Southeast Missouri State University - Sagamore Yearbook (Cape Girardeau, MO)

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OCTOBER Loose Shoes Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz resigns after voicing an obscene racial slur. Soviet Domination In the second presidential debate, Prsident Ford says, There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe and there never will be under a Ford Administration. Vaccine deaths The number of people showing up for swine flu shots drops sharply after 14 people die within 48 hours of receiving the shot. And Tigger Too Winnie the Pooh celebrates his fiftieth birthday. 78 Killed on Mississippi At least 78 persons are killed when a ferry is rammed by a Norwegian tanker in the Mississippi River near New Orleans. Humboldt's Gift Novelist Saul Bellow is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. M-day The St. Francis staff moves 65 patients and all equipment from its old location on Good Hope Street to its new facilities at Rt. K and Mt. Auburn Road. Baba Wah Wah Today show reporter Barbara Walters joins anchorman Harry Reasoner in her new S1 million-a-year job on the ABC Evening News. NOVEMBER Gilmore The Utah Supreme Court stays the firing squad execution of convicted murderer Gary Mark Gilmore, who has pleaded with the court to be allowed to die as scheduled in mid-November. After a series of stays and reversals, Gilmore is shot to death on january 17, 1977. 'IGN IN Y-.1 Only 'YOU can prevent . . . Smokey the Bear dies at 26 in the Washington National Zoo. Ma Bell The state Public Service com- mission approves a S27 million annual rate increase for Southwestern Bell Telephone Company. The result is a 20-cent charge for each call to directory assistance after five free calls a month. Cape Hotel A fire that begins near the furnace of the Cape Hotel guts the building in a two hour, three alarm blaze. Only one of the hotel's 20 or more residents is injured. Peanut farmer wins jimmy Carter is elected the 39th President of the United States. U-Hall The University purchases the old St. Francis Hospital building at a cost of S150,000. The building is used for additional housing. DECEMBER Richard Daley Mayor Richard Daley dies of a heart attack in Chicago. Vaccine Suspended The swine flu immunization program is suspended when 51 people who received the shots develop paralysis. Fans narrowly escape Twelve days after he has been arrested for reckless flying, Donald Kroner crashes his single-engine plane into the upper deck seats of Baltimore's Memorial Stadium where, moments before, thousands have been watching a Colt-Steerler playoff game. Oil Spill The Liberian tanker Argo Merchant breaks in half off Nantucket, spilling 7.5 million gallons of heavy oil into the Atlantic. This is the worst oil spill in U.S. history. Philip Hart During a condolence call to the widow of Senator Philip Hart, President Ford agrees to consider her request for amnesty for Vietnam draft resisters and deserters. 1. Vice-presidential candidate Dole stops to shake hands as he leaves the October rally on Academic Terraces. 2. Illinois Democrats surround jimmy Carter on the SIU campus. 3. The candidate's son, jack Carter, speaks for his father in front of the Grauel Language Arts Building. 4. Two words express party bias. 5. Carter is both welcomed and opposed on the campus at SIU. 6. Towers Cafeteria is one stop on the Danforth campaign trail.

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