Fire detectors save lives amid rising home safety push
National Bureau of Standards cites 6800 home fire deaths last year and estimates half preventable with detectors under 50 dollars. Honeywell and others push rapid growth from 50s sales to 3.5 million this year. Experts favor smoke detectors with dual ionization chambers for early warning, while stressing planning, escape routes, and ongoing risks from smoking in bed and careless storage.
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America
National Bureau of Standards
Ken Krouchko
Honeywell, Inc
Honeywell
National Fire Protection Association
Ohio Turnpike to be renamed for James White Shacknessy
Editorial urges renaming the Ohio Turnpike to the James White Shacknessy Turnpike if the legislature approves Gov James Rhodes recommendation Shacknessy chaired the Turnpike Commission from 1949 to 1975 guiding a 241 mile, 300 million project to completion without scandal He promoted fiscal prudence fought toll- and revenue- siphoning and opposed racial discrimination in construction This public servant earned a memorial by retiring bonds early and saving taxpayers millions ahead of schedule
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Ohio Turnpike
James White Shacknessy
James Rhodes
Shacknessy
Ohio Turnpike Commission
Ohio State University
Turnpike
Ohio
That's your dollars they're talking about
AP analysis examines how investors judge the economy and future gains while noting broker and insurer takings. It compares price earnings in Dow stocks, farm price stability, and inflation risk, then pivots to housing costs and Manhattan land value, contrasting past prices with today’s dollars per square inch.
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John Cunniff
New York
Dow Jones
Peter Minuit
Manhattan Island
Manhattan Land
Today in history highlights of August 4 1976
AP notes key historical events on this date including Britain entering World War I in 1914, the 1790 naval force that became the Coast Guard, Lizzie Borden’s 1892 arrest, U S purchase of the Danish Virgin Islands in 1916, and other milestones. It also lists birthdays for Elizabeth the Queen Mother and Ezra Taft Benson, with a thought from Heywood Broun.
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Associated Press
Britain
Germany
U.S
Coast Guard
Lizzie Borden
Fall River
Mass
United States
Danish Virgin Islands
U.S. Air Force
Hong Kong
China
John Kennedy
Frances Kelsey
White House
Earth
Moon
Ford
Yugoslavia
Tito
Elizabeth
Ezra Taft Benson
Heywood Broun
Quicker picker-upper handles ocean oil spills
A California firm Ocean Design Engineering developed a polyurethane foam chip system to absorb oil on water. The method reportedly collects 50,000 gallons of oil per hour over a 20 foot spill area using millions of tiny foam chips. A giant squeezer may later extract the oil from the chips.
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California
Ocean Design Engineering
Modern Plastics Magazine
Know Your Lawmakers Senators and Representatives Listed
A compiled roster of Texas and national lawmakers with contact addresses. Includes U S Senators John Tower and Lloyd Bentsen Jr in Washington and Representatives Richard C White Bob Krueger plus Texas officials in Austin and Pecos Office details for district offices and state boards. Woodrow W Bean of El Paso is noted as Pecos representative and can be written to at the same address.
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Washington
John Tower
Senate
D.C
Lloyd Bentsen Jr
Richard C. White
Rayburn
el Paso
Odessa
Bob Krueger
Cannon
House
del Rio
New Braunfels
San Angelo
San Antonio
Austin
W.E
Pete’’ Snelson
Capital Building
Texas
Dick Slack
Pecos
5Th & Cypress
State Board of Education
M.L. Brockette
Texas Education Agency
E. 11Th St
Woodrow W. Bean
Aid in Haiti fuels luxury while villagers starve and wait
An investigative report by Hal Bernton portrays U S aid officials living in luxury in Port au Prince while funds misspend or are siphoned by Haitian officials. In drought stricken villages, workers on a road project go unpaid and hunger grips families as aid money funnels toward machines and high living. The piece contrasts lavish aid offices with the desperate need of subsistence farmers and charcoal makers.
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Washington
Port- Au-Prince
U.S
Haiti
Port-Au-Prince
Guantanamo Bay
Haitain
Hal Bernton
Caribbean
Bernton
United States
Port-Au- Prince Hills
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von Vakley
Federal Housing Administration
Bureau of Standards
Eee
Mars
Agriculture Department
Thomas Murphy
General Motors
O’ferrall Pauly
Texas Press Association
Jack Anderson
SRE
Merry
Dodge City
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