Copter Kills Actor Morrow and Two Child Actors
Hollywood reports Vic Morrow aged 50 and child actors Renee Shinn Chenn aged 6 and Myca Dinh Lee aged 7 died when a Bell 205 helicopter struck rotor blades during a Twilight Zone film scene near Los Angeles. Six crew members were lightly hurt as the craft crashed into a river bed in a mock Vietnamese village at Indian Dunes Park. Investigators from the State Department of Industrial Relations began inquiries into possible illegal hours for child performers.
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Hollywood
UPI
Vic Morrow
Steven Spielberg
Morrow
Renee Shinn Chenn
Myca Dinh Lee
Mike Corbett
Spielberg
Indian Dunes Park
Los Angeles
Saugus
Six Flags Magic Mountain
Francis Bacon
State Department
Learning to drive and golf differ in hitting objects
A brief mirror of a quote noting the contrast between learning to drive a car and learning to play golf. It points out that in golf practice you do not hit anything yet, implying a distant aim in initial learning phases.
National Safety Board urges 21 drinking age to curb youth deaths
The National Transportation Safety Board urged governors and state legislatures to raise the drinking age to 21 citing a link between alcohol and highway deaths among youths. Board chair Jim Burnett noted that raising from 18 to 21 can cut accident rates by as much as 30 percent, with 25,000 alcohol related highway deaths in 1981 and about 8,485 among ages 16 to 25.
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Save
Safety Board
Moravec
Jim Burnett
Arkansas
Inflation surges to 13.3 percent as gas fuels rise
Washington AP reports consumer prices jumped 13.3 percent in June driven by higher gasoline costs keeping inflation in double digits for a second month. Economists call the surge a problem number but expect it to ease later in the year. Larry Speakes notes 12 month figures while forecasters warn of ongoing headwinds.
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Washington
Labor Department
Larry Speakes
White House
Speakes
Donald Ratajczak
Georgia State University
Donald Straszheim
Wharton Econometrics
Philadelphia
Senate approves record 98.5 billion in tax increases
The Senate votes 50 to 47 for a package totaling 98.5 billion in tax hikes aimed at lowering deficits and curbing tax avoidance. The plan tightens withholding on interest and dividends above 100 dollars while exempting low income savers and the elderly. House Democrats prepare response as GOP supporters label it reform.
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Washington
Senate
Congress
Harry F. Byrd
Virginia
Paula Hawkins
Florida
Robert Kasten
Wisconsin
Mack Mattingly
Georgia
House
Treasury
Donald Regan
Tip O'Neill
Bob Dole
Thomas P. O'Neill Jr
Dole
Finance Committee
Donnan Iowa Closes Post Office as Town Keeps Zip
Hundreds gather in Donnan Iowa to bid farewell to the ZIP code 52139 and a shuttered post office. Mayor Matt Porter notes the town’s historic railroad depot era, plans for centennial memories, and a modest current population of about ten with a small city budget.
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Donnan’s
Iowa Postal Historical Society
Donnan
Porter
Milwaukee
Rock Island
Ita
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Iowa
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L.C. Walker
Tacoma, Wash
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