Biden family tragedy strikes after Delaware crash
U S senator elect Joseph R Biden Jr faces personal loss as wife Neilia Hunter Biden 30 and daughter Amy 18 months perish in a tractor trailer collision near Hockessin Delaware. Sons Joseph III 4 and Robert 3 injured along with the truck driver Curtis C Dunn 43. Biden returns from Washington to Wilmington hospital where he faces grief and continues his campaign.
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U.S
Joseph R. Biden Jr
Wilmington General Hospital
Hockessin
Neilia Hunter Biden
Amy Biden
Joseph R. Biden III
Robert Hunter Biden
Curtis C. Dunn
Avondale
Biden
New Castle County
J. Caleb Boggs
Boggs
Senate
Russell W. Peterson
Elect Biden
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Dover
Washington D.C
Valtrie
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James
Frank
Concord Pike
Here
Robert
Delaiware Division Hospital
Skaneateles
N.Y
University of Delaware
Syracuse Law School
Syracuse
Robert Hunter
Auburn
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Bidden
Walter Mitty
Supreme ‘Court
Methadone Control Tightened Across Programs
The government announced tighter methadone distribution rules to curb illicit street traffic and prevent new addictions. Dr. Jerome Jaffee said the guidelines target hospital pharmacies clinics and rural drugstores with a six month implementation period to reduce heroin use and related crime.
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UPI
Jerome Jaffee
White House
Special Action Office For
Jaffee
Five people seized in rail sabotage near York PA
Five New Jersey residents were arrested after pouring concrete into a railroad switch near York Pennsylvania. They face charges of malicious injury to railroads and are held on $25,000 bond awaiting hearing. The suspects include Eugene William Deniel Galvin Jr., Thomas Edward Korkarnes, Rollin D. Kirk and his wife Patricia, and Monica McKig. A note found at the scene claimed antiwar motives linked to Indochina bombings.
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FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Hoover
Daniel
Philip Bevigen
American Machine and Foundry Corp
Southeast Asia
Donald Rede
Emigsville
York County
Eugene William Deniel Galvin Jr
Newark
Thomas Edward Korkarnes
New Brunswick
Rollin D. Kirk
Patricia
Princeton
Monica McKig
Princeton Theological Seminary
James Regan
Auto imports rise in Britain's October 1972 sales
Britain’s October 1972 car sales reached 135,456 with 32,580 imported units, 24 percent of total. Ten months of 1972 saw 1,412,998 cars sold including 331,518 imports, while 1971 totals were 1,078,649 with 208,056 imports. Renault led imports with 51,586 units or 3.63 percent of the market.
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London
Britain
Renault
Catholic teachers vote nullified after archdiocese union stance
The Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board invalidated a June 13 vote in Philadelphia archdiocese elementary schools where Catholic lay teachers rejected unionization 646 to 410 with 363 challenged. It cited unfair practices by John Cardinal Krol and the archdiocese including misrepresenting rulings, excessive vote challenges, and chaotic polling, ordering a new election though no date set.
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Archdiocesan
Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board
John Cardinal Krol
Archdiocese of
Labor Board
Cardinal Krol
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Beef and Pork to Be Supplied for School Lunches
Washington AP The Agriculture Department will buy ground beef and pork for distribution to schools around February 1 for the first time in a year. Prices rise with market highs, but USDA will source in railroad car quantities at wholesale, aiming to aid nutrition without price boosting farmers.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
USDA
Herbert D. Rorex
Food and Nutrition Service
Rorex
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Deadline set on tickets for Pennsylvania millionaire draw
Harrisburg AP notes eligible lottery contestants must validate tickets at state liquor stores by 9 p.m. Saturday Dec 13 or present at the Lottery Bureau Validation Center by Friday Dec 29. Finalist number 1975 must match one of seven weekly qualifying numbers drawn Oct 2 through Dec 6 with drawings on Wednesdays. Next millionaire drawing set for Harrisburg Jan 4 in the State Education Building. Caroline Herschel, born 1750 in England, recognized as an early notable female astronomer for discovering three nebulae and eight comets.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Henry H. Kaplan
Lottery Bureau
Kaplan
Death to trees in London planes fall to sunlit frost
London reports hundreds of plane trees dying from sunstroke after frost and morning sunlight. Forestry researcher David Burdekin notes planes are unusually susceptible to early sun after nights of hard frost, a result of recent air pollution.
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London
David Burdekin
The
Forestry Commission Research Laboratory
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