Orbit litter program trims highway mess in Manitoba
Keep America Beautiful reports the Orbit litter containers along Manitoba highways cut roadside litter. Signs guide drivers to put trash in orbit with countdown style distance cues. Manitoba Highway Department notes a definite decrease in litter along the highways. Police briefs note several speeding fines in Carbondale including Norman R. White Jr. and others.
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New York
Keep America Beautiful Inc
Manitoba
Highway Department
KAB
Manitoba Highway Department
Reds report spy caught by Soviet guards on Black Sea coast
A frogman captured by Soviet guards on the southern coast near the Black Sea is described as a likely enemy spy. Details on time place and fate remain undisclosed. The report appears in Trad Labor. Honolulu AP notes Macadamia Nuts of Hawaii plans to process over 12 million pounds of nuts annually in the early 1970s with 60 thousand dollars in new gear and a 40 thousand dollar roasting plant plus 3,200 acres of plantings.
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Black Sea
Trad-Labor
Honolulu
Macadamia Nuts of
Hawaii
Haina
Shell
Gray's bill to create National Visitors Center passes House
The House approved a bill to establish a National Visitors Center in Washington, 316 to 34, sending it to the Senate. The project would be financed via lease from Washington Terminal Co and parking and goods sales, with no expected cost to taxpayers.
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Washington, D.C
House
Senate
Washington Terminal Co
Pennsylvania and
Baltimore and Ohio
Gray
Jim Wright
Texas
Court orders state to pay for sonic boom damage in France
A French court ruled the Paris government must pay 11500 for sonic boom damage to Chateau de Landal in Broualan. The case cited a group of planes crossing the sound barrier that damaged towers windows doors and ceilings during repairs dating back to 1953 and 1965. Carbondale and Du Quoin reports list multiple speeding fines for residents including Arthur L. Kahn Jr and Wilbur E. Comman Jr among others.
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Paris
Chateau de Landal
Broualan Village
Carbondale
Arthur L. Kahn Jr
Robert H. Knewitz
Ronnie D. Dixon
du Quoin
Wilbur E. Commean Jr
Charles A. Jackson
Cambria
James L. Cooper
Corp
Elmer W. Rudolph
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Lake of Egypt
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Charles O. Johnson
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Norman R. Whiteman Jr
Pacific Coast
Plains
U.S. Weather Bureau
ESSA
Flues
America
Kohlsdorf’s
Rockingham
Donzini
Zeigler, Illinois
Reds
Moscow
Jaipur
India
Mohanlal Sukhadia
Rajasthan
Rennes
France
Blei DE Riman
Marion
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