Ford veto stalls child nutrition bill despite override hopes
President Ford vetoed a 2.75 billion child nutrition measure risking the 1.8 million low income children in the breakfast program while supporters in Congress predicted an easy override. The bill would have funded 20 cent lunches for some families earning above the poverty line but below set levels. The current free lunch program continues, but breakfast and related funding depend on pending farm appropriations.
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Ford
Congress
Armless miner to return to underground work
Ralph Kerns Jr aged 21 will resume underground duties with Westmoreland Coal Co in Madison West Virginia, eight months after losing his right arm in a mining accident. The company confirmed his reinstatement.
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Westmoreland Coal Co
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Eight killed in Bedford mobile home fire in Indiana
State police say eight people died when a mobile home burned near Bedford Indiana early today. Victims include Rocella Winters 42 and her three children Paula Pauline and Paul Edward Winters Jr plus four grandchildren of a visiting daughter in law. Charles Lake 25 and Carrie Lake 23 were hospitalized for smoke and shock.
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Carrie Lake
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Rocella Winters
Paula
Pauline
Paul Edward Winters Jr
Ginger
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Melissa
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Church blesses animals and curses hunters in St. Francis service
In Upper Darby Pennsylvania the Rev. Frederick Powers of St. Giles Episcopal Church plans a St. Francis day service to bless animals and pray against hunters and their weapons. He says hunting for sport is unchristian and invites a conversion to target practice through curses aimed at guns and traps.
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Upper Darby, Pa
St. Giles Episcopal Church
Philadelphia
Powers
Sinai plan clears House committee action on monitors
A House International Relations Committee approved dispatching 200 civilian monitors to the Sinai with a withdrawal clause during hostilities, paving final action by Congress next week. Senate committees planned similar approval as Kissinger faces disclosure debates over four secret agreements.
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Sinai
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Henry A. Kissinger
Carl Albert
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
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Senate Committee
Middletown Forecast Shows Mild Weekend Weather
Clear skies and overnight lows in the 50s are forecast for the Middletown area tonight. Sunday will see cloudy skies with highs in the mid 70s followed by fair skies and highs in the 70s from Monday through Wednesday.
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Middletown
Explosions Rip Grain Elevator in North Vancouver
A series of blasts tore through a 400 foot grain elevator in North Vancouver, leaving one man missing and dead and 16 others injured, three critically. Fire raged for two hours from land and sea as investigators sought the cause while witnesses cited a conveyor belt fire that may have ignited grain dust.
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North Vancouver
Canada
Edward Hooper
Barney Chapman
Chapman
Jobless rate up for family breadwinners in September
Government figures show overall unemployment at 8.3 percent in September, but heads of households and other key groups rose. Unemployment among adult men and blacks increased, teen unemployment fell, and average jobless duration reached 16.2 weeks, the highest since 1961.
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Labor Department
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