Four inch rule shocks Goodlettsville High girls
Principal Zollie Sircy enforces a dress length standard at Goodlettsville High School, sending about 20 girls home until they meet the four inch above knee limit. He warns teachers and warns noncompliance will end employment. The item is followed by World news on Dr Christiaan Barnard’s divorce suit in Cape Town and other international notes.
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Zollie Sircy
Goodlettsville High School
Nashville
Tenn
de. Christiaan Barnard
Africa
Cape Town
Trap Kills Indianapolis Man In Self-Protection Rig
William Hayes 58 of Indianapolis died in his home after a trap he built to deter theft was triggered. Marion County deputies found him in a back room, shot once with a .303 rifle wired to a trip wire. Neighbors reported he was missing for two days and all other doors had been sealed with plywood.
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William Hayes
Indianapolis
Marion County Sheriff's Deputies
Chicago Schools Accord May End City Wide Teacher Strike
Negotiators reached a tentative agreement that could allow 523 schools closed by a teachers strike to reopen on Monday. The deal, announced by Mayor Daley after over 20 hours of talks, hinges on state funding and legislative action, with wage increases and improved conditions cited as core terms.
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Chicago
Chicago Teachers Union
Richard J. Daley
Daley
House of Representatives
Ilinois General Assembly
John E. Desmond
Union
Board of Education
Poison Gas Moved But Not Very Far
Denver reports 27000 tons of obsolete nerve and mustard gas moved but not removed. Gas remains stored in hundreds of canisters on the Colorado prairie near the Rocky Mountain Arsenal as scientists work on disposal. Army delaying Atlantic Ocean dump amid congressional criticism. rail shipments halted after $200,000 bill and $8,500 daily siding fees. Two cranes now transfer cylinders from rail cars to a storage yard, with about two weeks to complete.
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Denver
Colorado
Cornelius Gallagher
D-N.j
Washington
Atlantic Ocean
Congressional
Ke Amy
Rocky Mountain Arsenal
Army
Flag Ripper Identified as Red Squirrel in Maine Cemetery
In Damariscotta Maine Wells Hussey Post members shadowed mutilations of veterans flags on graves. After weeks of vigilance Robert Batteese filmer captured a red squirrel tearing the flag from Deacon Jesse Flint’s grave, ending the mystery of the vandal.
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Legion
Damariscotta
Robert Balleese
Jesse Flint
Maine
American Legion
Wells-Hussey Post
Robert Batteese
Ripper
Deacon Jesse Flint
Batteese
Deacon Flint
Priest Will Wed Wear His Collar in Philadelphia
Rev. George C. Hafner, 42, a Roman Catholic priest, plans to marry Mary C. Stanley of Dayton, Ohio, on Saturday at the Chapel of the Chaplains on Temple University campus. The ceremony will be performed by a married priest, Paul Mayer. Hafner says he will wear his clerical collar to show his intent to retain priestly functions and to symbolize the married clergy. He resigned two years ago as assistant pastor of St. James Church in Jamesburg after criticism over an experimental parish.
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George C. Hamner
Mary C. Stanley
Dayton
Ohio
the Cour Chaplains
Temple University
Temple
Paul Mayer
Hafner
St. James Church
Jamesburg
George W. Ahr
Frenton
L A Air Charter Firm Comes Under Inquiry
Los Angeles police investigators probe International Tours travel agency after hundreds of customers reportedly lacked air travel arrangements. The firm closed, leaving about 200 Hawaii-bound customers stranded without return tickets. United Air Lines arranged one group free, others to travel this weekend. A law firm handles inquiries. Holland Wednesday trip noted. The Civil Aeronautics Board will hold hearings in mid June on illegal charter flights.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Banco
International Tours
Hawaii
United Air Lines
Holland
Civil Aeronautics Board
Reagan Pledges Public: Report on School Riots
Governor Reagan tells a Republican fund raiser he will release a white paper on university riots, detail the Berkeley People’s Park clash, praise public pressure on university administrators, and fault professors for instigating disruption while urging decisive action against dissidents. He cites a $5 million threat and calls for firmer standards.
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Reagan
Ronald Reagan
Anaheim
UC Berkeley
James Rector
Malaysian Rioting Toll May Be 500
Kuala Lumpur reports more than 500 believed killed in week long racial rioting with emergency government listing 146 confirmed dead. A special bureau notes about 400 missing since violence began May 13 as property damage runs into millions, largely affecting Chinese houses and businesses.
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Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia
Povernmment
U.S
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Groote Schuur Hospital
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Paul McCartney
John Lennon
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Tom Jones
Mantovani
Beatles
Lawrence
Kar
Barbara Avery
William Avery
Wichita
Kansas
Hardin
University of Kansas
Wilson
Avery
Christian Barnard
Richard B. Ogilvie
Ogilvie
Trenton
Philadelphia
L.A
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Tokyo
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de Mura
Collegienne
Clark Ave
Lakewood
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