Get Smart star Don Adams sued for divorce
Judy Luciano accuses Don Adams of chronic gambling in a divorce filing this week. Betty Ford autobiography paperback rights sold for 1 million to be published after September 1979. hard cover by Harper & Row in November. Helen Forrest returns as Reno Sweeney headliner in New York. Jan Sterling joins NBC miniseries Backstairs at the White House playing Mrs. Hoover.
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Don Adams
Judy Luciano
Betty Ford
Harper & Row
Helen Forrest
New York
Artie Shaw
Benny Goodman
Harry James
White House
Hollywood
Nbc-Tv
Jan Sterling
Herbert Hoover
Eisenhowers
UPI
Ohio Auditor Announces Completion Of School District Audits
State Auditor Thomas E. Ferguson said his office has completed audits for all 1 006 Ohio school districts every two years and expects counties cities townships and villages to be audited on the same 24 month cycle by early 1980. He credited lifting the 300examiner limit in 1975 and higher examiner qualifications for meeting the two year requirement.
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Columbus
UPI
Thomas E. Ferguson
Ohio
Ferguson
Ohio General Assembly
Food price rise in Cleveland area in May
In May 1978 Cleveland shoppers paid 10.70 for food, up 7 percent from a year earlier and 2.4 percent from April. Meat, poultry and fish led gains at 3.2 percent over April and 19.4 percent year over year, with fruits and vegetables up 7.5 percent from April and 6.3 percent from May 1977. Dairy up 3.1 percent from April, and cereals and bakery products nearly 2 percent higher than April.
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Cleveland
UPI
Greater
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Bureau
Heat kills two Army recruits at Fort Jackson
Two 17 year old recruits, Lester Watts of New York and Wayne Krassow of Ohio, died after cardiac arrest likely due to heat stroke on their first day of basic training at Fort Jackson South Carolina. Autopsies will determine exact causes as a heat wave blankets the Deep South and temperatures rise into the upper 90s.
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S.C
UPI
Army
Deep South
Columbia
Lester T. Watts
New York
Wayne A. Krassow
Cygnet
Ohio
Mae Pomeroy
Pomeroy
Ohio couple killed in Managua plane crash ruins vacation
A light Bellanca single engine plane carrying Ohio family of four crashed on takeoff at Las Mercedes Airport in Managua. Pilot Lincoln Albert Stevens 39 and wife Selma 38 died. Children Sherrye 10 and Lincoln Albert Jr. 7 injured, in critical condition. The family had been vacationing on Corn Island, Mrs. Stevens born there. An investigation is under way and relatives planned to travel to Managua. Mrs. Stevens was a cousin of Nicaragua's finance minister Samuel Genie.
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Nicaragua
UPI
Las Mercedes
Bellanca
Stevens
U.S
Sherrye
Lincoln Albert Jr
Hospital Oriental
Corn Island
Atlantic
Cozumel
Samuel Genie
Farm food prices level off as beef prices stabilize
The Agriculture Department says June raw farm prices rose 1 percent from May, easing the rise in food costs. Beef prices moved downward in June after peaking in May, while other meat and crop prices mixed with soybeans possibly setting production records. The year’s farm price index remains high, with retail food prices expected to rise 8–10 percent.
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Sonja Hillgren
Washington Upi
Agriculture Department
Crop Reporting Board
Trio Found Dead in Trumbull County Slayings
The Trumbull County coroner ruled a triple homicide after three unidentified bodies were found in Champion Township. A gas company worker located a middle aged woman, then deputies found a man about 50 and a seven year old girl. all died from multiple gunshot wounds. The coroner said they were dead about 36 hours prior and it was unclear if the shootings occurred at the same location.
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Trumbull
Richard Jakmas
HMOs prove ineffective say federal officials
HEW Secretary Califano and Undersecretary Champion report the HMO program was poorly organized under prior leadership and is not delivering expected cost savings. They urged revitalization to expand cooperative, preventive care and reduce unnecessary treatment while noting lagging federal support.
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HEW
Joseph Califano
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Champion
Califano
Hale Champion
House
Defense attorney provokes courtroom scene in Greene murder trial
In Cleveland a defense lawyer handed a pistol to mob hitman Raymond Ferritto during his testimony in the Daniel Greene slaying case. The act prompted protests and a judge’s rebuke as prosecutors denounced the demonstration. Ferritto admitted killing Julius Petro in 1969 and said he would lie to avoid the electric chair.
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Julius Petro
al Lipold
Matthews Cain
Norman A. Fuerst
Carnes
Burt Fulton
Underworld
Greene
Petro
Los Angeles International
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