World Food Prize goes to potato blight research pioneer
Des Moines IL — John S Niederhauser 74 known as Mr Potato wins the World Food Prize 200000 for developing a late blight resistant potato strain that doubled yields aiding regions from Mexico to Bangladesh. Purdy MO — Purdy School Board reinstates ban on dances after Supreme Court ruling upholding the century old policy.
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Iowa
Europe
John S. Neiderhauser
Mexico
Bangladesh
Norman Borlaug
Niederhauser
Purdy
Supreme Court
Ransom Ellis NT
Ellis
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Deaths Alice Dutt Jones Barnwell Wyman J Black Augusta Faye Birt Sorrell Williston Gladys Thompson North Augusta Evelyn W Dill Greenville Del George Oakman Jr Philadelphia Lucious Neal Aiken Page BA notes details provided in the segment
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Alice Dutt Jones
Barnwell
Wyman J. Black
Augusta
Faye Birt Sorrell
Williston
Gladys Thompson
North Augusta
Evelyn W. Dill
Greenville
Del
George Oakman Jr
Philadelphia
Lucious Neal
Aiken
SRS Budget Fight Could Restart Idle Reactors
The House vote on DOE fiscal 1991 funding may decide if Savannah River Site SRS reactors resume after 1988 shutdown for upgrades. The bill allocates 490 million to restart SRS reactors and 2.7 billion for cleanup, with SRS receiving portions for cooling, waste tanks, and a new production reactor plan.
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House of Natives
Department of Eni Y
Savannah River
DOE
U.S
Butler C. Derrick
D-S.c
SRS
Soviet Jet Lands Safely In Finland
A hijacker seized a Soviet Tupolev 134 with 59 aboard en route from Riga to Murmansk then surrendered after the plane landed at Helsinki. The hijacker, identified as Oleg Kozlov, 22, sought asylum and was persuaded to abort a further flight to Stockholm.
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Helsinki
Finland
Moscow
Mikhail Timofeev
Oleg Kozlov
Stockholm
Israel
Valeri Yurievic
Izmail
Odessa
Turkey
Black Sea
Housing starts fall to 1981 low in May
May housing starts declined 1.4 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.21 million, the Commerce Department said. After a January high of 1.37 million, starts tumbled each month through February March and April, with April revised down from 5.8 percent. Analysts blame high interest rates tighter credit and sometimes weather.
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Washington
Commerce Department
Langley Pond cleanup plan criticised by local activists
Langley Pond activists call the latest report inadequate and demand cleanup remedies beyond letting nature siltrate the impoundment. Bobby Rutland and Charles Taylor of the Alliance for Fair Employment blast RMT Inc. findings and push DHEC to propose alternatives with potential draining or dredging costs estimated at 10 to 12 million dollars.
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Langley
Langley’ Pond
Bobby Rutland
Aiken County
Charles Taylor
Nature
Langley Pond
Rutland
RMT Inc
Greenville
Graniteville Co
State Department of Health and Environ
Taylor
Alliance
DHEC
RMT
Aiken
Top Crop Could Earn Top Dollar
A vegetable contest at the Aiken Standard runs from June 18 to July 20 open to non employees and families. Judging is by weight only with $100 first, $50 second and $25 third prizes in each category for tomatoes cucumbers and squash. The ten heaviest vegetables are listed each Saturday.
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Aiken Standard
Silent Gunman Rampage Leaves Ten Dead In Two Days
Jacksonville laborer James Edward Pough 42 killed eight at a General Motors Acceptance Corp office then died by suicide. Police say he also killed a man and a woman Sunday near his home, with the same rifle, after disputes over a prostitute’s services.
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James Edward Pough
General Motors Acceptance Corp
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Hck Lane
James McMillan
Pough
McMillan
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