Bomb scare evacuates Riverview High School in 49 seconds
About 1,200 Riverview High students were evacuated after a bomb threat call. Deputies searched the campus with no bomb found, and a .22 rifle was later recovered from a student with permission. Evacuation cost an estimated 3,000 to 5,000 dollars and disrupted evening events.
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Art Meier
Riverview High School
Sarasota
Sheriff's Department
Ross Boyer
F. G. Bowers Jr
Polukowich
Wayne Woodie
Woodie
Ed Brown
Gene Pillot
Brown
Riverview
Coun
Russell Wylie
Wylie
Weather dampens spirits and sly sayings drift in
The snippet notes cold weather lingering and people feeling the chill as a tough trek ahead. It includes quips about bosses, a fable of a father’s quick reply, and light international anecdotes from Montreal Ottawa Toronto Moscow Naples. It ends with a wry line about take home pay.
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Montreal
Ottawa
Toronto
Moscow
Car crashes into Florida home injuring two adults and baby
A 32-year-old woman Louise Munford veered off the Tamiami Trail to avoid a pedestrian and slammed into the Bailey home at 5030 Stevens Drive Sarasota. A five-month-old slept in a crib unharmed while a 19 month-old was also uninjured. Damage to the house estimated at 1000 dollars and to the car at 400 dollars. No charges were filed.
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Dale Bailey
Debra Bailey
Sarasota
Louise J. Munford
Rose Ave
Bradenton
Virgil Bailey
Stevens
Winkel
Munford
Biggest Auto Show Opens Its Gates
The Sarasota Auto Dealers Association opens its three day show at Payne Park with free admission from 1 to 9 p.m. daily. About 150 new models, domestic and imported, will be displayed as awards of silver dollars are given and a Jamaica trip for two is the grand prize. Demonstrations and staff help will aid buyers and curious visitors.
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Sarasota
Auto Dealers Association
Payne Park
Jamaica
The
Sarasota Auto Dealers Association
Richard Stinnett
T. B. Roach
Maxwell Cooke
Warm-Up Expected to Bring Warmer Weekend
Weatherman Hollis Bacon predicts a warming trend starting tomorrow with warmer weather by the weekend. Overnight low around 42 near the 1950 low, inland frost patches reported, Sarasota spared. Humidity erodes from 88 to 45 percent as mean temperature sits at 52 degrees, 14 below normal, with the cold front moving east.
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Hollis Bacon
Sarasota
Bacon
Senate Appropriations Panel Advances $4.5 Billion Works Bill
The Senate Appropriations Committee approved a 4.5 billion public works bill funding rivers and harbors the Atomic Energy Commission and other agencies. It added 224.9 million to the House version and remained well below Kennedy requests. The AEC was allocated 61.3 million more, including 18.5 million for nuclear reactor work. In Jacksonville the State Welfare Department launched a foster home program for the aged in Florida.
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Washington
UPI
Senate Appropriations Committee
Atomic Energy Commission
Senate
Kennedy
AEC
House
Release of U S Colonel Chenault Ends Caracas Kidnap Ordeal
U S Army Col James K Chenault, abducted eight days ago by communist terrorists outside his Caracas home, was released uninjured early today. Simultaneously Juan de Dios Moncada, self styled supreme commander of the FALN, was captured by loyal forces. It was unclear if the two events were connected.
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Caracas
UPI
U. S. Army
James K. Chenault
Juan de Dios Moncada
FALN
Moncada
Chenault
U.S
Las Palmas
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