Ziggy the elephant to enter outside enclosure this week
Ziggy a six ton plus male elephant with 30 years in solitary at Brookfield Zoo will be let out Aug 28 into a new outside pen. The 54 year old elephant will be viewed from across an eight foot moat and will wear a 175 foot steel leash. Ziggy has a long history from India to Ziegfeld to Ringling and later to captivity after a fatal rampage in 1936.
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Heroin Use Among GIs Studied By Army Doctors
Two Army doctors surveyed 1 100 enlisted Vietnam returnees at Oakland Army Terminal. Final month in country 4.3 percent admitted experimenting with heroin while 3.5 percent used it casually and 4.3 percent were heavy users. Overall 22.7 percent used heroin at least once in Vietnam.
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TVA to Pay About 76 Million to U.S. Treasury
The Tennessee Valley Authority will remit about 76 million dollars to the U.S. Treasury in the current fiscal year starting July 1. TVA cites lower interest rates for the drop from last year’s payment of over 85 million, continuing a rise from 46.5 million in 1962.
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TVA Reports Two Federal Payments For Power Investments
TVA says two payments are required by federal law: an annual repayment of appropriations invested in electric power facilities and a dividend on the unrepaid investment. New year dividends total about $56 million. The rate is tied to U.S. Government marketable debt costs as of July 1, set this year at 5.210 percent, down from 5.986 percent last year.
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