Search for Edmund Fitzgerald crew grim on Lake Superior
Coast Guard officials fear they may never recover the bodies of the 29 crewmen from the sunken freighter Edmund Fitzgerald. Capt. Charles A. Millradt notes that victims seldom surface unless wearing life jackets and cites water temperature at 50 degrees as a factor.
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Sault Ste. Marie, Mich
Coast Guard
Lake Superior
Charles A. Millradt
Fitzgerald
Jere Bennett
Fitzgerald Sinks in Whitefish Bay Storm with 26000 Tons of Pellets
The ship Fitzgerald owned by Oglebay Norton and partly by Armco Steel disappeared during a violent November gale. Captain McSorley reported a water-logged vessel with a slight list and no distress signal before vanishing in 350 feet of water eight miles east of Coppermine Point. She carried over 26000 tons of taconite pellets bound for Great Lakes Steel in Detroit.
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Oglebay Norton Co
Armco Steel Corp
Armco
Great Lakes Steel Corp
Detroit
Whitefish Bay
J.B. Cooper
Arthur M. Anderson
Fitzgerald
Cooper
Coast Guard
Ernest McSorley
Toledo
Ohio
McSorley
Whitefish Point
Coppermine Point
Canadian
Superior
Wis
Elza Abraham Acquitted After reflexology case shake
A courtroom crowd of about two dozen congratulated Elza Abraham after his acquittal on a charge of unlawfully practicing medicine. Women kissed him and others shook his hands, the same hands he uses in his reflexology hobby to ease pains for many, at his 904 Auburn residence.
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Elza Abraham
Elza
Abraham
Charles Young
Young
State Medical Board
State Board
Australian leaders face constitutional crisis as Kerr dissolves Parliament
Pro Whitlam supporters outside Parliament House chant as Fraser's cabinet is sworn in through a side door. Whitlam tells a 3,000 strong crowd that Kerr’s Tuesday removal is a travesty of parliamentary democracy, and Kerr dissolves Parliament to prepare for elections for a new House.
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Fraser
Sydney
Whitlam
Stock Exchange
Brisbane
Canberra
Rebels and strikes roil cities as Whitlam era clash looms
The article reports mass protests in Melbourne Sydney Brisbane and Canberra over government actions with workers, drivers and passengers marching, occupying spaces, and demanding political changes. It also covers a separate court case where Abraham, a longtime hobbyist reflexologist, faces charges over unlicensed practice and the defense arguing donations offset payments while Judge Lamb suggests charitable donations as a remedy.
Life of Edmund Fitzgerald captain defined by ship
E R McSorley, captain of the sunken Edmund Fitzgerald, spent 44 years at sea rising from deckhand to captain. The Ontario native, 62, loved the lake freighter life and rarely came home, sailing mainly the Silver Bay Minnesota to Lake Erie run this year.
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Toledo, Ohio
E.R. McSorley
Edmund Fitzgerald
Delores Ulrich
McSorley
Ulrich
Silver Bay
Minn
Lake Erie
Middletown Weather Forecast Becomes Partly Cloudy
Partly cloudy conditions are forecast for Middletown tonight and Thursday. Lows will be in the upper 30s with highs tomorrow in the upper 40s. Yesterday’s high reached 60 and overnight low 42. The outlook calls for fair skies Friday a chance of showers Saturday and fair skies Sunday.
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Middletown
Oil price control compromise could raise fuel costs
Washington reports a House Senate conference plan to approve a price control measure that may ease administration concerns but likely lift fuel prices after a brief dip. President Ford urged quicker action while Congress debates energy reforms. controls expire Saturday unless extended. The American Petroleum Institute warned against breaking up large oil firms, signaling pushback from industry.
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Washington
House
Senate
The
American Petroleum Institute
Charles E. Spahr
Standard Oil Co
Ohio
Institute
Chicago
Franco Condition Worsens as Bleeding Returns
In Madrid Gen Francisco Franco 82 suffers internal bleeding raising fears sutures from his stomach surgery failed Doctors halted bleeding after lengthy efforts yet warned prognosis remains grave Franco had a second major operation five days earlier removing two thirds of his stomach and leaving him under 80 pounds as medical sources said a third operation was impossible
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Spain
Francisco Franco
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