Woman Found Five Months After Death in Indiana
The decomposed body of 24 year old Susan K Dancer found in Hancock County was to be examined at Marion County General Hospital. Police said she disappeared June 29 with $5000 and was possibly executed with three gunshots to the head. Investigators linked her to no known gangland slayings and noted the motive may be simpler.
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Indianapolis
Hancock County
Marion County General Hospital
James A. Benz
Susan K. Dancer
Irwin R. Wilkerson
City Police Missing Persons Bureau
Dancer
Fortville
Wilkerson
Robert E. Sebastian
Robert A. Gierse
Robert W. Hinson Jr
James C. Barker
Gierse
Hinson
Houston rifle hero Miss Legge helps team set record
Leo nard Legge, a University of Houston coed, fires 285 of 300 as part of a rifle team that won the national inter collegiate title. The piece notes her skill and wit alongside the male teammates who shared the championship. It also includes a science aside about spiders weaving sticky threads.
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Houston, Tex
Leonard Legge
Miss Legge
University of Houston
Jesse Jackson splits from Abernathy's SCLC
Jesse Jackson resigns from the SCLC over a two year feud with Ralph Abernathy. Jackson plans a new national organization and Operation Breadbasket leadership will join him. Chicago chapter leaders also resign. Abernathy says SCLC Chicago will continue.
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Chicago
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Jesse Jackson
Jackson
SCLC
Atlanta
Ralph Abernathy
Operation
Breadbasket
David Wallace
Abernathy
A Re
Martin Luther King, Jr
Sclc Board of Governors
King
Father Son Suspects In Bank Robbery Framing Indiana Case
Law officers seek Johnson County man Clarence Fletcher 52 and his son Delmas 25 in a Nineveh bank robbery. A sawed off shotgun bandit escaped with two sacks of money in a rose Cadillac. FBI provided suspects’ photos. It marked the 47th Indiana bank holdup of the year.
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Nineveh
Ind
Johnson County
Clarence Fletcher
Delmas
Franklin Bank and Trust Co
Brown County
Here
FBI
Florida
Indiana
Armed Robbery Probe At Local Service Station
Terre Haute police are probing an armed robbery at United Service Station 940 Poplar St where an attendant was forced to surrender 31 dollars. A man demanded money and fled. A second man with a rifle followed. investigators recovered a rifle believed used in the crime.
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United Service Station
Poplar St
Terre Haute
Luther College Allows Black Students to Leave Campus
Officials at Luther College in Decorah Iowa approved without penalty leaves for black students due to racial tensions on campus. Provost John Linnell issued permission allowing withdrawal without penalty or a grade based on completed work, amid conflicts but no mass demonstrations this semester.
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Decorah
Iowa
Luther College
John Linnell
Linnell
Carbondale Mayor Eckert seeks lieutenant governor bid
Carbondale Mayor Neil Eckert 33, a farmer and businessman, will announce his bid for the Democratic nomination as lieutenant governor on a slate with gubernatorial hopeful Daniel J. Walker in the March 21 primary. Eckert is a parttime SIU agriculture student.
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Springfield, Ill
Carbondale
Neil Eckert
Daniel J. Walker
Eckert
Southern Illinois University Agriculture
Illinois Candidates Begin Filing For March 21 Primary
Illinois candidates for state and federal offices began filing petitions for the March 21 primary ballot. Secretary of State John W. Lewis set a 8 a.m. mail deadline for top ballot spots and a first come, first served hallway placement system. A lottery will decide ties in the 8 a.m. mail batch. after that, petitions go by receipt time. Gov. Ogilvie vetoed a bill to favor incumbents. The filing period runs through December 20 and includes races for governor, U S senator, attorney general, and secretary of state. Eckert reportedly to join Walker as lieutenant governor candidate, a move seen as boosting downstate balance.
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Springfield
Ill
Illinois
John W. Lewis
Statehouse
Lewis
Paul Powell
Richard B. Ogilvie
Illinois House and Senate
U.S
U.S. House
Illinois Supreme Court
General Assembly Commission
Teacher
Walker
Eckert
Associated Press
Chicago
Paul Simon
Downstate
Troy
Neil Hartigan
Chicago Park District
49Th Ward
Simon-Hartigan
Derbendale
Republican
Democratic
Southern Ilinois University
SIU
Carbondale
Belleville
Cornell University
University of Illinois
Ebert’s Orchards Inc
Fairbanks Trust Pays First Grant for Memorial Hospital
Indianapolis trust funds begin 500 year investment from Charles W. Fairbanks estate. First distribution of 207000 dollars goes to the Cornelia Cole Fairbanks Memorial Hospital, set to open last May, with funds earmarked by the trustees two years earlier.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Indiana General Assembly
Charles W. Fairbanks
United States
Cornelia Cole Fairbanks
Derge to Become SIU President February First
David Richard Derge, executive vice president and dean of administration at Indiana University, will take office February 1 as president of Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. The SIU Board of Trustees approved the nomination unanimously and also backed a revised 1972 73 budget of 91 766 566 for Carbondale and Edwardsville, a 16.6 percent rise.
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Carbondale, Ill
David Richard Derge
Indiana University
Southern Illinois University At
Carbondale
SIU
Derge
Robert Layer
Edwardsville
Illinois Board of Higher Education
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