Heat wave loses steam as floods, droughts hit regions
A sweeping heat wave across a 2000 mile belt fades with cooling trends from the Great Lakes to the central plains. Meanwhile heavy rains flood Johnstown Pennsylvania killing at least 32 and displacing about 41,000, and flash floods threaten Estes Park Colorado. President Carter declares drought disasters in Georgia and Alabama.
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Great Lakes
Central Plains
Atlantic
Pennsylvania
Johnstown
Estes Park
Colo
Big Thompson River
Carter
Georgia
Alabama
Carter Begin Agree On Full Peace Conference Details
President Carter and Israeli Prime Minister Begin back a Mideast peace conference this fall with Secretary Vance to secure Arab participation. They also support a Geneva conference in October and discussed Begin’s plan for Israeli withdrawals from some Arab lands plus a partial arms request.
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Washington
Carter
Menahem Begin
Cyrus R. Vance
Begin
Geneva
U.S
Cyrus Vance
Middle East
Egypt
Syria
Jordan
Tel Aviv
United States
Israel
Timberline Lodge a unique monument to creation and WPA labor
Timberline Lodge on Mt. Hood in Government Camp Oregon is a national historic landmark built by WPA workers. Engineer Charles Lake oversees repairs and runs the lodge with the aid of the Friends of Timberline volunteers. The article blends praise for the lodge with notes on its origins and craftsmanship in a historic New Deal context.
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Charles Lake
Timberline Lodge
WPA
Ore
Equator
North Pole
Mt. Hood
Roosevelt
Works Project Administration
Government Camp
Friends of Timberline
Hew Won't Stifle State's Authority Over UNC System
Federal HEW officials met with UNC president William C Friday in Washington and agreed that desegregation guidelines would not curb North Carolina's control of the 16 campus system. Friday indicated NC would submit a revision to the plan and pressed the system's right to make educational decisions, while negotiations continue.
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UNC
Raleigh
University of North Carolina
William C. Friday
Washington
U.S. Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare
Friday
HEW
North Carolina
Peter Libassi
Libassi
Japanese Find Sea Creature Off New Zealand Coast
A 30-foot, two-ton sea creature was hauled aboard the Japanese trawler Zuiyo Maru off Christchurch, New Zealand. Biologist Prof. Fujio Yashuda said the carcass resembled a prehistoric plesiosaurus though without a bone sample a firm id is impossible. Photographs and sketches were shown at a news conference before the body was dumped back overboard to prevent rotting tissue from polluting the catch.
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Tokyo
Michihiko Yano
Scotland
Yano
Christchurch
New Zealand
Fujio Yashuda
Tokyo Fisheries University
Yasha
Japan
Hunt Refuses Pardon For Wilmington 10 After March
Gov. Jim Hunt does not grant clemency for the Wilmington 10 as a 150 mile march ends in Raleigh. Mothers of the group appeal, citing recanted witness testimony and stalled court appeals. Nine Black men and one White woman were convicted in 1972 for a Wilmington grocery fire.
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Raleigh
Wilmington
Jim Hunt
Elizabeth Chavis
Ben Chavis
Hunt
Burgaw
Pender County
Ann Sheppard Turner
Capitol
Superior Court
George M. Fountain
Durham Cuts Water Sales to Chapel Hill and Carrboro
Durham officials announce water sales to Chapel Hill and Carrboro will be cut off except weekends until drought eases. Everett Billingsley of Orange Water and Sewer Authority says conservation is required as University Lake runs 56 inches below normal. Lawn watering is restricted, car washing banned, and restaurants may not serve water unless requested.
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Chapel Hill
Carrboro
Everett Billingsley
The
Orange Water and Sewer Authority
University Lake
Water Authority
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