Medic Alert Started by a Father's Alarm After Daughter's Brush With Death
Linda Collins nearly died in 1953 after an allergic reaction to anti tetanus serum. Her father Dr Marion Collins founded Medic Alert to protect patients with hidden allergies and medical histories. Now over a million members worldwide rely on bracelets or necklaces with encoded medical data and a 24 hour retrieval system.
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William P. Coleman
Turlock
Calif
UPID
California
Linda Collins
Linda
Marion Collins
United States
Collins
Fred Hodder
Medic Alert
Hodder
Small Town Publisher at 85 Still Amazingly Durable
Minnie Farmer of Howard City Michigan runs the Howard City Record now 106 years old celebrating her 85th birthday. She writes ads edits and ships the weekly from her home using Cedar Springs Clipper presses while relying on volunteers to keep the 1000 resident town covered with a 1180 circulation paper. She began as a bookkeeper and Ithaca NY clerk before returning to Michigan to revive the paper after its 1952 fold.
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Howard City
Mich
Minnie Farmer
Howard City Record
Miss Farmer
Minnie
Grand Rapids
Howard City High School
Ithaca
N.Y
McGraw Hill Book Co
Cornel University
The
Record
Ford Recall Failure Tied to Death in 1972 Models
Detroit Free Press reports Ford failed to recall over 424000 1972 Torinos Montegos and Lincolns with air conditioning for nearly five years despite engineers warning of serious fan blade failures. One death and multiple injuries occurred before Ford announced the recall on June 3 following NHTSA inquiry.
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Detroit
UPI
Ford Motor Co
Detroit Free Press
John * Eckhold
Ford
Automotive Safety Office
NHTSA
National, Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Eckhold
Nell Shipman Point Dedicated at Priest Lake
A dedication ceremony Aug 31 at 1 p.m. named Nell Shipman Point overlooking Mosquito Bay in Priest Lake State Park Lionhead camping unit. Idaho officials note Shipman’s film legacy and family members attended, with plans for an interpretive center and park improvements at Lionhead.
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Nell Shipman
Leonard Paul
Coolin
Shipman Point
Nell
Nell Shipman Point
Mosquito Bay
Priest Lake
Lionhead
Priest Lake State Park
Phil Peterson
Idaho Department of Parks & Recreation
William Murphy
Barry
Nina
Hollywood
Claude Simpson
Jack Dalton
Tom Tharp
Peterson
Haldeman Denies Oval Office Nudity
H R Haldeman denied a Daily News report that his Watergate memoir would include Nixon stripping naked in the Oval Office. He told UPI from a California prison camp that the story is false and promised to reveal facts only from his book.
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Lompoc
Calif
UPI
H.R. Haldeman
Richard Nixon
Oval Office
Haldeman
United Press International
Los Angeles
New York Daily News
Liz Smith
Jospeh Dimona
New York Times Books
Miss Smith
Nixon
Gary Aldinger
Alaska Officials Question Oil Wealth Expectation
Alaska Governor Jay Hammond says the state is not rich from oil and faces costs from early development and service obligations. He urges loans or advance funding to cover negative impacts, notes offshore developments yield no state royalties, and cites steps to curb government growth.
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Anchorage
Alaska
API
Jay Hammond
Hammond
New York
Hammond i
Western Governors Conference
Alyeska
Valiez
North Slope
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Miter Morton C
Nis
Lake Street
Okuol
Lloyd Peters
Spokane
Lionhead Studio
Barry Shipman
Neil Shipman
Shipman
North Woods
California Mountains
Atlantic Monthly
San Clemente
Stoddard Transfer
Zenith
Panhandle
Sandpoint
Evergreen Ford
Sandpoint Saddlery
the Chamber of Commerce Information Center
Bonners Ferry
Post Falls
Hayden Lake
Coeur D‘alene
Priest River
Newport
Priest River Times
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