Largest city has summer of discontent
New York City faces widespread layoffs as 19 000 workers including 5 000 police officers lose jobs to balance a 12.087 billion budget. Beame rehires 5 500, with 2 000 police officers, while 2 000 more may return via federal programs. Teachers and other staff face mass cuts. garbage workers and firefighters protest with strikes and sickouts.
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New York
UPI
Wyoming
Abraham D. Beame
Beame
Board of Education
Board of Higher Education
Matthew J. Troy Jr
Crater Lake Park Closes Over Epidemic Contamination
Crater Lake National Park in Oregon shut its entrances after a broken pipe leaked raw sewage into a spring, causing 500 to 1,000 people to suffer vomiting and cramps. Public health warns of hepatitis risk. letters sent to departed visitors advising medical care. Park may remain closed for weeks while a new water system is installed.
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Crater Lake, Ore
UPI
Crater Lake National Park
Crater Lake
Karen Wald
Crater Rim
Richard Sims
Sims
Ford to be 'just another tourist' on Mackinac Island visit
President Ford and Betty Ford plan a quiet Mackinac Island visit with Gov. Milliken, while locals brace for large crowds. Visitors center staff and a hotel bellhop say the president is treated as a regular tourist, amid hopes for a peaceful holiday on the historic straits island known for its fort and red carpet hospitality.
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Mackinac Island
Mich
UPI
Mackinac
Ford
Susan Myron
Straits of Mackinac
Michigan
Lake Michigan
Lake Huron
Mackinaw
Betty
Gov
William G. Milliken
Collie Powers
Margaret Doud
Jean Nicolet
Island fudge and a Presidential carriage ban
UPI reports on an American delegation visiting a historic island famed for its fudge and a long standing ban on motor vehicles, with the president to ride in a $25,000 horse drawn carriage. Also noted is the death of Martin Cox the longest surviving liver transplant patient, who died at Lakeside Hospital two days before the six year anniversary of his operation. Cox born in Nova Ohio underwent the transplant at Colorado General Hospital in Denver on July 13 1969 for Wilsons disease. He had spent the past six years in Denver and was in Cleveland only a month.
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Cleveland
UPI
Martin Cox
Lakeside Hospital
Cox
Nova Ohio
Colorado
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