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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1990
Page
2
The EPA reports secondhand tobacco smoke as a human carcinogen, estimating about 3,800 non-smokers die from lung cancer yearly including 1,750 women and 800 men who never smoked and 1,250 former smokers. Overall smoking-related deaths total roughly 390,000 annually when emphysema and heart disease are included.
A judge in Denver rejected a plea that would have allowed warehouse owner Philip Connaghan to escape jail. He faces trial on charges of rigging a shotgun booby trap that killed a teenage intruder. The Dec. 24 trial date was set.
Hungary’s parliament voted to suspend Warsaw Pact activities and pursue withdrawal from the East bloc alliance, a move echoing 1956 events when Soviet tanks quelled a Nagy-led uprising. Soviet criticism and international tensions rise as Budapest redefines its bloc alignment.
Life Savers plans nationwide marketing of Life Savers Holes. The Planters Life Savers Co. plant in Holland Michigan will produce hole shaped pellets to be sold mid November in 50 cent packages resembling Life Savers rolls. Six varieties include Five Flavor Sunshine Fruits Butter Rum Pep O Mint Wint O Green and Spear O Mint. The firm aims to compete with Tic Tacs and Certs under RJR Nabisco Inc. affiliate.
A photographer captured the only known image of the yearly Poe grave visit in Baltimore on January 19. The silhouetted figure kneels at Poe’s grave as three roses and a cognac are left, with the face hidden by hat and scarf. The photo appeared in Life magazine’s July issue.
Disney led with Dick Tracy earning 50.3 million after two weeks on 2332 screens at 6677 per screen. RoboCop 2 from Orion grossed 14.1 million in its first week on 1769 screens at 7996 per screen. Total Recall from Tri Star earned 81.4 million over four weeks on 2131 screens at 3885 per screen.
Mary Alice, a 20 pound test tube tiger cub, grows bold during her National Zoo debut. Born April 27 by Caesarean, she is part of a three cub in vitro fertilization program to save endangered tigers. One cub died soon after birth. another white cub died. The surrogate mother is 92 year old Nicole from Omaha Henry Doorly Zoo. Chester supplied the sperm. Mary Alice will be housed in Omaha. many tiger species remain threatened or endangered.
SOUTH HADLEY Mass AP. Four Mosier Element School boys aged around ten led a cleanup of a debris clogged creek rescuing wounded frogs. They documented the effort in a 36 page report “Let the Frogs Leap Again,” earning an EPA competition entry and a Presidential Award for Excellence certificate.
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