127 Mile Railroad Carved in Zululand
Italian born construction boss Pietro Mattioda runs Stofdorp Afrikaans for dust village, a self contained hamlet built in four months to support a 2.1 million dollar contract for a five mile rail link from Richard's Bay to Vryheid. The project will open Zululand to industrial development. Mattioda leads 10 white and 200 African workers who must blast through rock and dirt, build three viaducts, a culvert and station at Ulundi with fourteen months remaining. He provides food modern conveniences and even flies workers to Empangeni for haircuts in his plane.
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Stofcorp
South Africa
Tevin
Chaka
Zululand
Empangeni
Pietro Mattioda
Stofdrop
Stofdorp
Mattioda
Richard's Bay
Vryheid
Natal
Ulundi
Alco Calculator Helps Driver Know His Limit
Rutgers University scientist Dr. Leon Greenberg introduces the Alco Calculator a slide rule like device using body weight drinks and time to estimate a safe driving limit. He says moderational drinkers 95 percent of 90 million Americans can use it to decide when to drive and notes heavy drinkers face different issues.
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New Brunswick
N.J
Rutgers University
Leon Greenberg
Rutgers Center of Alcohol Studies
Today In History August 28 1970 Highlights
On this date events include 1609 navigator Henry Co in 1828 Tolstoy birth 1833 Britain's slavery ban 1916 Germany declares war on Romania 1917 suffragettes arrested 1944 Allied reach Marne near Paris 1962 clergy arrests in Albany 1962 75 clergymen. Cubans left San Jose conference ten years ago. Sealab 2 1962 five years ago. Nixon admin seeks delay desegregation in Mississippi.
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Associated Press
Henry Co
Leo Tolstoy
Britain
British Empire
Germany
Romania
White House
Washington
Marne River
Paris
Albany
Cuba
San Jose
Costa Rica
M. Scott Carpenter
la Jolla
Calif
Mississippi
Income Up At Vepco After Rate Increase
Virginia Electric & Power Co. reports July net income of 5.992 million up from 5.186 million as a $22.4 million rate increase took effect. July revenue rose to 33.23 million from 28.746 million, aided by a 9.1 percent annualized rate hike. Coal costs climbed over 40 percent and labor costs rose about 8 percent, impacting earnings.
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Richmond
Virginia Electric & Power Co
State Corporation Commission
T. Justin Moore, Jr
Saint Patrick's Birthplace Conflicting Traditions
Not Born in Ireland Saint Patrick the patron saint of Ireland born at Bannavem possibly in England or near Dumbarton Scotland Brit ish name Sucat Patrick is the English form of Patricius Latin name origin contested reflects early medieval localization and naming.
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Ireland
Patrick
Bannavem
England
Scotland
Dumbarton
Sucat
Patricius
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