Black Panther Terror Leader Strikes Britain
Police call the suspect Britain's most dangerous criminal, the so called Black Panther. He is linked to three killings and numerous armed holdups and is suspected in the kidnapping of 17 year old heiress Lesley Whittle. A witness described him as 30 to 40, about 5 foot 6, slim and athletic, with a hooded black outfit.
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Michael Dennigan
London
UPI
Black Panther
Britain
Scotland Yard
Lesley Whittle
Miss Whittle
Hree Post Office
Robert Booth
England
Midlands
Booth
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
Botulism Fears Rise With Home Canning Boom
Government experts link a surge in home gardening and canning to record botulism cases last year. Seven deaths due to home canned foods. 20 outbreaks affecting 30 people. Officials plan a March 10 nationwide education push on safe home canning.
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Michael J. Conlon Washington
UPI
Center For Disease Control
Nancy Stearts
Agriculture Department
Old Bullet Finally Ends Cincinnati Double Homicide
Hamilton County Coroner Dr. Frank Cleveland ruled the death Monday of 86 year old Wallace Chenault as a homicide. Chenault had been shot by William McBee, 58, during an argument at a bingo parlor on January 21, 1947. Chenault died from a bullet wound 28 years later, ending the case.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
UPI
Hamilton County
Frank Cleveland
Wallace Chenault
William McBee
Chenault
McBee
Cleveland
Lifetime Inmate Won t Go Back
Bobby Ferguson born in prison spent most of 40 years in state institutions and recently released from Iowa State Penitentiary. He found work on Raymond Meyer farm near Ottumwa and plans to stay outside, saying family support makes all the difference. He previously asked for a life sentence and once violated parole but now embraces a new life as part of a family.
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Pam Huey
Des Moines, Iowa
UPI
Bobby Ferguson
Robert D. Ray
Ferguson
Iowa State Penitentiary
Raymond Meyer
Ottumwa
Becau
Iowa Women’s Reformatory
Rockwell City
Ray
Fort Madison
Meyer Farm
Meyer
IFG Reports Idaho access sites damage case
Idaho Department of Fish and Game reports vandals caused eight thousand six hundred seventy five dollars in damage to access sites statewide during the past year. Most losses affected three hundred eighty toilets at sportsmen access areas.
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Boise
API
Idaho Department of Fish and Game
Idaho
Bureau of Engineering
Consumer Reports Casts Doubt On Marijuana Harms
Consumer Reports concludes marijuana smoking has not been proven harmful as many adverse effects lack independent confirmation. Edward Brecher authored the March study noting repeated findings weaken claims of damage, while citing Jamaica study results showing no lung or chromosome abnormalities among users.
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David E. Anderson Washington
UPI
Consumer Reports
Journal of Consumers Union
Edward Brecher
James Eastland
Internal Security Subcommittee
Subcommittee
Jamaica
National Institute of Mental Health
No Problems In Election In Ada And Canyon Counties
Idaho Secretary of State Pete T. Cenarroso said election day ran smoothly in Ada and Canyon Counties. A bipartisan study team reported high performance, with elections conducted capably, accurately and impartially.
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Boise
UPI
Idaho
Ada
Canyon County
Pete T. Cenarrosa
Mardi Gras crowds shrink as debris falls in New Orleans
Jazz bands and large floats filled the French Quarter though debris volumes show fewer revelers than 1974. Police note 164 tons in 1974 versus 146 tons in 1975, while Rex leads a 25 float parade titled Creatures of the Imagination toward Canal Street.
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Cyril Guerrera
New Orleans
UPI
Tony Buonagura
Bourbon Street
Rex
Canal Street
Jackson Square
French Quarter
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