First American Olympic Ski Medal Awarded Retroactively
Haugen, now 86 and a pioneer of the Lake Tahoe Ski Club, is retroactively recognized as the first American to win an Olympic ski medal. Arne Mollen will present the bronze at Holmenkollen, Oslo. Norway’s Olympic Committee corrected 1924 jumping results after a Norway reunion and analysis by ski historian Jacob Vaage.
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Anders Naugen
Haugeh
Lake Tahée
Arne Mollen
Olympic Committee
Holmen- Kole
Oslo
Norway
Champaix
France
Haugen
Thorstef Haug
Jacob Vaage
Fhorlaf ‘Stromstad
Haug
Ford seeks golf wisdom at Pinehurst before Hall of Fame dinner
President Ford meets golf great George Sarazen at Pinehurst New Jersey before a dinner opening the World Golf Hall of Fame. He told the crowd that understanding and reconciliation are as important in government as in athletics. Sarazen was among eight golfers inducted into the Hall.
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Ford
George Sarazen
Pinehurst
N.J
Sarazen
Sinatra Kin Testimony Sparks Palm Springs Nightclub Fight
Frank Sinatra close associate Jull y Rizzo testified in Los Angeles that he slapped businessman Frank Weinstock in a Palm Springs nightclub last year in self defense. Weinstock, from Salt Lake City, claims Sinatra ordered assaults in a Trinidad restroom. Rizzo counters with a different account. A second matter notes Joan Chesimard giving birth in a guarded New York hospital, while Justice Rehnquist discusses judges living a sanitized life to avoid conflicts of interest. In Peterborough, England, Walter Correlias seeks twenty men to haul a rubber hand across the River Nene for a publicity stunt next month.
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Los Angeles
Frank Sinatra
Jully Rizzo
U.S. District Court
Frank Weins
Palm Springs
Weinstock
Salt Lake City
Utah
Sinaia
Riza
Jerry Arventias
Rizzo
Malia Huinea
Weinstein
Sinatra
New York
Joanne Chesimard
Chesimard
Manhattan
Washington
Supreme Court
William H. Rehnquist
Peterborough
England
UPI
Walter Correlias
Purley
Nene
Wholesale prices rise 3.9 percent in August
The government said wholesale prices jumped 3.9 percent, the second-worst month in 23 years, driven by farm products and industrial goods. If sustained, August’s rise implies steep inflation carried into retail prices, challenging predictions of any rapid decline.
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Washington
Ford Administration
White House
Keneth Rush
Labor Department
TV family reunion as strike ends in LA
An early settlement resolves a 21 day electricians strike affecting All in the Family. CBS and Local 45 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers reach a deal, removing picket lines and allowing filming and rehearsal to resume with Carroll O Connor expected back. Norman Lear warned O Connor could be written out if he did not report for rehearsal.
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Los Angeles
O'Connor
Dnes
Sailor killed as motorcycle crashes into pole at base
A 22 year old sailor James D Barton of Monroe Falls Ohio stationed on the USS Wichita died after his motorcycle swerved on a road beside a pier at the Long Beach Naval Base and slammed into a telephone pole. He died at Long Beach Naval Hospital.
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Long Beach Naval Base
James D. Barton
Monroe Falls
Ohio
Barton
Long Beach Naval Hospital
Tax rocked Stockton man takes dynamite to IRS office
Vic tor Lester, a 57 year old plastics businessman from Rawhide Flats, brought eight sticks of dynamite and a pistol to the Stockton IRS office to pressure tax problems. He held agent Eugene Neri hostage until negotiations with FBI and police ended in surrender. Lester faces assault with a deadly weapon and tax-related charges as officials say his real estate and business tax issues were the motive. A second note: Donald Walker, head of the National Park Service, resigned effective Jan 1 per Interior Department.
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Stockton
Victor Lester
Rawhide Flats
Internal Revenue Service
Eugene Neri
IRS
TRS
FBI
Robert Anderson
Lester
Frank Browitt
San Franccisco
Federal
James Stanley
Sonora
Sacramento
PBI
Own Harriman
Harriman
Aster
Neri
William
Washington
Fonald’ Walker
National Park Service
Interior’ Department
Fire forces 100 to flee at Los Angeles hotel
AP dispatch: More than 100 evacuated from an old Los Angeles hotel when a fire broke out on the top floor. One man, Millard McLellany, 77, suffered smoke inhalation and required carrydown by firefighters.
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Los ‘Angeles
Millard McLellany
Brakes on truck rail kill driver in Glendale accident
A dump truck with a sand load sped up to 60 mph for two miles with brakes failed before crashing into two downtown Glendale houses. Driver Columbus Watson, 9, Los Angeles, was killed. passenger George Goings, 30, Los Angeles, was seriously injured. Fire officials estimated $100,000 damage to the Barclay Hotel, where residents were rescued as flames and water damaged the upper floors.
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Glendale
UPR
Columbus Watson
Los Angeles
George Goings
Verdugo Hills Hospital
McLellan
County Usc Hospital
Barclay
New York weighs vast education crime plan and IDs
James Régan, new president of the board, announces a proposal to fingerprint and photograph 144,000 teachers and staff for identity cards to curb crime in city schools and reduce violations by outsiders. The plan targets New York City's 450 schools as part of a broader effort to tighten security and accountability.
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Ae Fore
Maprd of Education Agha
James Régan
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