Sinatra Benefit At Atlantic City Seeks Sixhundred Thousand
In Atlantic City New Jersey Francis Albert Sinatra headlined a Boardwalk concert at Convention Hall to aid Atlantic City Medical Center with hopes of surpassing six hundred thousand dollars. About fifteen thousand attended as tickets ranged up to five dollars for police and firefighters. Local civic leaders backed the fundraiser expecting substantial support for the hospital.
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Atlantic City
N.J
Francis Albert Sinatra
Hoboken
Sinatra
Atlantic City Medical Center
Bishop Myers resigns amid self description of sin and struggle
Bishop C Kilmer Myers resigns as head of the Episcopal diocese of California saying he is a sin ful and vulnerable human being. He plans retirement to a religious center and time with American Indians. He previously sought treatment for alcoholism and called himself a closet drinker aided by a church helper.
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San Francisco
C. Kilmer Myers
James Pike
Episcopal Diocese of
California
Myers
Minneapolis
Night shift tests Los Angeles paramedics with baby delivery
Paramedics Mel Samples and Ray Seeger recount a Saturday night busy with danger and life saving. They delivered a baby from a dead mother after a fatal shootout, then faced a beating and a gunman, preserving the newborn’s life while police investigated the cases involving Mary Miracle Ross and Marcoline Snowden.
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Los Angeles
Fire Department
Mel Samples
Ray Seeger
Mary Miracle Ross
Seeger
Martin Luther King Hospital
Sampson Simmons
Simmons
Samples
Marcoline Snowden
Calvin Blockmon
Blockmon
Costs of owning a typical new car rise 10 percent in 1978
Hertz Corp reports the average annual cost to own and operate a typical new car rose to 33.1 cents per mile or $3,310 in 1978, up from 30.1 cents and $3,010 in 1977. Higher interest and insurance drove most of the increase, with fuel costs lingering below depreciation.
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Detroit
UPI
Hertz Corp
Hertz
J.E. Menendez
Firewood Shortage Strains Third World Heating and Cooking
The World Forestry Congress warns of a worsening global fuelwood crunch. FAO director-general Edward Saouma cites 1.5 billion people relying on wood for cooking and heating with shortages pushing families to one meal daily or dung as fuel, impacting fertilizer and yields. Indonesia plans to import 10 of 32 million tons used this year.
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Jakarta
Indonesia
World Forestry Congress
Edward Saouma
U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization
FAO
Nepal
Haiti
Africa
Asia
Indira Gandhi brings tough politics to backwater India
Indira Gandhi makes a strong bid for a parliamentary by election in Chikmagalur district as she faces name calling and rumoured violence. Morarji Desai stays out of the campaigning amid her first personal return since 1977.
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Indira Gandhi
India
New Delhi
Chikmagalur District
Here
Mrs. Gandhi
Morarji Desai
Janatas
Congress Party
Soviets Send MIG-23 Jets to Cuba
U S intelligence reports Cuba received 18 to 20 MiG 23 fighter jets from the Soviet Union aboard a freighter earlier this month. The aircraft, disassembled in crates, represent a substantial upgrade to Cuba’s air defense alongside existing MiG 21s and older models.
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Washington
Russia
Cuba
U.S
Defense
Harold Brown
Congress
Moscow
Africa
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