U.S. shifts toward metric system amid debate
The GAO reports the United States is moving toward metrication without a clear national decision. It notes widespread belief in inevitability, conflicting costs to convert, and uncertain consumer benefits, with potential billions in expenses likely passed to shoppers.
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UPI
United States
General Accounting Office
GAO
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U.S
Metric Board
Federal Highway Administration
Maybelle Carter, country music pioneer, dies at 69
Maybelle Carter known as Mother Maybelle Carter died at 69 at her Madison Tennessee home after a lengthy illness. Her work with the Carter Family helped found country music and influenced figures from Woody Guthrie to Bob Dylan. Funeral plans were not announced.
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Nashville
Tenn
UPI
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Appalachia
Madison, Tenn
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Maybelle
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Rogers
Country
Canadian legislation ends Great Lakes shipping strike
Ottawa swiftly approved emergency legislation to resume Great Lakes shipping and end a week-long strike by marine engineers. Justice Minister Otto Lang announced the measure after talks between the Canadian Lake Carriers Association and the Canadian Marine Officers Union collapsed. The CLCA plans to drydock 122 vessels for winter while the CMOA backs the bill, seeking a 10.5 percent wage rise in year one with 9 and 7 percent in years two and three respectively.
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Great Lakes
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Otto Lang
Canadian Lake Carriers Association
Canadian Marine Officers Union
House
Senate
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Montreal
Three professors assist in Pinto criminal case
UPI reports Elkhart Indiana prosecutor Michael Consentino says three law professors will assist his reply to Ford Motor Co motion to dismiss criminal charges in a Pinto crash that killed three teens. The trial court set a December 4 deadline and Ford seeks dismissal arguing lack of offense and constitutional issues.
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Elkhart, Ind
UPI
Michael Consentino
Ford Motor Co
Cosentino
Bruce Berner
Valparaiso University
Indiana
Terrece Kiely
DePaul University
Chicago
Leonard Orland
University of Connecticut
Elkhart Superior
Charles Hughes
Consentino
Ford
Hughes
Elkhart County
Elkhart
Hopkins expert urges new hot dog shape to prevent choking
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health associate professor Susan Baker says the hot dog’s shape can trap in a child’s windpipe and urges producers to redesign it while keeping the familiar form. She cites Maryland data showing six of eight child deaths from choking between 1970 and 1977 due to hot dogs, with two others from gumdrops and unknown foods.
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Baltimore
UPI
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
Susan Baker
Maryland
Pilot Vanishes After UFO Sighting Over Victoria
In Melbourne and nearby towns Australians report sighting glowing objects they link to the disappearance of 20 year old pilot Frederick Valentich who was flying a Cessna 182 toward King Island. Air controllers heard his last words it is not an aircraft before contact was lost. A wide search ensued with sightings across Geelong King Island and Batemans Bay while investigators analyze oil slick samples for aviation fuel.
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Melbourne
Australia
UPI
Frederick Valentich
Valentich
Victoria
Colin Morgan
Geelong
Morgan
King Island
Batemans Bay
Wayne Bellew
Canberra
Rosalind
Air
Transport Department
Kenneth Williams
Arthur Schutt
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