Athabasca oil sands could reshape energy security
Alberta's Athabasca oil sands begin a long, costly path to large scale synthetic crude. Experts say the 1980s promise production growth, with Syncrude's $1 billion Mildred Lake plant and ongoing mines at Great Canadian Oil Sands. Deeper reserves require on site conversion and new Extraction tech. The effort aims to ease dependence amid Arab oil embargo and rising prices, though full output may not arrive until the mid-1980s.
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Mildred Lake
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Why make a tough job tougher for garbagemen
Editorial argues sanitation workers face the highest injury rate among public services with 109.5 disabling injuries per million hours. It cites long hours, heavy lifting, hazardous cans, and dangerous environment as factors, noting customers’ misusing containers worsens risk yet acknowledging workers provide valuable service.
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National Safety Council
Raymond Lascoe
Lascoe
A Question of Quality Quality of life views vary across nations
The Wickert Institute in Tuebingen West Germany polled nearly 2000 people on the phrase quality of life Results show 20 percent link to higher living standards 17 percent to a happy secure life 6 percent to financial stability 5 percent to good eating 1 percent to other ideas while 53 percent say they have no idea what the term means More than half may be too busy living it to answer another pollster's questions.
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Wickert Institute
Tuebingen
West Germany
Censorship Upheld as Clarkstown Forms Obscenity Panel
The Supreme Court inspired move returns censors to work with a nine member Obscenity Committee in Clarkstown New York aimed at books movies and stage shows. Chairman Marty Snyder a tally blind man claims fit for judging obscenity citing imagination as key and notes he can imagine what happens in a motel room even without seeing through walls.
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Pecos Enterprise Editor and Publisher O'Ferrall Pauly
The Pecos Enterprise announces Pauly O Ferrall as editor and publisher under the Buckner News Alliance. The longtime newspaper leadership marks another era for the Texas publication.
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Buckner News Alliance
O’ferrall Pauly
Energy shortage study on housework and time use
A multinational study shows that despite time saving devices, housewives spend about the same or more time on chores. The research, spanning 12 countries including the United States, West Germany, Yugoslavia, and Belgium, notes that employed women double their weekend chores while men relax. The Grand Army of the Republic held its last encampment on August 31, 1949.
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John Cunniff
New York
Kragujavac
Yugoslavvia
Osnabruck
West Germany
Belgium
Bulgaria
Czechoslovakia
East Germany
France
Hungary
Peru
Poland
United States
Soviet Union
Yugoslavia
U.S
John Robinson
Philip
University of Michigan
Joann Vanke
Converse
Robinson
Grand Army of the Republic
Payment in Full checks and debt settlements explained
A public service feature explains how accepting or handling a PAY MENT IN FULL check affects debt recovery. Courts rule cashing or delaying can extinguish or acknowledge the debt, while silence may count as acceptance. Written by Will Bernard for ABA and Texas Bar.
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American Bar Association
State Bar of Texas
Will Bernard
This Day In History November Thirteen Highlights
On this date in 1956 the U S Supreme Court ruled segregated public buses unconstitutional. In 1974 Washington sent an army into Pennsylvania to quell Whiskey Rebellion. California adopted a state constitution in 1843 and Austria was proclaimed in 1918.
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U.S. Supreme Court
George Washington
Pennsylvania
California
Republic of Austria
Hudson River
New York
New Jersey
Guadacanal
Energy crisis looms over Texas as shortages feared
In Austin Texas the energy outlook darkens as fuel and power supplies tighten amid Nixon proposals. Gov Briscoe weighs gasoline rationing while Langdon warns many Texans will be cold this winter. Middle distillates and fuel oil may plunge, stressing utilities and prompting a possible new pricing and allocation framework.
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Richard Nixon
Dolph Briscoe
Railroad Commission
Jim Langdon
Texas
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