Santa Calls Spark 63 Long Distance Calls from 5-Year-Old
In Allentown Pennsylvania a five year old boy spoke to Santa on the Bell of Pennsylvania Dial It recording, then made 62 more calls at 63 cents each. His mother was recovering from a broken elbow when she discovered the plan and his father heard the number on the bill.
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Santa
John Pleiss
West Easton
Bell of Pennsylvania
Santa Claus
Gail
Aegidia
Delores Hess
Scott City
Boy Calls Santa From Africa Then Poland
Pleiss reports his son, the youngest dialer yet, called Santa at high frequency from home. Bell spokesman Vic Berardelli notes parental control over bills and local discretion. The boy cried when told not to call again, insisting he did not think it wrong.
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Medical helicopter crash near Beverly claims three lives
A Medivac helicopter ferrying a critically ill patient crashed in icy hills near Beverly West Virginia. All three aboard Cpl. Bill Stone paramedic Carlos Dillon and patient Alfred Shahan were found dead by state police. The craft had been forced down by bad weather Thursday during transport from Elkins to Charleston.
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W.va
Medivac
Elkins
Bill Stone
Carlos Dillon
Kanawha County Emergency Services
Alfred Shahan
Charleston
Index Needed in GC big brother and sister program
A brief index note outlines a community program titled Index Needed in GC with pages reference. It mentions a day in court without lawyers for claims below 500 dollars and notes a fatal outcome in the Buff ingers case in the second half.
Hair Problems Told By Gus Garden
Gus Garden remarks that hair issues affect both sexes. He notes women prefer tint while men resist it, framing hair as a common problem with gendered solutions.
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Gus Garden
Five Children Die in South Side Fire During Cooking Incident
A blaze in a two story wood frame home on Chicago's South Side killed five children aged 1 to 8 and lightly injured two others. A 14 year old was cooking French fries when the accident sparked the fire, he alerted two sisters and three other children escaped as flames engulfed the house. Firefighters arrived to heavy smoke and flames.
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Chicago
Jackson Park Hospital
Ernest W. Rokosik
Peter Cunningham
Senate Battles Shutdown Stopgap Amid Bipartisan Tension
The Senate, after 37 hours of nonstop session, recessed to rest before returning to craft an emergency spending bill aimed at averting a government shutdown. Critics warn Reagan would veto the measure. House action shifts between immigration reform, offshore leasing bans, and a separate jobs package while pay and defense funds face various votes.
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Associated Press
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Senate
Howard H. Baker Jr
R-Tenn
Reagan
California
Baker
House
Congress
Slade Gorton
Carl Levin
D-Mich
Gary Hart
D-Celp
Clinch River
Tennessee
Federal Trade Commission
Government furlough risk for 570,000 workers as bill stalls
Washington AP reports about 570,000 federal employees face possible furloughs when they return to work Monday after Congress failed to pass an emergency spending bill by Friday midnight. With funds uncertain, non essential services could shut down as agencies await a spending resolution.
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Congress
Senate
Chamber
Office of Management and Budget
Edwin Dale
David Stockman
OMB
Dale
Suffering young whale is killed in Mystic aquarium
In Mystic Connecticut Doctors injected a killing dose of barbiturates to end the life of a 900 pound three year old female whale after rescue from an island where 60 whales died. Julie Quinn Mystic Marinelife Aquarium spokeswoman said there was nothing else to try and the decision was hard. It was the first time an animal was put to death at the aquarium.
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Mystic, Conn
Julie Quinn
Mystic Marinelife Aquarium
Aquarium
State borrows 65 million to ease cash flow
TOPEKA Kansas AP The State Finance Council unanimously approved a 65 million certificate of indebtedness a paper loan to ease next month’s cash flow The nine member council moved to authorize the Pooled Money Investments Board to transfer the 65 million from other state assets into the general fund Senate Majority Leader Robert Talkington Lola led the approval with no debate.
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Topeka
Kan
State Finance Council
State Pooled Money Investments Board
Finance Council
Senate
Robert Talkington
A-lola
State Pooled Money Investment Board
Fee
Community mourns Bob Vulgamore after farm accident
Bob Vulgamore 18 died Friday after more than two years of patterning therapy begun after a 1980 farm accident near Shallow Water. His funeral will be held Sunday, the day before his 19th birthday, as hundreds joined a circle of love with volunteers who supported his rehabilitation at the family home and Newman College Learning Lab.
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Scott Community High School
Scott City
Bob Vulgamore
Bob
Wichita
New York
Mihai DiMancescu
Coma Institute
Minneola
N.Y
Aegidia
Kansas Newman
Vulgamore
Newman College Learning Lab
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