Field Trip to Reno Construction Plant Near LeLoup
Central Heights sixth graders visited Reno Construction Company’s asphalt plant near LeLoup as part of a spring outing. Public relations manager Janice Hammar explained yard activities to Ruth Wisdom of Osawatomie while students posed for photos. The plant can produce 500 tons per hour and uses a computerized system, reflecting its sophistication. Reno is a subsidiary of Ashland-Warren Inc., a company with 22 divisions nationwide and abroad.
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Reno Construction Company
LeLoup
Janice Hammar
Ruth Wisdom
Reno
Ashland-Warren Inc
United States
Skyway Bridge Disaster Kills 32. Toll Could Rise
A Liberian cargo ship rammed the Sunshine Skyway Bridge during a thunderstorm, tearing away 1,300 feet of the span. A Greyhound bus and several vehicles plunged into Tampa Bay. At least 32 dead, 18 bodies recovered, including a baby. one pickup driver survived. Divers paused due to foul weather. The incident follows two previous bridge strikes that four months earlier killed 23 Coast Guard members.
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ST. Petersburg
Fla
Sunshine Skyway
Greyhound
Tampa Bay
Coast Guard
Marshall Gilbert
Gilbert
Sumynit Venture
Jay Hirsh
Wesley McIntire
Gulfport
St. Anthony’s Hospital
McIntire
Bradenton
Highway Patrol
Bob Johns
Blackthorn
Sweden
Almo
Iranian Hostage Trial Urged Amid Balloting Runoff
Iranians voted in the runoff for Iran’s 270 seat Majlis as a hostage trial issue looms. Habibollah Peyman demanded Americans be held as instruments to sustain revolutionary fervor while Tehran pursued diplomacy with Switzerland and the UN. Edmund Muskie took charge of the State Department amid intra-government power shifts. Final results were not expected for days.
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Associated Press
Iran
Habibollah Peyman
Sadegh Ghotbzadeh
Pierre Aubert
Zurich
United States
Carter
Ghotbzadeh
U.N
Kurt Waldheim
Belgrade
Josip Broz Tito
Tehran
Waldheim
U.N. Investigative Commission On
Washington
Edmund
Muskie
State Department
National Security Council
Council
Security Council
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Cyrus Vance
Philadelphia
Vance
White House
Jody Powell
Department
Eric Lang
Cynthia Dwyer
Buffalo
N.Y
Amherst
Lang
Kurdistan
Libya Recalls Four Diplomats After Diplomatic Clash
Washington says Libya will recall four Libyan diplomats who harassed dissidents and had holed up at the embassy. The four depart May 11 as FBI and police surrounded the mission and the sides finalize registration and remaining personnel documentation.
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Washington
Libya
United States
State Department
FBI
Thousands Dead Reported in Afghan Fighting
New Delhi reports say Afghan rebels and Soviet troops clash in Ghazni province with thousands of women and children said killed in an April bombardment. A Soviet column backed by helicopters and jets advances on rebel positions as a national field hockey team suffers heavy casualties. 18 team members reportedly killed and only two survived. Casualties cited by informants exceed official figures, with hospitals overwhelmed by wounded civilians and a school bus driver describing maimed children. The hockey team was en route to the Moscow Summer Olympics when attacked near Jare Khoshk north of Kabul.
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New Delhi
India
Afghanistan
Ghazni
Kabul
Holy Warriors
Marxist
Central Government
Jaghatu
Andar
Shilgar
Kabul Children’s Hospital
Jare Khoshk
Kunduz
Tax Freedom Day marks growing tax burden in 1990
The Tax Foundation reports Tax Freedom Day in 1990 falls after 131 days, meaning the average worker has earned enough to cover federal state and local taxes by May 11. The study details hours needed for taxes and other expenses, and notes tax collections outpacing population growth and inflation while freedom fades later each year.
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Tax Foundation, Inc
Washington, D.C
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