Major Walkouts Hit Britain as Docks Stand Still
Striking longshoremen shut all major British ports to protest the jailing of five London dock workers for defying the new labor court. Sympathy strikes spread to miners printers and drivers as Prime Minister Heath seeks a union talks breakthrough.
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London
Liverpool
Hull
Southampton
Manches
Ter
Glasgow
Bristol
Swansea
Ipswich
Edward Heath
Trades Union Congress
South
Wales
Scotland
Yorkshire
Stock Exchange
Britain
Pentonville
National Industrial Relations Court
Starr Trustee Lawrence O Wolfe Dies
Lawrence O Wolfe 66 of Nelsonville Rt 2 Starr Two trustee died at 535 pm at Hocking Valley Community Hospital after Friday admission. He was a crusher operator at Glen Gery Diamond plant and lived on the same farm. Survived by wife Juanita Maloney Wolfe a daughter LaDonna Vaughn a brother Millard Wolfe and three sisters. Services 2 pm Wednesday Heinlein Funeral Home Rev James Mathias. Burial Oak Gore Cemetery. Friends may call anytime.
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Lawrence O. Wolfe
Nelsonville
Starr
Hocking Valley Community Hospital
Vance R
Emma B. Hayden Wolfe
Glen Gery Corp
Juanita Maloney Wolfe
Richard
LaDonna) Vaughn
Glouster
Millard Wolfe
Jacksonburg
W. Va
N. M
Ardis) Iles
Logan
Marie Barbee
Prescott, Ariz
Mabel Klenk
Sandusky
Ivan
Gertrude Wolfe
Heinlein
James Mathias
Oak Gore
Recreation Facilities Are Jammed in Hocking Valley
Weekend crowds packed Old Man's Cave campsites with overflow into primitive areas. Lake Logan beach drew about 5 000 swimmers over two days, plus 1 500 picnickers and 200 fishermen. Beach parking lots were full and the city pool saw its best attendance of the season with 700 to 800 daily swimmers.
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Hocking Valley
Old Man’s Cave
Lake Logan
EPA official moves to speed Ohio River cleanup
Cincinnati AP an EPA troubleshooter from Chicago will coordinate federal state and local agencies to hasten cleanup of abandoned strip mines along the Ohio River. He cites mine acid drainage from New York to Missouri as the river's major pollution and sewage wastes as a second problem.
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Cincinnati
Environmental Protection Agency
Ohio River
Charles Ray Ownbey
Chicago
EPA
New York
Missouri
Ownbey
Great Lakes Basin
Food for Peace kickbacks reveal U S cash returns
A White House report shows hundreds of millions in local currency kickbacks from the Food for Peace program to South Vietnam, South Korea, and Cambodia for military use. Vietnam received 742.7 million, Korea 593.1 million, and Cambodia 7.4 million, with the scheme ending last year.
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Washington
United States
South Vietnam
South Korea
Cambodia
White House
U.S
Stock List Up Sharply
New York markets climbed as favorable economic news spurred a broad advance. The noon Dow Jones average rose to 931.67 with gains leading advances over declines by more than 3 to 1 on the NYSE amid optimism over the improving economy and external conditions.
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New York
New York Stock Exchange
Silent Epidemic Of Burns Reported
Three Texas physicians from the University of Texas medical branch in Galveston call burns a silent national epidemic surpassing polio in 1954 for deaths and crippling injuries. They urge a coordinated government program and safety measures from flame retardant clothing to heater design, citing 1970 fire deaths and burn injuries and hospital costs.
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Chicago
United States
Texas
Journal of the American Medical Association
Armand
National Safety Council
Nixon and Tanaka to meet in Hawaii for talks
Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka accepts an invitation to meet President Nixon in Hawaii on August 31 and September 1. The talks will cover a full range of U.S.-Japanese relations including trade in a joint announcement describing the meeting as an exchange of views.
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Washington
Kakuei Tanaka
Nixon
Hawaii
Ronald L. Ziegler
Tanaka
China
Soviet Union
Ziegler
Environmental Satellite Set For Air Mapping Of World
The ERTS space mission launched from Vandenberg aims to map Earth's resources from a polar orbit. NASA officials expect 18 day global pictures to monitor crops forests fisheries water and terrain while aiding geological and mineral exploration. The project could mark a pivotal era in space based earth observation.
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Lompoc
Calif
EATS
Vandenberg Air Force Base
Earth
ERTS
Earth Resources Technology Satellite
South Pole
John Clark
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Goddard Spaceflight Center
Greenbelt
NASA
Clark
Hopes Dim For 9 Miners In West Virginia Blaze
Rescue workers drilled toward nine trapped miners at Blacksville No. 1 coal mine after a predawn equipment breakdown and a bit jam. Temperature near the fire was estimated at 2500 to 3000 degrees. efforts to flood the blaze with foam were hampered by access issues. More than 100 rescue workers in 14 teams pursued any possibility of contact or update on the men, with prospects described as quite dim.
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Blacksville
W. Va
The
Con
U.S. Bureau of Mines
Corcoran
Sur
W. A. Park
Bureau of Mines
Mercury Hits 100 At Logan As Heatwave Hits Northeast
The Associated Press reports a 100 degree peak in the Logan area with 85 and sunny skies in Columbus Ohio. Gov. John Gilligan signed legislation to create a state Environmental Protection Agency to coordinate pollution cleanup starting in 90 days.
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Logan
Columbus
Ohio
John J. Gilligan
Gilligan
Near West Side
Ira Whitman
Ohio Department of Health
South Viet Troops Advance on Two Fronts Near Quang Tri
South Vietnamese paratroops pressed toward the walls of Quang Tri Citadel as heavy artillery and air strikes pound the fortress. In Tam Quan, more than 1,000 Rangers recaptured the district town with light resistance. Across Hue a shell campaign left 11 soldiers dead and 22 wounded.
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Saigon
Quang Tri
Hanoi
U.S. Command
Associated Press
Dennis Neeld
Neeld
U.S
Bastogne
Hue
Senate Foes Seek New Antiwar Measures on Aid Bill
Antiwar senators push to attach end the war amendments to a foreign aid package or the Pentagon procurement bill. They seek unilateral U.S. troop withdrawal from Vietnam and Indochina once a ceasefire and prisoner return are secured, with the aid bill set for a late vote.
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Washington
Indochina
Pentagon
Mike Mansfield
Vietnam
U.S
Hanoi
Hanoi Eyes Fuel Flow From New South China Pipeline
Pentagon sources report fresh motor fuel supplies entering North Vietnam via a new South China pipeline. U S reconnaissance locates a storage depot near the Chinese border, potentially hindering bombing. Analysts say the line could sustain supply trucks and armored units despite blocked ports.
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Washington
Pentagon
North Vietnam
South China
U.S
Pinghsiang
Haiduong
Hanoi
Peking
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