Floods drive toll above 20 across Texas with Albany damage
Floodwaters in north central Texas push toll past twenty as Albany reports multiple deaths and widespread destruction. DPS and National Guard rescue 26 from flooded areas while dams threaten nearby Throckmorton and Breckenridge. Water supplies, gas leaks, and cut communications complicate relief efforts.
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Department of Public Safety
Albany
Medina-Bandera
Panhandle
DPS
National Guard
JE. Gray
Soil Conservation Service
Brazos River
Brazos
Throckroorton
Breckenridge
Federal workers seek compensation for long term radiation exposure
Federal workers claim low level radiation caused cancer and seek compensation. Since 1977 twelve claims have succeeded, including Portsmouth Naval Shipyard workers and Mare Island. Officials warn latency means more cases, some denied, average processing about a year, with possible new division if numbers surge.
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Concord
UPI
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
Kittery
Maine
Mare Island
Calif
Naval Shipyard
Don Ebsburg
Washi
Elisbarg
Elisburg
Labor Department
Workmen’s Compensation Program
Special Claims Unit
Ehsburg
Raymond Clouter
Somersworth
N.H
Portsmouth
Washington
Frank Fontaine, TV Funny Man Crazy Guggenheim, Dead at 58
Spokane report says veteran vaudevillian Frank Fontaine died of a heart attack at 58 while attending the National Order of Eagles convention. He collapsed after receiving a $25,000 charity check and had a history of heart problems dating to 1970. Fontaine rose to fame on The Jackie Gleason Show as Crazy Guggenheim and later appeared on The Jack Benny Program and in films.
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Crazy Guggenheim
Fontaine
National Order of Eagles
Spokane
Joe
Crazy
Jacke Gleason
Gleason
Jack Benny
Las
Notice to King couple on abandoned apartment goods
A notice to Mr. and Mrs. Earl David King states that all clothing and furniture remaining in the apartment after August 9 will be disposed of.
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MR. and
Mrs. Earl David King
CashMaster
Seemang
Beverly Hills Supper Club owners rail at Gov Carroll
In Covington Kentucky Beverly Hills Supper Club owners led by Richard Schilling criticize Governor Julian Carroll for comments on the May 1977 fire that killed 165 at the Southgate club. They demand disclosure of evidence used by a Campbell County grand jury which returned no indictments.
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Covington
Kentucky
Julian Carroll
Beverly Hills
Richard Schilling
Southgate
Carroll
Schillings
Campbell County
Schilling
Tme
Record Absentee Ballot Demand in Cleveland Recall Vote
Cuyahoga County Election Board Director Virgil Brown reports a record number of Clevelanders applying for absentee ballots for the August 13 recall election to remove Mayor Dennis Kucinich. More than 5,300 have applied, with a possible 8,000 by the deadline, though turnout on election day remains uncertain as the city’s first recall election.
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UPI
Cuyahoga County Election Board
Virgil Brown
Dennis Kucinich
Brown
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