Broken Dam Floods Town in Georgia Tragedy
In Toccoa Georgia a broken earthen dam at Toccoa Falls Bible College caused devastating flooding. At least 37 people died including 20 children and two were missing. First lady Rosalynn Carter visited and federal aid was pledged. The dam was one of 84 high hazard embankments Georgia sites. Crews searched debris as power and gas lines failed and water remained scarce.
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Jack Stillman
Associated Press
Toccoa, Ga
Georgia College
Toccoa
Satan
Bob Harner
Ravenna
Ohio
Toccoa Falls
Corps
Busbee
Georgia
Rosalynn Carter
Washington
Bible College
Carter
Ohio voters brace for record turnout in volatile election
Ohio faces a tight final stretch before election day with Issue 1 repealing instant registration and Issue 2 banning leghold traps in focus. Polls from Dispatch and WTVN show both sides ahead, while 250 school levies loom.
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Committee For Humane Trapping
Columbus Dispatch
WTVN
Dispatch
Canton Police Continue Sick-Out Over Pay Demand
The Canton Ohio day shift police called in sick in a protest over wages, with two prior sickouts. replacements failed to report as predicted. Firefighters opposed to wage cuts have not acted recently, though their union leader urged bargaining and change in council attitude amid past strikes during contract talks.
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Canton
Ohio
Frank Burnosky
Burnosky
George Stefaniak
Conferees Resume Work on National Energy Plan
Washington AP report says House and Senate energy conferees return from recess to shape a national energy program. They plan a session on Carter's proposal to curb oil and gas use in favor of coal, with tax provisions delayed to a later conference.
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Washington
House
Senate
Carter
Tokyo hearses with Buddhist temples guide caskets
A Tokyo report notes American style hearses dominate among reikyusha the soul forever car built with a Buddhist temple to hold caskets. The piece contrasts local car culture and funeral trade in Japan.
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Tokyo
Japan
Rural Saturday mail option eyed by Postal Service
The Postal Service weighs keeping Saturday delivery in rural areas while urban centers drop it. Deputy Postmaster General William Bolger says a local option could let rural communities keep Saturday service, with other days reduced. Savings are estimated at 412 million dollars annually, but changes await Rate Commission hearings and an advisory opinion, likely months away.
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Washington
Postal Service
William Bolger
Bolger
Postal Rate Commission
Carter Delays Trip
The State Department says President Carter will postpone his foreign tour planned for later this month to stay in Washington while Congress weighs his energy program. Officials had indicated the trip to nine nations was being scrapped and informed other governments over the weekend.
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Washington
State Department
Carter
Congress
Cyrus Vance
Nine Nations
Guy Lombardo Dies at 75. Royal Canadians to Carry On
Guy Lombardo, famed for "sweetest music this side of heaven," dies at 75 in Houston after heart surgery. Funeral set for Wednesday in Farmingdale. Victor Lombardo pledges the Royal Canadians will perform on December 31 and resume touring Connecticut next. Lombardo helped define midcentury dance bands with hits like Boo Hoo and Seems Like Old Times and started his group in London Ontario with brothers Carmen and Lebert.
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New York
Guy Lombardo
Heaven
Lombardo
Victor
The
Royal Canadians
Houston
Methodist Hospital
Lillibelle
Long Island
Farmingdale
Freeport
Jones Beach
Finian
Rainbow
Connecticut
Carnegie Hall
Ontario
Gaetano Lombardo Jr
London
Carmen
Lebert
Lombardo Brothers
Cleveland
Chicago
Windy City
Louis Armstrong
Bix Biederbecke
Middle America
Boo Hoo
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Bill Stacy
Kenn Opperman
Opperman
Roy Gaines
Rick Wilson
Sheba
Robert E. Miller
Columbus, Ohio
Ted W. Brown
Arthur Peterson
Ohioans For Wildlife Conservation
James H. Glass
Brian Davies
International Fund For Animal Welfare
New Brunswick
Canada
Davies’ Organization
Idi Amin
Leonid Breshnev
Glass
Canton Safety Forces
International Association of Firefighters
Stefaniak
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