bernard C. Brominsk
Luzerne County
Chappaquiddick Island
Brominski
Flanagan
Joseph Kopechne
Dinis
Edgartown
Mass
Kopechne
Kennedy
Russ Airliner Exceeds Sound in Test Flights
Moscow reports the Soviet TU144 supersonic airliner has flown beyond the sound barrier for extended periods with no difficulty. It leads the British-French Concorde in testing and is expected to enter service in under two years, while the Concorde has not yet surpassed sound barrier.
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Moscow
Apology Sought Over Cranston Omission At Astronaut Dinner
San Francisco upi A Democratic official urged the White House to apologize for excluding California Senator Alan Cranston from the Los Angeles dinner honoring the astronauts while Senator George Murphy received an invitation and 10 tickets for friends. G W Jo Holsinger Northern California chair urged the propriety of inviting all Americans and cautioned against using the event for partisan ends.
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San Francisco
UPI
Democratic Party
White House
California
Alan Cranston
Los Angeles
Cranston
George Murphy
Moon
Holsinger
Ghetto Work Urged in Lieu of Draft
The National Medical Association urged the government to let Negro youths substitute service in tower cities for military duty. Comprised largely of Black physicians, the group passed the resolution at its annual meeting citing the need for capable Black men to serve their own communities and noting higher death rates among young Black soldiers in Vietnam.
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San Francisco
The
National Medical Association
United States
Parents Lose Custody After Son Reported Chained in Desert
Riverside County judge grants custody to the county for two children of James and Beverly Gibbons following a case at a desert commune. An 11 year old daughter and a 5 year old son were removed amid felony child abuse indictments against 18 commune members. Son Tony allegedly endured six days chained inside a wooden crate under extreme heat with no lasting injuries reported. Tony freed July 26 as deputies pursued the case. James Gibbons vanished after welfare authorities removed the children. Beverly Gibbons faces trial August 27 for contributing to delinquency of a minor.
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Indio i
Riverside County Superior Court
Anthony
Tammy Gibbons
Riverside County
James
Beverly Gibbons
Sheri
Tony
Gibbons
Los Angeles County Probation Department
Scarsdale Summer Course Teaches Guerrilla Tactics
Thirteen high school students in Scarsdale New York took part in a guerrilla warfare course offered for credit in a summer program. Instructor Stephen Kling defended the class as legitimate while police visited during a war game using unloaded guns water pistols and shaving cream bombs.
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Scarsdale
Scarsdale High School
Westchester County
New York City
Stephen Kting
Shem Gner
N.Y
Stephen Kling
Scaredale
Kling
Snpt
Donald G Emery
Arrest at Pentagon Peace Mass Protest
Thirty four persons were arrested in the Pentagon Thursday as they tried to celebrate a Roman Catholic mass in protest of the Vietnam war. The demonstration was one of a series sponsored since May by the Quaker Action Group, Episcopal Peace Fellowship, and War Resisters League. A total of 78 have been arrested and charged with trespassing.
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Washington
UPI
Pentagon
Quaker Action Group of
Philadelphia
Episcopal Peace Fellowship
New York City
War Resisters League of
New York
Paper Banned Jakarta II Suspends Army-Backed Newspaper
The Jakarta Military Command suspended a newspaper backed by the army after it called for the United States to withdraw from Korea the day President Nixon visited Jakarta. The move signals heightened control over media during a tense period.
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Jakarta II
Jakarta
Korea
Nixon
Hundreds Fight Fire in Alaska on the Kenai Peninsula
Hundreds of firefighters battled the Swanson River forest fire using shovels and water dropping helicopters to hold lines and allow evacuees to return home. A change in wind from north to southwesterly pushed flames back into scorched areas near Soldotna and Kenai. Over 50,000 acres burned with the Kenai National Moose Range badly scorched. Civil Defense revised evacuations to about 600 people as the fire neared Wednesday.
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Soldotna
Alaska
Swanson River
Soldavia
Kenai
Kenai Peninsula
Anchorage
Bureau of Land Management
Kenai National Moose Range
Bern
Civil Defense
Unclear notice from Long Beach post entry
Fragmentary OCR text appears as a postal filing or entry notice. It mentions Long Beach, a post office and a date fragment but lacks readable names or concrete action. The readable bits suggest an early 20th century style notice without enough detail to specify person, organization, or deadline.
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