Couple Found Dead After Power Cut
An elderly couple, Frank Baker 93 and Cathy Baker 92, were found dead four days after a power company cut their heat for unpaid bills. Police await autopsy. investigators cite possible natural causes and note temperatures dipped to 12 to 16 degrees. The Bakers owed over 200 dollars and were reportedly home at the time of the loss of electricity. The husband was a retired custodian. the wife a long-married retiree.
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Schenectady
N.Y
Frank Baker
Catherine
Frances Heise
Power Company
O’brien
Missouri posts unusually light Christmas traffic toll
Missouri recorded five traffic deaths during the four day Christmas counting period from Friday 6 p.m. to Tuesday midnight, far below the usual two day weekend total. Separate accidents in St Louis claimed two lives, with other fatalities in Kansas City and Bosworth. Nationwide, 496 highway deaths were logged, below Safety Council projections.
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St. Louis
Carolyn Henry
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Henry
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Kansas City
Ona Lee Hale
Virginia Lee Newell
Mamie Edith Mason
Bosworth
National Safety Council
Safety Council
Brooklyn Gas Sells At 99c Gallon
Christmas chaos hit New York drivers with scarce supplies long lines and prices soaring. A Brooklyn station sold gas at 99.9 cents a gallon until it ran dry while others queued five blocks deep. Station owner Harvey Stashower called it chaos and patrons vented anger, with one man calling the price illegal.
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New York
New York Area
Brooklyn
Harvey Stashower
Robert Broadie
Helicopter Shot Down At Vietnam Base
Communist gunners shot down a South Vietnamese transport helicopter on Christmas Day near Tong Le Chan base 60 miles north of Saigon. Nine soldiers were killed and 36 wounded. six crewmen and 45 militiamen were aboard, reinforcing a base cut off since last March. This followed reports of three government aircraft lost in four days.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
Tong le Chan
Shortage of Portable Toilets Strikes Construction Sites
WAKE FOREST N C AP portable outhouses used at construction sites become scarce due to an energy shortage. Industrial Plastics Co says it stopped making the privies because styrene plastic is hard to obtain. George Mackie Jr president of the company says several other manufacturers report similar stoppages.
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N.C
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Industrial Plastics Co
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Saigon reports gunship crash and battle updates
The Saigon military command said a twin engine AC47 gunship crashed Christmas Eve 35 miles south of Da Nang due to mechanical failure, killing all 12 aboard. A helicopter loaded with ammunition exploded on Dec 21 in the Mekong Delta, killing 20 soldiers and wounding 17. Southeast of Da Nang, heavy fighting occurred in Quang Ngai with North Vietnamese infantry attacking several government positions, all repulsed. In Phnom Penh, Cambodian forces recaptured two pagoda compounds and reopened Highway 1 southeast of the capital.
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Saigon
da Nang
Mekong
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Mand
Quang Ngai
Phnom Penh
Passenger Kills Bus Driver Near New Boston Tex
A knife wielding passenger fatally stabbed cross country bus driver Billy Fred Young on U.S. 2 near New Boston Texas on Christmas night as about 20 passengers rode. Deputy Willie Huff said Young steered the Continental Trailways bus to a stop and collapsed after exiting. No passengers injured.
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New Boston, Tex
Here
Willie Huff
Billy Fred Young
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Slaying suspect sought as search continues north of town
Police using horses and dogs comb a wooded area north of town for a man wanted in a slaying. The fugitive was not identified in the brief update, and records indicate a person named Young was a retired city employee from Texarkana, ex.
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Texarkana
Old North Church Marks 250th Year
Boston AP reports Historic Old North Church will celebrate the 250th anniversary of its first service this Sunday. The church is famed for its role on the night of April 18 1775 when two lanterns were hung in its steeple to alert Paul Revere that a British expeditionary force moved up the Charles River toward Cambridge.
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