04 Jun 1977
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Newspaper
Portsmouth Times
Location
Portsmouth, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1977
Page
1
Congressman Paul G. Rogers introduces a moratorium bill to delay FDA plans to ban saccharin as a food additive. He seeks a one year pause to review evidence and labeling, citing Canadian rat studies and public resistance.
Three member investigating team reports fire at Beverly Club near Portsmouth was caused by an electrical short circuit in a power cord for a decorative fountain. High resistance likely from chafing against a metal frame. Authorities say the blaze killed at least 161 people. investigators spoke to Kentucky officials Thursday night.
Governor Rhodes announced a state program to cleanse high sulfur coal and expand production with four fluidized bed boilers via a contract with British firm Babcock and Wilcox Ltd. The Ohio Energy and Resource Development Agency aims to meet growing demand within the next decade while studying antipollution methods observed in Scotland.
Militant gunmen seized a Belgian South Moluccan group aboard a stranded train in northern Holland. They escorted Mrs Josina Sourokis and Dr Iassan Tan as mediators to parley with authorities, while officials weigh the mediators' report. Meanwhile Soviet reforms spark debate on the presidency and Carter faces energy policy battles in Washington.
The State Department said Washington and Havana would open interests sections in each other’s capitals after releasing ten prisoners, but stopped short of promising a full ambassadorial exchange. Nine U S detainees were freed from Cuba. names withheld as notified.
In New Boston two Democrats vie for councilman at large with four candidates including incumbents Kenneth Collier and Lonnie Adkins plus Connie Yel and Donald Brown. Voters will also renew flood defense levies with one additional mill, while Portsmouth and Scioto County races see mostly unopposed incumbents. Polls open 7:00 to 7:30 p.m. with results expected by 8 p.m.
New Bedford area officials suspend lobster fishing along the Massachusetts coastline due to high PCB levels detected in the area near Fairhaven to New Bedford. Public Health Commissioner Jonathan Fielding said the ban could last years pending further study and broader environmental monitoring by the EPA.
Hyron Harker reports Rexburg, Idaho marked by the Teton Dam flood one year after the 1996 catastrophe. Thousands of volunteers toured the area to view rebuilt homes and new community life as the town recovers from flood damage and losses. Federal reimbursements neared $200 million with extra payments planned as claims settle.
Washington AP scientists dispute earlier ozone danger from aerosols and high flying jets. NOAA official Dr Carleton Howard and NBS researcher Dr Kenneth Evenson cite new measurements lowering predicted ozone loss from chlorofluorocarbons. A computer model once forecast 3 per cent destruction in 1976 but new data raise it to 12 per cent.
Local want ads advertise a wide range of items from dining room suites to sofas and stereos at surprisingly low prices. A customer notes one sale already completed, promising more bargains and variety for readers seeking domestic goods.
Wertine Mowerton from Switch Shore Ky led honors with a hero painting titled Dick at the Portsmouth Art League Show held at the YMCA open to the public Sunday. Cochairs Hert Kelley and Date Catte Thomas Stead judged the roughly 30 entries. Stead, an assistant professor at Shawnee State College, holds a painting degree from Ohio University.
Common Pleas Court judge Ralph Mullins entered innocent pleas for three brothers indicted by the grand jury on aggravated murder charges in the April 18 shooting at a residence on Wilson Avenue. Arraigned Friday before Judge Staline, Paul D. Howard, Sciotoville. Bobby Howard, Sciotoville. and Larry D. Howard, Ft Knox Army. each asked for court-appointed counsel and were remanded to the county jail in $2,000 bonds. The same session included Cantrell, 23, Franklin Furnace, pleading guilty to receiving and retaining stolen property, and William Wey, 12 Utonton Towers, pleading guilty to criminal damaging and referred to the probation department for presentence investigation.
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