Laser talks promise faster calls and space-age uses
1960s Bell Labs researchers unveil light based communication and laser technology. First spoken laser telephone demo in 1960 showed voice over light from New Jersey to New York. Lasers offer precise measurement, eye surgery aid, moon light experiments, and potential for real time, high capacity communication though dust fog and weather pose challenges.
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Bell Telephone Laboratories
New Jersey
New York
Space
Prober Declines Comment in Ouachita Morehouse Vote Buy Rally
Justice Department investigator Karl Shirtliff would not comment on reports he will probe alleged vote buying in Ouachita and Morehouse parishes for the August 19 district attorney primary. Kidd claims two public officials violate the Voting Rights Act and says he will provide evidence. Kostelka and other DA candidates welcomed the investigation.
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U. S. Justice ‘Department
Karl Shirtlf
Morehouse
Ouachita Parishes
Arlington
Paul Henry Kidd
Shirtliff
Monroe
Carl Parkerson
Oquachita — Morehouse
Kidd
Ouachita
Morehouse Parishes
Robert W. Kostelka
Group Narrows For Superport Gulf Coast Site
P J Mills Jr acting executive director of the Louisiana Superport Authority said the U S Maritime Commission narrowed the Gulf Coast superport site to Texas and Louisiana Army Corps engineers will pinpoint the location by July 1 Two other superports would be built off the Atlantic Coast Mills a Shreveport banker said a Louisiana coast superport would bring a major economic boon with initial investment of 250 to 300 million dollars and eventual total of about 1 5 billion
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New Orleans
P. J. Mills Jr
Louisiana Superport Authority
U. S. Maritime Commission
Gulf Coast
Texas
Louisiana
Mills
Shreveport
Army Corps of Engineers
Atlantic
Shreveport Man Dies In Accident
Robert T. Blankenship an 18 year old from Shreveport was killed in a two car crash Wednesday. Laura Zinkovic also from Shreveport was injured and hospitalized.
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Shreveport
Shreveport, la
Robert T. Blankenship
Laura Zinkovic
Bank Robbery Suspect Booked in Baton Rouge
Police booked 32 year old Ronald Young three hours after a robbery at the American Bank and Trust Co. branch. A man approached a teller with a note demanding money and claimed the FBI wanted him for armed robbery. He fled on foot with an unknown amount taken.
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Baton Rouge
American Bank and Trust Co
Ronald Young
FBI
Educational TV Network Expands in Mississippi
Jackson announces the Mississippi Authority for Educational Television will activate Channel 23 on Sept. 15 serving about 371,000 viewers across Arkansas and Louisiana from a station near Inverness. The eight station network aims to cover the northeast near Booneville, with signals fed from the Jackson ETV Center where the first channel started in 1970.
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Jackson, Miss
Mississippi
Authority for educational _ television
William R. Smith Jr
Authority
Arkansas
Louisina
Inverness
Channel 93
Bere
Booneville
Mississippi Center
Jackson
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