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Newspaper
Dixon Telegraph
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1989
Page
5
A national traveling science exhibit featuring La Brea Tar Pits fossils visits Boston. The show runs through December 10, highlighting paleontology displays and interactive displays for visitors.
Negotiators in Sacramento reached a tentative contract at 3 10 a m ending the largest wave of strikes affecting about 145 000 students in nine states. Warren Ohio teachers ratified a wage deal and prepare to return to classes, while Roselle Illinois teachers vote to strike schools serving 2 400 high school students.
Don Hardister testified at Jim Bakker's fraud and racketeering trial that PTL's alcohol free pledge applied to most, but Bakker occasionally had vodka from the presidential suite at Heritage Grand Hotel in Fort Mill South Carolina. He described buying vodka and other liquor for Bakker and noted a $45,000 diamond ring policy.
Federal agents seized the 236 foot freighter Norma and three speedboats in the Bahamas and Miami Beach as part of a drugs case. Thirteen people including seven Danes and four U.S. citizens were arrested on smuggling and conspiracy charges. The operation used Coast Guard cutters, helicopters and Customs planes during the three day search.
Mayor Don Fraser joined a chase after a thief grabbed a fundraiser aide’s purse. The 65-year-old pursued along a side street but could not outrun a car. Police praised Fraser for acting quickly and courageously during the incident.
Tropical Storm Gabrielle weakens to a tropical storm off the Canadian coast after weekend heavy seas and 12 foot swells hitting New England and Nova Scotia. Gabrielle moves northeast at 5 to 10 mph with 45 mph winds. Hugo strengthens in the far eastern Atlantic and poses no land threat as the eighth named storm of the 1989 season.
Upledger report notes 1200 plus supermarkets in the United States and Canada will phase out selling fresh produce treated with known cancer causing pesticides. Five chains with 1261 stores across Northern California Nevada Arizona Canada and Massachusetts signed with the National Toxics Campaign. Agreement not legally binding, aims to push disclosure and remove affected produce by 1995.
Paul Gann co authored Proposition 13 the 1978 tax revolt that curtailed state government spending and inspired similar efforts nationwide. He died at 77 from pneumonia and AIDS related complications after a hip injury lapsed his hospitalization. Linda Gann Stone confirmed his death nine days after the fall.
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