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Newspaper
Delaware County Daily Times
Location
Chester, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1978
Page
2
Police resume investigation at John Gacy home as a two day holiday pause ends. Five bodies found on site tied to the murder charge of 36 year old Gacy, with remains unidentified and prosecutors seeking to use his Democratic precinct captain work to argue rationality.
Readable fragments show Pennsylvania Daily Lottery number of 10 drawn on Saturday December 23. Delaware Daily Lottery result is not readable in the text.
Partly cloudy with highs in the low 40s today in Delaware and New Castle counties. Tonight sees flurries possible with lows in the mid 20s, then mostly sunny, windy, and colder Wednesday with 30 to 35 highs. Precipitation chances range from 10 to 40 percent, with fair cold conditions Thursday through Saturday and teens to low 20s nights.
The National Safety Council estimated 400 to 500 highway deaths over the three day Christmas period, with 420 lives lost. A fatal hit and run in New York killed six returning from a Christmas Eve party. The 1965 peak was 720 deaths, while last year saw 39.
Paris AP reports playwright Eugene Ionesco, 66, says Americans are masochistic and blame themselves for world ills. In Le Figaro, he criticizes what he calls anti American Americans obsessed with guilt over Vietnam, Indian rights, and Watergate.
A holiday weekend blaze in New Orleans started by a short circuit in Christmas tree lights killed five children of Ida Perkins and three of her grandchildren, aged 1 to 18. Ida Perkins survived with two other children. In Dallas a family of four was affected.
In Crawfordsville Indiana the Wabash College Chewing Tobacco Club seeks to revive a genteel era by promoting chewing tobacco. Founder Mark Frexter argues for a return to decorum and a safer alternative to smoking in front of women. End of.
A roster of area hospitals declares nondiscrimination in admissions employment and services. It lists member institutions including Abington Memorial, Albert Einstein, Bryn Mawr, Hahnemann, Lankenau, Magee Memorial, Jeanes, Kennedy Memorial, and others with a designated equal opportunity coordinator to enforce the policy.
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