Primary elections shape McGovern lead in four states
United Press International reports McGovern favored to win California and South Dakota delegates as four states vote today. Nixon poised to clinch Republican nomination with California and other delegates. Yorty exits Dem race urging support for Humphrey to curb McGovern juggernaut.
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McGovern
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New Jersey
New Mexico
Hubert H. Humphrey
Nixon
Los Angeles
Sam Yorty
Humphrey
Eugene J. McCarthy
Rhodesian mine disaster traps 400 workers at Wankie coal pit
Rescue teams in liquid oxygen gear searched the Wankie mine near the Victoria Falls after a 10 am explosion. Officials believed 468 workers, mostly Africans, were trapped amid deadly methane gas with few expected to survive, as relatives gathered by the shaft.
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Rhodesia
Wankie
Wankie Game Reserve
Victoria Falls
Zambia
Anglo-American Corporation of South Africa
Inquest Eyed In Fatality Of Morrison Knudsen Chairman
UPI reports investigated the traffic death of B L Verkins 49 president and board chairman of Morrison Knudsen Co Inc as Ada County prosecutors consider an inquest. James E Risch said autopsy and reports would be reviewed before deciding. Verkins died Saturday night when his car left Roosevelt Street and crashed into the New York Canal near Hillcrest Country Club.
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UPI
B.L. Verkins
Morrison-Knudsen Co., Inc
Ada
James E. Risch
Perkins
Roosevelt Street
New York Canal
Hillcrest Country Club
Two Conventions Seek 1973 Meet in Garden City
The National Coalition on the Crisis in Education and the Scientific Information and Education Council of Physicians bid to host two 1973 conventions at the Rodeway Inn Convention Center in Garden City next July. They held simultaneous joint sessions in Washington DC.
Hollister Officials Plan Meeting Over Grasshopper Issue
Grasshoppers and a potential twenty five cent shopper problem prompt a meeting at Hollister Grange hall tonight. Oscar Arstein from the state Agriculture Commission will join ranchers and farmers from Hollister to discuss solutions for a recurring insect problem that troubled the area last year.
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Hollster
Maho Upd
Oscar Arstein
Kaho
Hollister
Accidental Gunshot Wound Reported Near Boise River
Boise youth George R. Burnett eighteen received an accidental gunshot wound to the right leg during a camping trip on Brown's Creek near the Boise River. Ada County officers say Burnett slipped on a rock and fell, lodging part of a 22 caliber pistol near his ankle. He was treated and released at a Boise hospital after assistance from three companions. In Lewiston, jury selection was to complete today for Fred W. Hokenson twenty six, on trial for first degree murder in the police officer Ross Flavel case linked to a bombing during a downtown drugstore robbery.
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George R. Burnett
Brown's Creek
Boise River
Ada County
Burnett
Tre Bunce
Lewiston
Idaho
UPD
Fred W. Hokenson
Hokenson
Second District
Ross Flavel
Flavel
Coker Seeks State House Seat From District 13
Tracy Coker of Nampa former Idaho legislator says he will seek the Republican nomination for state representative District 13. He served two terms in the House from Lincoln County before World War II and promises a hard look at the present system of annual legislative sessions.
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UPI
Tracy Coker
Nampa
Coker
Lincoln County
Whittom Files for Idaho State Senate District 21
Rupert Idaho reports city councilman W F Bill Whittom a Democrat filed petitions to run for state senator District 21. Whittom 31 and his wife Irene reside in Minidoka County. He pledged to listen to all citizens and ensure broad representation if elected.
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Idaho
UPD
W.f.bill
Whittom
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