New Process Purifies Acid Mine Water
Gov. Scranton announces a new process to convert acid mine drainage into a potential public water supply with electricity as a by product. Westinghouse refined desalination for a pilot plant, cost estimates place five million gallons daily production at 33.3 cents per thousand gallons with a $10 million plant price.
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Harrisburg
Scranton
Pennsylvania
Wkesian
Westinghouse Electric Corp
U.S. Naval Base
Guantanamo Bay
Cuba
H. Beecher Charmbury
Guantanamo
State Coal Research Board
Westinghouse Engineers
Westinghouse Laboratory
Lester
Delaware County
Birth control push reaches Caracas mothers in hospital program
In Caracas 1 050 women receive contraceptive pills at the government maternity hospital as Venezuela launches its first major birth rate control effort. Dr Dario Merchan Lopez explains aims to balance growth while social workers screen applicants and prioritize high risk cases.
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Caracas
Venezuela
Government
India
China
Dario Merchan Lopez
Department of Birth Control
Santo Domingo divided into rebel zones amid unrest
In Santo Domingo the rebel split has shuttered shops and split daily life. La Opera reopened in the rebel zone as owners balance profit with safety. About 5,000 evade normal life while a peace plan stalls and unemployment climbs above 30 percent.
Death prompts patent awarded years after inventor’s death
A patent was granted more than five years after the death of Edwin A. Nelson who proposed an improved method for manufacturing fence end cups. Mrs. Maxie Smart accepted the patent on his behalf. Nelson died in 1959 at age 40 from a heart attack. The idea originated with U S Steel’s American Steel and Wire Division and Cyclone Fence engineers. the drawing was on notebook paper and valued at about 4 000 dollars for his widow Linda Jean and son Gary.
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Waurmaan
Til
Maxie Smart
Edwin A. Nelson
Nelson
U. S. Steel Corporation
American Steel and Wire
Linda Jean
Gary
Wages and salaries share 67 percent of regional income
Southeastern states paid workers 53.6 billion dollars in 1964, representing 67 percent of total personal income of 79.8 billion. Propriety income transfer payments and other labor income comprised the rest as reported by the U S Commerce Department. A separate note says 11 207 international passengers arrived Aug 1 at John F Kennedy Airport on 100 flights.
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Atlanta
U.S. Department of Commerce
New York
John F. Kennedy International
District Immigrations
Minneapolis, Minn
John Johnson
Foreign Student Adapts to American School Screamers
Ulla Koehne a 16 year old exchange student from Bad Godesburg Germany describes American high school life as dominated by constant screams at games. She asks a classmate why they scream and is told she too should scream, noting she felt homesick only that day and now embraces group screams.
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Bouldeh
Volo
Ulla Koehne
Bad Godeburg
Germany
Tourists Limited Delos Shelter Limits Visitors
The uninhabited Delos island in the Aegean, famed in ancient Greece, offers overnight stays for tourists but restricts capacity to three people. The site provides a shelter with one single room and one double room for visitors to tour its archaeological remains.
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Athens
Delos
Aegean
Greece
Locust Appears on Schedule Expands Into Westmoreland County
Pittsburgh AP reports Brood V periodical cicadas swarmed in Greene Fayette and Washington counties and appeared in Westmoreland, marking the easternmost expansion since 1897. Dr. George Wallace notes sparse populations at Powdermill and suggests two explanations for Westmoreland sightings.
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Pittsburgh
Greene
Fayette
Washington
Westmoreland
George Wallace
Carnegie Institute Museum
Tuffsdale
Jones Mills
Powdermill
Wallace
Pennsylvania
Ohio
West Virginia
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Santo Domingo
Dominian Republic
la Opera
U.S
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Organization of American States
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Vy Price
Wes
Corry
Penna
RCA Whirlpool
Spaseods
Davis Television
North Center Street
Bea
Bronson Casting
Firestone
Montis
Johnson’s Holiday Car Wash Cream
Firestone Uni
Barney
South Center Street
Pace
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