First lightning strike on a jumbo? Pan Am 707 crash questioned
Washington AP reports witnesses claimed a lightning bolt hit Pan Am Flight 214 from Puerto Rico to Philadelphia, causing a fireball near Elkton. Civil Aeronautics Board hearings note no airliner of metal construction had been destroyed by lightning in 20 years, while past crashes cite turbulence and lightning in separate incidents. Modern jets use trailing edge anti static strips that act as lightning rods.
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Chase
Capital Air Lines
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Atlanta
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Italy
No Silver in These Bells Dollar Bill Change
The Treasury Department circulates a new one dollar bill without silver references and with no silver back. The change, the first since 1957 motto addition, cuts silver from the design and frees government silver bullion for coins.
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George Washington
Lignite power plant loan approved for North Dakota project
A $39,230,000 Rural Electrification Administration loan funds a lignite power plant near Stanton North Dakota. United Power Association and Basin Electric Power Cooperative to share use of the facility, with 376 miles of transmission lines to North Dakota and Minnesota and substations planned at Voltaire Devils Lake and Grand Forks. The plant will extend an existing 200,000 kilowatt installation and deliver power via an exchange with Minnesota REA cooperatives.
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Washington
United Power Association
Elk River
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Stanton N.D
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REA
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Rural Cooperative Power Association
Rural Cooperative Power
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Lanton
North Dakota
Minnesota
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Rural Cooperative Power Association of
Northern
Minnesota Power Association of Virginia
Iowa's New GOP Leader Likes Football
Des Moines attorney Robert D. Ray, 35, elected as Iowa GOP state chairman, youngest in state history. He has broadcast pre game and halftime color reports for University of Iowa football on KGRN and KNIA. Ray is a Drake University graduate with degrees in business administration and law and has been 5th District Republican chairman since 1960.
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Ray
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Polk County
Weather snapshot across cities with varied conditions
The report lists temperatures and sky conditions for multiple cities including Albany Albuquerque Atlanta Bismarck Boise Boston Buffalo Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Denver Des Moines Detroit Fairbanks Fort Worth Helena Honolulu Indianapolis Jacksonville Juneau Kansas City Los Angeles Louisville Memphis Miami Milwaukee Minneapolis New Orleans New York Oklahoma City Omaha Philadelphia Phoenix Pittsburgh Portland Maine Portland Oregon Rapid City Richmond St. Louis Saskatoon San Diego San Francisco Seattle Tampa with highs and lows and several locales noting precipitation in tenths.
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Honolulu
T. Indianapolis
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Los Angeles
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Funeral rites planned for Midland City crash victims
In Midland City Alabama AP reports mass funeral rites were scheduled for 11 members of the Langford family killed when a station wagon pulled in front of an Atlantic Coast Line freight train. Only 1-year-old Margaret Ann Langford survived the collision. The deceased include Mr and Mrs Henry Langford two sons a daughter six grandchildren and two daughters-in-law. Witnesses said the wagon stalled on the tracks before the freight train struck broadside.
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Midland City
Ala
Margaret Ann Langford
Henry Langford
Atlantic Coast Line
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Sonny” Bartel
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