Driest Year Since 1950 Threatens Crops Without Rain
Local weather observer C T Morningstar notes 11.84 inches of rainfall in the first five months, the driest since 1950 and 1953 at 13.79 inches. Agricultural leaders warn yields will drop without rain in the next week to ten days, especially for hay, corn, beans, and wheat. forecasts show a 40–50 percent chance of showers, with temperatures in the 60s to 80s.
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C.T. Morningstar
United States Weather Observer
Morningstar
Billarren County
Butler County
Hal Hammel
Butler Nemark, Inc
Butler Farm Bureau Co-Op Association
Haynes
Hammel
Hammer
Privacy Threat? Plan for National ID Rejected
Washington AP reports the Federal Advisory Committee on False Identification rejected a national identity card as a privacy threat. The Justice Department task force backs tighter birth certificate and driver license standards plus interstate death certificate matching. Thornburgh cites a $20 billion annual false identity cost and supports data-verification and electronic funds transfers to curb crimes.
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Washington
Federal Advisory Committee On
Justice Department
Asst. Atty
Richard Thornburgh
Thornburgh
FBI warns of letter bombs amid nationwide mail attacks
FBI Director Clarence M. Kelley urges alert for letter bombs after a string of mailed explosives hitting five cities. Devices in 9 by 12 inch envelopes, postmarked from Atlanta Texas and Texarkana Texas, injured four women and prompted active investigations by the FBI and local police.
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Washington
FBI
Clarence M. Kelley
U.S
Kelley
Manila
Atlanta
Tex
Texarkana
Bomb mailed to Marathon Oil Co finds Findlay Ohio
FBI said a small bomb mailed to Marathon Oil Co in Findlay Ohio was in a large envelope and defused without injury. The package arrived amid similar bomb deliveries to New York Beatrice Foods DuPont Exxon McDonalds and a Bunge executive. A secretary at McDonalds in Oak Brook avoided harm after delaying opening the envelope.
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Findlay
Ohio
FBI
Marathon Oil Co
New York
Marathon
Texarkana
Tex
Aourth
Bunge Corp
Bunge
Roger Noall
Manhattan
DuPont Co
Wilmington
Del
Exxon
New York City
McDonald's Systems
Oak Brook
Chicago
Beatrice Foods Co
McDonald's
Hamburger
Mary McShane
Court urged to halt Ford food stamp rule changes
Federal court asked to delay the Ford administration's food stamp regulations that would trim benefits for about 1.66 million families and reduce others, with advocates and 22 states seeking a preliminary injunction. The rules, tied to income limits near the poverty line, were set to take effect June 1 but are temporarily blocked by a previous judge's order.
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Ford Administration
U.S. Conference of Mayors
U.S. District Court
John Lewis Smith Jr
Ford
Howard Corcoran
Coalition
Kidnaped Cattle Importer Freed in Rome
Police freed Giuseppe D'Ambrosio, a 53 year old cattle importer, after a downtown apartment break in. A group calling itself the Fighting Communist Unit claimed the abduction and demanded a revolutionary sale of 71 tons of meat at 90 cents a pound in 71 Rome shops. One man arrested. The Communist party denied any link.
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Rome
Giuseppe D'Ambrosio
National Association of Cattle and Meat Importers
Fighting Communist Unit
D'Ambrosio
Communist Party
Christian Democrats
Marine drill sergeant on trial over recruit death
Opening statements in the Bronson court martial argue Lynn McClure died from a 400 percent overdose of antibiotics stereptomycin and gentamycin at a Houston hospital rather than from a beating. The case centers on a training session where McClure was knocked unconscious during a pugil stick drill and later died after brain surgery.
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San Diego
Lynn McClure
Daniel Hunter
Harold L. Bronson
McClure
Veterans Hospital
Houston
Hunter
Navy
Bronson
Lufkin
Tex
Balboa Naval Hospital
Marine Corps
Meredith
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Merrill Lynch Inc
Police
Ann Landers
Saaee
Bridgell
Eaness County
Heloise Il
Middletown
Area
Aeae
Aters
Serre
Ceseans
Corcoran
Sgt. Bronson
Marine Ois
Robert Meredith
Balboa
Ronald Stout
Maj
John B. Fretwell
Camp Lejeune, N.C
Motivation Platoon
Harold Bronson
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