Grafton Faces Water Crisis as City Struggles With Breaks
Water storage tanks dipped and multiple breaks on 6 inch and smaller mains were reported around Grafton as warm weather thawed ice. City Manager C Lowell Mason outlined repairs, outages, and coordinated efforts with Southwestern Water District and area businesses while seeking federal aid for weather related water damage.
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Amin summons Britons and Americans to Entebbe meeting
Ugandan President Idi Amin reportedly called about 240 Americans and a British group of up to 200 to a meeting at Entebbe airport on Wednesday. Diplomats said attendance and details remained unclear as Washington monitored the situation and Britain severed relations last year.
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Sudan to join Arab summit talks in Khartoum
In Khartoum Sudan expected to join Egypt and Syria in their two month old unified political command at a three day summit of chiefs of state. President Anwar Sadat arrives to meet with Syria’s Hafez Assad and Sudan’s Jaafar Numaira. Egyptian officials say historic decisions beneficial to the Arab world will result.
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Polluted water sparks bottle water rush in Cincinnati
In Cincinnati area residents fear cancer causing carbon tetrachloride in the Ohio River and rush to bottled water after a spill. Stores report shortages and price ranges from 59 cents to 1.76 per gallon as city valves were closed for 31 hours and reopened when levels fell.
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Grafton stores adopt 9:30 to 5 schedule with Friday late hours
GRAFTON downtown stores set new hours effective today 9 30 a m to 5 p m Monday through Saturday Friday openings extend to 8 p m Paul Buckwalter president of the Grafton Area Retail Merchants Association announced the change AUDRA PARK four people were injured three taken to Broaddus Hospital after a two car crash on Secondary Route 11 near here at 11 15 a m Saturday Involved were Ralph Vester 72 Dora Vester 74 Billy Vester 19 and David Wilson 16 The Vester car left of center causing the collision with Francis Wilson 39 of Belington Vester cited for driving left of center Damages estimated at 1000 for the Vester car and 400 for the Wilson car KINGWOOD Preston County Board of Education will meet at 7 30 p m Monday Obituaries etc
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