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Who said the B & G couldn't walk on water?
Next to the ground hog, the filling of KU's Chi Omega fountain is probably the best indication of the approaching spring. Building and grounds workmen filled the fountain Wednesday in one and a half hours.
Pollution legislation asked for Great Lakes by Nixon
WASHINGTON (UP)—In a special message to the House and Senate, President Nixon asked Wednesday for legislation to prohibit dumping of polluted dredge waste into the Great Lakes, one of the nation's worst trouble spots.
The dumping ban will apply to four of the five Great Lakes
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-Erie, Ontario, Huron, and Michigan. States which would participate in the program are Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York.
Nixon's Great Lakes program would concentrate on the most polluted harbors in the initial stages. Building containment areas for polluted materials would cost about $70 million
The federal government would pay half and the state and local governments the rest.
KC air control 'trouble spot'
WASHINGTON-(UPI) — The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reported more air traffic controllers returned to work Wednesday, with Kansas City, Mo., and Minneapolis, Minn., the only remaining trouble spots.
The FAA said 610 controllers were absent Tuesday at 21 major control centers compared with a high of 1,847 on March 30 and 911 on Monday
"It looks good," an FAA spokesman said.
The Kansas City Control Center appeared to be the major holdout in the national back-to-work trend, with 38 per cent of its controllers reported absent on the day shift today. In Minneapolis, 25 per cent of the day shift controllers were absent.
Chicago was the only other control center with more than
Smith shooting officially termed death by suicide
WASHINGTON （UPI）—Dr. Alfred Abramson, medical examiner of Alexandria, Va., filed an official verdict of suicide Wednesday in the death of UPI reporter Merriman Smith. Smith was found dead of a gunshot wound late Monday afternoon.
A memorial tribute will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at the National Presbyterian Church The Rev. Dr. Edward L. R. Elson, pastor of the church, will officiate. Fr. Gilbert Hartke, head of Catholic University's drama department, will read the scripture.
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10 per cent absenteeism. Fifteen per cent of its controllers were still out.
But in New York, which had been the worst trouble spot of the 22-day-old walkout, only 9 per cent were absent. Normal absenteeism at control centers is about 4 per cent.
Most of the controllers are returning to work under a compromise worked out by a Cleveland judge, which is being copied by other judges across the country. Under the plan, an independent panel of doctors is set up to examine controllers who claim to be sick.
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