AP unveils laserphoto system for faster wire photo transmission
The Associated Press debuts Laserphoto, a laser beam based photo transmission system developed at MIT to deliver dry gloss prints without chemicals. AP plans electronic dark rooms, computer storage, and rapid transfer to 1,259 newspapers and 3,387 stations.
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New York
Associated Press
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Wes Gallagher
News Cooperative
Waldorf Astoria Hotel
United States
Gallagher
Easter gunman leaves six dead in Los Angeles spree
A 90 minute shooting rampage across eight locations in a primarily black neighborhood on Easter Sunday left six dead and ten wounded. The gunman, using a shotgun, targeted several individuals including a service station attendant and his grandmother, girlfriend, and a 12 year old girl. Police exchanged fire, wounding the suspect who was taken into custody.
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Steve Lawrence
Associated Press
LOS Angeles
Butch
James Morrow
Raleigh
Butch” Henderson
Charles Elliott
William Ray Bonner
Bonner
Insecticide Share Cost Program Starts July 1
Hempstead County will begin an insecticide share cost program July 1 to cut tick populations and reduce tick borne diseases. Livestock producers meeting brucellosis rules may receive one gallon per 100 cattle monthly, prorated if under 100 head. Applications for eligibility start after local vendors register and program explained. May 20 is target for opening producer signups.
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Hempstead
Calvin Cladwell
Livestock and Poultry Commission
Caldwell
Calvin Caldwell
Cooperative Extension Service
Quotable notes and trivia from HAL BOYLE column
Mail insights reveal rising federal taxes for 1974 with average $1179 per person, and a tour through quirky origins of common phrases from Don Quixote to Sholes. Also includes nature facts on snakes wasps turkeys and ship crow nests with a closing quotation about understanding.
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Hal Boyle
New York
Tax Foundation
United States
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes
Christopher Latham Sholes
Samuel Johnson
Nature
Qt. Jor es 90 Br 1 Lb c Phy 24
A compact notation fragment appears to reference chemical or physical measurements with abbreviations. The readable portion lists QT JOR ES 90 and BR 1 LB C PHY 24, but the meaning and context are unclear from the fragment. No identifiable people or organizations are present in the legible text.
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William F. Schreiber
Electronics
AP Research and Development Department
Ment
Mission
Pictures By Wire
Wirephoto
AP Board of Directors
Schreiber
Gospel Meeting
Hope Church OF Christ
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Gene Cloer
Prescott, Arkansas
Chuck Roast
USDA
Safeway
Usda Choice
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Piedmont
Wagner
Pride of Illinois
Lucerne
Mrs. Wright
Florida
Red
Your Hope Safeway
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Boy-Ar-Dee
Lorna Doone
Godchaux Sugar
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