No leads follow prison escape from Moundsville Penitentiary
Authorities reported no new leads in the Christmas night escape of five inmates from Moundsville Penitentiary. The fugitives include Paul Chafin and Stephen Beard among others from Cabell Kanawha Upshur counties, with two believed sighted in a 1965 Chevrolet. No injuries were reported and cars were abandoned after crashes near the prison area.
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Moundsville
W. Va
UPI
Moundsville Penitentiary
Paul Chafin
Cabell County
Gary Hammack
Kanawha
Stephen Beard
Elwood Sneeden
Upshur County
Kenneth Graves
Here
Beard
Former Fairmont man questioned in decapitation case
A 74 year old former Fairmont resident, William Bernard Hacker, was arrested Christmas Day in Edgemere Maryland on a murder charge in Moundsville. He was questioned in Towson by Monongalia County State Police to probe links to the Pendleton County Pendleton County decapitation of Herbert Cobun and the University of West Virginia coed killings. Authorities state no links established yet. Hacker, a retired coal foreman, was previously convicted in 1953 of a double murder and has a history tied to Fairmont area. The investigation continues with a Monday hearing and pending transfer back to Pendleton County.
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Jim Welden
Dominion Post
Fairmont
Edgemere
Moundsville
Towson
Monongalia County
West Virginia University Coeds
Mared Malarik
Karen Ferrell
William Bernard
Bill) Hacker
Baltimore
Baltimore County
West Virginia
Franklin
Pendleton County
Herbert Cobun
Hacker
Extaditi
S.P. Vandevender
H. Luke Eye
Cobun
Laurita
Arch A. Moore Jr
Hulett C. Smith
Florida
Nixon second half mixed on domestic reform gains
White House advisers outlined Nixon's first half achievements and frustrations in a two hour briefing. They highlighted postal and draft reforms as successes while noting Congress blocked revenue sharing and welfare proposals. They defended desegregation progress and said race programs would be de emphasized in favor of broad, non race targeted aid.
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Washington
UPI
Nixon
White House
Supreme Court
Meir Leads Israel In Outcry Over Leningrad Trials
Prime Minister Golda Meir rallied about 35 000 in Tel Aviv denouncing the Leningrad verdicts and predicting Jews behind the Iron Curtain will reach their homeland. She urged reversal of the sentences and emigration rights for Soviet Jews, as Paris papers criticized the death penalty and secrecy.
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Tel Aviv
UPI
Golda Meir
Israel
Leningrad
Russia
Free World
An Israel
Mrs. Meir
Sweden
Meir
Paris
Communist Party
L’humanite
Socialist International
Moorer outlines possible U S war strategy against North Vietnam
In a Pentagon interview Admiral Moorer, chair of the Joint Chiefs, says if North Vietnam launches a spring offensive in Cambodia or southern Vietnam, a ground thrust across the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos could be a possible course of action to interdict enemy supply lines. He notes such a move would be militarily effective but not advocated, and discusses potential impacts on Cambodian ports and stockpiles.
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Washington
Joint Chiefs of Staff
North Vietnam
Cambodia
South Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Laos
Thomas H. Moorer
Pentagon
Moorer
Happiness as a Daily Perishable Fruit
A whimsical note reflects on happiness as a daily necessity that spoils if unused. It contrasts fleeting mood with the idea that joy must be seized each day to retain its value.
Returning GIs think home town is best
Cortland community raises over 10000 to fund a Christmas homecoming for 16 Vietnam veterans. Families, civic groups, and students crowded the airport and hangar to welcome the servicemen in snow and cheers.
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Vietnam
Maurice Lindley
Florence Fitzgerald
County Board of Supervisors
Cortland County
Kennedy International Airport
St. Albans
Donald Snell
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New York Times News Service
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Cambodian
Murray Schumach
N.Y. Times News Service
Frederick Lindley
Fitzgerald
Olathe
Kans
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