New York Senate approves ban on Legionnaires disease term
The New York Senate backed a measure barring state officials from using the term Legionnaire's disease to describe a Philadelphia outbreak at a 1950s era convention. The bill offers no replacement term and targets public officials rather than the illness itself. A separate item notes Philadelphia park officials voting to close a roadside ark restrooms to curb illicit activities.
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Albany
N.Y
State Senate
Philadrlphia
Senate
Run
Mcppherson
Murday
Energy bill signed with 6.1 billion for DOE programs
President signs a 6.1 billion energy bill after vetoing an earlier version. The measure removes authorizations for the Clinch River Breeder Reactor at Oak Ridge Tennessee and funds other Energy Department programs including propulsion research, municipal waste to fuel incentives, and loan guarantees for alternative fuel projects.
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Clinch River
Oak Ridge
Tenn
Energy Department
Department
Home movies reflect Kansas heritage in four films
Wichita photographers John Huey and Joanna Wiebe completed four 22 to 26 minute films documenting Kansas folkways for the Mid-America Folklife Festival of September 1976. funded by 27000 in grants from NEA Wichita Festivals and the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration. The films profile Mennonite life shoeing horses blacksmithing and diverse festival cultures with copies sent to NEA Library of Congress and local institutions.
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Wichita
Kan
Kansas
John Huey
Joanna K. Wiebe
Huey
Ms. Wiebe
Newton
Mound Ridge
Butch Howey
Maize
Kansas Land
Schweitzer Ensemble
National Endowment For the Arts
Library of Congress
Wichita Public Library
Wichita State University Library
Wichita Board of Education
Pat Christgau
Wichita Festivals Inc
Board of Education
Wichita Festivals
Government Day Activities At Local High Schools
High school pupils from Baldwin Eudora and Wellsville take part in Douglas County Government Day sponsored by Lawrence Dorsey Liberty American Legion Post 14. Students vote for county officers, meet at the courthouse, observe operations, attend a Legion luncheon, and sit on a jury trial in the afternoon. Wayne Strong leads the program for the Legion post.
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Baldwin
Eudora
Wellsville
Douglas County
Lawrence Dorsey-Liberty American Legion
Legion Post
Legionaires
Wayne Strong
Lawrence Legion Post
Cotton exports rise as 1977 crop bigger than last year
Washington says projected exports for the marketing year through July reach about five million bales, up from 4.7 million. The 1977 cotton crop totals 14.5 million bales, with inventories Aug 1 around 5.8 million, the highest since 1989. Domestic use remains at about 6.8 million bales.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
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