B29 pilot re enacts A bomb mission at Harlingen airfield
Paul Tibbets, 61, re created his Hiroshima bombing flight over Harlingen Texas in a B29 with a replica mushroom cloud. He flew for about 30 minutes each session to raise funds for a World War II aircraft preservation group watched by about 40 000 people paying up to 5.0 dollars each. The Enola Gay dropped the real bomb on Aug 6 1945 killing or injuring about 130 000.
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Miller H. Bonner Jr
Associated Press
Harlingen, Tex
Hiroshima
Japan
Paul Tibbets
Rio Grande City
Enola Gay
Tibbets
The
Confederate Air Force
CAF
Duval Corp consolidates sulphur and potash sales
Duval Sales names J Colin Anderson vice president sulphur and potash sales as part of consolidating marketing for the Duval Sales and Pennzoil subsidiaries. Anderson, longtime Duval executive, will head both product areas from Houston, leveraging extensive sulphur and potash experience.
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Duval Sales Corporation
J Colin Anderson
Sulphur
Pennzoil Company
Sidiary
C. Tom Nixon
Duval Sales
Duval
Culberson County
West Texas
Carlsbad
N.M
Anderson
Duval Potash
U.S
Nixon
Sulphur Institute
Houston
Postal Service offsets deficits with stamp sales
The Postal Service uses commemorative stamps to offset deficits, earning 91.1 million last year on 11.2 million outlay as new collectors buy starter kits and albums. Officials insist revenue stems from public demand, not a push to profit from serious philatelists, noting 90 stamps issued this year versus 28 prior year with bicentennial themes contributing to the rise.
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Jeffrey Mills
Associated Press
Washington (Ap
Postal Service
Donald McDowell
The
Union man to form senior citizens lobby statewide
Norm Schut a Seattle union veteran leads 10 state seminars to build a statewide Elder Citizens Council to press 1977 legislature for aid hot meals health care tax breaks subsidized housing cheap transport and influence 1978 elections. The plan uses a $9500 federal grant via the state Department of Social and Health Services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Ammons
Associated Press
Seattle
Legisature
Norm Schut
Detroit
Frances Mayhew
Schut
Oscar Hearde
State Elder Citizens Coalition Board
State Department of Social and Health Services
New Acu Punch Cuts Job Time for Gas Piping
Greg Powell, construction foreman for SOUTHERN UNION GAS, explains how the Acu punch lets a single worker replace a gas pipe under a street in about 15 minutes, down from four men over two hours, saving time and money and helping keep energy costs down.
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Centralia, Il
Georgia Tech
Victor Agarther
Air Force
Ronald
Nancy Reagan
Beverly Hills
Ford
Reagan
U.S. Army
Columbus
Ohio
J. Colin Anderson Duval VP
Reagans
LLULL
Qanthony
Greg Powell
Southern Union Gas
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