Senate ready to kill Carter gasoline fee
The Senate prepared to override President Carter's 10 cent a gallon gas tax, following the House override by a 335-34 vote. Democrats backed the veto, while Republicans and 193 Democrats joined 142 Republicans to kill the fee, though some GOP senators considered sustaining the veto. Carter argued the fee would curb energy consumption and raise oil imports and inflation.
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Senate
Carter
Washington
UPI
House
Congress
Harry S Truman
Ted Stevens
Alaska
Thomas O'Neill
D-Mass
Fire loss appears higher in Shenango Township blaze
Frank and Mary Presnar revise fire damage to about $15,000 after a Wednesday night mobile home fire at 404 Williams Drive. Fire Chief John Gilmore had estimated $4,000. Mrs Presnar says flames started in the rear bedroom destroying the home. she and her husband lost clothes, with only a dining room set saved. Different details given from initial report.
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Shenango Township
Frank Presnar
Williams Drive
John Gilmore
Gilmore
Unsafe Creative Playthings Gym House prompts exchange program
The Consumer Product Safety Commission declared the Creative Playthings Indoor Gym House unsafe manufactured 1962 to 1979. Earlier models had a six inch ladder space and later ones five inches. post 1980 space expanded to seven and a half inches. Cases include a 16 month old with asphyxia and an 18 month old strangled. Exchange details provided for affected owners in Harrisburg and Herndon addresses. Separately, the Lake Carriers' Association reports April shipments of iron ore, coal, and grain on the Great Lakes totaling 15.9 million net tons, with year to May 1 at 18.2 million net tons.
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Consumer Product Safety Commission
Cleveland
UPI
Lake Carriers’ Association
Great Lakes
Doctor defies decades still living at 106
Athens Illinois report profiles Dr Tolbert F Hill 106 oldest living U S physician. Born in the 19th century he attributes health to abstaining from alcohol and tobacco and to long life in a family of doctors. He stopped practicing at 95 and now keeps busy at home with reading and gardening.
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Athens, Ill
UPI
Tolbert F. Hill
Hill
Ulysses S. Grant
Abraham Lincoln
American Medical Association
United States
Bus crash on Ozark road kills 20 Dallas tourists
Investigators probe brake or transmission failure after a chartered Central Texas Bus Lines tour bus veered on a two mile downgrade of Arkansas 7 at Jasper Mountain plunging into a ravine. Twenty of 33 aboard died, mostly women from Dallas area. driver James J. Thigpen and organizer Elizabeth Jacobs among the dead. Survivors describe control struggles and a burning smell as passengers recall a humming gear change and loss of braking.
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Jasper, Ark
UPI
Ozark Mountain
Arkansas 7
Jasper Mountain
Dallas
Branson
Boston
Ozark Mountains
James J. Thigpen
Lancaster
Texas
Elizabeth Jacobs
Irving
Thigpen
Jessie Morgan
Central Texas Bus Lines
Waco
Ex-worker case heard by judge
President Judge Glenn McCracken Jr. heard arguments yesterday on whether four former city employees have a basis for a suit against the city. The workers, fired by Mayor Angelo J. Sands in January, filed suit in February seeking reinstatement and retroactive pay to Jan. 8. City Solicitor Thomas M. Piccione then filed a preliminary objection arguing no legal basis for the suit.
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Glenn McCracken Jr
Angelo J. Sands
City
Thomas M. Piccione
O Pake undergoes heart bypass surgery weeks before Pennsylvania race
Democratic attorney general candidate Michael O Pake, 40, will miss four to six weeks of the general election campaign after an unexpected heart bypass procedure at Lankenau Hospital in Philadelphia. Campaign manager John Millican said he expects a full return by mid July and that the operation should not derail the bid against LeRoy Zimmerman.
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Harrisburg
O'Pake
John Millican
Milliron
Pennsylvania
LeRoy Zimmerman
Millicon
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Mrs
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Carrolle Marie Burke Miles
Sheets
Jameson Memorial Hospital
James J. Burke
Ada Mae Evans Burke
James B. Hammond
Epworth
William F
Roger M. DeCarbo
Cunningham Ave
William F. DeCarbo
Marvin Watson
Epworth A.M. Church
Castle View Memorial Gardens
Juvenile Diabetes Foundation
Hall Town Road
Wampum
Esther V. Klee
Pittsburgh
Center Ave
Louis R
Mary Lowash Klee
Miss Klee
West Penn Hospital
Mary K. Ellis
New Carrollton
Winter Funeral Home
Friendship Ave
M. Earle Collins
New Wilmington
Vine Court
University of Missouri Medical Center
Columbia
New Wilmington United Presbyterian Church
Arthur W. Nelson
Fair Oaks
E. Gailey Sharp
Butz Flowers
E. W Ton St
Ellwood Federal
Ellwood
Federal Savings & Loan
Lawrence Ave
Lawrence Village Plaza
Creative Playthings
Industrial Road
P.O
Route 147
Herndon
HBO
Washington ST
Athens
Ill
Newton County
Ray Watkins
Watkins
Enola Sheeley
Lawrence and
Beaver Counties
Peontes
Isi
FDIC
O’pake
Weingartner Florist
Wilmington RD
J.N. Kerr Jewelers
N. Mill ST
Canon
Warner Photo Shop
Raymond D. Cunningham
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