Millionaire GIVES away $750000 in stock to Detroit area groups
GENE HIRS of Birmingham planed to donate 150000 Hydromation shares worth about $750000 to schools and colleges in Michigan and Detroit institutions. He sold Hydromation Filter Co to Amsted Corp and will complete the sale on June 20.
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Birmingham
Mwh
Gene Hirs
Hydromation Filter Co
Livonia
Detroit
Hydromation
University of Michigan
Hirs
Detroit Institute of Arts
United States
Hungary
Amsted Corp
Chicago
Bed incident in 1971 race ends in damages rebuff
In Bodmin England a judge dismissed Ivan Hooper's $9,000 damages claim after he was run over by a bed during a charity bed push race. Hooper suffered a severed Achilles tendon and a year out of work, alleging organizer negligence while describing the opposing beds as dangerous.
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Bodmin
England
Ivan Hooper
Hooper
Teen pleads guilty in Reddy extort plot
Gerald E. Hall a 17 year old from Asbury Park pleaded guilty to juvenile delinquency over an extortion attempt against singer Helen Reddy. He threatened to kill the star unless given 30000 dollars and was arrested at a Western Union office in Asbury Park. Sentencing was postponed for psychiatric evaluation.
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Freehold
N.J
Helen Reddy
Gerald E. Hall
Asbury Park
Monmouth County
Leo Weinstein
Hall
Reddy
Jeff Wald
Western Union
Hull
FBI
Miss Reddy
Australia
U.S
I Am Woman
Evel Knievel plans September London jump comeback
Evel Knievel said he will return to London in September for a second attempt to jump 13 parked buses after his Wembley Stadium crash on May 26. He spoke from a stretcher as he arrived at Kennedy Airport with his three children and grandmother, before flying home to Butte, Montana.
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New York
Dareievil Evel Knievel
London
Knievel
Wembley Stadium
Kennedy Airport
Nat
Ile
Butte
Mont
Demos optimistic in new marijuana penalty drive
In California a renewed push by liberal Democrats seeks to lower marijuana penalties to a traffic ticket level for small posses sions. GOP leaders say 41 votes may appear. Moscone and sponsor Sieroty emphasize timing and past opposition shifts, with support tied to a possible June special election outcome. Brownell notes Republican caucus pressures influenced prior defeat.
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Sacramento
California
Assembly
Bob Beverly Purees
Senate
Gordon Brownell
National Organization For the Reform of
Brownell
George Moscone
Moscone
San Francisco
Bill Greene
Greene
Los Angeles
Bill
Bill Hackers
Siraty
Sicraty
GOP
Beverly
Judge Dentes Bias on Oil Case Denied Disqualification
New York State Supreme Court Justice Burton B. Roberts refused to remove himself from a multimillion antitrust case against Gulf Oil and six other refiners. He ruled he held no bias despite prior remarks about Gulf, while noting the company could seek another judge if desired. The case involves alleged price fixing during the 1974 gasoline shortage.
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NEW York
Gulf Oil Co
Israel
State Supreme Court
Burton B. Roberts
Gulf
Roberts
Colorado snowstorms turn resorts into ski havens
United Press International reports heavy late spring snow across Colorado with 4 feet in the high Rockies west of Denver and 15 inches at Woodland Park. Dillon and Georgetown see 8 inch accumulations while Colorado Springs records 33 degrees and two inches of rain. Texas endures two days of thunderstorms forcing evacuations.
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United Press International
Colorado Rockies
Sk Havens
Sour Lake
Texo
Lone Star State
High Rockies
Denver
Woodland Park
Colorado Mountains
Georgetown
Dillon
Colo
Bobby Griffith
Steve Williams
Colorado Springs
Mercury
Texas
Special men's fashion show at noon and 1 p.m.
A special men's fashion show is scheduled for Wednesday January 01 at 12:00 noon and 1:00 p.m. Reservations can be made by calling 637-9111.
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Newton Abbot
Graham Toghill
Toghill
Georgina Haywood
Vietnam
Tran Thi Nam
Tijuana Brass
Herb Alpert
Camp Pendleton
Alpert
AP Witephota
Evel
Demos
Steve Lawrence
Press-Telegram
Ats
Pattaga
Manhattan Beach
Martha
Martha Mitchell
Maxine McKendrie
Museum of Modern Art
Dentes
Texaco
Shell
Exxon
Sun Oil
Amoco
Mabil Oil
Alty
Loutis d. Lefkowitz
Colorado
Bical
Lakewood
Dad
Ford
Roy Jarvis
Laguna
Bullock
Herculon II
Bullock’s
Bulfok
Lakewond
Chirk Ave
Lokiwouth
Allel Lakewood
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