Carter's Tech Air stock now worth over one hundred thirty thousand
A 1970 investment by Jimmy Carter in Tech Air Inc at one dollar a share has grown to about 133 320 dollars after American Can Co stock splits. Tech Air developed a process to convert peanut shells and other waste into oil gas and char.
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Washington
Jimmy Carter
Carter
Georgia
Tech Air, Inc
Mack D. Bowen
The
Georgia Institute of Technology
American Can Co
Tech Air
American Can
Delmont Lohuis
New York Stock Exchange
Father Of Dead Girl Scout Joins Manhunt For Killer
Locust Grove Oklahoma AP Father of 9 year old Michelle Guse joins up to 400 volunteers in a 10 square mile search near Camp Scott for Gene Leroy Hart jailed escapee and rapist charged with slayings of three Girl Scouts. Police report clues and a possible roaming suspect sighting in rugged woods.
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Locust Grove
Okla
Richard Guse
Michelle
Gene Leroy Hart
Hart
Mayes County
Sid Wise
Panel’s Gas-Guzzler Tax Narrowly Reshaped by Panel
Washington AP reports the House Ways and Means Committee adopts a revised gas guzzler tax within energy legislation. The 1979 model levy aims for 915 million dollars by 1985, far below Carter’s 7.7 billion target, yet still saves about 170 thousand barrels of oil daily.
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Washington
Carter
House
Ways and Means
Sirica Reflects on Watergate as Trials Ended
Judge John Sirica, 73, recalls the Watergate trials as emotionally draining and says the ordeal contributed to his heart attack. He discusses the sleepless nights and awesome decisions, hints at possible retirement and a forthcoming book, and praises prosecutors Archibald Cox and Leon Jaworski.
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Orlando, Fla
John Sirica
Sirica
Richard M. Nixon
Public Outcry Halts Metric Conversion Plan
Washington AP reports public opposition halted a plan by the Federal Highway Administration to convert highway signs from miles to kilometers at an estimated cost of 100 million dollars. Director William M. Cox says 98 percent of 5,000 comments opposed the regulation, and no revival is planned. The plan would have started in 1979 with speed limits and clearance signs in metric units.
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Washington
Federal Highway Administration
William M. Cox
Cox
Court Allows State Aid for Parochial Education Narrowly
Supreme Court ruling from Ohio expands how states may spend tax dollars to aid private church run schools while maintaining a separation rationale. It upholds most of an $88.8 million two year program and allows textbooks, supplements, and certain testing and diagnostic services for parochial pupils if not advancing religious goals.
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Washington
The
Supreme Court
Ohio
Patrick Farrell
U.S. Catholic Conference
Johnson Hand Cancer Surgery Secret Revealed in 1968
A cancer researcher states Lyndon B. Johnson had clandestine surgery in 1967 to remove a cancerous skin lesion from his hand, while Lady Bird Johnson and aides describe the issue as not diagnosed cancer and as a preventive, non alarming skin condition. Aide Horace Busby recalls being present during treatment in the White House.
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Lyndon B. Johnson
Johnson
White House
Edmund Klein
Roswell Park Memorial Institute
Buffalo
N.Y
Lady Bird
Austin
Tex
Lyndon
Washington
Horace Busby
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Atlanta
Charles Kirbo
Kirbo
Blind Trust
Camp Scott
Don Laken
Pennsylvania
Laken
Jerry Gregory
Watergate
LBJ
Richard E. Meyer
Associated Press
Klein
Richard H. Lisenback
Mechanicsburg
Margaret Lisened
Warrenton
N.C
Camp Hill
Dorothy Lisenback
Lemoyne
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