Families withhold power bills threaten rate reform
A Boston consumer group vows a staged refusal by ten thousand families to pay electric bills starting October 1 unless lifeline rate reforms are adopted. The plan targets Boston, Springfield, New Bedford, the North Shore and Cape Cod, with complaints filed to the Public Utilities Department to keep service during appeals. Boston Edison says it has no plans to halt service yet.
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UPI
Mataadhvern
Agen Tiberi
Citizens Action Program On Energy
Springfield
New Bedford
Neth Shore
Cape Cod
Try
Mias Tiberi
Mims Tiberi
Prilie Utilities
Boston Edison Co
Newark Opens Mayhews Landing Park with Ceremony
Newark city officials led by Mayor James Balentine will dedicate Mayhews Landing Park at Mayhews Landing Road and Cherry Street at 11 a.m. A day of family entertainment follows. The park sits near the historic slack water embarcadero that supported Newark’s 1800s farm economy and was funded by a $1.7 million park bond and federal revenue sharing.
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Newark
Mayhews Landing Park
James Balentine
Park and Recreation
Mayhews Landing Road
Cherry Street
Mayhews Landing
Newark Park
Ringo Starr Divorced By London Court
Ex-Beatles drummer Richard Starkey known as Ringo Starr was divorced from Maureen Starkey after ten years of marriage on grounds of adultery with American model Nancy Andrews. Deputy Judge Miss Beryl Cowper ordered Starr to have reasonable access to their three children while custody and financial terms are finalized.
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London
UPI
Ringo Starr
Thurally
Maureen
Nancy Andrews
Ringo
Richard Starkey
Miss Andrews
Los Angeles
Giscard to see Ford in Bonn amid Helsinki talks
French President Valery Giscard d Estaing plans a July 25 arrival in Bonn for talks with Chancellor Helmut Schmidt ahead of the European security conference in Helsinki. Officials say a meeting with President Ford isn’t confirmed, though sources expect Ford to arrive July 28 before Warsaw and Helsinki.
Ford's mind open on Rockefeller as running mate
Ford campaign director Callaway said Ford would keep an open mind until the 1976 GOP convention regarding Nelson Rockefeller as his possible vice presidential candidate. He stressed he is not opposing Rockefeller and that Ford will not decide now after meetings with Rockefeller and Ford.
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Los Angeles
Howard Bo
Callaway
Ford
Nelson Rockefeller
Rockefeller
Panel critiques Ford energy plan impact on unemployment
Washington Congress' Joint Economic Committee estimated that President Ford's energy program would raise unemployment by eight tenths of 1 percent, about 750,000 jobs, and push inflation by 2 percent. The panel said the administration understates the adverse effects, while Humphrey warned the decontrol plan would raise costs for the average family.
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Washington
D-Minn
Ford
Oilmen deny price hikes before July fourth hearing
Executives from Exxon Amoco Chevron Gulf Shell Mobil and Texaco testified that they did not raise gasoline prices to gouge the public before the July 4 holiday. Senate subcommittees pressed for answers as members argued over the optics of a group appearance. The witnesses said price increases were caused by ongoing market and regulatory factors, not price gouging or artificial shortages.
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Amoco
Chevron
Gulf
Shell
Mobil
Texaco
Senate
Percy
Annon M. Card
V. Myers
Standard Oil Co
Indiana
L.G. Rawl
Exxon Co
U.S.A
Denias
Henry M. Jackson
D-Wash
Oy & Jackson
Historic Apollo Soyuz linkup marks space rapport flare
The Apollo and Soyuz crews staged a televised rendezvous over the Atlantic, exchanging flags and greetings. Brezhnev and Ford praised the joint mission as a future model for international space cooperation, while crews endured airlock adjustments and minor safety glitches before four planned mutual visits.
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Soyus
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Slayton
Kubasov
Houston Control
Rio train crash kills about 100 in Rio de Janeiro
A commuter train carrying over 1,000 jumped tracks at Madureira station injuring at least 300 and killing about 100. Two cars overturned into a nearby carnival dancers school. cause unknown. Most passengers were workers returning home from work.
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Rio DE Janeiro
UPI
Rio
Madureira
Welfare mother testifies in sterilization dispute in Barnwell
Shirley Brown testifies in a federal suit alleging civil rights violations after hospital staff pressed sterilization. She says a nurse asked her to sign a sterilization form the day after her third child’s birth. she left the hospital with her baby when her mother visited. Virgil Walker also sues Dr Clovis Pierce and others over threat to welfare benefits.
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Barnwell
UPI
Shirley Brown
Clovis Pierce
Virgil Walker
Pierce
FCC Warns Providence Radio Over War of the Worlds Broadcast
The FCC admonished Providence Alabama station WPRO for airing an updated War of the Worlds adaptation on Halloween Eve 1974. It failed to clearly mark the program as fiction, violating a 1946 rule against scare announcements that mislead listeners about real events.
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Washington
UPI
Federal Communications Commission
FCC
Thurday
Providence
WPRO
Jamestown
R.1
New York
New Joday
Auto layoff fund tops off at GM payoff stage
Fremont report shows about 1,300 of 2,300 GM assembly workers on indefinite layoff qualify to receive unemployment benefit payments again. The SUB fund neared payout last week, with those most senior at GM set to receive payments for roughly three to four weeks, while nationwide totals show about 42,600 workers still eligible. Since 1974 the GM SUB fund has paid out over 400 million dollars.
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Fremont
General Motors Corp
Évers
United Auto
U.S
Teen father arraigned after baby hurled into street
Fremont officers charged 18 year old Robert H. Vegas with endangering his month old daughter after witnesses saw him throw the infant into Stevenson Boulevard from the frontage road. The child Sunshine was found safe and later given to the mother. He admitted placing the baby in the street during an altercation with the mother.
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Robert H. Vegas
Stevenson Blvd
Stevenson
Vegas
Stevenson Boulevard
Jessie Shell
Sunshine
Washington Hospital
Mason
Erratic blaze in California nears containment after fierce four day burn
Firefighters fought an erratic brush fire near San Diego that blackened 8600 acres over four days and threatened desert bighorn sheep. Officials said 90 percent contained with full control expected Friday night as 800 firefighters were relieved and air tankers dropped 150000 gallons of retardant.
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Ipalloen Springs
Cali
UPC
California National Guard
San Ysidro Mountains
Anza Borrego Desert
San Diego
Pene
Doug Allen
State Division of Forestry
Allen
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