Waldbaum's Fire Kills Six as Brooklyn Inferno Roars
Six firefighters died when Waldbaum's Supermarket roof collapsed during a major blaze on Ocean Avenue in Brooklyn. Firefighters, including Ladder Companies 156 and 153, battled the flames from cherry pickers as hundreds watched. Seven firefighters hospitalized and 36 others injured. Union and city leaders planned briefings to assess causes and response while neighbors described the dramatic collapse and a store renovation underway.
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New York
Ocean Avenue
Brooklyn
Waldbaum
Uniformed Firefighters Association
Richard Vizzini
Edward Koch
Fire Department
Union
East 14Th Street
Avenue U
O'Connor
Pat Halpin
O’connor
Virginia Marrone
Seventh draw in world chess championship match
In Baguio City Viktor Korchnoi and Anatoly Vuolef? Vu seal the seventh game and seventh straight draw as Korchnoi’s Israeli second Yasha Mared uncovered a sensational variation after Korchnoi’s 42nd move. The match, worth 350000 dollars to the winner, is expected to last two to three months with three games weekly.
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Baguio City
Philippines
Viktor Korchnoi
Anatoly Vu
Korchnoi
Yasha Mared
Israel
Soviet Union
Totie Fields Dies at 48 in Las Vegas
Las Vegas AP report Totie Fields died Wednesday at age 48 after prolonged ailments. She was brought to a hospital by private ambulance and did not survive.
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Totie Fields
Las Vegas
Nev
Comedienne
Miss Fields
MOVE Members Refuse to Vacate Philadelphia Headquarters
In Philadelphia 22 MOVE members face arrest after defying warrants and orders to vacate their ramshackle three story home. A judge issued bench warrants and writs of attachment for the group after they failed to appear at a contempt hearing regarding the 90 day plan to leave the compound. Jeanine Africa declared they would stay, noting the city’s tactics and that two white members had left.
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Philadelphia
MOVE
Jeanine Africa
Serge
Weather Summary for Delaware County and Vicinity
Cloudy with variable sunshine and scattered showers and thundershowers. Highs mid to upper 80s. Tonight and Friday see occasional rain and thundershowers with lows mid to upper 60s and highs Friday in the low 80s. Outlook includes Saturday showers, partly cloudy Sunday, rain likely Monday. morning lows mid to upper 60s, highs mid 80s. Air quality satisfactory in Chester Wilmington Philadelphia.
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Delaware County
Bribe penalties and odd city nicknames in column notes
A collage of short items notes penalties for bribing a senator in Pennsylvania, a Malta Bulgarian bath footnote, Isabella of Spain baths, gnathology defined, carat versus karat versus caret, cats with uncanny feats, Dr J B Rhine’s psychic claims, Kalamazoo Celery City nickname, Tobacco City Winston-Salem, Moontown Baltimore, and an address for L M Boyd in Weatherford Texas.
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Bulgaria
Isabella
Spain
Kalamazoo
Celery City
Winston-Salem
Tobacco City
Baltimore
Moontown
Pennsylvania Lottery Results August 2 1960s
AP reports the Pennsylvania daily lottery winning number 5 5 1 for August 2. Big50 numbers list Red 8 7 7 White 5 7 Blue 8 Bonus 0 1 2 1 1 2. Bakers Dozen numbers show Six Digit 1 9 1 5 8 1 Five Digit 3 1 1 9 0 Three Digit 2 6 2.
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Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Wind Ridge
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Axoombrade
Carol Ann Rice
Mrs. Rice
George Rice
Koch
Joseph Smithwick
Smithwick
James Cutillo
Charles Bouton
William O’connor
James McManus
Harold Hastings
42Nd Battalion
Augustus Beekman
John Madigan
Madigan
Frank Gudelis
Madison Square
New Castle County
Chester
Wilmington
Chester Tidewater Terminal
L.M. Boyd
Pennsylvania Senate
Richard A. Snyder
Lancaster
Retary Diotent Plael
Eevee Baars
Sete
J. B. Rhine
Duke University
L. M. Boyd
P. O
Weatherford
Crown Syndicate, Inc
Delaware County Daily Times
Central States Publishing, Inc
Mildred Ave
Primos, Pa
Clifton Heights
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