26 Dec 1976
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1976
Page
1
Christmas Eve event in High Point features a massive luminary display, organized by multiple groups, marking the largest scale project of its kind in the area. The community event builds on past efforts by various organizations to illuminate neighborhoods.
Christians celebrate the birth of Christ with messages from Pope Paul VI and Archbishop Coggan urging peace and prisoner release. Guns echo in Bethlehem while a truce blooms in places like Cyprus and Ireland. In Chicago a fatal fire contrasts with hopeful calls from President Ford and others for a better year ahead.
Discussion of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Salt Lake broadcasts notes that the first regular network program aired July 15, 1929 at 3 p.m. from the Salt Lake Tabernacle. It covers the choir’s origins, 375 singers, and long history including 40 years of Richard Evans’ program contributions, plus details on the Tabernacle’s construction, acoustics, and the choir’s dedic ated non paid status.
Henry Kissinger built a reputation as a rare wit in a serious capital with quips from 1969 to 1975. He joked about crisis schedules paranoia fame and being called Excellency. He also teased staff and mused on TV love stories and honor as an honorary Globetrotter.
Rescue workers recovered about 40 charred bodies as the Egyptair Boeing 707 crashed into the Thai Teijin textile factory near Don Muang Airport on Christmas morning. At least 69 people are believed dead including 51 passengers and 18 mill workers missing, with officials awaiting flight recorder data.
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A three story brick building in Chicago suffered a deadly blaze on Christmas Eve as a party for 11 year old Jesus Garcia killed 10 children and two adults. Lighter fluid spilled on coals ignited the flames prompting panicked jumps from the top floor. Family members and bystanders struggled to aid victims as the stairwell burned cutting off escapes.
Two young boys died in separate crashes near High Point on Friday. Dean Allen Vuncannon aged 3 of Archdale died in a head on collision on Ashland Drive. Charles Ravenel Harrell of Armstrong Lane was charged with drunken driving. Kent Douglas Cutler aged 6 of Quantico Virginia was struck by a car on Burton Road Extension near Thomasville. Further details available in the two boy notice on 114A.
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