Oil Flows as Alaska Pipeline Opens After Nine Years
In Prudohe Bay Alaska the oil begins moving through the 800 mile pipeline toward Valdez signaling the end of a nine year build. The startup sends 1.2 million barrels daily toward markets while Alyeska officials call the moment low key yet pivotal for the nation’s energy future.
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William Darch
Alyeska Pipeline Service Co
Prudhoe Bay
Arctic Ocean
Arctic Circle
Valdez
Prince William Sound
Alyeska
U.S. Interior Department
North Slope
West Coast
Panama Canal
Space Shuttle Enterprise completes first manned test flight
NASA officials hailed the Space Shuttle Enterprise after a 54 minute piggyback flight atop a Boeing 747 at Edwards Air Force Base California. The test aimed to validate control and guidance systems with four manned flights planned before autonomous orbital launches could begin as early as 1979.
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Edwards Air Force Base
Calif
NASA
Desert Test Site
Donald ‘‘Deke” Slayton
Slayton
Air Force
Gordon Fullerton
Fred Haise Jr
Astronaut Corps
Supreme Court restricts state funding for elective abortions
The Supreme Court rules 6-3 that neither the Constitution nor the Social Security Act requires states to fund abortions when mothers are not in danger. It upholds Pennsylvania and Connecticut refusals to pay for elective abortions for poor women while allowing states to voluntarily provide such welfare aid. Justice Powell writes the majority with Burger, White, Rehnquist, Stevens. dissent by Marshall, Brennan, Blackmun.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Connecticut
Pennsylvania
High Court
Lewis F. Powell Jr
Warren E. Burger
Byron R. White
William H. Rehnquist
John Paul Stevens
Thurgood Marshall
William J. Brennan Jr
Harry A. Blackmun
Powell
Rural Directory Update Seeks Accurate Hocking County Addresses
The Hocking County house numbering office is revising the Rural Address Directory and some residences may lack new rural addresses or be listed incorrectly. Residents with questions should call the Courthouse office at 385-8136 to be included, per Audie L. Wykle.
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Hocking County
Audie L. Wykle
Logan School Board to Hire New Superintendent
The Logan School Board meets at 7 30 tonight in the Hilltop cafeteria. The main agenda item is to hire a new district superintendent.
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Logan
Hilltop
Weekend Storm Drops Rain in Hocking Valley
An electrical storm dumped a half inch of rain in the Hocking Valley over the weekend. It was 84 degrees under sunny skies at 11 a.m. today after an overnight low of 61. There is a 20 percent chance of rain tonight and Tuesday with highs near 80 and lows in the 60s.
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Hocking Valley
Outdoor Recreation Areas Draw Moderate Weekend Crowds
Hocking County reports moderate turnout at Hocking Hills State Park and Lake Logan over the weekend with 1038 pool users at the lodge. Walk-in only policy for family primitive campsites starts Friday to curb vehicle damage and noise.
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Hocking County
Ed Salabsky
Hocking Hills State Park
Hocking Hills Lodge
Salabsky
Galabsky
Amin Disappears After Alleged Slaying Attempt
Nairobi reports Amin missing after an alleged assassination attempt over the weekend. Ugandan officials deny the claim while a resident at Entebbe says Amin’s location is unknown and guards are unusually heavy around the residence.
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Amin
Nairobi
Kenya
Idi Amin
Uganda
Kampala
Entebbe
Adrisi
Bagitabire
Radio Uganda
Ministry of Information
Fitzsimmons hires lawyer amid union charges
Detroit Free Press reports Teamster President Frank Fitzsimmons has engaged Mozart Ratner in Washington to defend against nepotism Mafia links cronyism and extravagant use of union funds. The move suggests a drawn out dispute with reformers seeking a monitors board to oversee Fitzsimmons.
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Detroit
Frank Fitzsimmons
Washington
Detroit Free Press
Fitzsimmons
Mozart Ratner
Free Press
AMA Attacks U S Cost Cutting Bid in Clash Over Health Care
San Francisco AP reports health official Joseph Califano faults U S medicine as costly and uncompetitive urging reform or risk greater federal control. AMA leader James Sammons blasts cost focus and warns against creeping bureaucratic caps while condemning plans to limit hospital revenues and physician fees.
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San Francisco
U.S
American Medical Association
AMA
Joseph Califano
Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare
The
United States
Califano
Sunday
James Sammons
National Health Service
Sammons
Carter
House of Delegates
Cloudland
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Alaska
Cape Canaveral
Fla
Earth
California
Florida
Lake Logan
Chuck Dalton
Buckeye Trail
Hocking State Forest
Nairobi Daily Nation
Mustafa Adrisi
Vatican City
Rome
John Nepomucene Neumann
Philadelphia
John Cardinal Carberry
St. Louis
St. Mary Major
John Cardinal Krol
St. John Lateran
Terence Cardinal Cooke
New York
St. Paul’s
Neumann
Boston
Anita Bryant
Arthur Fiedler
Dorothy Hamill
Boston Pops
Fiedler
Florida Citrus Commission
Miss Bryant
Commission
Miss Hamill
Jerusalem
Menahem Begin
Knesset
Israel
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