Fires rage across western forests dwarfing nine thousand acres
Large fires burn through Modoc County and more than 400 timber and brush blazes dot drought damaged western states. Across the West and Alaska, thousands of acres burn with California reporting the majority of scorched land and over 90 percent of countrywide fire area.
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California
Modoc
Rockies
National Fire Information Service
Alaska
Kugruk Hi
Nome
Los Padres National Forest
Carmel Valley
Big Sur
Salinas Valley
Bill Powers
U.S. Forest Service
Fire Information Service
Forest Service
Kathy Ross
Tassajara Hot Springs
Oregon
Oregon Highway 140
Ely
Washington
Arizona
Hualapai
Kingman
Grand Canyon National Park
Canyon
McLouth festival persists despite rain delays
McLouth Steam Engine Show and Threshing Bee continues with mud challenges as big engines struggle to move. If weather clears, a Sunday parade is planned at 2 p.m. with square dance and local bands performing tonight and church services Sunday morning. A tractor pull closes the event at 5 30 p.m. The coordinator notes rain hampered planning but the show proceeds. The grounds lie three blocks south of the traffic lights.
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McLouth
Herb Edmonds
Edmonds
TeenAge Republicans to Meet at Kansas University
A four day Teen age Republicans gathering in Kansas will be held at Kansas University starting Sunday with over 50 high school members. Speakers include Lt Gov Shelby Smith State Chairman Jack Ranson and Pat Looby. The event mixes workshop and networking to energize youth political involvement.
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Kansas University
Shelby Smith
Jack Ranson
Pat Looby
South Dakota
John ‘Langstrum
Douglas County
Republican Committee
Senate
Ross Doyen
House
Wendall Lady
Bren Abbot
Topeka
Carter orders steel price study to curb inflation
President Carter presses steel price issue by ordering a study of pricing policies and costs by the Council on Wage and Price Stability. He also directs the Pentagon and GSA to buy steel where cheapest to demonstrate disapproval of hikes. Public reaction mixed as U.S. Steel and Bethlehem Steel announce raises.
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Washington
Carter
Council On
Pentagon
General Service Administration
GSA
Charles Schultze
Council of Economic Advisers
Air Force One
Plains
Council On Wage and Price Stability
Mediation helps Bell talks in marathon union dispute
Federal mediators joined negotiations as 700 000 Bell System workers inch toward a potential midnight strike. Unions reject the company’s latest offer, warning of major service disruption and a large volume of operator assisted calls, despite automated systems and supervisory staff able to cover some work.
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Washington
Bell System
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
Communications Workers of America
CWA
SRS Cuts County Day Care Funding and Admission
The SRS sharply reduces Douglas County day care funding and reporting staff, saying services will not drop for current clients but will limit new enrollments and fill vacancies. It plans immediate $389,000 in matching funds cuts, $38,000 to Cottonwood, and about $9,000 under ADC, with Title 20 funds tightening.
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Douglas County Child Development Assn
DCCDA
SRS
Douglas County
Cottonwood
Nancy Wakefield
ADC
Wakefield
Kansas
Gary Condra
Vance’s Mideast trip may extend after Assad rebuff
Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, rebuffed by Syria on a proposed foreign ministers meeting, may stretch his 12 day mission to pursue a broader shuttle diplomacy. He met King Hussein in Amman as Egypt and Jordan weigh urgent talks and a Geneva resumption plan.
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Jordan
Cyrus Vance
Syria
Vance
Hussein
U.S
Henry Kissinger
Cairo
al Ahram
Fahmy
Hafez Assad
Anwar Sadat
Sadat
Israel
Egypt
United States
Geneva
Assad
Palestine Liberation Organization
PLO
Carter
Lawrence District 497 Board Debates Open Meetings Policy
The Lawrence District 497 school board meets at 7 30 p m to study a proposal to alter open meetings policy. Changes include adding the official school newspaper as media and excluding media from private executive sessions. Also discussed is juvenile police handling policy and school construction projects with bids from Lawrence Asphalt.
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Lawrence
Charles Oldfather
Robert Casad Jr
Bob Davis
Death pill prediction stirs furor in Britain
Dr John Goundry writes in Pulse that a death pill for the elderly may be available and perhaps obligatory by century's end. Critics include Marion Green and David Hobman who condemn the idea as inhumane and dangerous.
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John Goundry
Pulse
Goundry
Marion Green
National Federation of Old Persons’ Association
David Hobman
Help the Aged
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