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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1977
Page
7
An Atlanta based three man investigative team concluded a short circuit in a fountain pump power cord caused the Beverly Hills Supper Club fire in Southgate Kentucky. The blaze burned for over an hour before discovery, killing at least 161.
A Wreckage from a tail section of an American Fairchild A10 attack plane lay in a field at Paris Le Bourget Airport after a crash during opening day aerobatics. Pilot Howard W. Sam Nelson, Fairchild flight operations director since 1976, died en route to hospital.
Episcopal priest Claudius I. Vermilye Jr., 48, received a 25 to 40 year sentence for abusing residents at Boys Farm Inc. in Winchester. Prosecutors said he led a large homosexual pornography ring and filmed orgies with juvenile residents. bond set at $20,000. Three sponsors testified he invited them to Tennessee for sex with youths.
Two South Moluccan elders boarded a hijacked four car train near Assen to negotiate release of about 60 hostages held at two northern Holland locations. Dr Hassan Tan and Mrs Josina Soumakil, aged 56 and 64, acted as mediators as authorities weigh the next steps while seven to 10 terrorists remain at large. The incident follows a 12 day standstill on the line eight miles north of the city.
Partly cloudy and warm with a chance of thunderstorms tonight and Sunday. Lows in upper 60s to lower 70s tonight, 80s to 90s Sunday. Tonight 40 percent rain, Sunday 50 percent. Southerly winds 10 to 15 mph. Also notes on Mississippi River tailwater at Lock and Dam 16 3.24 feet and local items about newcomers, Elks show, and obituaries on energy crisis.
In Muscatine County District Court Judge Lowell D. Phelps schedules a July 9:30 a.m. hearing to review Robert B. Jehring 412 W. 2nd St. variance appeal after the May 12 Board of Adjustment denial. Jehring claims the board acted unreasonably and unconstitutional while seeking a garage and two additions to the eight‑sided house, with no objectors present at the meeting.
AP report from Manchac Louisiana details a village of 48 families facing displacement as Interstate 55, a massive concrete road planned to finish in 1980, will require land, bridges, and canals be redone. Residents recall a prior road project that reshaped the community, leaving some families behind as the new highway rises and sinks with time. The piece notes the village’s isolation in the swamp, the loss of homes, and the lure of Middendorf's fishery near the railroad and the City of New Orleans train.
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