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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1976
Page
2
An explosion tore through a tall oil refinery tower in Chalmette Louisiana, killing 11 workers and injuring several more. Eleven men were inside the silo-like tower at the Tenneco plant when the blast occurred during repairs following a prior explosion.
In Warsaw Poles hoard sugar amid price worries prompting government to issue sugar coupons to workers. Sugar at 4 cents a pound remains scarce as price hikes loom next year despite June announcements. Riots, sit-down strikes and factory slowdowns preceded freezes on food prices since 1970 and Grodko-era subsidies persist.
Witnesses identify Richard Picariello of Portland Maine as one of two men who tried to abduct Polaroid President William J McCune Jr in Wal tham Massachusetts. Edward Guilion of Boston, traveling with Picariello, may be involved in related bombings across Maine New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Lincoln suspects tied to a Boston National Guard armory truck bomb and an Eastern Air Lines plane destruction. McCune injured but survives. prosecutors pursue multiple defendants in a wave of New England incidents.
Alf M Landon former Republican candidate for president remains a focal point for reporters ahead of the Kansas City convention next week. He says he hopes to ride horseback and pursue interviews, while the party appoints figures including Sen Bob Dole as temporary chairman.
Ginger Rogers cancels this week’s engagement at New Fairfield Connecticut theater due to burns from a cutting iron suffered in Las Vegas two weeks earlier. A theater spokesman said she, a Christian Scientist, initially refused treatment. She is now under a physician’s care and the performance is rescheduled for October.
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