National Spelling Bee halves entrants to 32
Ninety nine spellers began the bee sponsored by Scripps League Newspapers. By day’s end 32 remain: 18 girls and 14 boys from 39 states and territories. Contenders faced words like surreptitious and loquacious while others such as eleemosynary and balthazar eliminated competitors.
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Washington
UPI
Scripps League
Puerto Rico
Virgin Islands
Mike
J.W. King
Hollywood
Fla
John Molinar
el Paso
Texas
Hongisto faces trouble in confirmation hearings over campaign link
In Albany, Richard Hongisto, head of the state prison system for 11 months, faces serious scrutiny as lawyers contend a third party contribution of $500 to Senator Joseph Galiber may be a misdemeanor. Senate committee hearings proceed amid the controversy.
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Albany
N.Y
UPI
Richard Hongisto
Senate Committees On Crime and Correction
Hongisto
Joseph Galiber
Bronx
Grounded DC-10 fleet strains U.S. air service
Airlines scramble to reroute passengers as the DC-10 fleet is grounded nationwide amid a government inquiry into cracking on engine pylons. FAA orders halt while experts probe whether a design issue contributed to the Chicago crash, threatening summer travel with 70,000-plus bumped travelers and 450 daily cancellations.
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Washington
UPI
Chicago
Air Transport Association
O’hare
American Airlines
Baltimore
Washington International
Las Vegas
FAA
Langhorne Bond
Bond
McDonnell Douglas
Association
Gas utility wins right to add customers in Ohio
Columbia Gas of Ohio is authorized by the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio to add new customers, ending a 1972 ban. The Norwalk area office will serve Norwalk, Willard, Monroeville, New London, Milan and Attica, with 575 residences and businesses on a waiting list. The decision allows new residential, commercial and some industrial connections, and permits recovery of SNG costs within rate schedules, subject to approval. New customers must meet insulation standards, and Columbia must report load impacts quarterly and semi-annually.
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Columbia Gas of
Ohio
Public Utilities Commission of
Don Phelps
Norwalk
Columbia
Willard
Monroeville
New London
Milan
Attica
Phelps
PUCO
Green Springs
SNG
Commission
C. Luther Heckman
Flynt denied out-of-state attorneys for Cincinnati trial
The Sixth Circuit ruled that Hustler publisher Larry Flynt cannot use lawyers from another state for the Cincinnati case. The decision follows a Supreme Court directive reversing a prior Sixth Circuit ruling that had allowed out-of-state counsel.
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Cincinnati
UPI
Hustler Magazine
Larry Flynt
6Th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
U.S. Supreme Court
Federal District Court
Flynt
Supreme Court
Appellate Court
Weather Outlook With Showers Then Heat Friday
Tonight and Friday expect showers and thunderstorms with an 80 percent chance. Lows tonight in the mid 60s and Friday highs near 80. Winds S to SW 10 to 20 mph. Also births in Norwalk and area hospitals and two deaths reported, Aretha Thorn 78 in Bellevue and Kenneth Derr 6, son of Eugene Derr and Wayne Ross.
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Kevin
Bonnie Hohler
Norwalk
Fisher-Titus
Melvin and
Carol Smith
Fisherius
Roger
Katherine Wright
Willard
Willard Area Hospital
Carol Sallee
Aretha Thorn
Bellevue
Kenneth Donald Derr
Eugene Derr
Ashland
Wayne Ross
Ohio House Speaker mulls school aid formula revisions
Ohio House Speaker Vernal G. Riffe Jr. works privately on revisions to a Senate passed 3.5 billion dollar school subsidy plan as he awaits support for an expanded transportation budget that adds a 4 percent gasoline tax. He faces pressure from school lobbyists to drop the Rhodes agreement favoring a flat district grant mainly for teacher raises.
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Columbus
UPI
Ohio
Vernal G. Riffe Jr
New Boston
Riffe
Ohio Department of Transportation
James A. Rhodes
Rhodes
Senate
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