Scout Troop Tragedy Near Bridal Veil Falls
A 15 year old Boy Scout Rick Stokely was to be airlifted from Murphy North Carolina to University Hospital in Augusta Georgia after a 200 foot fall at Bridal Veil Falls. His companion Mark Ridlehoover 14 was found dead at the base of the gorge. Scoutmaster Eugene Stokely expressed heartbreak over the deaths and the failed trip.
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Troop 102
Stokeley
Georgia
North Carolina
Tennessee
Rick
Providence Hospital
Murphy
Ft. Gordon
University Hospital
Augusta
Stokely
Mark
Hawaii Bound Davco Treatment Plant Rides to Islands
A field-erected sewage treatment plant from Davis Water and Waste Industries is loaded on a truck for transport to Hawaii. The unit will be assembled on site upon arrival, with the shipment handled by two Davco entities.
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Davco
Hawaii
Davis Water and Waste Industries
Thomasville
Los Angeles
Matson Line
Napilihau
Maui
Layne International
Singer Company
Georgia Counties Seek Federal Drought Aid
In south Georgia Irwin Ben Hill and Wilcox counties asked the federal government for drought relief. Gov. Jimmy Carter submitted the request on their behalf. A separate item notes Georgia colleges forming an urban studies cooperative led by the Urban Life Center at Georgia State University with ten institutions. Athens report: Mac Sewell, 33, announces a bid for Clarke County sheriff citing crime and drug concerns and aiming to win black and business support.
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Atlanta, Ga
Georgia
Jimmy Carter
Irwin
Ben Hill
Wilcox
Urban Life Center
Georgia State University
Georgia State
The
University of Georgia
Emory University
Atlanta University
Morris Brown College
Spelman College
Interdenominational Theological Center
Morehouse College
Clark College
Athens, Ga
Clarke County
Mac Sewell
Tommy Huff
Sewell
Boston Man Publishes 2 Books Adventure Novel And Poems
George D. Dillion of Boston, retired candy maker, returns to Thomas County from Florida and releases two books. The Story of Burka, a adventure novel from Carlton Press, follows a young Anglo American explorer in Africa who is left to die, time travels to a jungle valley, battles monsters, and falls for a jungle girl before returning to the twentieth century. He also issues a poetry collection.
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George D. Dillion
Boston
Thomas County
Florida
Carlton Press
New York
Burka
Africa
The
Dillon
Jack London
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Esau
Vantage Press
Georgia Land
Golden Shore
Brunswick Town
Live Oak
Fla
Homerville
Lucille Rehberg
J.R. Rehberg
Mr. Rehberg
Ellabelle
Dillons
Former Archbold Official Promoted and Appointed Kotzebue Director
Carroll W. Brock, formerly Assistant Director at John D. Archbold Memorial Hospital, was promoted to Service Unit Director of the Kotzebue Service Unit within the Alaska Area Native Health Service. He later became Hospital Director of the Public Health Service Hospital in Kotzebue in 1970, the unit spanning nearly 100000 square miles with 27 clinics. Brock, a Moultrie native and former Air Force member, is the first non physician to hold the Kotzebue post.
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Carroll W. Brock
John D. Archbold Memorial Hospital
Kotzebue
Alaska Area Native Health Service
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Brock
Public Health Service
Alaska
Joint Commission On Accreditation of Hospitals
Georgia
South Carolina
Kotzebvue Service Unit
Irving to Begin Prison Sentence for Faked Hughes Autobiography
Clifford Irving faces a two year federal term starting August 28 for crafting a bogus autobiography of Howard Hughes. His Swiss wife Edith receives a two month sentence. both pay 10 000 dollar fines with limited rest. Richard Suskind, an associate, gets six months. Irving must repay 750 000 dollars plus expenses.
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Irving
New York
Clifford Irving
Howard Hughes
Edith
U.S. District Court
John M. Cannella
Irvings
Supreme Court
Joseph A. Martinis
Martinis
Richard Suskind
Suskind
McGraw-Hill Inc
Hughes
Dog Drownings After Bound Limbs Drag Across River Shore
A 140 pound Great Dane drowned on the Pre sumpscot River estuary as tide rose. Spectators watched as the dog crawled about 200 feet through mud toward shore despite being bound with rope and heavy auto parts on its legs and neck. Police Chief Clyde F LeClair pledged to find the person responsible.
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Falmouth
Maine
Presumpscot River
Casco Bay
Clyde F. LeClair
Motherhood Triumphant Over Pile At Oregon Mill
In Halsey Oregon workers at the American Can Co paper mill paused to spare a brood of owls nesting in a burrow atop a giant wood chip pile. The firm ordered a change in chip moving to avoid disturbing the birds while the owls were sheltered.
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Halsey, Ore
American Can Co
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Georgia Briefs
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Archbold
Moultrie
Ponder’s
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Dorothea Eg
Fernandina Beach
John David
Dink Stillwell
Sander
Choise
Tor
ANG
Dawson Street
Anetme
Legion of Decency
20 Century-Fox Presents
Hiva
Coven Mouse
Frankie Avalon
Jill Haworth
American International Pictures Inc
Twilight People
Twilight
Ashley
Pat Woodell
Jan Merlin
Pam Grierss
Discount Department Store
Glacks. Decker
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