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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1978
Page
3
Washington staff writer Dick West notes that late shoppers can still find odd gifts through a holiday frenzy. He lists items such as an Auto Horn Traffic Light Sensor and a Home Video Cassette Eraser, both marketed as clever responses to modern tech quirks.
A compact roundup lists gadgets from a wrist horoscope watch to polar marathon skis and a necktie thinner. It notes a pocket calculator with unusual uses and a video game replayer that replays highlights in slow motion on television screens.
Obituaries note the deaths of Michael Both 69 of 1527 Harlansburg Road after illness on December 22 1978 and Atta Lucille Morrison Shallenberger 77 in Canton Ohio along with a merger announcement by Koppers Co and Ivy Corp of Atlanta. Surviving relatives and service details listed for each.
At Holy Cross Hospital in Chicago newborn babies are gift wrapped in bright red Christmas stockings for home delivery to join their parents for Christmas. Infants leaving for home are dressed and placed in oversized stockings, a program overseen by hospital spokesman Gene Liner and volunteer donors.
New Stanton, Pa. UPI Richard S. Cummins, plant manager for Volkswagen Westmoreland, resigned Friday. The action was announced by Richard E. Dauch group vice president manufacturing operations for Volkswagen of America. Cummins left to take another auto industry job.
In Christmas 1978 the Community Living Arrangement program aids 16 former Polk and CW Macy residents with housing, supervision, and integration into the community. Frank Squillo, 19, a YSU student and CLA house parent, celebrated by shopping with roommates, cutting a farm pine tree, and sharing gifts during a festive weekend. Many residents planned home visits or group dinners, with some spending Christmas with their house parents.
Police investigated a staged robbery at a station after several hundred dollars vanished and were later recovered. McMasters claimed the incident while a 17-year-old helper reported assisting him. Discrepancies prompted further questioning as authorities traced three youths involved in the plan.
The episode concluded with all youths released to their parents custody and ordered into the juvenile bureau today at 9:30 am by authorities.
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