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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1977
Page
2
Atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair and her son Jon sue state officials in a bid to remove a nativity scene at the base of the Capitol Christmas tree in Austin Texas. They seek 9 million dollars in punitive damages for themselves and their class.
Los Angeles AP reports actor George Peppard has begun a trial separation from his wife Sherry Boucher. Producer-director star Peppard, 47, cites stress from his recent film project The Long Escape and its sale to Universal Pictures as a factor. Boucher married Peppard in 1975 after his prior marriage to Elizabeth Ashley.
Steve Martin Barbra Streisand Shirley MacLaine Totie Fields Donnie and Marie and Shields and Yarnell are among the winners in AGVA eighth annual Entertainer of the Year Awards. Georgie statuettes will be presented during a 90 minute special honoring George M. Cohan.
An on air remark by Jack Cole, the WNAC TV Boston news anchor, prompted a suspension after a chimney safety segment aired around Christmas. The comment, We'll be back with more alleged news in a moment, drew protest from viewers and management.
Patricia Dockery Evans, who said her husband pistol-whipped and beat her, was granted executive clemency by Gov. James R. Thompson. Evans had killed her husband in September 1975 and has served 2 to 6 years in a women’s correctional reformatory.
The third day of testimony focused on discrediting key witness Richard Cottrill as defense attorney Marchiondo pressed cross examination to show Attorney General Anaya pursued Davis on faulty grounds. The defense argued Cottrill bribery policies were forged and that Cottrill paid lawful consulting fees to Davis, while prosecutors insisted the payments were bribes linked to state insurance business.
A Lovington district court jury convicted Reuben J. Escondon, 28, of Artesia on four counts of trafficking heroin after a 35 minute deliberation. The 1976 raid that led to the case involved about 20 others and was the largest heroin seizure in Chaves County history. Evidence included 40 caps of heroin and a long deposition from key witness Juan Valdez. Escondon Remanded to Lea County jail awaiting sentencing. attorney to appeal.
The Dow Jones average rose 0.26 to 815.49 at midday amid a 4 to 3 decline in NYSE issues. Marshall Field & Co jumped 8 percent to 30 as merger overtures from Carter Hawley Hale surface, while Field rejects the proposal as inadequate and an antitrust suit is filed.
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