09 Aug 1979
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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1979
Page
1
The Labor Department said wholesale prices jumped 1.1 percent in July after three months of moderation, led by energy costs including a 9 percent rise in home heating oil from June. Nonfood items rose 1.4 percent with food unchanged. Energy prices drive broad inflation signals.
Battleweary crews across six Western states gain progress as cooler humidity halves fire pace. A new Idaho blaze damaged two homes and forced 50 families to evacuate while some 6,000 federal firefighters gain ground after a weather break.
About 25 000 brown trout were killed as vandals drained ponds at the National Fish Hatchery in Leetown West Virginia. Hatchery director Dr Robert Putz said catching the culprits seems unlikely. The fires and inflation related notes follow in the same mounted wire service digest.
Fifteen year old Gregory Shiflett drank from a hose contaminated with paraquat as he worked in an orchard near Clearbrook. He suffered severe lung damage and weight loss after several ER visits and a transfer to Georgetown University Medical Center where charcoal filtering and chemoperfusion were used.
The Carter administration proposes 1980 relief totaling 1.6 billion dollars for the poor with energy bills rising, and 2.4 billion in 1981 for as many as 15 million Americans. Funds come from a windfall profits tax and expand eligibility to households under 125 percent of the poverty line.
Offshore of Padre Island a 40 mile oil slick advances north as winds pick up. Coast Guard and NOAA note tar balls on Texas beaches while shrimpers fear impact on a weak harvest. Sub surface globs of crude sighted. efforts to contain oil continue near Port Mansfield cut.
Clarke Compass reports South End Fire Company was denied a permit to demolish a log house. Allen Cochran, a skilled furniture craftsman, is highlighted for his work appreciated by prominent figures including the President of the United States.
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