Virgin Islands Turn to Sea For Water Supply Solution
In Charlotte Amalie, Virgin Islands, a new multi stage flash evaporator plant supplied by Westinghouse adds about one million gallons daily of fresh water and boosts local power capacity by 60 percent. The system, costing roughly $1 per thousand gallons, offers a cheaper alternative to importing water from Puerto Rico at $4 to $5 per thousand gallons. Vice President Hubert Humphrey dedicated the facility and urged exploiting the earth’s 97 percent salt water supply.
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Charlotte Amalie
St. Thomas
V.I
UPT
Caribbean
Cuba
Dominican Republic
Puerto Rico
Westinghouse Electric International Company
Kuwait
Point Loma
California
Guatanamo Bay
Fidel Castro
Naval Base
Westinghouse
Nion
Hubert Humphrey
Humphrey
Election of Sunay in Turkey Eases Coup Fear
Turkish parliament elected General Cemal Sunay as president after President Gursel's coma and a paralysis period. Report notes rising dissent and coup rumors, but Sunay's election stabilizes the regime amid army influence and political turmoil. The selection comes as doctors declare Gursel's recovery unlikely and the nation watches for shifts in authority.
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Sunay
Turkey
Cemal Gursel
United States
Cevdet Sunay
Gursel
Lobster Breeders Stir Maine Controversy Across Coast
Inshore lobsters may be affected by offshore breeder lobsters though research remains inconclusive. Maine officials and lobstermen debate impact, citing seven million pounds fewer catches in eight years due to offshore harvesting. laws prohibit offshore breeders to protect inshore stocks.
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Boothbay Harbor
Maine
UPD
U.S. Bureau of Commercial Fisheries
Bernard E. Skud
Commercial Fisheries Biological Laboratory
Skud
Federal Bureau Fisheries
Donal L. McKernan
McKernan
Ronald Green
Rockland
U S Accidents Cost 107 000 Lives in 1965
UPI reports 1965 accident toll reached 107000 deaths in the United States with a dollar cost of about 17.3 billion, about one third of the U S defense budget and roughly 40 percent of post tax corporate profits. The speaker cites accident deaths as a major cause after heart disease cancer and stroke. The piece then shifts to Turkish politics with Ismet Inonu Suleyman Demirel and rising leftist anti American sentiment and Soviet economic involvement in Turkey.
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Chicago
UPI
United States
J. L. Recht
National Safety Council
Recht
Congress of Environmental Health
American Medical Association
U. S
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Virgin Islands
Phil Newsom
Fez
Kemal Ataturk
Justice Party
U.S
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Suleyman Demirel
Greece
Cyprus
Rexall Shampoos
Rexall
Sunbeam
Dane
Panovite
Monacet
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Lorie le Bolquet
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