Carter urges Canal Zone residents to support treaties
President Carter told thousands of Canal Zone civilians and service members that opposition to the Panama Canal treaties implies a duty to hand over the waterway smoothly. He toured the canal aboard a helicopter, visited Miraflores Locks, and spoke of appreciation for Zone residents while stressing the decision remains theirs to bear.
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Canal Zone
Carter
Panama Canal
Panama
U.s.administered
Canal
Pacific Ocean
Caribbean Sea
Omar Torrijos
Miraflores Locks
Apollo
Pacific
Caribbean
Rosalynn
Washington
Congress
Tornado overturns dinner theater boat near Pomona Lake
Bulletin POMONA KAN AP reports two killed fourteen injured and eight missing after a tornado overturned a showboat at Pomona Lake in Osage County about forty miles south of Topeka.
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Pomona Kan
Kansas Highway Patrol
Pomona Lake
Osage County
Topeka
Moore Attacks Randolph Campaign Of Announcements
Former governor Arch A Moore Jr accuses Senator Jennings Randolph of running a campaign of announcements by highlighting federal projects and funds in West Virginia. Moore, speaking at a West Virginia AP Broadcasters Association meeting in Wheeling, says Randolph takes credit for projects he did not author. He defends his own record from 1972 campaign claims and insists he built the roads bridges and schools.
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Wheeling
W.va
Arch A. Moore Jr
Jennings Randolph
D-W.va
Moore
Randolph
West Virginia
Associated Press Broadcasters Association
Hearing-Hearing at Dulles Tests Jet Noise Levels
In a rain soaked open field at Dulles a Senate aviation subcommittee hearing featured United States Senator Howard Cannon and Transportation Secretary Brock Adams. Federal Aviation Administration officials arranged a test of three aircraft types a noisy 727 a retrofitted quieter 727 and a new Airbus A 300 with low noise engines to compare takeoff and landing sounds. The test repeated four times at one minute intervals with 15 minute gaps.
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Washington
Dulles International Airport
United States
Howard Cannon
Transportation
Brock Adams
Harold T. Johnson
Federal Aviation Administration
Senate
Cannon
Nevada
FAA
Woman assaults car with bat on Father’s Day
Barbara Smith smashed a 1964 Oldsmobile after it failed to start. Neighbors called police in King County Washington. Officer Jim Fuda found a damaged car and a content 28 year old Seattle woman. She said the car wouldn’t start and she killed it. she felt good. In Richmond Virginia a church hosts Women’s Sunday with a woman pastor and all female choir.
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Barbara Smith
Seattle
King County
Wash
Jim Fuda
Pat Ferguson
Epiphany Evangelical Lutheran Church
Richmond
Metallurgical coal market in late January probe
First in a series examining the metallurgical coal market, the Daily Telegraph surveys the area coalfields and their ongoing problems. The analysis notes persistent issues and offers a closer look at underlying factors affecting supply, demand, and operations.
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Daily Telegraph
Pocahontas
Met Coal Woes Persist in West Virginia Mines
The article details continued strain in met coal production with a strike ended long ago as West Virginia mines face 50 percent drop in miner productivity since 1969 and 1977 levels, rising production costs from regulations and labor, shrinking demand for metallurgical coal, and growing foreign competition, with WV Coal Association's Dan Fields urging higher productivity.
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West Virginia Coal Association
Dan Fields
West Virginia
Fields
Bronx
Paycheck Pain Deepens as West Virginia Miners Struggle
In southern West Virginia the metallurgical coal slump has left about 2,000 miners out of work with hundreds on two to three days weekly. Benny Hodges, 26, president of United Mine Workers Local 6110, describes layoffs since May 12 and low unemployment benefits of about 90 to 100 dollars a week. Companies like Pittston, Westmoreland, and Consolidation have laid off workers as demand drops and prices lag, with miners awaiting a market rebound anticipated near year end.
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Strat Dou
Benny Hodges
West Virginia
United Mine Workers
Hodges
United Mine Workers Local 6110
Amigo
Wyco
Wyoming County
The
Pittston Co
Pittston
Westmoreland
Consolidation
Ed Wiles
West Virginia Coal Association
Vanishing breed tailor keeps Bluefield shop afloat
Inside Bluefield, tailor Charles Rondinelli runs a small office selling suits at 350 dollars while fighting to stay afloat. The piece notes the changing times for traditional tailors and the local business scene as compiled by Telegraph staff.
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Charles Rondinelli
Bluefield
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