Students drop eggs from plane in grade nine science project
Leonard Kull guides 27 ninth graders at Washington Junior High as they design crash worthy egg containers for a drop from 1500 feet at Washington Municipal Airport. Most attempts fail, yielding scrambled results. Only Mary Jane Warner and Sherry Beenblossom save eggs, while Kull’s own egg in a yarn ball also shatters.
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Leonard Kull
Washington
Washington Municipal
Kull
Larry Fishback
Mary Jane Warner
Sherry Beenblossom
Mary Jane
Sherry
Nancy Johnson
Journal
SR71 Breaks Transatlantic Speed Record At Farnborough
The SR71 Blackbird set a 3,490 mile record New York to Farnborough in 1 hour 56 minutes surpassing 2,000 mph. Maj. James V. Sullivan and Maj. Noel F. Widdiefield piloted the craft as President Ford congratulated them. A crash during the air show killed Stewart Craig and injured Kurt Cannon.
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Farnborough
U.S. Air Force
Ford
England
James V. Sullivan
Wheeler
Mont
Noel F. Widdiefield
Anderson
Ind
Beale Air Force Base
California
Air Force
Federation Aeronatique Internationale
Stewart Craig
Guildford
Conn
Kurt Cannon
Seymour
Cambridge Military Hospital
Aldershot
First MIU group arrives for Fairfield campus move
A charter flight landed in Des Moines carrying the first Maharishi International University students bound for the new Fairfield campus. MIU officials recently settled with creditors of the former Parsons College site, enabling the plan to relocate the two year old school from Santa Barbara to Iowa.
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Des Moines
UPI
Maharishi International University
Fairfield
MIU
Parsons College
Santa Barbara
Calif
Iowa
Arson Suspected After Fifth Fire Alarms Saturday Night
Washington firemen rested Sunday after a fifth blaze in the area Saturday. Earlier fires occurred at Sockum Ridge and Fern Cliff Parks and on farms near Washington. Arson is blamed as gas and electricity were cut off in the vacant Jim Ledger farm house east of the Perfex plant. The new alerting system is not complete, so bells and whistles called volunteers.
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Washington
Wayland
Jim Ledger
Perfex
Sockum Ridge
Fern Cliff Parks
Duane Redlinger
Alvin Horak
Labor unions clash with Ford over wage controls
Union leaders led by AFL-CIO president George Meany oppose Ford’s wage price guidelines fearing repetir of rigid controls while wages lag cost of living. Meany warns unions would strike if guidelines imposed. Ford asks Congress for three month delay on federal pay raises to cut 700 million. Labor leaders push for higher wages and broader bargaining.
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Washington
UPI
Ford
Afl-Cio
George Meany
America
White House
Meany
Labor
Cost of Living Council
Peter J. Brennan
CBS
ABC
Congress
National Federation of Federal Employees
Teamsters
Frank E. Fitzsimmons
Albert Shanker
American Federation of Teachers
French shopkeepers cut prices to fight inflation
Paris reports a government backed program called Operation Brake on Prices led by Finance Minister Jean-Pierre Fourcade aims to lower prices by five percent for school clothes and some foods. The voluntary 90 day plan involves about 200000 retailers as France seeks relief from prices 13 percent above last year.
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Paris
API
France
Jean-Pierre Fourcade
Australian lawmaker visits in Washington
Australian MP Robert Ian Viner and his wife spend Labor Day weekend in Washington as guests at the Day home. Viner, MP for Stirling since 1972, is an attorney and RAAF Reserve flight lieutenant touring the United States under the Government Affairs Institute to study energy policy and U.S. politics and labor relations.
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Washington
Robert Day
Robert Ian Viner
Liberal Party
University of Western Australia
State's Labor Day toll climbs with 12 deaths in Iowa weekend
Iowa reports 12 holiday traffic fatalities after six killed in two crashes Saturday and four more in a Friday night single-vehicle fire in Mahaska County. Victims include Richard and Marjorie Hensley of Council Bluffs and Leland Stephenson of Osceola, among others across several counties. A separate Nashville Tennessee crash killed six in the worst Labor Day accident nationwide. The National Safety Council estimates 450 to 550 traffic deaths over the weekend, with 280 already tallied at 3 a.m. EDT.
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Iowa
Council Bluffs
Osceola
Richard
Marjorie Hensley
Leland Stephenson
Richard Hensley
Stephenson
Wellman
Regina Aky Anderson
John Carleton Kolosik
North English
Steven Gordon Evans
Williamsburg
Mahaska County
David van Huizen
Vernon Newendorp
Larry
Pella
Duane Pleima
Leighton
New Sharon
Sandra Plagman
Garber
Elkport
Clayton County
Gaylord Kalar
Des Moines
Nashville
Tenn
National Safety Council
Council
United Press International
Crown
California
Texas
South Carolina
Georgia
Florida
Tennessee
Charles E. Hopkins
Lexington
Milk Myths And The Family Milk Habit
A writer recalls his childhood dislike of milk and explains a current habit of drinking milk with coffee and at times with chocolate. He notes families commonly choose soda over milk and discusses nutrition versus taste while highlighting parental pressure to drink milk.
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South Seventh Avenue
Skippy
Lincoln School
Barb
Joey
Andy
Joe
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Lloyd Phillips
United States
Marty Chebuhar
Evening Journal
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