Woman Vanishes After Body Found in Abandoned Houston House
Police search for Mrs. Johnson after a deceased woman believed to be her daughter was found in a vacant Houston home. The body, dressed in green plastic overalls and coffin-liner silk, was wrapped with a pink ribbon and lay on a pallet. Neighbors called it “the mummy” as investigators linked the case to a Louisiana tomb transfer involving Marian Adams who died at 34 and was initially buried in Houston.
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Houston
UPI
Etbel Johnson
Janes L. Turner
St. Martin de Tours Mausolem
Turner
St. Martinville
Adam
Marian Adams
Adams
Air Force
Randolph Air Force Base
Johnson
Louisiana
Sniper Dies After Gunbattle in California
UP I reports a tense gunfight near San Jose where suspect Hollis Noble was shot and captured, later dying at Valley Medical Center. Officers recovered a rifle and a highway was closed to protect motorists. The case involves a missing daughter’s body and witnesses who saw the tomb lid lifted to remove a casket, raising questions for the district attorney and investigators.
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Hollis Noble
Valley Medical Center
San Jose
Lloyd Meister
Noble
California Wishway
Tainted Turkeys May Be Marketed Under Plan
Washington officials discuss an Agriculture Department proposal allowing Swift & Co to market 5300 tainted turkeys after removing chemicals then processing into frozen dinners soups and pot pies. Government estimates could save Swift about 400000 though safe proof is required. Contamination involved biphenyls linked to birth defects in animals traced to a Detroit Lakes Minnesota plant incident. Also sixty congressmen urge Interior to halt offshore drilling on the Atlantic coast.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Swift& Co
Swift
Detroit Lakes
Mim
Departa Feficials
Brothel Owner Promises Retirement in 1975
Joe Conforte the owner of the nation’s only legal house of prostitution said he promised God in 1969 to retire after ten years, and that he would retire from the prostitution business in 1975. He noted the pledge while discussing his business in Reno.
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UPI
Joe Conforte
God
Conforte
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