Volvo sets pace with belts and cleaner air standards
The public interest column notes Volvos role as a pace setter challenging GM on safety and pollution. It highlights shoulder belt adoption, 60 000 accident reports showing life saves, and Volvo meeting 1978 federal air standards. The piece reviews Pehr Gyllenhammar's book People at Work and Volvo's carrier teams for worker empowerment.
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Volvo
Pehr G. Gyllenhammar
Addison-Wesley
Reading
Mass
Red Cross mobilizes volunteers to aid Johnstown flood area
Elyria volunteer deployment to Johnstown outlined as Red Cross coordinates relief. Indiana County flood reports show 231 homes destroyed and 165 with minor damage. Amateur radio operators in Ohio relay messages and organize donations from Cleveland area residents and schools, with 70 meter and 2 meter gear aiding long and local communications.
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Indiana County
Bennett
Johnstown
Flood Victims List From Johnstown Identifications
UPI reports a list of recovered and identified flood victims from Johnstown Pennsylvania. Names include Ann Koharchice James Smith Helen Schofield George Ribick Theodore Byrne and others with ages and partial addresses and family relations.
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Johnstown, Pa
UPI
Johnstown
George Ribick
Mildred Rick
George
Theodore Byrne
James Schofield
Helen Schofield
Fire hits 11 Olmsted offices in center shopping hub
A blaze at an 11-office complex in the center of the Lorain Road shopping area destroyed an old building lacking alarms and sprinklers. It drew six pieces of equipment and a Drum City Music burglar alarm. Offices affected included Robert Jakovich, Edward Schnell, RE Gervason, Vera Candon, E W Hilton, Robert McGreevy, George N Lipsky, and others. Staff feared long-term closures as the scene drew workers and patients.
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Lorain Road
Drum City Music
Fairview Park
Robert E. Jakovich
Edward Schnell
RE. Gervason
Vera Candon
the Chronicle-Telegram
E.W. Hilton
Robert McGreevy
E. Stoll
Three men charged in cross Cleveland Youngstown auto theft ring
Police say a $600,000-a-year ring stretched from Youngstown to Cleveland. Paul Gonzalez 37 James Torrez 31 and Gilberto Martinez 28 faced possession of stolen property charges in municipal court after officers arrested them while attempting to strip a car in Martinez s east side garage. Seven late model cars and parts were seized in the raid.
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Cleveland
UPI
Youngstown
Paul Gonzalez
James Torrez
Gilberto Martnex
Martinez
Part time workers in Milwaukee study show upswing
Milwaukee report says nearly 3.5 million Americans hold part time jobs full time each week. Manpower Inc notes about 3 percent of the labor force do this, with 67 percent of these workers women seeking spare hours or supplemental family income.
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Milwaukee, Wis
U.S
Manpower, Inc
Ruby Stein’s prison case and mob memories in New York
The narrative recalls Ruby Stein, the East Side gangster, facing a four-year sentence in Atlanta after a court speech by Sol Gelb to Judge Edward Weinfeld. Stein, who threw a champagne party before surrender, embodies a fatal habit as he reflects on crime. A separate note reports Pereira, Colombia opening a jet-capable airport in its west central coffee region.
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Ruby Stein
Joseph Coffey
Ruby
Coffey EE Coffey
Siges
Stein
Sol Gelb
Federal
Gelb
East Side
Edward Weinfeld
Lower East Side
Weinfeld
Atlanta
Four Seasons
Pereira
Colombia
UPI
Westcentral
Record of Extreme Weather Across Regions Cited
A World Meteorological Organization report warns of gradual shifts toward greater climate variability and possible ice-age trends, while regional heat waves and droughts threaten crops in Asia, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. Japan reports deadly heat waves and floods, Korea faces rain shortage, and Thailand and Malaysia endure late monsoons.
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Nottingam
Victoria
Geneva
South Korea
Japan
Southeast Asia
Thailand
Malaysia
Stock market mixed as Dow slips slightly on opening
Telegram reports on Wall Street opening with a mixed market. The Dow Jones Industrial Average edged down almost a point while gainers and losers were evenly matched among NYSE listed issues.
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New York
Sassy wins Port Huron to Mackinac boat race finish
Bayview Yacht Club's 61-footer Sassy crossed Mackinac Island first at 1:54 a.m. after a slow start caused by light winds. Handicap favored Encounter, a Milwaukee boat, with 34 hours 52 minutes, 56 seconds. Hacha from Mentor Harbor Yacht Club followed closely in corrected time.
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Mackinac Island
Mich
UPI
Dutch Schmidt
Sassy
Great Lakes
Port Huron-to-Mackinac
Bayview Yacht Club
Encounter
Hacha
Mark Beck
Cleveland
Mentor Harbor
Pregnant mom overpowers kidnapper in Illinois motel
A pregnant woman eight months along freed her family by striking escaped convict Roy Schultz with a lamp after he bound them and forced the Woods to a Bloomington Ramada Inn. Schultz, from Kansas State Penitentiary, is hospitalized in fair condition. the Woods treated and released. two children unharmed. Police will charge Schultz with armed conflict unlawful restraint and related offenses.
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Bloomington. Ill
UPI
Kansas State Penitentiary
Roy Schultz
Springfield
Bruce Wood
Metamora
Schultz
Bloomington
der Bonanel
St. Joseph Hospital
Wood
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