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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1980
Page
1
The Associated Press reports the Christmas holiday traffic toll rose past 400 as the long weekend ended. At 3 am EST the AP tally stood at 454 with the National Safety Council having projected 650 to 750 fatalities from 6 p.m. Wednesday to midnight Sunday.
Floodwaters receded in the Pacific Northwest leaving muddy homes and at least 3 million dollars in Canadian road damage. Emergency official Arnie Williams said the situation was basically under control in Snohomish County after heavy runoff and rains swept western Washington Friday and Saturday.
TRANI Italy AP paramilitary police carried out a lightning helicopter assault on a maximum security prison where 19 guards were held hostage by about 70 rebel inmates. At least 13 hostages were rescued and four wounded in the operation.
In Rome, authorities said the Carabinieri and police assault squads stormed Trani prison after rebels barricaded wings and seized guards. At least 13 hostages were rescued, four wounded, with operation still under way as rebels pressed demands to close Italy’s maximum security prisons for terrorist suspects. Nearby, a Cities Service gas plant near Ulysses exploded, sending flames miles high and forcing about 40 families to flee. no injuries were reported and damage assessment was pending.
At Getty Refining in El Dorado Kansas firefighters fought dawn to control blazes in three tanks holding hundreds of thousands of gallons of solvent. Four people were injured along with three firefighters, as explosions followed the initial tank blast and a side burst fed new flames. State officials described the first two tanks as about 336000 gallons each. Fire crews from nearby cities McConnell Air Force Base and Wichita’s Boeing plant aided the response. The loss amount and cause were not yet known.
Finney County commissioners voted to abolish the Finney County Council on Aging and the Finney County Directors on Aging and form a new seven member Finney County Committee on Aging to oversee all county senior programs and funding. Applications are due by Jan 12 for committee seats. The panel will replace the two boards and meet again in two weeks to appoint members.
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