Flood disrupts Isleton as river levee fails near Andrus Island
A levee break on the San Joaquin River near Isleton caused flooding five miles inland. Navy, Coast Guard, Air Force and Air National Guard helicopters rescued residents and visitors while the Corps of Engineers mobilized private contractors to build an emergency levee. Officials expect partial inundation, with seven feet of water in parts, and advise evacuations for health reasons. The spillover affected boats, trailers, and a major transportation corridor near Andrus Island, with water rising within 48 hours and crews continuing assessments.
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Isletan
San Joaquin River
Andrus — Island
Isleton
Andrus
Andris
Brannan
Walnut Grove
Andras Island
We State Water Resources Department
Food costs drive up consumer price index in May
May CPI shows farm goods price hikes offset by declines in groceries and fuels. Los Angeles Long Beach area prices rose about 2.8 percent from last year, with food up 19 percent since 1967 while housing, apparel, and transportation also rose. Officials warn inflation remains but gains in employment persist.
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Bureau
Long Beach
Suzanne Sadowsky
Southern California Bureau of Labor Statistics
Miss. Sadowsky
White House
Energy crisis looms as oil imports rise by 1985
Rep. Craig Hosmer warned in Las Vegas at the American Nuclear Society convention that by 1985 the United States may need to import 34 billion dollars of oil from the Middle East due to shortages. He urged expanding energy sources and highlighted nuclear power as the immediate answer amid expected power gaps and sporadic Western shortages.
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UPI
Craig Hosmer
Rcalif
Joint Committee On Atomic Energy
United States
Middle East
U.S
California
Hosmer
Las Veedas
Sahara Hotel
Sion
West
FTC bars deceptive Cowles sales tactics
The Federal Trade Commission ordered Cowles Communications and five subsidiaries to stop deceptive door to door magazine sales practices. The consent order forbids misrepresentation of subscriptions and requires customer cancellations within three days, while the firms deny guilt. Subsidiaries headquartered in Des Moines Iowa include Civic Reading Club Educational Book Club Home Reader Service Mutual Readers League and Tome Reference Library.
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UPI
Federal Trade Commission
FTC
Cowles Communications
Cowles
New Moines
Iowa
Civic Reading
Educational Book Club
Home Reader Service
Mutual Readers League
Tome Reference Library
Kissinger in two more China talks in Peking
Henry Kissinger held two more rounds of talks with Chinese officials in the Great Hall of the People in Peking. Kyodo News reported the discussions were the fourth and fifth since his arrival, lasting 5½ hours with no details released. He was hosted by Premier Chou En Lai, and visited by John Fairbank and his wife at his guest house.
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Tokyo
Henry A. Kissinger
Nixon
Peking
Japan
Kyodo News Service
Kyodo
Great Hall
Chou En-lai
Kissinger
Killer attack shocks Levittown office workers
Wilks of Levittown falls from a window to escape a killer and witnesses describe gunfire as victims hid in offices. Public Safety Commissioner Peters reports a gunman found in a building basement with a head wound and a Civil Court emblem from Essex County New Jersey on his jacket. A military dog tag identified Edwin Grace, 1838.
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Levittown
Public Safety
Wally Peters
Peters
Civil Court
Essex County
N. J
Aspin accuses USO of coverup and corruption
Rep Les Aspin charges the United States Organizations with shielding its director and downplaying corruption by its Vietnam based employees. The USO investigation confirmed money manipulation and black market activity but found no drug trafficking or sale of obscene materials and said military logistics support was not misused.
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Les Aspin
D.wis
United States
Vietnam
Aspin
USO
Ance Command
Command
Fulbright warns new arms may revive weapons spiral
Sen J William Fulbright warned that approving President Nixon's offensive weapons would trigger another arms spiral and likely derail U S Soviet parity. He pressed that support for the Trident submarine and bomber could undermine arms treaties, sparking a heated exchange with Melvin Laird during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee meeting.
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Washington
Sen
J. William Fulbright
Nixon
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Arkansas Democrat
Melvin R. Laird
Laird
Adm
Thomas H. Moorer
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Congress
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