Trans-Atlantic Balloon Rescue Threat as Tear Weathers Gash
In Bracknell England UPI reports British adventurers Don Cameron and Army Maj. Christopher Davey face a 8-foot tear in the inner gas bag of their $275,000 balloon while crossing 1,000 miles from St Johns Newfoundland toward northern France. Officials staged an air rescue and the crew stabilized at 7,500 feet. They planned to press on to Europe if possible.
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Bracknell
Don Cameron
Army
Christopher Davey
St. John’s
Newfoundland
Atlantic
Aeronautical
Mission Control
London
France
Britain
Royal Air Force
British Isles
Davey
Royal Tank Regiment
Five injured as boat crash leaves missing man off Lorain
Five people were injured and a 78 year old man was missing and presumed drowned after a Lake Erie boat accident near Lorain Harbor. Helen Eicher and her husband, plus three others, were treated and released from St. Joseph Hospital. A separate dispatch notes antitrust review may target milk cooperatives and the Capper Volstead Act. In Sardinia, Sicilian underworld threatens to kidnap the kidnappers of Luca Locci if the boy’s abductors are not released within two days.
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Lorain, Ohio
UPI
Lake Erie
Lorain Harbor
Helen Eicher
Munroe Falls
St. Joseph Hospital
Robert
Washington
UPS
National Commission
Justice Department
National Commission For
Agriculture Department
Cagliari
Sardinia
Ansa
Luca Locci
Luca
Dayton shop owner wins big on Ohio Lottery TV game
Leon Matusoff, a 72-year-old Dayton book and curio shop owner, said the Ohio Lottery windfall will not change him after winning $200,000 on the televised game show. He already holds $500,000 in lottery winnings and will retire from the program after five appearances. Gold 7 white 19 blue 438 extra cash 709457.
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Cleveland
UPI
Leon Matusoff
Dayton
Bonanza
Elephants Snatch Purses At Denver Zoo
The Denver Zoo seeks 90000 to stop its three Asian elephants from snatching sunglasses handbags and camera gear from visitors. A city official said the pachyderms use 6 foot trunks to grab items as part of their diet, with increasing visitor encounters. Zoo director Clayton Freiheit notes elephants reach toward the public and swat at people.
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Denver
UPS
Denver Zoo
City Planning Office
Clayton Freiheit
Crane plans 1980 presidential bid faces rivals Ford Reagan
Washington reports Conservative Rep. Philip Crane of Illinois told potential rivals Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan about his 1980 bid. The meeting with Ford occurred at a motel near Washington for about 15 minutes and Crane said he will announce before Labor Day, running in his own right.
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Washington
UPI
Philip Crane
R-Ill
Gerald Ford
Ronald Reagan
Crane
Weather notes and two marriage licenses and statue fact
LCM weather reports clear skies tonight with 55 to 60 degrees and a 10 percent chance of rain. Saturday will be partly cloudy and warmer with possible thundershowers late in the day and a 30 percent chance of precipitation. Winds light to variable. Also listed are two marriage license applications from John F. Dove and Mary Hettinger and Peter E. Roche and Nancy L. Lopez. A Guayaquil statue of poet Jose Olmedo is a secondhand Lord Byron statue bought to avoid higher costs.
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John F. Dove
Willard
Mary Hettinger
Shelby
Peter E. Roche
Norwalk
Certified Public Accountant
Nancy L. Lopez
Jose Olmedo
Guayaquil
Ecuador
Lord Byron
Olmedo
Federal tax cuts would let home sellers profit up to 100000
The measure approved by the House Ways and Means Committee would make the first 100000 of profit from selling a primary residence tax free, provided the home has been a taxpayer's main residence for at least two years. It also proposes income tax cuts and a capital gains reduction from 49% to 35%, to be phased in from 1979.
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Washington
UPI
Congress
House
Ways and Means Committee
Carter
Sam Gibbons
D-Fla
At Least One Man Won't Follow National Mail Strike
Ray Mitchell a 60 year old rural Arapahoe Colorado mail carrier vows not to strike despite a looming nationwide postal walkout He serves two 70 mile routes near the Colorado Kansas line and says the Postal Service has been good to him his post pay supports farming his hobby without profit He notes differing costs of living between rural and urban areas and explains his stance amid union leadership rejection of a proposed three year contract with an average 19.9 percent pay rise and cost of living adjustments The story also touches on related political tax policy debates and capital gains plans with lawmakers debating substantial tax cuts and adjustments impacting individuals and businesses
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Mitchell
Colorado
Kansas
Washington
Postal Service
Big City
American Postal Workers Union Advisory Committee
Treasury
Senate Finance Committee
Russell Long
D-La
Thousands Offer Marrow Aid for Dying Pittsburgh Man
Across the nation thousands offered to donate bone marrow for Robert McFall, an asbestos worker with aplastic anemia. An Allegheny County judge refused to force his cousin David Shimp to donate the 21 ounces of marrow, noting unrelated donors are rarely a match. McFall, 39, of Pleasant Hills, is medically stable but faces only a 20 to 25 percent chance of living a year without a transplant from a close relative.
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Pittsburgh
UPI
Robert McFall
McFall
David Shimp
Allegheny County
Mercy Hospital
Pleasant Hills
Kimp
Two Women Fined and One Jailed Over Sheriff's Daughter Incident
Two women verbally attacked the Huron County Sheriff’s daughter on a Wednesday afternoon. Tammy Hale, 19, was fined 100 dollars plus costs and must pay by Monday. Jerralayne Cherry, 1816 Harris Street, was fined 100 dollars, sentenced to five days in jail with credit for time served, and placed on one year probation. Cherry faced additional probation after pleading guilty to resisting arrest while Hale pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct. Prosecutor Hauser defended the penalties, saying the actions toward law enforcement family members will not be tolerated.
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Huron County
Common Pleas
Robert W. Smith
John Borgia
Tammy Jean Hale
Hale
E. Seminary St
Jerry
Jerralayne Cherry
Harris St
Richard Hauser
Ms. Cherry
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