After Beverly Hills fire investigators search ruins
In Southgate Kentucky investigators bulldozed through 22 of 23 party rooms of the Beverly Hills Supper Club after a deadly blaze that killed at least 160. Officials found no arson evidence but may take a month to determine cause as 74 more were injured and looting occurred. Authorities consider stricter fire codes and a state review. Governor Carroll declared mourning.
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Southgate
UPI
Beverly Hills
Kentucky
Ken Brandenburgh
Las Vegas
Cincinnati
John Davidson
Dick Riesenberg
Julian Carroll
Kentucky General Assembly
Ft Sill to start mandatory recycling program
Captain Art Lupien, head of Ft. Sill environmental and energy office, will enforce a mandatory recycling program at the Oklahoma Army post. Recyclables include computer printouts punchcards newspaper office paper and aluminum cans. He notes wartime recycling and rising costs drive the move and cites aluminum at 220 a ton paper 180 per ton for punchcard and 20 to 40 per ton for newspaper. About half of the post's 50 tons of daily trash is paper.
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FT. Sill
Okla
UPI
Art Lupien
Oklahoma Army Post
Environmental and Energy
Lupien
Post
Cannoneer
Thunderstorms lash Midlands with damaging winds and hail
United Press International reports severe storms swept the Midlands and surrounding areas from Missouri to Nebraska and Colorado. Winds over 55 mph downed trees and power lines, with a destroyed house trailer in Willard Missouri and tennis ball sized hail near Burwell Nebraska.
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United Press International
Missouri
Arkansas
Illinois
Tennessee
Willard
Kentucky
Dyersburg
Tenn
Paducah
Waterloo
Ill
Marion
Blytheville
Ark
Moscow Mills
Nebraska
Mortician uncovering forgotten WWI era body in vault
Claremont funeral director Robert G. Davis learned his Civil War veteran great-grandfather James R C Davis was improperly stored in a winter receiving vault in Center Barnstead New Hampshire. The coffin lay forgotten until last August with burial only this spring. Davis seeks answers.
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Center Barnstead
N.H
UPI
Robert G. Davis
Claremont
Davis
James R.C. Davis
Carter babysits and swims with Amy on Memorial Day
President Carter took a break from work to swim at Sea Island with his daughter Amy, Budget Director Bert Lance, and Lance’s wife. They walked to the beach, swam about 25 minutes, then Carter and Lance walked the shore with security keeping watch nearby.
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ST. Simon’s Island
UPI
Carter
Amy
Sea Island
Bert Lance
Lance
LaBelle
Montgomery Drive
Secret Service
Richard Keiser
White House
William Lukash
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Rockies
Pacific Northwest
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Owng
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