Postal Service Optimistic on Holiday Mail Volume
The Postal Service, amid a seven million dollar daily deficit and new overtime limits, expects to move over 9 billion pieces of mail through U.S. post offices from today to Christmas Eve. A Dec 28 rate hike for first class letters to 13 cents could prompt mass mailings by businesses. Henry Cooper warns big mailers may flood the system. officials claim they have anticipated problems and expect post offices to clear the mail promptly.
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Washington
Postal Service
Henry Cooper
W.F. Bolger
James Rademacher
The
National Association of Letter Carriers
New trial ordered in 1974 Atlanta abduction case
A three judge federal panel ordered a new trial for William A H Williams convicted of extortion in the February 1974 abduction of Reg Murphy former editor of the Atlanta Constitution.
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Atlanta
William A. H. Williams
Atlanta Constitution
Reg Murphy
Homer Thornberry
Austin
Tex
Ohio Supreme Court lets stand three generation family housing ruling
In Columbus the Ohio Supreme Court upheld a lower court decision finding that three generations of the same family living in one house violated a single family dwelling ordinance. Inez Moore of East Cleveland challenged a housing citation after her sons Dale and John and their sons Dale Jr. and John Jr. resided there. The city argued the occupants constituted more than one family under the ordinance.
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Columbus
Ohio
Supreme Court
Inez Moore
East Cleveland
Dale
John
Dale Jr
John Jr
Wreaths to Honor Edmund Fitzgerald Victims Planned
Memorial service set for Sunday in Whitefish Bay near Sault Ste Marie Michigan and Ontario. Canadian and U S Coast Guard vessels will lay wreaths to honor 29 crewmen lost when Edmund Fitzgerald sank on November 10 in a Lake Superior storm.
Daredevil Joe Gerlach leaps on foam sponge plunge
A professional stuntman named Joe Gerlach jumps from an eighth floor scaffold at Chicago's McCormick Inn landing on a three foot thick foam sponge. The scene appears in a report noting sensational pretrial publicity and a government closing argument tainting a fair trial. The Atlanta Constitution and Journal are cited as metro area leaders with over 200000 copies each in a Sunday edition containing the Murphy abduction narrative.
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Joe Gerlach
Chicago
McCormick Inn
Atlanta Constitution
the Journal
Murphy
Happiest Thanksgiving at Sea After Four Days on Raft
Allen Zovar and Susan Shepherd, drifting four days in a rubber raft with sharks and no food or water, were rescued near an island. They credit faith and willpower for survival after a Santa Ana wind ripped their boat from kelp a quarter mile off the coast. They drank their urine to stay alive and were in good condition on rescue.
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Los Angeles
Allen Zovar
Susan Shepherd
Zovar
Miss Shepherd
Santa Ana
Santa Barbara
California
Anacapa Island
Santa Cruz Island
IRA suspected in death of Guinness Book editor
London police launched a massive manhunt for suspected IRA assassins who killed Ross McWhirter, co editor of the Guinness Book of World Records. The 50 year old right wing activist and author of a death penalty push was shot at his Enfield home as he answered the door. His wife Rosemary fled to the house and later found his body after the gunmen fled in her car.
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London
Ross McWhirter
McWhirter
IRA
Enfield
North London
Rosemary
Norris
United States
Middletown Weather Forecast Partly Cloudy and Warming
Partly cloudy skies and rising temperatures expected in the Middletown area tonight and tomorrow. Lows in the low 30s, with Saturday highs in the upper 50s.
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Middletown
Ouster Demanded as Laos Capital Sees Large March
Thousands of soldiers and citizens in Vientiane march demanding the ouster of neutralist Prime Minister Souvanna Phouma and the end of the coalition government. Demonstrators chant slogans as Pathet Lao gains power and the coalition erodes amid regional upheaval.
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Vientiane
Laos
Souvanna Phouma
Souvanna
Luang Prabang
Pathet Lao
Cambodia
Vietnam
Barn Burns as Shaniko Town Fumbles Fire Truck
In Shaniko Oregon a barn burned to the ground while a fire truck stood by unused. Sue Morelli owner of the Shaniko Hotel said a city council member arranged the truck and was the only one who could operate it but he was away. Madras equipment 45 miles away helped guard spread.
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Shaniko
Ore
Sue Morelli
Portland
Madras
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National Association of Greeting Card Publishers
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Heloise
Area
Ea Sports Television
Women’s News
Francis Filbey
American Postal Workers Union
Guinness Book
Britain
Ross and
Oxford University
Souvanna Phouma Ouster
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