Nation's Longest Heat Wave Shows No Sign of Breaking
The Weather Bureau reports the summer’s longest heat wave continues with hot humid conditions across most of the nation. Showers bring brief relief in parts but do not end the heat. Temperatures reach 90s to over 100 in the Plains and Southwest, with 107 in Pierre and Philip, South Dakota. Brenda weakens over southern Louisiana as rain bands extend from Alabama to eastern Louisiana.
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Southwest Desert
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Yuma
Aziz
Plains
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Pacific Northwest
Brenda
Louisiana
Alabama
Mississippi
Mobile
Ala
Rocky Mountain
New England
Man Injured In Home Blast In Kansas City
In northeast Johnson County a home blast and fire injured 53 year old Cletus Ward. Ward suffered burns and was listed in fair condition. Homeowners Mr and Mrs Samuel Poor, school teachers at Harvard University this summer, left keys with Ward to check the house. Ward smelled gas before turning on a light switch when the explosion occurred. Ceilings and roof were blown off and the interior heavily damaged.
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Cletus Ward
Samuel Poor
Harvard University
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Typing Operations per Typist Per Year Study
The report states that engineers find the average typist performs 14 745 typing actions annually. It notes a benchmark for workload and suggests implications for ergonomics and productivity.
Satelloid Take Center Stage At Space Congress
Copenhagen experts from 18 nations at the Sixth International Astro nautical Congress praised the U S satellite plans and discussed satelloids as next major steps in space travel. They explained a satellite orbits Earth at about 250 miles, while a satelloid would be remotely controlled, reach higher and visit other planets. Kraft A. Ehricke of Convair San Diego was slated to speak, with private sessions opening tomorrow.
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Convair Guided Missile Group
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Marital Break Splits Church In Wichita
In Wichita the Gospel Assembly Church divides after a pastor and his wife separate. Attorney Pat Warnick says half the congregation backs Rev. E. L. Mullineaux while the other half supports his wife, who seeks partition of church properties or a buyout of the opposing faction.
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Gospel Assembly
E. L. Mullineaux
Pat Warnick
Warnick
World Wide News Briefs report from AP
AP dispatches from New Delhi, Isle of Capri, Oslo, Rio de Janeiro, Tangier summarize disasters, celebrations, and violence. Flood deaths in India threaten five million, a helicopter accident near Capri injures photographers, King Haakon VII birthdays from hospital, Brazil coffee crop damage from cold, a Moroccan gunman kills four including an American tourist in Tangier.
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America
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North Africa
TV Film Actors To Strike Friday
The Screen Actors Guild set Friday as the start of a strike by all actors in filmed TV shows. About 40 weekly series were shooting in New York and Hollywood, with 96.3 percent of members authorizing the strike. The main issue is the producers’ refusal to pay residuals for second-run video releases.
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New York
John L. Dales
Christian Science Monitor subscription offer advertises domestic mail delivery
The notice promotes The Christian Science Monitor from Boston offering national and international news and features by Erwin D. Canham. It invites readers to subscribe by mail with rates for 1 year 16 dollars, 6 months eight dollars, and 3 months a smaller amount, requesting address details.
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Christian Science Monitor
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Fireman’s net foils death by own action in Newark
A father of four ignored police pleas and jumped from an eight story ledge into a firemen’s net, narrowly escaping death as two firefighters began rescue efforts. The incident unfolded late last night in Newark, New Jersey.
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Ottawa Herald brief tragedy and rail freight notes
A man, Lawrence Yudin, 45, threatened to jump from a building ledge and leaped to a safety net after police failed to stop him. His back was broken in the fall, while a 15 year old daughter witnessed the peril. In brief rail data, U S freight car loadings in 1984 were 11.6 percent lower than 1998 levels.
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