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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1976
Page
2
UPI reports the National Safety Council estimates 450 to 550 deaths and 20,000 to 24,000 disabling injuries on highways over the four day Thanksgiving weekend starting tonight at 6 p.m. local time and ending Sunday midnight.
Forecast calls for a chance of snow or rain showers Friday with flurries Saturday. Partial clearing expected by Sunday. Temperatures will rise to the mid 30s to mid 40s during the day and drop to the 20s at night, with a less cold overall.
Federal officials backpedaled on a Missouri swine flu confirmation but scare drives thousands to seek inoculations. A Concordia man describes mild illness, while CDC cautions about confirming cases as vaccine shipments rush in and clinics field tens of thousands of calls.
The Justice Department urged an FCC broad probe into ABC CBS and NBC control of stations and possible antitrust issues. It argued network ownership could curb affiliates programming decisions and called for rulemaking to address perceived power imbalances. NBC and CBS officials dismissed the petition as unfounded while defending affiliate needs.
Jimmy Carter plans several more Washington trips before the January 20 inauguration. Aides say he will fly to D C roughly every two weeks, with no plans to meet Ford again. Carter returned to Plains after his first post election trip, planning a quiet few days at home through Thanksgiving. Georgia officials Ed Spivia and Arthur Bolton will visit Plains to discuss the town’s transition cleaners. Governor Busbee granted Plains 15000 to manage traffic and tourist flow.
UPI reports the Palestinian Liberation Organization failed to open an information office in Washington after the Justice Department ruled that front man Sabri Elias Jirgis lied in his visa application. He was ordered to depart by November 30. Jirgis, using a Sudanese passport, secured a visa in Nicosia, Cyprus. The PLO remains blacklisted by the U.S. but officials say a legally qualified representative could still try to open such an office.
Trofim Lysenko, 78, the controversial Soviet biologist once dubbed the dictator of Soviet genetics, died. His death, not disclosed until days after, marked the end of a career that shaped Soviet agriculture and scientific policy under Stalin with a dogmatic Marxist view and unorthodox heredity theory.
Illinois public health experts report minute radiation levels in northern Illinois snow samples. Testing continues to determine if fallout came from a Chinese nuclear test or another origin. Milk surveillance has been intensified to assess pasture exposure, amid broader context on Cold War era science debates.
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