friday, September 8, 1978
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daily nebraskan
Mother charged with murder in battered child's death
A Denver District Court judge has order
ed a 21 -year-old Scottsbluff woman to
stand trial on charges of first-degree
murder, felony child abuse and accessory
after the fact to attempted first-degree
murder in the beating death of her Vh-year-old
daughter.
"This is a case where the mother of the
child watched her child beaten to death
and did nothing about," Beth McMann,
an assistant Denver district attorney, said
in closing arguments Wednesday at the end
of a two-day preliminary hearing.
Associated Press
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Judge Susan Barnes heard more than
four hours of testimony Tuesday and Wed
nesday before ordering Cheryl Mann bound
over for trial.
Mrs. Mann's daughter, Gaynell, died in a
Denver hospital on Aug. 18, 11 days after
she allegedly was beaten in a Denver motel
room and 10 days after she was taken un
conscious to a hospital by her mother.
Mrs. Mann's boyfriend, Melvin Goodro,
37, of Scottsbluff has been charged with
murder and child abuse in the girl's death.
He was arrested Aug. 25 in Washington and
is being held by authorities in that state.
Goodro has refused to waive extradition.
Carter's veto upheld
President Carter Thursday won a victory
in the first congressional challenge of his
veto power as the House agreed with his
scuttling of a $2 billion nuclear aircraft
carrier he had termed a waste of money.
The 206-191 vote upheld Carter's veto
last month of an overall $37-billion defense
authorization bill. It sent the measure back
to committee for redrafting, this time with
out the huge ship and possibly with some
new funds requested by the president to
bolster the Army and Air Force.
Nebraska's congressional delegation split
its votes with Democratic Rep. John
Cavanaugh voting not to override the veto
and Republican Lep. Virginia Smith cast
ing a yes vote. Republican Charles Thone
was not present for the roll call.
Pill problems
Women who stop taking birth control
polls less than a month before conception
have babies with slightly more minor birth
defects, but babies face "large risks of mal
formation" from oral contraceptives, con
clude Harvard researchers.
In the largest study of its kind, research
ers compared the birth certificates of 5,535
babies of pill takers and those of 2,188 in
fants whose mothers had never used the
pill.
The study, conducted by Kenneth
Rothman and Carol Louik, was published
in Thursday's issue of the New England
Journal of Medicine.
Fistful of dollars
Political action committees of special
interest groups, a growing factor in Ameri
can election financing, raised $54 million
the past 18 months, a study showed Thurs
day. Half the money is in the bank, avail
able for the fall elections.
During the same period, the Republican
Party collected $49.6 million and the
Democrats $14.4 million, according to the
report issued by the Federal Election Com
mission. The GOP had $10.5 million cash on
hand, with $500,000 in debts; the Demo
crats had $2 million cash and owed $2.29
million.
The computer study showed that
Ronald Reagan's Citizens for the Republic
collected more money-$2.1 million-than
any other non-party related committee.
Runaways found
Four Kearney boys ages 9 through 12
ran away from home Tuesday night but
were found Wednesday afternoon south of
Kearney under the Nebraska 44 Platte
River bridge.
Police and the boy's parents had been
searching since early Wednesday. The boys
are two sets of brothers who are first
cousins.
Each set of brothers left a handwritten
note for their parents saying they were
going on an "expedition."
They took sleeping bags, pillows and a
dog.
One of the notes advised the parents not
to tell anyone and "not to throw anything
away as they'd be back by Christmas."
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