Yukon Passage TV Special Retells 1899 Gold Rush Trek
A PBS Nat Geo produced one hour program documents Keith Turek and three friends retracing the Klondike rush route from Chilkoot Pass to Dawson and beyond. Their 1800 mile eight month journey via raft and dogsled echoes 1899 hardships with modern gear and safety, including a near disaster and final ice travel.
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Keith Turek
Alaska
Sweden
Klondike
Truck
Dawson
Chilkoot
Yukon River
Marshall
Yukon Passage
Public Broadcasting Service
National Geographic Society
PBS
WQED
Pittsburgh
Gulf Oil Corp
Murphy
Christie slams Amtrak plan to kill Texas rail routes
U S Senate hopeful Christie demands public hearings on Amtrak moves to terminate the Inter-American and Lone Star lines. He says the energy crisis is ignored and two trains with 19 Texas stops would be cut, affecting routes through Gainesville Dallas Fort Worth Houston and San Antonio Austin Laredo McGregor San Marcos and more.
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U. S. Senate
Joe Christie
Texas
Amtrak
Chicago
Laredo
Lone Star
Houston
Christie
Cameron County
The
Gainesville
Fort Worth
Dallas
Cleburne
Temple
McGregor
Brenham
Inter-American
Marshall
Longview
Austin
San Antonio
Ft. Worth
San Marcos
U S Chamber Outlines Tax Revision Plan
A noted economist notes inflation adjusted stock market around 450 while the Dow Jones peak near 381 evokes memories of 1929. The piece discusses investor confidence and looming tax legislation from President Carter to Congress later this year or next, with economy recovery signs and tax changes shaping jobs inflation and growth.
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Congress
United States
Carter
Chamber of Commerce of the
U. S
Washington Report
Chamber
School Lunch Menus for Milano Buckholts Cameron
Readable sections list daily menus for Milano Buckholts and Cameron schools from Monday November 28. Milano offers corn dogs spaghetti beef soup and more. Buckholts serves Italian spaghetti fried chicken and other dishes. Cameron features chicken fried steak meat and spaghetti and other meals with milk and desserts.
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Milano
Cameron
Olson seeks HEW review to protect rural Texas hospitals
State Rep. Lyndon Olson Jr asks Health Secretary Joseph Califano to rewrite guidelines that could close small area hospitals and even large ones like Scott & White in Temple. He warns the plan hurts rural Texas and Medicare Medicaid recipients and notes systemic economic impacts. He cites the Chamber of Commerce critique and outlines tax reform ideas to spur investment. The piece also includes a Christmas appeal from the Colonial Nursing Home inviting community visits and support for residents.
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Lyndon Olson Jr
Health, Education and Welfare
Joseph Califano
Central
West
Texas
Olson
Congress
Scott & White Hospital
Temple
HEW
Colonial Nursing Home
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