Rensselaer County Inspects Microwave Ovens for Safety
The Rensselaer County Health Department forms an inspection team to study microwave ovens after finding five faulty units. A county survey identified 23 installations totaling 29 ovens, with five leaking radiation. ongoing field monitoring will ensure safety features remain intact.
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E Rensselaer County Health Defartment
E Division of Environmental
County Health Department
Rensselaer County
Aft
Carl J. Stefanik
Division of Environmental Hygiene
Stefanik
Louis J. Lanzillo
New York State Health Department
Health Department
Lanzillo
HVCC Students Inspire PYE Club Members
Three HVCC environmental committee students James Madigan Stephen Panteri and William Kelly spoke to Lansingburgh High and Knickerbocker Junior High PYE Club about pollution countermeasures. The groups agreed to pool efforts analyzing high school water samples at HVCC and to cooperate with other ecology groups to curb area pollution.
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Hudson Valley Community College
Environmental Committee
Lansingburgh High
Knickerbocker Junior High
PYE Club
PYE
Hudson Valley
James Madigan
Stephen Panteri
William Kelly
HVCC
Protect Your
Lansingburgh High School
Stephen Panzeri
England Snowstorm Disrupts UK and Midwest Travel
A vast storm swept England on Friday dumping heavy snow and ushering in severe cold. In the United States the system disrupted the Midwest and northern plains with blizzard conditions, high winds, and widespread accidents.
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Associated Press
England
Midwest
Port
Maine
Chicago
Du‘Minn
Smuggling Ring Linked to U.S. Influx Through Palermo and Montreal
Reports say up to 500 people may have been smuggled into the United States by a network headquartered in Palermo and Montreal, with mob ties in Brooklyn, Queens, New Jersey, and several other states. Vincenzo Cotroni is named as a smuggling director, with alleged associates Salvadore Fragapane and Guido Orsini.
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Aden City
N.Y
UPI
United States
Underworld
Long Island
Tom Henner
Cies
Palermo
Montreal
Work Y
Island
Brooklyn
Buf
New Jersey
Sylvania
Rhode Island
Luisiana
Pons Vincenzo Cotroni
Guiseppi Cotroni
Idenie
Frank Co- Salvadore Fragapane
Pap
Guido Orsini
Soviet Union Handles POW Packages Reopened Moscow Flight
The United States says the Soviet Union will accept care packages for American prisoners of war via a revived Moscow Hanoi route. Packages may weigh up to 11 pounds and must be sent through Moscow. Packages to POWs in North Vietnam had been accepted since 1968, with past delays cited by Postmaster General Winton Blunt.
Conference Agrees To Define Hijack At ICAO Assembly
At The Hague an international ICAO gathering defined hijack as any person aboard a flying aircraft who unlawfully seizes or attempts to seize control by force or threat or intimidation. Delegates voted 46 to none with eight abstentions, including the Soviet Union and East European nations.
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the Hague
International Civil Air Organization
Zoo owner uses watch dogs and watchcroc for geese
A Cradock South Africa zoo owner guards prize Chinese geese worth 140 dollars with two daytime Alsatians and a night roaming crocodile kept in a cage. He plans to let the crocodile roam at night while dogs patrol by day.
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Cradock
South Africa
Rocky names bodyguard to board on river district
State police Maj Edward M Galvin, Rockefeller's retiring bodyguard, is named to an extended term on the Hudson River Black River regulating district board. He will replace F James Williams Jr of Loudonville with a term to end Sept 1 1975 and had been named earlier for a term ending Sept 1 1972. Board members receive 5000 dollars annually.
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State Police
Edward M. Galvin
Rockefeller
Hudson River-Black River
Installment Debt Declines In October
The Federal Reserve reports consumer installment debt fell by 82 million in October marking the first decline in over nine years. The drop mainly reflects reduced auto lending due to the GM strike, with total installment debt at 99.9 billion. Noninstallment credit rose by 178 million to 23.9 billion.
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Washington
Federal Reserve
General Motors
Albany Man 36 Arraigned in Shooting Indictment
William Watson, 36, of 198 Clinton Ave Albany, indicted by Albany County Court grand jury on first degree assault for a November 14 scuffle at his apartment. He allegedly shot Lawrence Reed, 28, of 257 Clinton Ave, with a .32 caliber pistol. Reed required facial bullet removal surgery.
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Albany County Court
Martin Schenck
William Watson
Clinton Ave
Albany
Watson
Lawrence Reed
Reed
Ukrainian Students Panel at RPI Promotes Ethics and Education
The Ukrainian Students Organization sponsors a panel today in Sage Lecture Hall at RPI from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. featuring guest speakers from area colleges on ethics morality and the need for a college education. A Ukrainian Club dance in Watervliet runs 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. with Two Page Eight. Future USO events include caroling a Christmas radio program Kruty the Lake Placid ski weekend and a March literary evening Easter exhibit and May sports day.
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Sage
RPI
Watervliet
USO
Kruty
Lake Placid
No Progress In Search For Lawyer
Los Angeles AP reports Ronald Hughes, a 35 year old defense attorney in the Tate murder trial, is missing for a week. Search teams comb Los Padres National Forest along Sespe Creek near a hot spring after teens say he was with them before a heavy rain. Transcripts were found in the teens’ car stuck in mud. Hughes’ absence delays court proceedings as Judge Older assigns co counsel for Leslie Van Houten. Prosecution, led by Vincent Bugliosi, treats the disappearance as ominous while friends organize a volunteer search.
