FTC targets ‘psychic surgeon’ tours to Philippines
The FTC obtained a court order barring three travel agencies in Seattle and San Francisco from using the term psychic surgeon and similar phrases. Agencies have sent patients on two week Philippines tours costing up to $1,000, prompting warnings that cancer patients and others may abandon medications. An affidavit describes a tour leader performing faux operations, supplying tissue that proved to be animal in origin, with victims losing savings and incurring debt.
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San Francisco
Seattle
Philippines
FTC
Travel King Inc
Phil- Am Travel Agency Inc
GM Travel Service Inc
Richard M. Douglass
Tony Agpaoa
Phyllis
Tony
Douglass
Walkout suspended as British rail engineers pause strike
London reports near normal rail service after 29,000 engineers halt four day walkout amid efforts to end coal mine slowdown. Heath to study and meet with union leaders on a peace plan as 800,000 workers laid off and three day week continues.
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British Rail
Edward Heath
British Railways Board
Railways Board
Ray Buckton
Trades Union Congress
TUC
Afl-Cio
Heath
No. 10
Downing St
LSD Cake at Lufthansa Plant Sends 11 Colleagues to Hospital
A Lufthansa worker brought a cake to the Hamburg facility. During a coffee break 11 colleagues became ill with LSD symptoms. Tests confirmed the drug exposure. The cake’s alleged source ties to a jailed man’s girlfriend. guards say prisoners cannot receive food, so the cake went to another son’s crew.
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Hamburg
Germany
UPI
Lufthansa Airlines
Steam Induced Snowstorm Hits Springfield Plant Area
Steam from a pulp and paper mill stack at the Weyerhauser Co. plant condensed into ice and snow, creating a freak snowstorm over a block near the site. Motorists reported falling ice and snow midmorning, and officials said the event lasted until noon.
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Springfield, Ore
UPI
Weyerhauser Co
Bennington Banner Contact and Subscription Rates
The Bennington Banner lists telephone and newsroom numbers, advertising contacts, and delivery options. It notes local post rates, subscriptions by mail within Vermont and elsewhere, and second class postage details for Bennington, Vermont.
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Bennington Banner
Main St
Bennington
The
Banner Publishing Corp
United Press International
New York Times
Matthews, Shannon & Cullen Inc
Vermont
U.S
Five killed in Dover shooting spree shocks witnesses
A three hour gun rampage in Dover ends with five dead and three wounded as Ronald Hoffecker, 30, targets witnesses while on two felony charges. He and his girlfriend died in a car crash after a police chase. a hostage was wounded and a state trooper injured. Authorities call it a systematic killing of witnesses.
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Dover
Del
UPI
Ronald Hoffecker
Hoffecker
Barbara Johnson
Delaware
Sandra Katcher
Wilmington Medical Center
Angelo Citro
Shirtley E. Haggerty
John W. Pappas
Wyoming
Kent Hospital
Miss Johnson
Richard Katcher
Mrs. Katcher
Camden
Cant Lovelace
Citro Hoffecker
Billy Reep
Reep
Middletown
Citro
Ten years on smoking health warnings still linger
The tenth anniversary of the Surgeon General’s landmark 1964 report shows continued health concerns from smoking. Despite warnings, cigarette use remains high with per capita consumption down slightly while total sales rise due to population growth. The Surgeon General’s office lacks authority now, but ads still warn tobacco dangers. Industry voices call the 1964 report only a beginning, not an end.
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Washington
UPI
U.S
United States
Luther L. Terry
National Clearinghouse For Smoking and Health
Surgeon General
Horace R. Kornegay
Tobacco Institute
Administration Pushes Rail Aid Over Regulation Plan
The administration proposes a $2 billion loan guarantee to modernize railroads, allow abandonment of unprofitable branch lines with local subsidies, and shift to cost-based rates across rail, truck, and barge transport. Aimed at securing fuel-efficient, environmentally favorable rail service amid outages, the plan also fronts a nationwide computerized freight car tracking system with $35 million in direct spending.
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Northeast
U.S
Interstate Commerce Commission
ICC
FDA approves kit for cancer testing
The FDA has approved a blood test kit by Canadian researchers to aid diagnosis of certain cancers and monitor recurrence. The test may detect cancer in the rectum colon lung and pancreas but is not definitive as it also appears in smokers and those with liver cirrhosis or inflammatory digestive diseases.
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Washington
UPI
Food and Drug Administration
FDA
Samuel 0. Freedman
Phil Gold
Montreal
Hoffman-LaRoche
Nutley
N.J
Four Die In Propane Gas Truck Blast
An early morning propane gas tank explosion at Charleton Park apartments in West St. Paul killed three West St. Paul firemen and one civilian, with a fourth victim a woman later identified. Four hours after, crews searched damaged rooms as two trucks and 15 fire departments handled the blaze in below zero weather.
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West ST. Paul, Minn
UPI
Charleton Park
St. Paul
Comex
Richard Neikark
Early Armstrong
John Buhrer
West St. Paul
Red Cross
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