Ethel Waters Dies at 80 After Long Illness in Los Angeles
Ethel Waters, famed singer and actress who shaped gospel and blues, died at 80 in Los Angeles after a lengthy illness. She rose from Philadelphia suburb roots to Broadway, film, and TV, with known works including Am I Blue and Stormy Weather. her life included an Academy Award nomination for Pinky in 1949 and a best seller autobiography His Eye is on the Sparrow. Funeral arrangements were pending at Forest Lawn Mortuary.
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Carolina Leaf Prices Rise Across Carolinas and Virginia
Prices rose on flue cured tobacco markets in the Carolinas and Virginia as demand stayed strong. On the Old and Middle belt 5,435,084 pounds sold at 116.87 per hundredweight, lifting season totals to 91,261,318 pounds at 100.98. Eastern Belt sales reached 7,501,176 pounds at 129.40, totaling 169,676,891 pounds at 113.79. South Carolina Border North Carolina belt moved 4,723,783 pounds at 138.08, with season total 133,774,777 pounds at 114.63.
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Carter Plans Mountain Trip and Camp David Getaway
President Carter will leave Washington for Camp David in the Catoctin Mountains for Labor Day weekend to escape criticism over Bert Lance and the Panama Canal treaties. He met Willie Nelson and Emmy Lou Harris in the Oval Office and invited Gerald Ford to the treaty signing, while Lance faces calls to step down amid banking probe concerns.
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Nixon defends Woods on Watergate tape gap in Frost interview
Former President Richard Nixon tells British host David Frost he believes Rosemary Woods may not be lying about the 18 minute gap in a Watergate tape. Frost, airing in 60 cities, says Nixon also discussed why he did not destroy the tapes and disputed Woods’s account amid court experts’ finding of deliberate erasures.
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New Strain Of Pneumonia Resistant To Penicillin
Atlanta reports a new pneumonia strain in South Africa that resists penicillin and 12 of 15 common antibiotics. It appears in Durban and Johannesburg and links to a measles outbreak. Doctors fear resistant strains could worsen treatment outcomes.
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