Heavy rains wash 18000 gallons gasoline leak in Tennessee
In Tullahoma Tennessee heavy rains washed 18000 gallons of gasoline from a rusty Union 76 storage tank into storm drains and away from ignition. Fire Captain James Cunningham said most of it moved out with the downpours and officials closed the area as five industrial plants employing about 600 people remained shut through Thursday as a precaution.
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James Cunningham
Union 76
Cunnningham
Passenger kills bus driver near New Boston Texas
A knife-wielding passenger fatally stabbed bus driver Billy Fred Young as the Continental Trailways bus carried about 20 passengers along U.S. 82 on Christmas night near New Boston. Young steered the bus off the highway and collapsed after exiting. A man fled into a wooded area. officers hunted him by horse and dog. Young, a retired Texarkana firefighter, was on a Memphis to Los Angeles run.
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Willie Huff
Billy Fred Young
Continental Trailways
U.S 82
Young
Texarkana
Los Angeles
Nitroglycerine blast delayed at Patterson No. 1 oilwell
A Pacific cold front with snow and high winds postponed a planned nitroglycerine blast to extinguish the Patterson No. 1 oilwell fire near Glenrock Wyoming. Geologist Tom Popp of Chaparral Resources said weather would determine blasting readiness. Firefighters from the Red Adair Co. had reignited the blaze Monday night after it first began in December and burned for 17 days before a prior blast nullified it.
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UPI
Pacific
Patterson No. 1 Oilwell
Tom Popp
Chapparal Resources
Popp
Weil
Red Adair Co
Houston
South Viet pilots shot down by antiaircraft fires
Communist antiaircraft guns downed three South Vietnamese aircraft in 24 hours. Nine government soldiers died and others wounded. A Dragonfly fighter-bomber and a UH1 Huey helicopter were hit in Quang Duc province. A CH47 Chinook carrying troops was shot down near Tong Le Chan base camp, with all nine aboard killed and 36 wounded. The Dragonfly pilot ejected unharmed as the aircraft was destroyed.
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Tong le Chan
Six arrested in Nixon White House protest on Christmas Day
Washington AP report says six people were arrested, two for unlawful entry after blocking a fence at the White House, and four for disorderly conduct as they tried to chain themselves. Activist priest Philip Berrigan and Sister Elizabeth McAlister attended but were not arrested. The Maryland group members named include Gerard Gaeng, Rosemary Bramble, Joan Cavanagh, and Teresa Kottenberg. two Washington residents were Mitchell Snyder and Debbie Danielle.
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Community For Creative Nonviolence
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Elizabeth McAlister
Mitchell Snyder
Debbie Danielle
Baltimore
Gerard J. Gaeng
Rosemary F. Bramble
Joan Cavanagh
Teresa Kottenberg
Nixon spends Christmas at the White House
President Nixon spent a quiet Christmas with family and friends at the White House then turned to the energy crisis and a stack of some 40 bills passed in Congress. He postponed plans for a Key Biscayne vacation but might fly to the Florida White House for a New Year weekend. Guardians and reporters held standby reservations for a Florida trip while he eyed a standby gasoline rationing plan and signed measures including Social Security increases and defense funding.
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UPT
Nixon
White House
Congress
Key Biscayne
Fla
Florida
Secret Service
William Simon
Indian laborer killed in Mendocino County shootout
A 67 year old Indian laborer Richard G Willits died at Ukiah hospital after barricading himself in his cabin and firing on deputies. Sheriff sergeant John Stephenson was seriously wounded. Deputies used a tear gas canister to force Willits out after negotiations failed.
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Mendocino County
Richard G. Willits
Ukiah
Here
John Stephenson
Willits
Stephenson
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