Drowning prevention and survival tips from Red Cross swimmer
Sam Cynamon of the American Red Cross warns many drownings result from surprise in the water and overestimating ability. He outlines safety steps including wearing PFDs, staying near lifeguards, reading warning signs, and practicing drownproofing and jellyfish floats to rest and breathe. He stresses learning to swim first, as survival skills depend on swimming ability.
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New York
NEA
Sam Cynamon
American Red Cross
Greater New York
Cynamon
National Safety Council
Burt Lancaster
Deborah Kerr
Newspaper Enterprise Assn
Supreme Court upholds most cross owned papers and stations ruling
The Supreme Court 8-0 allows most newspaper broadcast pairs in the same market to stay intact while upholding FCC rules that require 16 small market cross ownerships to divest. Justice Marshall declares the grandfather clause valid. remaining combinations may continue until sale or trade ends the exemption. Joe Dealey of the Dallas Morning News welcomes the decision but regrets the 16 divestitures.
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Washington
UPI
Supreme Court
High Court
Federal Communications Commission
Joe Dealey
Dallas Morning News
American Newspaper Publishers Association
FCC
Federal Appeals Court
Washington D.C
Appeals
Thurgood Marshall
Ion
Incoherent Evanston Woman Identified in Florida
A 25 year old woman from Evanston Indiana identified as Amy Matthews was found wandering garbage cans at Indian Rocks Beach Florida. She had used different names and ages, was jailed for loitering and prowling, then transferred to a mental hospital by court order. A vacationing family friend saw her photo in newspapers and alerted relatives. Officials noted she last lived in Evanston in April and it’s unclear how she reached Florida.
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Clearwater, Fla
UPI
Indian Rocks Beach
Amy Matthews
Evanston
Clearwater
Bradenton
Florida
Study clears meat stored in Ottawa radium plant
An Argonne radiologist says meat stored in a former radium dial plant in Ottawa, Illinois posed little risk. He notes radium levels would need an extreme amount to cause cancer, and that post 1925 workers had much lower body radium. Local fears of bone cancer from the meat are described as a media scare.
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Ottawa
Ill
UPI
Argonne National Laboratory
Robert Roland
Argonne
Center For Human Radiobiology
Roland
University of Chicago
University of Illinois
Radium Ottawa
Luminous Processes
Radium Dial
Farmbeau
Watch Dial
Farm Bureau
la Salle County
LaSalle County
Son of Sam killer Berkowitz to face new psychiatric tests
David Berkowitz, convicted of six counts of murder, will undergo new psychiatric tests to decide if he serves his 25 years to life in a hospital for the criminally insane or a maximum security prison. He was sentenced in Brooklyn and will be eligible for parole in 25 years. Security concerns delay immediate transfer.
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New York
UPI
Sam
David Berkowitz
Berkowitz
State Supreme Court
Brooklyn
Charter Arms
Burn
Carrique
Brooklyn Criminal Court
Neysa Moskowitz
Stacy
John Diel
Christine Freund
Queens Street
Diel
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Coast Guard
Boy Scouts of America
Morris Dry Cleaners
Daniel Carrique
Stacy Moskowitz
State Department of Correctional Services
Kings County Hospital
Leon Stern
ET Kweller's Shell
VISA
White Sox
Kneller
Morris
Ned Kneller
Fev Sy Skers
CAN OF Hills Bros. Coffee
Liberty Walgreen
Liberty ST
Charles Butterfield Sr
Echo Lanes
Bedford Rd
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