Phosphate disaster hits Peace River in Florida
A dike at Cities Service Co. chemical plant broke upstream near Fort Meade releasing a phosphate slime. The slime killed fish along 70 miles from Fort Meade to the Charlotte County line and harmed the blueshell crabmeat industry valued at about 1 million dollars. EPA administrator calls it the largest phosphate kill on record. a Justice Department suit is anticipated. Wayne Stevens cites faulty dike maintenance as the initial cause.
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Gulf of Mexico
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EPA
Charlotte County
U.S. Justice Department
Cities Service
Cities Service Co
Wayne Stevens
State Department of Pollution Control
Congress Adopts Nixon Agenda as Congress Nears Adjournment
Congress moves toward adjournment after approving Nixon’s Supreme Court pick William Rehnquist and upholding his veto on a day care program and the Office of Economic Opportunity renewal. A stalled foreign aid plan faces a six month Vietnam withdrawal timetable.
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Office of Economic Opportunity
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Vietnam
Army to force out 60,000 in outback downsizing
The Army announced an involuntary reduction of at least 60,000 soldiers to meet a new ceiling set by Congress. Draftees serving two years and first term volunteers serving three will exit with severance pay, with some eligible for earlier release but not before a minimum period.
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UPI
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Vietnam
Five Youths Die As Train Heats Car Near Toledo
Five young people returning from a Calvary Assembly of God Church meeting were killed when their car was struck by a Penn Central freight train at an unguarded southwest Toledo crossing. Victims were David Myles 17 driver Dean 16 Dwight 9 Dennis 13 all of Toledo and Marilyn Donbrosky 16 of Temperance Michigan. The train was en route from Elkhart Indiana to Toledo. The engineer said he did not see the car and only learned of the collision after impact. The car was pushed about a mile and split in two.
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Dennis
Toledo
David
Marilyn Donbrosky
Temperance
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Calvary Assembly of God
Elkhart
Ind
Ohio's New Taxes to Raise 920 Million
Ohio General Assembly adopts a tax package projected to raise about $920 million over two years. New personal income tax brackets, corporate net income tax, cigarette tax, insurance and financial fees, and severance taxes target funds for environmental programs and general state needs. Tax relief includes property tax cuts and homestead exemptions for seniors, with phased tangible property rollbacks.
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State Taxation Department
Over-65s To Receive Tax Rollback
Columbus Ohio under the new budget tax proposal homeowners aged 65 and older will get property tax reductions if family income is 8000 dollars or less. Beginning with December 1972 tax bills eligible seniors will receive a flat reduction or a rollback based on a fixed percentage of their property value. The schedule ranges from 70 percent for income up to 2000 to 40 percent above 6000, with various brackets in between.
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General Assembly
How To Figure Your Income Tax
Columbus report explains the new personal income tax scheme with a $500 allowance per family member up to $3000. It details brackets from $5 000 to above $40 000 with rates of 0 to 3 percent and a misprint showing 342 percent for top income.
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General Assembly
Want Ads Rent Vacancies Fast Dial 662-4241
A classifieds call invites readers to place want ads to rent vacancies quickly by dialing the listed number 662 4241. The fragment suggests a public sale of ad space or classified listing service.
Thirty-One Survivors Rescued From Lifeboats
HONOLULU UP I Thirty-one survivors from the Danish freighter Heering Kirse were saved Friday by two merchant ships. The Coast Guard widened the search for five missing crew and the freighter as 19 were rescued from a lifeboat after 48 hours and 12 earlier from a life raft. The Montana sighted a flare and found a large lifeboat in 12 to 16 foot swells with 19 men aboard. The Puna took the first 12 survivors toward Japan while the Montana and Coast Guard continued procedures to bring the group to Honolulu. Two survivors were injured. Captain Preven Kamph traveled from Copenhagen to assist. The Coast Guard said more boats may hold additional crewmen.
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