Heimlich method saves boy in car emergency
Joe Smith stopped his car when his son Johnny was choking. He forced an upward abdominal thrust, dislodging a penny and saving the child. Red Cross instructor Glenn Allen explains how the Heimlich technique works and how to distinguish choking from a heart attack.
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Joe Smith
Smith
Johnny
Glenn Allen
American Red Cross
Heimlich
Harry Heimlich
Cincinnati
Allen
Coal City
Naval
Herald
Kaunda warns Kissinger over Rhodesia war risks
Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda told Secretary Kissinger to press Rhodesia’s rebel leader for a firm shift to black majority rule and warned that failure could trigger all out war. Kaunda urged not meeting Ian Smith, saying it would lend legitimacy to the rebel. He spoke as Kissinger pressed a critical Africa trip with Vorster in South Africa and met Nkomo briefly.
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Lusaka
Zambia
UPI
Kenneth Kaunda
Henry Kissinger
Rhodesia
Kaunda
Kissinger
Ian Smith
South Africa
John Vorster
Joshua Nkomo
Smith
Vorster
Africa
Government may close branch rail lines in Midwest
Grain industry representatives urged against the Transportation Department report that could end unprofitable branch railroads. At a public hearing, Farmland Industries Bunge Lincoln Grain and the Kansas Grain and Feed Dealers Association questioned classifications that will guide federal funding for railroad rehabilitation and track improvements.
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Kansas City, Mo
UPI
Transportation Department
Midwest
Farmland Industries
Bunge Corp
Lincoln Grain, Inc
The
Kansas Grain and Feed Dealers Association
Launch boat race on Illinois River
A segment of the Illinois River at Morris will close this weekend for the Illinois Powerboat Racing Association Sweet Corn Regatta featuring 100 hydroplanes and runabouts racing on a one mile oval. The restricted stretch from the Illinois 47 bridge to Kinnys Island Daymark will be closed Saturday and Sunday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. before and during the event. Boats need Coast Guard approval and must travel slowly to protect participants. anchoring or drifting in the area is forbidden.
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Illinois
Morris
Illinois Powerboat Racing Association
Illinois 47
Kinnys Island Daymark
United States Coast Guard
Mansfield retires after 34 years in the Senate
Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield leaves the chamber ending a 34 year congressional career during a China visit. Colleagues praise him as gentle and fair while Rob Byrd advances a "Mike Mansfield room" in the Capitol, which Mansfield initially blocks before passage.
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Washington
Lyndon Johnson
Senate
Muskie
Hugh Scott
Robert Byrd
W.va
Mike Mansfield
Robert Griffin
Mich
Mike
Butte
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Senate of the
United States
Byrd
Capitol
Saratoga Board Sets Meeting With Budget Talks
The Saratoga Community School Board will discuss increasing umbrella liability coverage and approve faculty semester hours payments. It will vote on a $1 870 bid from Robert Brown for Commercial Electronics Systems and a $600–$700 bid from Ayers Electric to update the fire alarm. It will consider Linda DeChecko for a teacher aide position at 3.30 per hour for 62 hours daily and a part time kindergarten post at 7 per hour.
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Saratoga Community School Board
Robert Brown
Commercial Electronics Systems, Inc
Ayers Electric, Inc
Linda DeChecko
Streator teen killed in hunting accident
STREATOR Ill APD Michael Evans 16 was shot to death by his twin brother Mark in a hunting mishap Thursday night. The brothers were squirrel hunting near an abandoned house when a squirrel shot from a hole in the foundation. The blast struck Michael in the chest and he died at the scene. Mark received shock treatment at St Marys Hospital and was released.
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Streator
Ill
APD
Michael Evans
Mark
Michael
St. Mary's Hospital
Youth killed in shark attack near Jacksonville Beach
Michael Harold Karras Jr. 16 died from blood loss after a shark attack at Jacksonville Beach near the Fishing Pier. His brother Ricky 15 was with him. Michael’s body was found five miles south days later. A marine biologist will study the bite to identify the shark.
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Jacksonville
Fla
UPI
Michael Harold Karras Jr
Michael
Ricky Alan Karras
Jacksonville Beach
Jacksonville Shark Club
Duval County
Peter Lipkovic Lipkovic
Michael Karras
Knoxville
Tenn
Dave Hovis
Grand Ridge police chief and deputy charged in vandalism case
Grand Ridge police chief John Marinci and former deputy Leo Meagher Jr. were arrested on two counts of aggravated kidnapping, aggravated battery and armed violence in a case tied to Earlville vandalism crackdowns. Former Earlville Police Chief Owen Finnigan faced similar charges. he resigned last Friday and is free on a $20,000 bond.
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Ottawa, Ill
UPI
Grand Ridge
la Salle County
Earlville
John Marinci
Leo Meagher Jr
Frank Yackley
Owen Finnigan
Finnigan
Yackley
Joliet Man Dies After Alley Shooting
Walter Robinson, 22, of Joliet, was found wounded in an alley around 9 pm Thursday and died today at Silver Cross Hospital. He was shot in the lower back and upper left leg as investigators described initial difficulties in establishing what happened.
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Joliet
Ill
UPI
Walter Robinson
Silver Cross Hospital
Robinson
Nixon to Publish Very Vivid Watergate Memoirs
Warner Books says former President Richard Nixon is writing a very vivid memoir focusing on Watergate and his last days in office. Publisher Howard Kaminsky, at the Frankfurt Book Fair, expects a first draft by year end, a 400 000 word manuscript trimmed to about 200 000, aiming for a 1977 autumn worldwide release.
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Frankfurt
West Germany
UPI
Richard M. Nixon
Howard Kaminsky
Warner Books
Kaminsky
Richard Nixon
Nixon
Weather figures for Dresden Island area and Morris
Forecast calls for tonight partly cloudy and cool with low in the 40s. Saturday should be mostly sunny and pleasant with highs around the mid 70s. Thursday's high reached 74 at Dresden Island Locks and Dam with a low of 43. Early morning temps were 52 at seven and 64 at Morris by 10:30. ESDA records show yesterday's Morris high at 76 and low at 48. Barometric pressure held at 30.18 with light winds up to 10 mph in the last 12 hours.
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Dresden Island Locks and Dam
Morris
ESDA
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