Tragic Abduction Case Ends With Laurie Murninghan Found
Laurie Murninghan the 16 year old daughter of former Lansing mayor Max Murninghan was found dead near a lake after a July 9 kidnapping during a Gallagher's Gift Shop holdup. Police chief Derold Husby vowed swift action as autopsy results were awaited.
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Lansing
Mich
Laurie Murninghan
Gr. Ee
Lansing PG
Derold Husby
Max E. Murninghan
Husby
Munninghan
Gerald W. Graves
Laurie
Miss Murninghan
Gallagher
Christine Gallagher
FTC accuses McDonald's of deceptive sweepstakes
The FTC seeks a consent order demanding 487000 in prizes to be paid for the McDonald's $500,000 Sweepstakes run through a Readers Digest insert in 1968. McDonald's, McDonald's Systems, D'Arcy Advertising, and D L Blair are named in the action. Only 227 prizes valued at about 13000 were awarded.
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Washington
UPI
Federal Trade Commission
FTC
McDonald’s Corp
McDonald’s
McDonald’s Systems Inc
D’arcy Advertising Co
St. Louis
D. L. Blair Corp
New York
Becky Becomes First Hurricane of 1970 Near Gulf Coast
Tropical storm Becky intensified into the first hurricane of 1970, moving about 10 mph toward the Gulf Coast and reaching 75 mph winds. Warnings stretched from Fort Walton to Port St. Joe Florida, with gale alerts from Mobile to St. Marks.
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New Orleans
UPI
Becky
Gulf Coast
Florida
Weather Bureau
Fort Walton
Fla
Port St. Joe
Mobile
Ala
St. Marks
Mississippi
Louisiana
Pensacola
Alabama
Camille
Alma
Caribbean
Love Valley Rock Festival drains funds amid chaos
Mayor Andy Barker of Love Valley planned a three day rock festival to fund a sewer system for the community. He blamed gate crashers and printing errors, saying profit was not the aim. Thousands smoked marijuana as crowds dwindled from an estimated 75 000 to about 3 500. One youth died from a heart stroke amid drug use and heat. another was seriously wounded. Army Spec 4 Grant McIvor of Ft Benning died during the event, attributed to heat stroke possibly aggravated by drug use.
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Love Valley
N.C
UPD
Andy Barker
Winston-Salem
Grant McIvor
Ft. Benning
Iredell County
Donald Schnell
MclIvor
McIvor
Schnell
Senator Mondale Critiques Migrant Camps as Societal Blight
Senator Walter Mondale denounces migrant camps as a microcosm of social ills. He cites poverty, disease, malnutrition, racism, and squalor, describing pitiful children and systemic failure of institutions to address the crisis.
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Sen
Walter F. Mondale
Migrant Farm Workers Plight Stirs Senate Hearings
Sen. Mondale chairs a migrant labor hearing after Dr. Lipscomb and Dr. Wheeler report dire living conditions in Hidalgo County Texas. A field survey by 25 doctors found widespread intestinal parasites and dire health needs, with 1,400 treated at a four day clinic.
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Roy McGhee
Washington
UPD
Walter F. Mondale
Dminn
Raymond M. Wheeler
Congress of the
United States
Mondale
Hidalgo County
Tex
Wheeler
Harry S. Lipscomb
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston
Lipscomb
Polio in migrant families. Hidalgo County report notes other diseases
Lipscomb states the only U S polio this year is among migrant families in Hidalgo County. He notes rickets is not uncommon there, contrary to belief it was abolished, and reports one case of leprosy. Six of eight tested drinking water sources showed fecal contamination.
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Lipscomb
United States
Hidalgo County
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