Log Jam Breaks Up on Santa Fe Bridge Area in Ottawa
Ottawa Public Works Director Bob Moore reports improved progress breaking up a multi year large log jam beneath the Santa Fe bridge as crews use a crane and clam bucket. River levels fall to 25.64 feet by morning with a peak 26.68 feet Monday and rainfall may raise levels again. gates at Lake Pomona remain closed only for minimum discharge. Moore warns more logs may drift as rain continues and creeks rise, potentially washing logs from Eight Mile and Appanoose basins.
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Diane Yeamans
Bob Moore
Ottawa Public Works Department
Santa Fe
Santa Fe Railroad
Moore
Marais Des Cygnes
Ottawa
Corps of Engineers
Kansas City
Lake Pomona
Richard Rucker
May price hikes push consumer inflation to 0.6 percent
Washington reports May consumer prices rose six-tenths of one percent, the fifth straight month of gains. Food costs jumped seven tenths, coffee prices surged with ground coffee up 10.3 percent, and overall inflation runs above the six percent target, at an annual rate near 7.2 percent. Prices in May stood at 180.6 on the 1967=100 scale, 6.7 percent above April 1976.
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Washington
Labor Department
FDA Moves to Ban Daytime Over the Counter Sedatives
The FDA plans to ban all nonprescription daytime sedatives including Cope Compoz Miles Nervine Tranquil and Quiet World amid evidence of no proven benefit and risks from daytime drowsiness. A rulemaking process will begin with a tentative regulation this year followed by hearings and a final rule aimed for mid 1978. Kennedy also asked the National Cancer Institute to review a study linking Methapyrilene, a sleep aid ingredient, to cancer.
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Food and Drug Administration
FDA
Donald Kennedy
Cope
Kennedy
National Cancer Institute
Much Of State Gets Yet Another Soaking
Central and eastern Kansas endured a fifth straight day of thunderstorms and heavy rain with flash floods possible. Winds up to 60 mph near McPherson toppled no major damage, though a sheriff's car and a trooper's vehicle were affected. Rain totals ranged from an inch to over three inches at multiple sites, with Topeka and Paola among reporting stations.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
McPherson
Chase
Clinton
Paola
Bucharest
Romania
Amin Stull Missing After Kampala Silence
Uganda Radio denied reporting Amin's presence at his home this morning while a Kampala information official said a cabinet meeting was underway. Nairobi Daily Nation claimed Amin was missing after an attempted shooting near Entebbe, but Ugandan officials called the report inaccurate and declined to reveal his whereabouts. An unidentified home contact said Amin had not returned since Friday evening and they did not know his fate.
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Nairobi
Kenya
Uganda
Idi Amin
Ministry of Information
Kampala
Amin
Daily Nation
Entebbe
OU Singers Find Music Smashes Language Barrier
Editor Don Lambert reports on Ottawa University Chorale members and 22 locals returning from a two week goodwill tour of Romania. The group, selected for the Friendship Ambassador program, performed for audiences and swapped songs across language lines, discovering music as a universal link.
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Don Lambert
Romania
Ottawa University Chorale
Ottawa
Communist Party
OU Chorale
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