Carter plans push to keep price controls on natural gas
Washington reports House leaders back President Carter energy plan with votes anticipated. Senate panels push higher fuel taxes and a 16 mpg car standard with heavy fines, while Metzenbaum adds a stepped 21 mpg by 1985.
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Washington
House
Carter
Thomas P. O'Neill
Senate Energy Committee
United States
Senate
Senate Energy Panel
Howard Metzenbaum
Ohio
Metzenbaum
Carter Administration
Carter Backing Gas Tax and Higher Auto Efficiency Standards
The administration signals support for tying gas taxes to energy reform and boosting penalties for automakers failing to meet efficiency rules. Carter advocates a nickel per gallon gas tax and removal of price controls on natural gas. Experts estimate the plan could save oil and raise car costs, with mileage averages at 17.8 mpg and potential $1 billion annual impact per penny increase.
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Senate
Carter
Metzenbaum
Lifesaving Rain Boosts East North Carolina Crops
Eastern North Carolina farmers hail scattered thundershowers as a rare relief from drought. Rainfall varied with Williamston 1.70 inches and Raleigh area receiving about 0.59 inches, reviving tobacco and soybeans and saving millions in potential losses.
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North Carolina
Raleigh
Dan Tucker
N. C. Crop Reporting Service
Tucker
Williamston
Goldsboro
Rocky Mount
Raleigh- Durham
Elizabeth City
Wilson
Johnston
Lee
Harnett
Pitt
Robeson
Sampson
Wayne Counties
Raleigh-Durham
Race clashes erupt at Boston public beach amid integration disputes
At Carson Beach in Boston, black and white youths clashed as police intervened in a 12 day pattern of confrontations over access to the public beach. Ten people were arrested after rocks were thrown and a fistfight began between a black and a white youth.
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Boston
Carson Beach
South
Columbia Point
Michael Goldman
Metropolitan District Commission
Planning urged as NC faces future water shortages
North Carolina officials warn drought risks may exceed current shortages. Wake County towns Wendell and Zebulon and Chapel Hill Carrboro require emergency supply actions. Areas from the Piedmont headwaters to the Outer Banks may lack water in droughts. Guilford and Moore counties should seek more supplies.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Wendell
Zebulon
Wake County
Chapel Hill
Carrboro
Sparta
Kernersville
Henderson
John Wray
State Water Resources Planning Branch
Piedmont
Cape Fear
Neuse
Tar
Wray
Guilford
Moore Counties
French Broad
Asheville
Perseid Meteor Shower visible after midnight August nights
Earth crosses a swarm of comet dust and gravel, producing the Perseid meteor shower on August 11 12 and 13. About 50 meteors hourly streak from Perseus while astronomers study ice and dust burning in the atmosphere. The Temple Swift Comet last passed Earth in 1967 and may not return.
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New York
Earth
Kenneth Franklin
Hayden Planetarium
Constellation
Perseus
Laughing Gas Mix-Up Kills Possible Patients at Suburban General
In Norristown Pennsylvania a hospital’s emergency room fed nitrous oxide instead of oxygen for six months. Officials say about 9 000 patients were treated in the ER with 300 possibly exposed. Thirty two ER deaths were found but no single death linked to the error yet.
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Norristown
Richard Anderson
General Hospital
Norriton Township
Alan Sommers
Anderson
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