Search resumes for bodies after fatal TWA crash
Snow slows teams as 92 people are feared dead after a TWA 727 crashed into Mt Weather. NTSB investigator Kapustin says 26 bodies recovered by Sunday night and fragments of 75 bodies plus the cockpit data recorder found as teams renew the grim hunt. The flight from Indianapolis to Washington with 85 passengers and crew plunged into the Blue Ridge foothills in a storm. Relatives will be led to a temporary morgue for identification.
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Perville
Trans World Airlines
Appalachian
National Transportation Safety Board
Rudolf Kapustin
Here
Tulsa native general among jet crash victims in Virginia
The second black general in U S Army history was killed in a Virginia jet crash Sunday. A Washington High School graduate from Tulsa, he served as a career officer and reached general rank. His wife Gloria Cartwright, 55, also died. she was raised in Tulsa and among Tulsa County's first 300 draftees in January 1941.
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Twright
U.S. Army
Virginia
Tulsa
Washington High School
Cartwright
Tulsa County
United States
Mt Weather crash and other air disasters reported
The Mt Weather crash and a Northwest Orient Airlines 727 near Stony Point followed a week of fatal aviation incidents. Family members say Cartwright, aged retiree, was en route to Oxon Hill Maryland after attending a Thanksgiving reunion when his Trans World Airlines flight went down. State police report no survivors. Further救 crashes included a Hon duran Air Force cargo plane missing in Costa Rica with four aboard.
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Oxon Hill
Trans World Airlines
Northwest Orient Airlines
Stony Point
N. Y
New York City
Buffalo
Baltimore Colts
Costa Rica
Food bill climbs as sugar price drives up groceries
Sugar prices boosted the November family grocery bill in a market basket survey by AP. Shoppers avoided sugar while meat and eggs sales helped stretch budgets at the supermarket. Louise Cook reports on the impact amid probes and consumer boycotts.
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Louise Cook
Associated Press
Dallas
Council On Wage and Price Stability
Washington, D.C
House
Six Oil Field Workers Die In Texas Methane Blast
In west-central Texas six workers died when methane gas and crude oil surged from a ruptured pipeline during a repair. R. D. Penny escaped with minor injuries as others collapsed in a 35 degree night. Identified victims include T P Rains and Robert Redman of Sweetwater, Don White and Stanley Holderman of Roscoe, Robert Arellano of Colorado City, Cody Cox of Eastland, all tied to Gulf Oil Co Browne Bros. Construction and Moylan Pump Service. The bodies were removed after hours as toxic gas lingered in the hole.
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Abilene. Tex
Texas
R. D. Penny
Penny
George Anderson
Gulf Refining Co
Hendrick Memorial Hospital
Abilene
T P. Rains
Robert Redman
Sweetwater
Don White
Stanley Holderman
Roscoe
Gulf Oil Co
Robert Arellano
Colorado City
Browne Bros. Construction Co
Cody Cox
Eastland
Moylan Pump Service
Redman
Charles Myers
Slightly Warmer Weather Forecast for Lawton Area
A high pressure system will dominate the weather through Tuesday bringing increasing cloudiness and slightly warmer temperatures to the Lawton area. Light and variable winds tonight with a low in the mid 20s. Tuesday high near the low 50s. Sunday ranged from 42 to 21.
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Lawton
Ford News Conference To Focus On Brezhnev Talk
President Ford will broadcast a two part news conference to reveal the nuclear arms ceilings agreed with Brezhnev and then discuss SALT and foreign policy before addressing the economy The format aims for orderliness and follow up with about 40 minutes total time during the broadcast.
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Brezhnev
U.S
Ashington
Ron Nelsen
Leonid Brezhnev
Nessen
Vladivostok
Soviets Launch Rehearsal Spacecraft Soyuz 16
The Soviet Union sent Soyuz 16 with cosmonauts Anatoly Filipchenko and Nikolai Rukavishnikov aboard a dress rehearsal for the 1975 joint Apollo mission. Tass says the crew will test docking gear and other equipment and follow an orbit similar to the planned linking with the American craft, though a dock with Salyut 3 is uncertain.
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OSCOW
Soviet Union
Tass
Anatoly Filipchenko
Nikolai Rukavishnikov
Salyut 3 Space Laboratory
Filipchenko
Gunmen hold eight hostages in San Francisco supermarket
Two masked gunmen seized eight people inside a grocery store near Golden Gate Park. Three hostages were released as police surrounded the scene and negotiated by telephone with the attackers.
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San Francisco
Golden Gate Park Panhandle
Gordon Hendrickson
Hendrickson
Winter Storm Grips Eastern U S With Flight Tragedies
A massive winter storm battered the eastern half of the United States causing deaths and crashes. A Trans World Airlines jet crashed in Virginia with 92 aboard, a chartered plane bound for Buffalo crashed near Stony Point New York killing three, and storms disrupted travel from New Jersey to Maryland. Heavy snow and high winds forced closures, power outages, and evacuations, while the coast faced flooding and large waves. Regional responders, including the National Guard in Delaware, manned recovery and relief efforts as airports, highways, and towns faced outages and stranded travelers.
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Trans World Airlines
Virginia
Buffalo
N. Y
Baltimore Colts
Stony Point
New Jersey
Delaware
Sherman Tribbitt
National Guard
Pennsylvania
Ernest Kline
North Carolina
Lake Michigan
Milwaukee
Wis
Three Fort Sill soldiers held in death probe
Three Fort Sill men are in custody in connection with the death of Pvt. Anthony Ray Jaurigui whose body was found November 24 behind cabinet paneling in a unit dayroom. No charges have been filed. suspects were detained over the prior week. Autopsy listed suffocation as the cause of death, with investigators dating the incident to November 22.
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Fort Sill
Jon Long
Anthony Ray Jaurigui
Battery C
1St Battalion
Raymond J. Proctor
San Jose
Calif
Oklahoma City
Jaurigui
Heavy Snow Delays Coal Contract Vote Across Appalachia
Heavy snow in the Appalachian coalfields delays rank and file balloting on a new contract for 120000 United Mine Workers members on strike since November. UMW President Arnold Miller extends voting through Wednesday to boost participation. results expected by Thursday.
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Charleston
W.va
Appalachian
United Mine Workers
UMW
Arnold Miller
Miller
Washington
Kentucky
Billy Joe Floyd
Pennsylvania
Mills Aides Deny Rumors After Boston Visit With Dancer
Rep Wilbur Mills of Arkansas says he went to Boston to dispel innuendo about a relationship with Argentine dancer Annabel Battistella. He denies plans for divorce, says he was seen to be seen, and jokes about a movie script while praising her talent.
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Mills
Boston
Battistella
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