Peak Summer Travel Seen Across Nation and Abroad
The summer travel season nears peak as AAA reports a slight dip in long distance car trips in early 1977 but an overall rise in travel plans. Passport requests are up about 15 percent, with driving costs around 20.2 cents a mile or 202 for 1000 miles. Budget motels offer affordable stays between 12 and 20 dollars nightly. World tourism is growing, with US receipts near 7 billion in 1976 and forecasts of continued growth into 2000. top natural and man made sights are listed, and Latin visitors bolster Florida tourism with Miami spending about 400 million.
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Europe
American Automobile Association
AAA
U.S. News & World Report
US Travel Service
USTS
The
Commerce Department
David L. Edgell
Usts Office of Policy Analysis
University of Texas
Dallas
U.S
Union
UST
Grand Canyon
Yellowstone National Park
Niagara Falls
California
Redwood Forests
Mount McKinley
Golden Gate Bridge
Mount Rushmore
Houston Astrodome
Statue of Liberty
Hoover Dam
Florida
Miami
Walt Disney World
Orlando
Carter cools rhetoric as energy battle shifts
President Carter appears to heed congressional advice to cool it as he faces heavy House committee opposition to his energy package. He announced five FBI director finalists to steady nerves, praised Byrd and Ullman, and warned about oil and auto lobbying influence. He underscored energy as a grave domestic issue and signaled a possible fireside chat if Congress stalls.
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Washington
Carter
Capitol Hill
Federal Bureau of Investigation
House of Representatives
Senate
Robert Byrd
D - W.va
Jody Powell
Congress
al Ullman
Oregon
John Dingell
Michigan
White House
Wartime Fencing Shortages Hit Raleigh County
Rural readers confront a fencing and nails shortage as war demands barbed wire and staples for gardens and stock. The Raleigh County Agricultural War Board urges state and national action while farmers cope with scarce materials and aging fences. Weather talks mix with town politics and century-old sidewalks as daily life adapts to wartime constraints.
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R. E Hall
Farm Security Administration
Cone
Frank Halstead
Raleigh County Agricultural War Board
Raleigh County
Hall, Halstead
H. B. Thomas
van Carper
Blair Bennington
Newspaper Snippets Stir Across States and Cultures
Providence Journal-Bulletin cites Governor Byrne threatening crime in Atlantic City with a jab at the casino bill while Hartford Courant comments on Communist era censorship. Brattleboro Reformer mocks bureaucratic waste as Washington DEpartment of HEW memos ban watering office plants.
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Providence Journal-Bulletin
Byrne
Atlantic City
New Jersey
Bryne
Nevada
Las Vegas
Brattleboro
Washington
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Ashington
Raleigh County Young Democratic Club elects new officers
Norman Knapp will serve as president for two years with Beatrice Withrow as first vice president Charles R. Jones as second vice president John Boley as secretary and Don Hodson as treasurer Also noted are debates on employment trends and education’s role in tackling urban unemployment amid changing technology.
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Norman Knapp
Raleigh County
Young Democratic Club
Beatrice Withrow
Charles R. Jones
John Boley
Don Hodson
Panther Stalking Report Leads Local Residents to Host Overnight Guest
Fifty years ago Clyde Bolen encountered a strange pursuing beast near the Wood home. Mr. and Mrs. Hayden Wood and neighbors heard a loud noise as the creature advanced repeatedly. The incident prompted Bolen to stay overnight as locals debated it might be a panther.
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Clyde Bolen
Hayden Wood
Mr. Wood
Boke
Pragmatism vs Human Rights in Belgrade Debate
Belgrade dispatch argues pragmatism in foreign policy harms human rights aims. It critiques quiet diplomacy as ineffective and urges maintaining moral pressure, citing Soviet dissidents and historical policy shifts to support a strong, principled stance.
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William
James
America
Belgrade
Soviet Union
U.S
Carter
Khrushchev
Vienna
Purposes Admirable But Prospects Not Bright
James Reston reports from Belgrade on the Belgrade conference on security and cooperation in Europe. The piece notes limited promise for real gains, outlines the ten principles, and describes the modest, six week to year end process to organize the larger review conference.
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Belgrade
Conference On Security and Cooperation In Europe
United Nations
Uion
Belgia
U.S
Soviet Union
Canada
Europe
Nally
Finland
Albert W. Shearer Jr
Washington
Helsinki
al Hartmann
U.S. Am
Helsink
Ies
Emt
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John Sutton
Associated Press
Miami Beach
Lincoln Road
E.R.R
Randolph Norton
Burma
A. K. Minter
Mark Twain
Prince
Shank
Prince Street
Hartford Courant
China
Chiang Ching
Mao Tse - Tung
Beethoven
Pek Duto
Moscow
Kremlin
Raleigh Register
Wiepeanete Oe
Henry Wallace
Labor Department
Philadelphia Daily News
Richard Schweiker
Pennsylvania
Ronald Reagan
Reagan
Schweiker
Willian Safire
N.Y
Times News Service
Los Angeles Times
Robert Toth
Russia
Africa
James Reston
SLY. Ties News Service
Putes
U.N
League of Nations
U .S.R
Somana Security
Ion
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U.S.S.R
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