State of the States TEXAS According to News12
Connecticut, it charges $8.29 for a Big Mac, $17.99 for a chicken sandwich meal, and $18.29 for a 10-piece chicken McNuggets meal. McDonald’s allows its franchisees to set the prices for meals and services.
WW2 FLAG RETURNED A Texas museum has
returned a flag to the family of a Japanese soldier killed during World War II. The Good Luck Flag, a
Japanese national flag signed by members of Shigeyoshi Mutsuda’s family and friends, had been displayed at the USS Lexington Museum in Corpus Christi since 1994, when it was donated by someone whose name has been lost. Such flags were among items taken as war souvenirs by members of the U.S. military during
the war. The museum gave the
flag to the nonprofit Obon Society, which has returned about 500 such flags, known as nonbiological human remains, to descendants of Japanese service members who died in the war.
CONNECTICUT MICHIGAN
Oppenheimer has renewed
interest in the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer and the atomic bomb, Roger Friedman of Showbiz411 notes the bomb possibly had dire eff ects on the cast of another Hollywood film. John Wayne, Agnes
FREE MEALS FOR STUDENTS
All public school students in Michigan are guaranteed free breakfast and lunch starting this school year regardless of means.
The school aid
budget, which passed this summer with support of Republicans and Democrats, provides $160
million to fund one year of school meals. Fifty percent of
students in the state
have already been getting free or reduced-rate food, but expanding availability to all public school students removes the stigma from receiving assistance, of icials said.
UTAH
MAC-CRAZY! One of the most
expensive McDonald’s
restaurants in the U.S. is located at a rest stop on Interstate 95 in
Darien, Connecticut, about 40 miles east of New York City.
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HOLLYWOOD A-BOMB VICTIMS? While the summer movie
RABBI FINDS MIDWEST ROOTS New York Rabbi Meyer
Orenstein, a member of the Roving Rabbis program, recently spent time in Jamestown, Grand Forks, and Fargo, North Dakota. The Brooklyn native said he was there to connect isolated Jewish communities in the area.
Orenstein told KX News that
130 years ago, his great-great- grandfather, Rabbi Benjamin Papermaster, immigrated from Lithuania to Grand Forks. He provided services to Jewish
Moorehead, and Susan Hayward were among the cast of the 1956 movie The Conqueror, filmed 137 miles from the Atomic Energy Commission’s test site near St. George, Utah. Many believe the illnesses
suff ered by director Dick Powell, the cast, and crew may have been caused by filming in the area. Powell, Wayne, Moorehead, and Hayward were among 46 people involved with the production who died of cancer.
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communities throughout the state, performing ceremonies and sharing resources. Jewish people moved
to North Dakota around the time of the Homestead Act, Orenstein explained, so they could farm the land. The Roving Rabbis is an
international organization dedicated to bringing the Torah, kosher food, books, and inspiration to isolated Jewish communities around the globe.
GEORGIA
NUKE PLANT ON LINE A new reactor at a nuclear
power plant in Georgia has entered commercial operation, becoming the first new American reactor built from scratch in decades. Georgia Power Co.
announced that Unit 3 at Plant Vogtle, southeast of Augusta, had completed testing and was sending power to the grid reliably. At its full output of 1,100
megawatts of electricity, Unit 3 can power 500,000 homes and businesses. Utilities in Georgia, Florida, and Alabama are receiving the electricity. A fourth reactor is also nearing completion at the site, where two earlier reactors have been generating electricity for decades. The new reactors were originally supposed to cost $14 billion, but are now on track to cost their owners $31 billion.
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