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Newspaper
Lompoc Record
Location
Lompoc, California, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1977
Page
3
The U S Federal agency weighs final ban on spackling compounds containing asbestos. Staff report two definitions consumer products or products sold to professionals and note legal questions, cost impacts, and whether safe asbestos levels can be measured. The three commissioners will decide December 1.
The IRS warns book makers numbers and policy operators and others who live by taking bets to purchase a $500 tax stamp or face criminal prosecution and civil penalties. Casual bettors are not targeted. A memo defines major wagering operations as five or more people with over 2000 daily gross or multi location activities.
Eastern states endured severe thunderstorms ahead of a cold front bringing hail up to golf ball size in Pennsylvania and New Jersey and damaging weather across the region. Tornado reports in North Carolina caused damage but no injuries, while western areas faced a developing winter storm with heavy snow and travel advisories.
Colby College honors murdered Arizona Republic reporter Donald F. Bolles with the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award. Bolles, 46, died June 2 1976 in Phoenix when a bomb exploded beneath his car while he investigated organized crime. He is praised for integrity craftsmanship character and intelligence. Robert W. Greene gives keynote remarks.
Fourteen deformed human fetuses removed from formaldehyde bottles were buried in coffins at Mooney's Cemetery after travels with a carnival freak show. Coroner Robert Babcox called the burial a final resting. The fetuses were seized from Chris Michael Christ in Lake County and six others were donated to a Chicago area medical school. Christ faced charges later dismissed as not constituting human bodies. A priest, minister and rabbi presided at the burial.
Tension ran high as many abstained for 24 hours during the Great American Smokeout led by the American Cancer Society. In San Francisco North Beach ashtrays stayed full while Detroit observers watched a cigarette dump burn. About 1.9 million California smokers joined the effort, far exceeding the goal, and Portland official Mildred Straub reported resisting offers of candy to cope.
The famed New York store ends 84 years of haute clientele with an $8.5 million Chapter XI liquidation. Crowds mobbed Bal Harbour and other locations as prices dropped on jeans, sneakers, and wildlife prints. Former regulars included Hemingway Roosevelt Eisenhower and Hepburn among others.
Agriculture official Dr. Robert Angelotti urged Congress to authorize a hold on livestock and a nationwide animal tracing system to identify farms producing cattle and hogs with illegal drug residues. He noted enforcement gaps and cited ongoing residue issues in hogs and dairy cattle while praising poultry firms for progress. He warned current rules lag and suggested veterinarian supervised drug use may be required.
Prosecutors in Seoul arrested ten people including four railroad officials linked to the Iri station explosion that killed at least 59 and injured over 1300. Shin Hyon ki of Korea Explosive Co. and five others from Inchon were among the detainees. Police had already detained Shin Mu il for negligence. Bribe charges accuse railroad officials of prioritizing cargo, delaying the dynamite rail car for hours.
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