Woman saves bus and students on crowded field trip
Diane Miltenberger a 22 year old charter bus driver from Hawaiian Gardens steered a bus with 44 students and five adults through a five car pileup after brakes failed on Mt Baldy Road. She guided the vehicle between wreckage and slowed it by scraping the embankment before stopping 40 feet from a cliff edge, averting catastrophe. The action earned praise from Highway Patrol Officer James Neeley calling it outstanding and fantastic.
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Diane Miltenberger
Hawaiian Gardens
Millenberger
Pioneer Blvd
Associated Charter Bus Co
Harbor City
Manda Aris High School
Is Angeles
James Neeley
Frigid winter idles millions and causes deaths
Frigid winter kept millions home across the East and Midwest as a severe gas shortage forced reductions in consumption. At least 54 people died from weather related causes and mass layoffs followed. States extended emergency plans, major pipelines reported slight supply gains, and nonessential businesses and schools closed to conserve fuel.
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Midwest
Federal Power Commission
Ohio
New York
Pennsylvania
U S warns of lethal gas Lance feared by law
A confidential teletype from U S Customs warned Western law enforcement of a mysterious lethal gas named Lance. The powdery substance reportedly resembles cocaine and can cause instant brain damage if inhaled or tasted. CID and Customs offered no origin or ownership details.
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West
Customs Service
Lance
Independent
Army Criminal Investigation Division
Ft. Huayluca
Ariz
Customs
Long Beach police booze sex club confronted by chief
Chief Ralph Kurtz ordered the off duty South Bay Club to stop early morning drinking and sexual activities near the station. The group reportedly started in 1974 and has varied in size from 20 to about 100, with ongoing disputes over legality and public drinking.
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Long Beach
South Bay Club
Ralph Kurtz
Korts
Kortz
Kurtz
Police Officers Association
Set
Michael Tracy
Tracy
Evening Watch
Longet Sentenced to 40 Days and Two Years Probation
Claudine Longet received 40 days in Pitkin County Jail plus two years probation for criminally negligent homicide in the accidental shooting death of her lover. Judge E Lohr cited law integrity while defense plans a possible new trial. Longet appealed if jail term was imposed and spoke of her children.
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Aspen
Colo
Claudine Longet
Pitkin County
Last Macek
State District Court
E. Lohr
Andy Williams
Vladimir Spider Sa Ach
Charles V. Weedman
Miss Longet
Pigs Drinking Alcohol as Animal Model for Human Alcoholism
Scientists in Missouri conducted experiments where pigs drink alcohol to model human alcoholism. A seven pig test gave each animal up to three drinking sessions daily, using grain-distilled alcohol resembling vodka. The Agriculture Department release notes pigs show social and behavioral changes with intoxication as researchers seek an animal model for human alcohol problems.
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Washington
University of Missouri
Agriculture Department
Myron Tuimbleson
Columbbia
Tumbteson
Tumbleson
Carter announces $31.2 billion tax rebate and jobs plan
President Carter sends to Congress a two year program totaling 31.2 billion dollars. It includes a 50 tax rebate for most Americans and funding for emergency public works and job creation. The plan aims to cut unemployment while fighting inflation and targets relief to lower and middle income taxpayers.
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Washington
Carter
Congress
Busi
Nestle raises wholesale coffee prices by five to eight cents
Nestle Co boosted wholesale prices of instant and freeze dried coffees by 5 to 8 cents an ounce on Monday. A spokesman said the move is to catch up with competitors and not a new round of price hikes. Retail grocery impact will lag about two weeks due to order backlog.
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White Plains
N.Y
Nestle Co
Brown opens San Diego Freeway lanes to all traffic
Gov. Brown spent the weekend in Los Angeles and ordered the diamond lanes on the San Diego Freeway open to all traffic beginning today. The move appears in Page A-3 coverage.
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Brown
Los Angeles
San Diego
FBI King wiretap tapes ordered sealed for 50 years
A federal judge ruled the FBI wiretap tapes and transcripts of Martin Luther King Jr need to be placed with the National Archives and kept sealed for fifty years The suit by Bernard Lee and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference sought damages and destruction of the records but the judge dismissed those claims due to the statute of limitations The hearings covered conversations recorded at the Willard Hotel in Washington between 1963 and 1968
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FBI
Martin Luther King Jr
National Archives
Bernard Lee
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
King
Willard Hatet
Lee
SCLC
John Lewis Smith Jr
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Hhis
Tom Shaw
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Robert Gore
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Andrus
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Harold Brown
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Dick Barnes
Ness
Nestle
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Arcadia
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Howard Hughes
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