30 Jul 1977
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Newspaper
Danville Register
Location
Danville, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1977
Page
1
National park visitors can save with Golden Age and Golden Eagle Passports. The Golden Age Passport grants free admission and 50 percent use-fee discounts for those 62 and older, while the Golden Eagle costs 10 dollars for year-long access to admissions but not use fees.
President Carter urged Panamanian and U.S. negotiators to conclude a treaty quickly at a White House review session. He cited progress on major differences while acknowledging remaining disputes on lands waters and Panamanian workers rights. Autonomy of Panama and U.S. cooperation emphasized amid ongoing talks. Granum defended the dollar's value despite recent dips and noted steps to obtain testimony from Tongsun Park in the capital hill influence probe.
Virginia expects morning showers in the east Saturday with afternoon sun and highs near 80. North Carolina will see showers and thundershowers diminishing in the west Saturday, then through the rest of the state by Saturday night, with highs in the 80s and 60s by night. Sunday turns partly cloudy and warm with highs in the 80s.
The House began moving President Carter's energy plan with a procedural vote to take up the program ahead of floor debate. Key items include tax incentives for energy efficiency, higher crude oil and gasoline taxes to promote conservation, and continued price controls on natural gas with potential rises. Major tests target oil and gasoline taxes, with a push to double the federal gasoline tax and a GOP alternative energy package available for consideration.
Readers of The Danville Register and The Bee prefer a wider range of writers and shorter letters. Public education tops the topics, with pools pollution and women's rights also mentioned. Favorite columnists include Buckley Kilpatrick Daniel de Toledano Johnson and Rowan.
In Damascus, President Hafez Assad approved emigration for a group of eight thousand Syrian Jews, allowing fifteen women to marry grooms in the United States by proxy after most had never met their husbands. The mass ceremony in a Damascus synagogue linked two grooms from the United States with thirteen brides, many of them older and with limited prospects at home.
An AP report notes that animal behavior observations and data from four national amateur science corps aid earthquake prediction trials. US and other experts, citing Haicheng 1975 and Tangshan 1976, discuss progress, limits, and hopes for using animals to forecast quakes.
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