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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1977
Page
12
A $4 million federal drought relief loan, the first in California under the Emergency Drought Act of 1977, has been granted to Chowchilla Water District. State Treasurer Jess Unruh said half the funds would be used to dig new wells to improve water supply.
New York Times reports Viking spacecraft observations show a global Martian dust storm, the second in six months, with winds 65 to 135 mph in rugged Valles Marineris regions. Scientists note storms can recur within a Martian year and are driven by solar heating and topography, with dust lingering after winds subside.
An explosion at a rocket fuel plant in Potrero Hills near Fairfield injured one man, Dennis Rhodles, 28, a Vacaville fabricator. He suffered smoke inhalation and was rescued from rubble before being hospitalized. Firefighters responded to the blast at 3:19 p.m. and extinguished a grass fire caused by the explosion. Nearby, a strike at San Francisco’s Chronicle and Examiner was averted just before action was to begin with a tentative settlement announced by a federal mediator.
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