Fly ash could help reclaim coal strip-mine scars
Editorial notes 600000 acres of unreclaimed mining scars across Pennsylvania West Virginia Ohio Illinois and Kentucky suffer acidity and erosion. Field tests show plowing alkaline fly ash into mine spoils lowers acidity improves soil water retention and supports Kentucky fescue and birdsfoot trefoil cover yielding pasturelike hay.
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Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Ohio
Illinois
Kentucky
United States
American Chemical Society
John P. Capp
Morgantown
W Va
U.S. Bureau of Mines
Capp
An Unworthy Scheme Against Seniority in Congress
The piece condemns a proposed bill by Representatives Jerome Waldie and Morris Udall to offer large pensions and life insurance to coax veteran members to retire. It argues against buying retirement, notes senior lawmakers' grip on power, and urges the Post Office and Civil Service Committee to block the proposal.
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Congress
Jerome Walshe
California
Morris Udall
Arizona
Bill Chappel, Jr
Florida
Waldie
Lancuace
Post Office and Civil Service Committee
Deadly play on words in Northern Ireland violence
The piece notes how internment without trial of IRA suspects has intensified Northern Ireland violence. It highlights an accidental pun with interment and burial, suggesting the policy has buried hopes for Catholic Protestant reconciliation and sparked renewed clashes around victims' funerals.
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Northern Ireland
Irish Republican Army
Boyle's Column by Hal Boyle
Life is a three ring circus as men juggle work family mortgages and goals. A reader lists things he has never done from sewing a button to riding rails and delivering a baby by flashlight, then questions what he actually accomplished in life.
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Hal Boyle
New York
Eaton Boston
Philadelphia
Timbuktu
Mexican Fiesta committee thanks police and community
Jose M. Tercero on behalf of the Queens and Mexico Dance Committee thanks Chief Gene Martin Sheriff A B Nail Sgt Melton Rasberry and local merchants, volunteers, and Georgia Stroud for reporting and supporting the Mexican Fiesta events before during and after.
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Goaed
Gene Martin
A.B. Nail
Sgt
Melton Rasberry
Department of Public Safety
Jose M. Tercero
Queens Committee
Mexico
New Study Notes Wives Content With Age Gap
L M Boyd reports a new study finding 39 percent of wives younger than husbands are content, 56 percent of wives older than husbands are happy. The text questions retirement-age teeth and hints at further checks. It also notes New England leads regular churchgoers, and trivia on prisons, construction, blondes, and early baseball history.
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South
New England States
Today in History for September 17
This date marks key events such as the 1784 completion of the U S Constitution, Washington's farewell in 1796, Antietam’s bloodshed in 1862, Shaw's Arms and the Man debut in 1894, the Noronic fire in 1949, and recent diplomatic and civil rights notes from 1961 to 1970.
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Associated Press
U.S
Philadelphia
George Washington
Antietam
George Bernard Shaw
United States
New York
Poland
Great Lakes
Toronto
Dean Rusk
Andrei Gromyko
Grenada
Mass
Paris
N Y T A tests job applicants for drugs in New York
New York's Transit Authority is screening urine from prospective employees to detect hard drug use. The initiative aims to identify heroin users though it may miss marijuana and other hallucinogens.
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New York
Transit Authority
Reapportionment clash tests Texas plan for 1972 election
Texas court ruling leaves unresolved how to fix or redo the 1970 census based reapportionment for both houses. Gov Smith backs the Redistricting Board while Atty Gen Martin argues a special session may be needed, with October deadline for board action and November residence deadlines for candidates.
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Bill Boykin
Texas Press Association
Austin
Tex
Texas
State Supreme Court
House
Senate
Constitutional
Legislative Redistricting Board
Preston Smith
Crawford Martin
Smith
Redistricting Board
Martin
Supreme Court
Texas Air Control Board
Research Institute For Systems Development
Texas A&m University
Abilene
San Antonio
Dallas
Houston
Odessa
el Paso
Texas Water Rights Commission
Martin’s Creek
Rusk County
Dallas Power and Light Company
Texas Electric Service Company
Texas Power and Light Company
Tom Hanna
Beaumont
Jimmy Dean Meat Company
Plainview
Levi Strauss and Company
Amarillo
Sprayberry Handbags Inc
Clifton
Gorman Peanuts
Gorman
Vintage Homes Inc
Breckenridge
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Tom G. Davis
Vernon
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
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Roy T. Huffman
George H. Cook
George C. Adams
Ron D. Jones
John D. Macklin Jr
Richard A. McCune
Samuel W. Kendrick Jr
Clayton T. Garrison
John D. Townsend
State Department of Public Welfare
James D. Eppright
Texas Tourist Development Board
Dan Sanborn
McAllen
State Board of Dental
William J. Kemp
Haskell
Donald L. Brunson
Baytown
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Sam H. Rabon
Kingsville
James E. Bauerle
University of Texas Regents
Ralph Hall
Rockwall
State Board of Insurance
Laredo
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