Ancient design fuels wireless trolleys for San Francisco
Washington AP reports a 6000 year old potter’s wheel principle may propel San Francisco streetcars via kinetic energy flywheels. California receives 300000 for design tests. full funding planned for 1974. Lockheed missiles and space built the wheel. it spins 90000 rpm in near vacuum to power trolley motors after detaching from overhead lines.
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Washington
San Francisco
Market Stree
Department of Transportation
California
Urban Mass “Transportation Administration
Lockheed
Jim Law- Ssgan
Lawson
Mountain lion captured and relocated in lion study
A 115 pound mountain lion that killed five sheep in San Luis Obispo County has been captured and fitted with a radio collar. It was released in the Tahoe National Forest in Placer County, becoming the seventh lion released under the 1971 Legislature authorized study. Initial tracking shows it moved about three miles after release.
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Sacramento
UPI
San Luis Obispo
Placer County
California Department of Fish and Game
Adelaide
Paso Robles
Tahoe National Forest
Eldon Bergman
Battered children described as national disgrace by physician
Dr. Vincent J. Fontana called child abuse a national disgrace worse than Watergate at an American Medical Association convention. He warned of 1.5 million suspected abuse cases and up to 50,000 child deaths annually, linking abuse to poverty and social ills while noting underreporting by private physicians and higher reporting to authorities when families rely on public institutions.
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New York
Watergate
Vincent J. Fontana
New York City
St. Vincent's Hospital
New York Foundling Hospital
Fontana
American Medical Association
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