Eleven Die As Jail Fire Traps Inmates In Sanford
In Seminole County Florida eleven people including a guard died from smoke inhalation in a jail fire. Fire officials blamed more than 100 bicycles blocking the rear entrance hampering rescue efforts. Thirty four others including inmates and guards were hospitalized. Guard Robert Moore 40 died after a second rescue attempt and others were overcome by smoke.
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Sanford
Fla
Seminole County
George Harriett
Harriett
Robert Moore
John Spolski
Sheriff’s Department
Moore
Fire Rips Hospital Cell as Inmates Rescued by Prisoner Hero
Fire engulfs a hospital cell building as inmates escape. Elvis Webster, a prisoner, reentered the blaze after his own rescue and dragged three companions to safety. Deputy and Harriett note weapons like limited stair access and a single elevator hampered fire crews who worked over an hour to evacuate all inmates.
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Elvis Webster
Harriett
County Jail Renovations Get Final OK
The Thomas County Jail will gain 48000 in remodeling this summer funded a third by the city of Thomasville and two thirds by the county. Changes aim to increase beds to 90 add outside visitation separate male female and juvenile prisoners and improve safety. The city will cover 16000 from Water and Light funds with work to begin promptly and finish by fall.
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Mike Bales
Thomas County
Thomasville
County Commission
Edward A. Mitchell
Mitchell
C.A. Rehberg
City Commission
Rehberg
John Perry
John E. Baxter
Water and Light Department
Baxter
W. Fred Scott Jr
Scott
John Baxter
Thomasville Sales Co
Probated sentence for hitchhiker in Brooks County shootout case
Debra Shook 24 was given a probated sentence by Judge George Horkan after pleading guilty to auto theft. She must leave town by sundown and not return to this part of Georgia. locals helped with clothes and a bus ticket to Pennsylvania.
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Quitman
Brooks County
Pennsylvania
Debra Shook
George Horkan
Georgia
Miss Shook
Valdosta
Lloyd Walker Jr
Bardwell
Jack Howard Potts
Marietta
Norma Blackwell
Potts
Cobb- Forsyth County
Walker
S. N. Jordan
Barwick
Archbold Memorial Hospital
Cobb County
Blackwell
Glenn Murray
Miss
Rockefeller Commission urges CIA oversight by new joint committee
The Rockefeller Commission proposes 30 reforms including a congressional joint oversight panel modeled after the Joint Atomic Energy Committee and a separate executive-branch watchdog to curb CIA abuses. Ford says CIA domestic activity findings will be released today with assassination evidence sent to the Justice Department and intelligence panels.
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Washington
Congressional Committee
Central Intelligence Agency
Rockefeller Commission
Joint Atomic Energy Committee
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Ford
Commission
CIA
Justice Department
Senate
House
Eisenhower
Kennedy
White House
Fidel Gastro
Rafael Trujillo
Dominican Republic
Frank Church
Senate Intelligence Committee
Senate Committee
Robert A. Maheu
Howard Hughes
Maheu
Castro
House Intelligence Committee
Lucien N. Nedzi
D-Mich
Nedzi
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Hialeah
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Cooley
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U. S. 84
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