Tragedy marks life of Iowa bus driver Jeannette James
Jeannette James survived a fatal school bus crash that killed her 8 year old daughter Lucretia Page James and injured 29 others. Her life has been marked by prior tragedies including a 12 year old car train crash near Tuscon that killed her two twins and a husband injury near Underwood. She remains in Mercy Hospital Council Bluffs with head jaw and rib injuries and says she cannot recall the moments before the crash.
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Underwood
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Mercy
Viking arm set to plow Mars soil again
Viking engineers announced the repair of the robot arm on the Viking spacecraft in Pasadena California. The arm, a vital miniature shovel, had stopped functioning last week while delivering soil to one of the lander’s miniature laboratories.
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Crossword Puzzle Clue List Scattered Across Grid
A jumble of crossword prompts appears with numbered entries and clues such as Deadly, Autocratic ruler, Breezy, Scrutiny, Route rumor, Mantle mouth, Father, Indite weights, Japanese board, West Indian game sorcery, Vocalize, Perplexing, Eyes of beans, Clown, Papal scarf.
Ford urges unity amid running mate speculation at convention
President Ford tells Republicans publicly criticizing John Connally as VP pick harm party unity. He says debates over potential nominees should follow his private recommendation procedure and notes Reagan hurt his campaign by naming Len Schweiker as a pre-convention running mate. Ford seeks a one ballot showdown with Reagan at the GOP gathering as platform rules clash.
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Nixon Administration
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Len Richard Schweiker
Kansas City
Partys Resolutions Committee
Reagan
Charleston
Richard Schweiker
Schweiker
Pensylvania
Washington
Nebraska land values rise 26 percent in 11 months
Agriculture Department survey shows Nebraska farm land average up to 364 per acre by last February from 289 a year earlier and 171 in 1972. Bruce Johnson notes higher prices mirror costs and fluctuating profits. observers cite up to 8 percent gain since February.
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Agriculture Department
Nebraska
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Bruce Johnson
University of Nebraska At Lincoln
Housing Shortage Keeps Students From Platte Tech
At Platte Technical Community College housing woes deter prospective students from enrolling this fall. Dean of Students Robert Snow says the housing situation is worse this year than in the past.
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Columbus
Platte Technical Community College
Robert Snow
Flood victims identified in canyon tragedy
The bodies of the Rev. and Mrs. Eugene Jobst of Omaha and Louise Becker of Waverly Iowa were identified after the Big Thompson Canyon flood in Colorado. Mrs Becker was Mrs Jobst’s mother. The three were en route to a cabin when the disaster struck, according to Rev Robert Green of Lutheran Family and Social Services.
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Eugene Jobst
Louise Becker
Waverly
Iowa
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Becker
Jobst
Robert Green
Lutheran Family and Social Services
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