Smog Fells 150Year Ponderosa Near Arrowhead
Smog from the Los Angeles basin killed a century old Ponderosa pine near Lake Arrowhead, part of a larger die off of about 12 million trees in the San Bernardino National Forest. Officials note ozone pollution and inversion layers injure vegetation, with forests offering the timber rights for salvage and replanting, while the public observes the ceremonial removal.
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Los Angeles Basin
San Bernardino National Forest
Meath
Lake Arrowhead
San Bernardino Mountains
U.S. Forest Service
Big Bear Timber Company of
Redlands
Forest Service
Don Bauer
UCLA Plans New Environmental Doctor Profession
UCLA outlines groundwork for an environmental doctor program to diagnose and heal environmental ills. Nobel laureate Willard Libby and Dean Chauncey Starr describe a five year graduate path with three years of coursework and two years of field work in government or industry. The curriculum spans air and water pollution, thermal issues, ecology changes, earthquakes, radioactive contamination, and waste disposal, with cross discipline input from chemistry geology meteorology zoology medicine public health and law. Prospective students need strong science or math backgrounds. graduates would take a state board exam for licensure, with a full doctorate rolling by fall 1971.
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Cient
Libby
Chauncey Starr
UCLA
School of Engineering and Applied Science
Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics
School of ‘Engineering and Applied Science
New Environment
Thomas Farley
Institute of Geophysics
Richard Perrins
Engineering
Sick Baby Seized at Kingston Hospital by Unknown Group
In Kingston Ontario a two day old infant admitted after becoming a ward of the Children's Aid Society was abducted in the early hours. Doctors warn brain damage risk from delayed blood transfusion as police search. Child taken to Smiths Falls due to parental religious objections to transfusion.
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Kingston
Ont
Kingston General Hospital
Children’s Aid Society
J. Delahaye
Reagan Proposes California Aircraft Noise Curbs
Governor Reagan unveils proposed rules to curb airport noise in California. Violators face up to a $1000 fine and must install mufflers. Standards cover warmup, taxi, takeoff, and landing with a 65 decibel limit averaged over time. A computer system would monitor noise. hearings planned in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
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Sacramento
Ronald Reagan
Joseph R. Crotti
Crotti
Dick Dyer
Aeronautics Department
Dyer
California Aeronautics Board
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Firms report 300 ton daily smog output in bay area
The Bay Area Air Pollution Control District released engineering estimates of nine companies emissions for an average day in 1968. Four firms exceeded 300 tons daily while others ranged to .8 ton. Noting raw 1969 data not yet processed, the district cited February violation notices for reporting. Lloyd A. Fry Roofing and eight others pursue compliance. Fry fights the citation in court.
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San Francisco
Bay Area Air Pollution Control District
Phillips Petroleum Co
Avon
Standard Oil of California
Richmond
American Smelting & Refining Co
Selby
Shell Oil Co
Martinez
Lloyd A. Fry Roofing Co
San Leandro
Fry Company
Rhodes to Sue Life Magazine for Libel in New York Action
Gov. James A. Rhodes announced plans to sue Life Magazine for libel over a May story he said aimed to derail his U.S. Senate bid. Attorney Louis Nizer will file the suit in New York State by April 18, with questions answered by Nizer in New York next week. Rhodes, finishing his second term, would not disclose sought damages or details, citing the magazine’s multiple alleged errors about his finances and the Licavoli case.
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Columbus
Ohio
James A. Rhodes
Life Magazine
U.S. Senate
New York State
Louis Nizer
New York City
Nizer
New York
Rhodes
Senate
Robert Taft Jr
Toledo
Thomas “Yonnie
Licavoli
Rhodas
Lica
LIFE
Internal Revenue Service
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Arrowhead
Paul H. Miller
US. Department of Agriculture
Fields W. Cobb Jr
R. W. Stark
The
University of California At Berkeley
State “Air Resources Board
Pasadena City College
Bob Shumway
Willard F. Libby
Joseph
Lawrence T. Byrne
Air Force
Dr. Libby
Union Federal
Union Federal Savings and Loan Association
Long Reach
Aixby Knolls
Atlantic Avenue
Orange County
Rossmoor
Seal Reach
Gardena O
Malibu O
South Spring Street
Reagan
By Bill Stall
Magazine
Voli
L. E. Phant
UPI
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