Bacon Industry Upset Over Cancer Information
Preliminary tests show about one in five meat plants exceed nitrosamine limits in bacon Affected plants 17 of 96 tested. remaining plants meet safety levels Nitrosamines form during high temperature frying and involve nitrite nitrate preservatives Officials say results are preliminary and not an imminent health hazard Industry leaders and some lawmakers criticize the release The USDA emphasizes public reassurance and ongoing testing procedures
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Congress
Department
Justice Department
USDA
Donald L. Houston
Food Safety and Quality Service
Associated Press
Richard E. Lyng
American Meat Institute
Lyng
Thomas Bromley
Usda Agency
Congressional
Rail Collision Under Investigation Atchison Kansas
Investigators sift through hundreds of yards of wreckage after an eastbound Missouri Pacific freight train struck a stationary train head on near Atchison. Six locomotives and 45 cars damaged. crew escaped unharmed. Estimated losses exceed $1 million.
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Atchison, Kan
Missouri Pacific
J.B. Mullings
Atchison
Donald Brackman
Falls City
Neb
MoPac
G.R. Brown
Mullings
Harold Hammer
St. Louis
Chicago and North Western Railway
New Face Expected In State Democratic Ranks
Kansas Democrats will elect a new state chairman next month who is closer to Gov. John Carlin than the current chair Terry Scanlon. Scanlon will not seek another term. he and Carlin reportedly agreed a new chairman should have closer ties to the governor.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
Democrats
John Carlin
Terry Scanlon
Scanlon
Wichita
Robert Docking
Carlin
Jimmy Carter
Carter
Larry Bengtson
Junction City
2Nd District
Dan Watkins
Democratic Party
Bengtson
Henry Lueck
Netawaka
Department of Administration
Robert B. Docking
White House
Yates Center
Suh
Hays
Kansas City
Afar ape man named oldest direct human ancestor found
Anthropologists announce Australopithecus afarensis as the oldest known direct ancestor of man based on fossils from Tanzania and Ethiopia. The Afar ape man walked upright with a humanlike body yet ape face and brain, suggesting early bipedalism preceded tool use and signaling a closer relation between humans and apes.
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Cleveland
Africa
Robert Radcliffe
National Geographic Society
Johanson
Anth
Mary Leakey
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Cleveland Museum of Natural History
T.D. White
University of California At Berkeley
Radcliffe
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Science
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