handwriting experts challenge Book of Mormon authorship
UPI reports that William Kaye and two other experts contend the Book of Mormon was partly written by 18th century novelist Solomon Spalding. They suggest Spalding drafted it as a novel to pay debts and that Sidney Riggins delivered it to Joseph Smith. The LDS Church disputes the claim.
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UPI
Book of Mormon
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
William Kaye
Mormon Church
Joseph Smith
Solomon Spalding
Salt Lake City
Smith
Spalding
Solomon
Sidney Riggins
Kaye
Koch Cuomo Win Oust Beame In NYC Democratic Runoff
Reform Congressman Edward Koch and Mario Cuomo ousted Mayor Abraham Beame in New York City. They face a September 19 runoff to decide the Democratic standard-bearer for November. Roy Goodman defeated Barry Farber for the GOP nomination. Farber runs on the Conservative line in November.
Seventh Ohioan May Have The Legionnaire Disease
The Ohio Department of Health reports a kidney transplant patient at Ohio State University Hospital with pneumonia may be the seventh Ohioan to contract Legionnaires disease. Five other cases, one fatal, are confirmed at Riverside Methodist Hospital. a second fatality is under investigation.
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Columbus, Ohio
Jon Christensen
Ohio Department of Health
Riverside Methodist Hospital
Witness Breaks On Stand Over Dead Daughter Photo
Priscilla Davis, wounded survivor in the T Cullen Davis case, wept on the witness stand after viewing a color photograph of Andrea Wilkins death pose. The scene heightened tensions as defense questions intensified and the court recessed.
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Steven R. Reed
Amarillo
Tex
UPI
Priscilla Davis
Richard
Haynes
Joe Shannon Jr
Shannon
Davis
Fort Worth
Obituary: Thad J. Matthews 67 Five Years In Laclede
Thad J. Matthews aged 67 died Thursday evening after five years as a Laclede resident. He is survived by wife Nora and son Ken L. Matthews of Laclede and daughter Jan Brackett of Sandpoint. Graveside rites Monday at 1 p.m. Pinecrest Cemetery under Lakeside Lodge 42 AF and AM. He leaves four grandsons a granddaughter and a great granddaughter.
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Thad J. Matthews
Laclede
Nora
Ken L. Matthews
Jan Brackett
Sandpoint
Pinecrest Cemetery
Lakeside Lodge
Accused Bolles Killer Implicates Another Man
John Harvey Adamson testified in the Bolles murder trial that Max Dunlap proposed he flee the country and that Dunlap could make Adamson a rich man if he stayed silent. Adamson described Dunlap arranging payoffs, travel, and alibis amid the 1976 bombing that killed Don Bolles.
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Bolles
Phoenix
API
Max Dunlap
Don Bolles
John Harvey Adamson
Adamson
Dunlap
James Robison
Mary
Government Should Plug Leaks Says Colby in Mississippi
Former CIA Director William Colby urged officials to plug leaks and leave journalists alone while criticizing CIA exposes He warned the leak problem is weak and blamed internal leaks for secrecy breaches during a Millsaps College appearance in Jackson Mississippi.
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United Press International
Colby
Jackson, Miss
UPI
CIA
William Colby
Millsaps College
Calby
United Methodist Bazaar and Community Meetings Notice
Multiple community events listed for mid September include a United Methodist Bazaar on Sept 16 17 with hours and luncheon, plus club meetings at various venues from Sept 12 14. Activities cover library hours bowling gardening dances and charitable group gatherings across Sandpoint Bonner and Priest River areas.
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Church Fellowship Hall
UMW
Bonner County
Democratic Central Committee
Riverview
Priest River
Henri
Sandpoint
Dean says Nixon exaggerated Watergate origins and blamed Martha Mitchell
John Dean told Arizona State University students that Nixon's Frost interview account about Martha Mitchell was a distortion of fact. He admitted Nixon’s tale had truth but was not the full truth, noting Mitchell’s strain and his own close dealings with John Mitchell amid the Democratic breakin context.
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Ariz
UPI
John Dean
Richard Nixon
Martha Mitchell
Dean
Anzona State University
Nixon
David Frost
John Mitchell
Senate
Mitchell
Prion
Democratic
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