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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1969
Page
13
A Coast Guard long range navigational station halfway between Hawaii and Midway Island was struck by huge waves early Monday morning, damaging facilities as personnel reported to safety.
A 19 man Coast Guard crew sat overnight on rooftops after a storm wrecked their island lookout 500 miles northwest of Hawaii. A Navy helicopter team from Hickam Air Force Base headed to Tern Island as planes circled French Frigate Shoals. The station housed $657000 in navigational gear and all communications were lost.
Virginia's State Water Control Board agreed to adopt stricter federal antipollution rules after a yearlong dispute. Executive secretary A H Paessler criticized the move as treatment driven but urged three amendments expanding watershed review, requiring broader consideration of discharge plans, and ensuring universal secondary treatment with added funds.
The state board plans tougher standards on temperature and dissolved oxygen in streams plus a budget for 11 new staff. A disputed rule would limit Olin Corp. at Saltville to 4 ppm chlorides in the North Fork Holston River, though the plant now nears 5,000 ppm at some points. Officials note no easy chloride removal. one proposal suggests piping waste 10 miles into Tennessee.
Former Maryland Senator Daniel B. Brewster is charged by a federal grand jury with accepting 24 500 in bribes from Spiegel Inc to influence postal rate legislation over a three year period. Spiegel and lobbyist Cyrus T. Anderson are also indicted.
Rich ardst Stolman, 19, a UW Madison sophomore born September 14, leads the draft list with his older brother Douglas, 21, a Kansas senior born April 24, also in the No 2 group. Stolman said the news left his family in Nashville stunned.
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