Search continues for tanker survivors
The Coast Guard intensified the hunt for 31 missing crew members from the Texaco Oklahoma after the tanker sank in the Gulf Stream near Cape Hatteras. Four cutters, two Coast Guard planes, two Air Force planes, USS Concord, and five sister ships seek the survivors across a 24,000 square mile area. Surviving crewmen Gard Morgan and Jorge Martinez were rescued, while three bodies were sighted but not recovered as seas stayed rough.
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Portsmouth
UPI
Coast Guard
Texaco Oklahoma
Gulf Stream
J. G. Frank Cooper
Fifth Coast Guard District
Air Force
Oklahoma
Gard Morgan
New Orleans
Jorge Martinez
Honduras
Texaco Nebraska
Escanaba
New York
Cooper
Cape Hatteras, N.C
Fire at Canandaigua Inn Leaves 4 Dead In Firestorm
More than 100 firemen fought a blaze at the Canandaigua Inn as 56 people including college students and VA hospital outpatients were inside. Four died, three unaccounted for, about a dozen hospitalized. Rescue crews planned to sift debris with a crane. The incident followed earlier fires at the landmark hotel.
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Canandaigua
N.Y
UPI
Canandaigua’ Inn
Stanley Rypka
Syracuse
Veterans Administration Hospital
David Owens
Camillus
Stanley Briggs
East Rochester
Ruben Gebell
Niagara Falls
Philip Luke
Buffalo
Collins
Vermont Education Association investigates Springfield High
The Vermont Education Association began a probe into teaching conditions at Springfield High School. A union team started Sunday and examined administrative practices and policies after local teachers alleged a deteriorating educational climate in recent months. Several teachers were released, mainly for economic reasons, according to officials.
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Springfield
UPS
Vermont Education Association
Springfield High School
Teachers’ Association
Springfield High
Informal Montpelier meeting on pay-to-pollute rules
Public invited to an informal discussion of Water Resources Board pay-to-pollute rules from 1 to 4 p.m. April 6 at Tavern Motor Inn Montpelier. Gov. Davis will moderate with Denning Miller, board chairman, leading. Topics include new Vermont water quality criteria underpinning a 10 year clean water program with $135 million in state and federal funds under Act 252.
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Montpelier
Water Resources Board
Tavern Motor Inn
Gov. Davis
Denning Miller
Vermont
Vermont Auto Insurance Rate Hearing Postponed
The Vermont Banking and Insurance Department will announce the date of a public hearing on an auto insurance rate increase sought by the Insurance Rating Board. Deputy Commissioner Eugene Lemke said the hearing was requested, delaying hikes that would have taken effect next month and affecting more than 50,000 Vermont motorists.
Rutland council hears plea for safer sidewalks signs
The Rutland City Council reviewed a hand lettered four by five foot poster from eight children asking for safer sidewalks and more signs after describing fear on fast roads. A committee will study the request. Vermont’s WHWB FM launches with $100000 expansion and aims for middle of the road programming with strong news focus.
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Rutland
UPI
Vermont Association For the Crippled
Vermont
Whwb-Fm
Frank McCormick
O'Brien Guilty in 1969 Rape Slaying Felony Murder Verdict
In Rensselaer County Court an all male jury found Troy resident Thomas J. O'Brien 23 guilty of felony murder for Jerilyn Bush's death during a rape in 1969 after six and a half hours of deliberation. He was acquitted on the first count of intentional murder.
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Troy
Thomas J. O’brien
Jerilyn Jean Bush
Rensselaer
O’brien
Miss Bush
Two Brothers Die in Berkshire Fire at 33 Robbins Ave
In Pittsfield, eight and five year old Ronald and Michael Vickery perished as a two alarm fire destroyed their home on Robbins Ave. Their mother Patricia Vickery, 29, sustained second degree burns over twenty percent of her body and was treated at Berkshire Medical Center. She saved her other children by tossing them from a first floor window. Fire origin undetermined. investigation ongoing with police and state lab results pending.
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Pittsfield
Ronald Vickery
Michael
Robbins Ave
Patricia Vickery
Pittsfield General Unit
Berkshire Medical Center
Peter J. Rilla
BMC
Irving Rubin
Rilla
State
Boston
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Maine
Senate Public Works Appropriations
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International Brotherhood of Bookbinders
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Laurel and Willow Mills
Weatherman
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Berkshire County
State Department of Health
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