Fire at Ryan Park ruins youth league facilities and gear
Authorities investigate an arson fire at Ryan Park that destroyed a concession stand and athletic storage, inflicting about 76000 in losses. Youth Football League gear suffered the bulk of damages while Little League equipment also burned. no suspects yet and insurance status unclear.
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Ryan Park
Leo Aragon
Football League
Aragon
Greg Honore
Hickory Ave
Lompoc
Eric Adamson
Soviets accuse Carter B1 decision hinders arms talks
Pravda denounces Carter's scrapping of the B1 bomber in favor of cruise missiles as a move that will harm strategic arms talks. The piece calls the cruise missile policy dangerous to mankind and says mass production blocks show no restraint. It also notes Trident submarines and a $110 billion Pentagon budget do not prove good intentions.
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Moscow
API
Soviet Union
Carter
Communist Party
Pravda
International Review
United States
Pentagon
Nation marks Bicentennial year with nationwide Independence Day
United Press International reports the United States ends its official Bicentennial year with traditional celebrations. In New York Harbor, 50 sailing craft join over 500 Sunfish on a Hudson River cruise after Thunderbirds aerobatics. Philadelphia plans a parade at Independence Hall with Sinatra to receive the Freedom Medal.
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New York
Sail
Manhattan
Air Force
Thunderbirds
Philadelphia
Independence Hall
Frank L. Rizzo
Frank Sinatra
Ben Franklin
McKees Rocks
John M. Emrick
Bataan
Chicago
State withdraws order on J M surveillance
After hearings from February to May the state Department of Industrial Safety withdrew its 1976 special order requiring Johns Mansville Lom poc to institute a silica dust medical surveillance program. J-M says its own program already meets the standard and will notify authorities if changes occur. The division reserves rights to act again.
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State Department of Industrial Safety
DIS
Johns-Mansville
Lompoc
J-M
Occupational Health Branch
State Department of Health
Santa Barbara
San Francisco
John Crimmins
William Benton
Crimmins
Highway Death Toll Near 400 During July Fourth Holiday
The Fourth of July highway toll climbed near 400 with many motorists still on trips home. The National Safety Council projected 500 to 600 traffic deaths by midnight, while United Press International logged at least 386 killed by 11 a.m. EDT.
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United Press International
National Safety Council
California
Ohio
Texas
Pennsylvania
South Carolina
Michigan
Alpine
U.S. 90
Lancaster
John R. Ross, Jr
Strasburg
John Ozola
Ozola
Ross
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UPI
Muhammad al-Zahary
Penance and Retreat Society
Ventura County
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Girls’ State
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