Noxious cloud from Du Pont blast overruns river area
A Friday night explosion at Du Pont Chambers Works in Deepwater New Jersey seriously burned a worker identified as Hugh Refferto 27 of Carneys Point. The blast sent a noxious orange cloud across the Delaware River toward Wilmington prompting eye throat and respiratory irritation but no hospitalizations from fumes. The plant fire department fought the blaze about an hour as officials stressed phenol glycidyl ether used for dye production was involved. the site is Du Pont’s largest U S facility employing about six to seven thousand workers.
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Deepwater
N.J
du Pont Chambers Works
Delaware River
Wilmington
Del
Salem Memorial Hospital
Crozier-Chester Medical Center
Upland
Salem Memorial
Hugh Refferto
Carners Point
Mary Pirring
du Pont
Robert Shinn
Edward Fogg
Delaware
Walter Ashing
Willow Run
United States
Carneys Point
Delaware Memorial Bridge
New Jersey
Ford marks 75th year with Model A reenactment parade
Dearborn Michigan AP Ford Motor Co celebrated its 75th anniversary by dressing workers in period garb to assemble a 1903 Model A. The event traced the company’s car lineage from the early Model A to the iconic Model T and culminated in a parade highlighting nearly a century of automotive history.
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Dearborn
Mich
Ford Motor Co
Ford Motor
Hastings murder conviction prompts prison term debate
Correction from WEST CHESTER AP notes Gary Hastings was not yet sentenced after a 10 to 20 year prison range was reported. Hastings, convicted last fall in the April 1977 shotgun death of his wife Margaret, shot himself and lost part of his face. Chester County officials debate corrective surgery funding. Ford history and company milestones are also recounted, including vintage Model A significance and Ford's 1903 origins.
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West Chester
Associated Press
Gary Hastings
Judith Mooney
Chester County
Hastings
Margaret
Ford
Greenfield Village
New York City
Boston
Chicago
St. Louis
Reary Ford
Ford Motor
Mack Avenue
Detroit
Henry Ford
Henry Ford II
Beef price surge pushes grocery costs higher in May
Government economists report May beef prices rose 5.1 percent with June early gains possible, predicting up to 2 percent annual inflation by year end. USDA data show all-cut beef at $1.73 per pound by June 3, a record in retail stores, as cattle herds shrink and slaughter supply remains tight for years. Pork and poultry rise unlikely to cool beef prices soon.
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United States
Pork
Wil
Ark
Washington
Agriculture Department
USDA
The
Captured soldiers link Cubans with Zaire raid
Washington AP reports U S intelligence sources say interrogations of Katangan prisoners indicate Cuban training of rebels in Angola prior to the Kolwezi invasion. Two to four Cubans allegedly accompanied the Katangan force. Castro acknowledged foreknowledge but says he tried to prevent it. U S officials cite three separate European reports corroborating these claims.
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Washington
Carter
Angola
U.S
Cuba
Fidel Castro
Kolwezi
Drop box bandits steal clothes in Chicago area
A Salvation Army drop box raid ends with a child delivering donated clothing to a waiting mother and a station wagon driving away. Captain Marcus Stilwell notes thefts occur regularly as stolen items supply garage sales and flea markets, with a woman repeatedly stealing for her own sales.
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Chicago
Salvation Army
Marcus Stilwell
Police hunt for missing bodies in northeast case
Authorities in Connecticut New York and Massachusetts probe reports that hundreds of young men from New York City were abducted lured to New England tortured and sometimes killed. In West Springfield Appleby held on 75000 bail on a New York kidnapping warrant amid searches of his yard shack and shed for bodies and evidence including chains leg irons and a voodoo doll.
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NEW York
Connecticut
Massachusetts
New York City
New England
Associated Press
West Springfield
Mass
Kenneth A. Appleby
Appleby
Dacre
Missionary killed in Rhodesia amid rising violence
American Baptist missionary Archie Dunaway, 58, was stabbed to death at Sanyati mission hospital in Rhodesia as Black nationalist guerrillas killed a string of missionaries. His wife Margaret directed the hospital’s nursing school. The death followed raids in Matabeleland that claimed two more missionaries and a Salvation Army worker. The war and negotiations involve Ian Smith’s government and major guerrilla groups Nkomo and Mugabe.
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Salisbury
Rhodesia
Archie Dunaway
Sanyati Mission Hospital
Here
Sanyati
Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board
Richmond
Dunaway
McComb
Miss
Margaret
Mission Hospital
Dunaways
Matabeleland
Salvation Army
Sait
Joshua Nkomo
Zimbabwe African People's Union
Akedeaia
Robert Mugabe
Zimbabwe African National Union
Zimbabwe
United States
Britain
Ian Smith
Interim Executive Council
Patriotic Front
Nkomo
Mugabe
London
Cyrus Vante
David Owen
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Boo
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B Riner
Meeks
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J Millington
Luttrell
Lutttrell
Warner
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M Rehr
R Burgos
Esworthy
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Lewis
Bothon
Smith
Rineer
Omaha
Neb
Zaire
Kolweri
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