House Clerks Run Press To Supplement Income
Two House clerks run private printing businesses on Capitol grounds using public space and utilities while drawing taxpayer salaries. GAO audits reveal Lankford and Ramage earned substantial salaries and profits, with assets over $700k combined, and annual sales over $1 million.
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David R. Ramage
Rayburn House
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Congressional Mail
Congress
Legislative Branch
Western Union
Senate
Light Freeze Forecast With Mild Winds Tonight
The weather bureau warns of a light freeze as temperatures fall to the lower 30s. West winds at 10 to 15 mph will lessen frost impact, with partly sunny skies and a high around 55 to 58 this afternoon, and continued fair, near 60s Thursday.
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Weather Bureau
North Carolina Weather Forecast With Cool Inland Temperatures
Inland areas face a freeze warning with freezing temperatures in the mountains while the coast warms to 50s and 60s. Expect partly cloudy skies in the Piedmont and Outer Banks with mountain flurries and a cooling trend into Thursday. Friday through Sunday stay fair and cool with highs mainly in the 60s and 70s coast to inland, and overnight lows dipping to the 20s in the northwest.
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Northwest
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Carter Seeks $5.5 Billion Food Stamp Overhaul Plan
President Carter asks Congress to limit changes to his food stamp reform by no more than 100 million or face a veto. Agriculture Secretary Bergland says slight adjustments are okay but total costs must not exceed about 2 percent. The 30 page proposal would start Oct 1 with 600,000 higher income households disqualified and most benefits continue for others.
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Bergland
House Agriculture Committee
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Legionnaires disease organism may be more common
Dr. Ted Tsai of the CDC said the Legionnaires organism may be widespread and tied to recent Detroit Vermont Indiana and California cases. He noted the Flint pneumonia death possibly linked and that the bacterium could be environmental and cause varying pneumonia severity.
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Federal Center For Disease Control
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Crosby Returns Home After Stage Fall
Bing Crosby returns to his Hillsborough home after a 20 foot fall during TV taping to mark his 50th year in show business. The 72 year old singer left Peninsula Hospital Burlingame with wife Kathryn after injuring a spinal disc. He sang a line of Oh What a Beautiful Morning before entering his car and will continue at home with exercises and hot baths as doctors report progress.
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Bing Crosby
Peninsula Hospital
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Crosby
Peninsula
Weather Delays Effort to Salvage Monitor Off Hatteras
Stormy seas and gale warnings slowed a four day salvage plan for the Civil War ironclad Monitor off Cape Hatteras. Winds 25 to 35 mph halted equipment installation and postponed horizontal wreck pictures and ocean floor sampling until the next day.
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Monitor Research and Recovery Foundation
Beaufort
Cape Henlopen
University of Delaware
Cape Hatteras
Seige
Wilmington
Monitor
Harold Edgerton
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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