Fires Strike Two Long Avenue Buildings in City
City firefighters battled two blazes on Long Avenue in the early hours. A rear fire at 134% E Long Ave near Star Market caused smoke damage to adjacent Peoples Bank and Oscar Levine’s clothiers. eye injury to Fireman Frank Piatek treated and released. A second fire at 8 W Long Ave caused about 10000 dollars in damages, listed as arson, with no injuries. The second floor housed the Volunteers of Kosciuszko Lodge 411.
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Long Avenue
Old Star Market
E. Long Avenue
Peoples Bank
Oscar Levine
Clothiers
Frank Piatek
St. Francis Hospital
Gus Talaganis
Winter Ave
Long Ave
Kosciuszko
Polish National Alliance Lodge 411
South Side
New Castle
CLIF
Explosion kills 52 in Mexico oilfield camp blast
A gas pipeline explosion near the Sanchez Magallanes camp wiped out an oilfield town and surrounding villages, killing 52 and injuring 21 with a 100 yard crater. Officials traced the blast to 12 miles of ruptured pipeline, as Army troops secured the area and workers repaired the line. Survivors mourn at a local church on the Day of the Dead.
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Petroleos Mexicanos Oil Company
Sanchez Magallanes
Mexico City
Mexico
Adorado Sea el Santismo
Former motel owners sued in fatal New Castle blaze case
Pittsburgh widow Gail Hudson sues former New Castle Holiday Inn owner Peter Vessella and architect Thomas Donald along with Holiday Inns Inc and multiple firms over the November 3 1977 fire that killed William Hudson and injured others. The suit seeks over 10 000 dollars from each defendant under wrongful death and negligence theories, as the blaze caused about 500 000 dollars in damage on its first anniversary.
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New Castle Holiday Inn
Common Pleas
Pittsburgh
Gail Hudson
Brookline
Allegheny Common Pleas Court
William Hudson
Peter A. Vessella
Thomas G. Donald
Greensburg
Westmoreland County
Holiday Inns Inc
Vessella
Castle Motels Inc
Castle Properties
Dill Construction Co
Latrobe
Rockola Manufacturing Co
Clement Vending Corp
New Castle
Vendors Exchange
Cleveland
Ohio
Peter Vessella
Rodale Manufacturing Inc
Emmaus
Lehigh County
Bruce-Merrilees Electric Co
Hudson
Egypt and Israel Reach General Linkage Agreement
Egypt and Israel agreed on a general approach to the linkage issue in peace talks, leaving specific diverging views in parallel letters to be included with the treaty package. Negotiations now focus on military and economic questions while the future status of Palestinians remains a core unresolved point. Talks in New York between Cyrus Vance and Menachem Begin also touched on American financial aid.
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Washington
UPI
Egypt
Israel
Middle East
Camp David
Jerusalem
Cyrus Vance
Menachem Begin
New York
Dollar's climb slows as markets steady after Carter plan
The dollar opened mixed on European markets, easing after a sharp rise spurred by Carter's dollar rescue package. Gold moved up in Zurich and fell in London while the euro and sterling showed modest gains. Analysts say the surge has ended and expect stabilization, with expatriates hoping lower prices follow.
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United Press International
Carter
Zurich
London
Tokyo
Europe
Frankfurt
Paris
Brussels
Amsterdam
Milan
Germany
Barclay’s Bank
Japan
Air Force
City Council OKs library and public works garage
The council approved contracts totaling 1.62 million for a new 30,000 square foot library at North and North Mill streets and a steel public works garage next to Dean Park. Funding includes 946,000 in federal EDA aid and 600,000 from foundations, with a 525,000 bond issue. Councilman Sands opposed both resolutions citing increased debt.
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John K. Manna
Angelo Sands
Council
Sands
Merle Dicks Construction Co
North
North Mill Streets
Ace
O'Hord € S. of
Youngstown
Steel Public Works
Mahoning Builders
Dean Park
Federal Economic Development Administration
Eugene DeCaprio
EDA
DeCaprio
October unemployment drops to four month low
Washington based Labor Department figures show October unemployment at 5.8 percent, down from 6.0 percent in September and the lowest since June. About 5.9 million people were unemployed while employment climbed by 325,000 to 95.2 million.
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Washington
UPI
Labor Department
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Showers Spread Over Northwest and Coastal Areas
A Friday forecast shows showers in the Pacific Northwest, lower Plains, and the Carolina coast with fair to partly cloudy conditions elsewhere. Temperatures range from the 30s to 60s across many cities including Atlanta Boston Chicago Cleveland Dallas Denver and Houston.
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Pacific Northwest
Lower Plains
Carolina Coast
Atlanta
Boston
Chicago
Cleveland
Dallas
Denver
Duluth
Houston
Jacksonville
Kansas City
Little Rock
Los Angeles
Miami
Minneapolis
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Jose Ramirez Gomez
Sarah
Dollar
Iss
Francis J. Rogan
Aerotech Mechanical
D. J. Hannon & Sons
M. Marino Electric Co
Canton Elevator
News Digest
Navy
Penn State
Maryland
News Index
Samuel A. James Sr
Park Ave
John Randall Wood
Pearl Moore Winner
Portersville
Fred Venturi
Chesterland
David Thompson
Harrison
Pennsylvania
Shenango River
Moraine State Park
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