Airline crunch hits holiday plans coast to coast
United and other strikes jam holiday travel as reservations agents report drastic delays. Eastern and Delta add flights into Miami while waits on standby soar. Royal Caribbean seeks alternate flights for 450 guests weekly affected by United disruptions.
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New York
Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines
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Royal Caribbean
Moore seeks guilty plea in Ford assassination attempt
Sara Jane Moore asked a UPI report Friday to change her plea to guilty on the charge of trying to assassinate President Ford in San Francisco on September 22. She said she acted willfully and knowingly and cited a dream of revolution while addressing U.S. District Judge Samuel Conti.
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United States
Conti
Senate approves highway aid bill
The Senate passed a two year 9.6 billion extension of federal highway aid to finish the interstate system linking major cities. The measure, backed 85 to 1, aims for a lean interim program until a long range plan after 1977. Proxmire dissented.
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Washington
Ford wipes out fair trade laws to cut consumer prices
President Ford signed legislation ending remaining fair trade laws in 21 states, allowing manufacturers base prices and expanding discount sales nationwide. The move, aimed at restoring competition, comes as critics call the laws misnamed, with the White House citing annual consumer savings of about 2 billion dollars once the rule takes effect in 90 days.
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UPI
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Supreme Court
Congress
Royster Junior High Buries Time Capsule for 25 Years
Royster Junior High will bury a plastic time capsule four feet long and six inches wide in the school yard southwest corner. Principal John Martin announced the capsule won’t be opened until 2000 with a ceremony planned in November 2000. The project includes student council predictions for the future and is supported by Beverly Rideau and Kelvin Coleman with committee members Dwight Dickey Melissa Benjamin and Marshall Spurrier. The Drum Corps performed at the ceremony and a cement slab marks the site.
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Royster Junior High School
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Royster
Beverly Rideau
Kelvin Coleman
Dwight Dickey
Melissa Benjamin
Marshall Spurrier
Royster Drum Corps
Doyle McKinney
Intercepted Letter Repeats Note on Bermuda Triangle
Intercepted letter mentions visiting Bermuda but warns about the famous Bermuda Triangle, with a cautious tone about travel. The passage emphasizes avoiding the area and suggests curiosity about its notoriety without detailing events.
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Triangle
Christmas season services planned by Chanute churches
Chanute churches schedule festive programs for December 21 and 24 Christmas events. Otterbein United Methodist Church presents The Wonderful Story cantata with soloists and a youth program. First United Methodist features angelus and handbell choirs with a children's program. Other churches offer cantatas, pageants, and carols December 21 and Christmas Eve and Day services with meditations, narrations, and choir performances.
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Otterbein United Methodist Church
Robert
Shirley Basham
Lara Cherem
Beatrice York
Naomi Taylor
Catherine Hett
Marshall Madill
Paul Anderson
Charles Burgtorf
Paul R. Hett
Otterbein Church
Connie Triplett
Marge Carlson
Louise Strimple
First United Methodist Church
Angelus
David Merritt
Charles Moore
Nada Dobson
Jean Tucker
Youthville
Newton
Jesus
Jane Ingram
First Christian Church
Peterson
al Hampton
Church of the Nazarene
Larry
Pat Turnbill
Paul Stroud
Grant Avenue Baptist Church
Ray Dennis
Assembly of God Church
First Presbyterian Church
Lynn Bixby
Grace Episcopal Church
St. Patrick's
Candy House Prepares for Christmas Sales
The Candy House at Self Service Grocery plans about six tons of candy this season. In its 26th year the shop offers bulk Christmas candies sold mainly to area churches and schools. Gene Webber has been the candy girl for eight years and enjoys giving Santa candy to children, despite jokes about weight gain. The display sits on three tables with a rebuilt frame and brick paper cladding. box lids cover the candy tops.
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Self Service
Gene Webber
S. Lafayette
Eight missing after Bermuda Triangle freighter sinks
CAPE HATTERAS N C Eight crewmen remain missing after the Liberian freighter Drosia sank in the Bermuda Triangle about 90 miles east of Cape Hatteras in good weather Rescuers saved sixteen crew members Two survivors were recovered by the USS California and another twelve by a Royal American and Coast Guard search effort The ship’s master was identified as V Theodora and the hatch rupture caused rapid sinking with waves three to four feet high and winds 10 to 15 knots
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UPD
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Atlantic
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Coast Guard
Portsmouth
Baeten
Drosia
V. Theodora
USNS
Hayes
Suspect in Knight murder found dead. accomplice surrenders
A knife slaying suspect, Issiah Felix Melendez, was found shot to death on a Pinehill road in New Jersey. Steven Malono surrendered to police in Philadelphia and is charged with murder and related counts. Knight, 30, Philadelphia Daily News editor, was stabbed in his Aitenhouse Square penthouse.
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Melendez
Pinehill
N.J
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Knight
Salvadore Solia
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Philadelphia Daily News
Aitenhouse Square
Weekend Weather Forecast Passes Through Sunday
Cloudy conditions with possible showers and thunderstorms from today through Sunday. Highs in the mid to upper 40s today and in the low to mid 40s Sunday. Lows tonight near 30s. Winds 10 to 20 mph. Measurable precipitation chances 30 percent today and 50 percent tonight.
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