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Los Angeles
Los Padres National Forest
Here
Ronald Hughes
Tate
Sespe Creek
Hughes
Paul Fitzgerald
New York City
Superior Court
Charles H. Older
Leslie van Houten
Mike Green
Court Denies Defense Motion For Dismissal
NAHA Okinawa AP The defense motion to dismiss rape charges against Lance Corporal Ronald Johnson 20 was denied after a day long session at Camp Courtney 30 miles north of Naha. Johnson a Negro from Brooklyn NY served two years of a five to seven year sentence for raping a Miss Yoshiko Koki 25 at an Okinawan mess hall in April 1968. The conviction was reversed by a civilian review board on tainted testimony and new evidence. Johnson was released last May and returned to duty. His second trial opened December 1.
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Naha
Okinawa
Ronald Johnson
Defense Council
Johnson
Camp Courtney
Brooklyn
N.Y
Yoshiko Koki
Naval Legal Section
Naval Prison
Army Plans To Remove War Gases From Okinawa
The Army will move the 13 000 ton stockpile of mustard GB VX and other nerve gases from Okinawa to Johnston Island in the mid Pacific starting next month. First shipments total 150 tons with full transfer by 1972. $6 million requested for storage facilities. aim to finish before Okinawa reverts to Japan in 1972.
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Washington
Okinawa
Johnston Island
mid-Pacific
Pentagon
U.S
Nixon
Oregon
Japan
United States
Hawaii
Army
Congress
Man Climbs Highest In All 50 States
Mitch Michaud completed his 50 state ascent quest by topping Mt Hood Oregon ending a year long challenge begun in Florida. At 11355 feet he radioed that it was over and weather gusts reached 45 mph as he climbed with his son Peter and tether climbers. He sowed hardy grass seed from the Oregon Seed Council on each peak.
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Timberline Lodge
Ore
Mitch Michaud
Mt. Hood
Oregon Cascades
Michaud
Florida
Walton
Mt. McKinley
Alaska
Luther Jersted
Mt. Everest
Peter
Oregon Seed Council
Moderate Quake Hits Northern Chile
A 6.5 magnitude earthquake centered in northern Chile was recorded at 12:07 p.m. EST by the National Earthquake Center. The epicenter lay about 750 miles north of Santiago and 75 miles northeast of Antofagasta in the coast region.
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Washington
Chile
National Earthquake Center
Rockville
Santiago
Antofagasta
Dentist Turned Lawyer Takes Up New Fight in Brive
In Brive France Maurice Filliol after 35 years as a dentist pursued law studies he once abandoned. He excelled at the University of Toulouse and at age 73 will plead his first case as a lawyer, seeking a new career path beyond dentistry.
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Brive
France
Maurice Filliol
University of Toulouse
Douglas Oyster Try Declared Far From Over
House Republican Leader Gerald R Ford said efforts to impeach Justice William O Douglas were far from finished despite a judiciary subcommittee finding no grounds. The panel's 3 to 1 vote endorsed the report and Ford noted his own ongoing investigation.
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Washington
UPI
House
Gerald R. Ford
Supreme Court
William O. Douglas
Judiciary Subcommittee
Ford
Douglas
Crash Kills Family Of Newscaster
Newscaster Abner George announces a Minnesota accident that killed five people including his daughter, son, son-in-law, and two grandchildren. Victims were Richard Krueger 27 and his wife, their 14 month old twins Shannon and Shawn, and Anthony George 12. Mrs. Mary George of Minneapolis is noted as the daughter.
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Rapid City
S.D
Abner George
Kezu Radio
Minnesota
George
Richard Krueger
Daughers
Shannon
Shawn
Anthony George
No Nixon Photo For Poster Girl
Kansas couple express disappointment that their 13-year-old daughter Roberta Scott, a poster child for a fund drive aiding retarded children, did not have her picture taken with President Nixon. The White House noted Nixon had a crowded November schedule and neither 1968 nor 1969 poster children posed with Nixon or Lyndon Johnson.
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Washington
Kansas
Nixon
White House
National Association of Retarded Children
Lyndon B. Johnson
Fred Welling
Roberta Scott
Wichita
Kan
Kan. He Noted That Mrs. Nixon
Hubert H. Humphrey
Petersburg Fire Company Christmas Party Scheduled
The Petersburg Volunteer Fire Company invites all to a December 12 fire house Christmas party with a covered dish supper and grab bag. A Petersburg 4-H Club rummage sale at Veterans Memorial Hall benefits the New York Association for Brain Injured Children starts at 1 pm today with coffee and cookies for sale.
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Petersburg Volunteer Fire Company
Byron Jones
Will O’dell
Round Lake
O’dell
Eunice Moore
Samaritan Hospital
Troy
Sacred Heart Parish
Berlin
Petersburg
Veterans Memorial Hall
Harrison Bonesteel
Leonard Hospital
Chester Moon
Albany Medical Center
Robley Sawyer
Bowie
Mary Rose Sawyer
Petersburg United
Petersburg Mixers 4-H Club
New York Association For
John Matthews
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Harrison Bonestee
Davis
King St
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Vichy
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