Death linked to The Conqueror filming in Utah desert
British papers on Sunday linked the deaths of John Wayne Susan Hayward Agnes Moorhead and director Dick Powell to radiation exposure from Nevada atomic tests during the 1954 film The Conqueror shot in St George Utah. The stars reportedly developed cancer months after filming and died years later.
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Hollywood
St. George
Utah
Nevada
Wayne
Susan Hayward
Agnes Moorhead
Dick Powell
UPI
Judge denies plea to move Sara trial in Norwalk case
In Norwalk, Judge Robert W. Smith denied Robert Dean Sura's change of venue request and blocked a reporter's notes as evidence. The defense sought a closed pre-trial hearing amid publicity surrounding the Dec. 15 Western Reserve High School break-in and fire, with two-day hearings and disclosures of local coverage and radio references.
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Western Reserve High School
Owens
Robert Dean Sura
Sura
Common Pleas
Robert W. Smith
Smith
Western Reserve
Norwalk Reflector
Sara
Reflector
Jack Brown
Kathy Szejbach
Brown
Supreme Court
Gannett
Ed Renders
Huron County
John Borgia
Bernard J. Myers
Collins
Myers
Ohio State Reformatory
Common Pleaseort
Huron County Common Pleas Court
Hijacked Iberia jet lands in Geneva faces arrest
A Spanish DC9 hijacked by three Spanish Foreign Legion deserters diverted to Geneva where authorities said the hijackers would be arrested immediately. Originally reported hostages ranged up to 24 but later 12 were reported, with only the pilot and copilot released before takeoff from Lisbon. Meanwhile in the United States, hospital births rose 5.7 percent in the first four months of 1979, with April up 7.6 percent year over year per AHA figures. In Cleveland promoter Jules Belkin shifted the World Series of Rock to two nights at the Coliseum after violence marred the prior concert, and in Cambridge arson investigators probe a Holiday Inn fire that killed 10, with no new developments reported.
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Portugal
UPI
Spanish Foreign Legion
Geneva
Switzerland
Canary Islands
New York
United States
American Hospital Association
J. Alexander McMahon
AHA
McMahon
U.S
Cleveland
Jules Belkin
Municipal Stadium
Coliseum
Cambridge
Ohio
State Commerce
J. Gordon Peltier
State Fire Marshal’s Office
Peltier
Oil firms accused of cheating on oil imports
The Knight Ridder News Service says Americans may be losing about 2 million dollars daily as domestic oil is misrepresented as higher priced foreign oil. The discrepancy, totaling 222000 barrels per day, could yield up to 9.62 dollars per barrel in illicit profits, with domestic oil selling around 5.68 and imported oil at 14 to 15.30 dollars.
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Miami
UPI
Knight-Ridder
Department of Energy
Energy Department
United States
Sandusky Woman Dies After Area Crash at Major Intersection
A Sandusky woman, Della May Hamm, 59, died on arrival after a two car crash at U.S. 20 and Ohio 601 east of Norwalk. Her husband Loyd Hamm, 57, was in critical condition. Edith Papai, 39, of Wakeman, and her 17 year old passenger Lorenzo Cancel were treated and released. The crash occurred when Hamm failed to stop at a stop sign, sending their Ford Granada into Papai’s Ford LTD and snapping a utility pole. The case is pending coroner ruling on cause of death and funeral plans are announced for Coeburn Virginia.
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Sandusky
U.S. 20
Ohio 601
Norwalk
Della May Hamm
Hayes Avenue
Fisher-Titus Memorial Hospital
William B. Holman
Huron County
Loyd O. Hamm
Edith M. Papai
Townsend St
Wakeman
St. Joseph's Hospital
Lorain
Lorenzo Cancel
Mechanic St
Fisher-Titus Hospital
Highway Patrol
Hamm
Papai
Ford Ltd
Rowland Henderson
Jesus
Freewill Baptist Church
Joseph
Peggy) Carico
James C
Donald Ray
Berlin Heights
Nancy Lawson
Coeburn
Harry
Mildred) Planter
Curtis
June) Moore
William Lawson
Gaylord Pete Lawson
Weather and notices from a midsized city paper
The forecast calls for mostly sunny skies with highs near 80 and a low in the upper 50s to low 60s, followed by mostly sunny conditions in the 80s on Tuesday. A 10 percent rain chance persists through Tuesday with east winds.
Toledo Gulf Oil refinery tank fire allowed to burn out
A lightning struck Gulf Oil refinery storage tank in Toledo Ohio containing 800000 gallons of gasoline was being allowed to burn out with officials stating controlled burning. The fire stood about 40 feet high after eight hours and no evacuations were ordered as nearby homes are about a half mile away.
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UPI
Gulf Oil Co
Gulf
Quentin L. Wallerstedt
Wallerstedt
Toledo
Forrest Myler
Pittsburgh
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Bellevue
James R. Ellis
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Greenwich
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Belleveue
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Deborah Helton
Fisher- Titus
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Pamela Puder
New London
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