Nation's Water Supply Near Normal After Wet Years
USGS reports 1976 national water supply within a few percentage points of normal as wet 1970s years offset record low Western flows. Big Five rivers ran below average. Northeast hit more normal levels. Dam failure and Great Salt Lake levels noted amid regional shortages and growing 3-4 percent water use rise.
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Washington
U.S. Geological Survey
Carroll Saboe
USGS
Saboe
Mississippi
St. Lawrence
Columbia
Ohio
Missouri
Mississippi River
Contiguous
States
Southwest
Teton Dam
Idaho
Teton River
Great Salt Lake
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Midwest
Michigan
California
Chesapeake Bay
Susquehanna
Potomac
James Rivers
Increase In Business Facilities See Growth Forecast
The Commerce Department reports that бизнес firms expect to spend about 135 billion dollars on new plant and equipment this year, an 11.3 percent rise from last year. The forecast covers manufacturing and non manufacturing sectors with a large gain in motor vehicles.
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Commerce Department
Commerce
Department
New York
New York Stock Exchange
Open Meeting Bid Defeated in Kansas House
In Topeka the Kansas House defeated a bid to require conference committees to follow open meetings law. Rep. Loren Hohman proposed the amendment, while Rep. Wendell Lady and Rep. Patrick Hurley urged defeat but backed the concept. The measure failed by voice vote amid broader rules debate on the 1977 session’s second day.
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Hurley
Rules and Journal Committee
Hohman
Ben Foster
Wichita
Foster
Weather Death Toll Rising Across Missouri And Kansas
Seven people in Missouri and Kansas died over the weekend and Monday as extreme cold and arctic conditions gripped the region. Victims include Vladimir Oleshchuk 50 Earl Bush 59 Fred Huffman 75 Helen Kovac 84 Roland French 45 Hubert Kraus 57 Rose Breckinridge 71 Robert Kennally 54 and Flossie Kennally 64 plus a fatal fire linked to weather and a space heater.
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Associated Press
Missouri
Kansas
Vladimir Oleshchuk
St. Louis County
Earl Bush
University City
Fred W. Huffman
Overland Park
Kan
Helen Kovac
Kansas City
Roland French
St. Louis
Hubert W. Kraus
Kahoka
Rose Breckinridge
Robert B. Kennally
Flossie
Barry Backs More Pardons
Washington AP Barry Goldwater urges President Ford to pardon the remaining Watergate conspirators. He says Nixon’s pardon sets a precedent and that others received too harsh sentences. Ford has not confirmed plans to grant further pardons amid appeals and commutations from several involved.
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Barry Goldwater
Ford
Nixon
Goldwater
CBS
Washington Post
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