Smoke kills 23 in burning Air Canada DC-9 landing
A pilot landed Air Canada Flight 797 despite cockpit smoke but 23 of 46 aboard died in the fire shortly after touch down at Greater Cincinnati Airport. Rescue crews found bodies strapped in seats and in aisles as flames gutted the rear lavatory and fuselage. Passengers described no panic while Roy Grubbs of Waxahachie recounted the smoke and fire. Curtis Mathes Jr., a Canadian resident, was among the dead. Eighteen were hospitalized with six in two Kentucky facilities remaining.
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Cincinnati
Air Canada
Roy Grubbs
Curtis Mathes Jr
Dallas-Fort Worth
Toronto
Greater Cincinnati International
Kentucky
Odessan Survives Air Canada Flight Disaster
Odessa man Gerald Regan, 54, survived an Air Canada flight fire that killed half of 46 aboard including East Texas couple Cranfill H. Cox Jr. and his wife of Gilmer and Curtis Mathes Jr., Irvings Curtis Mathes Co. chairman. Regan was treated then released at Booth Hospital, Kentucky. Six North Texans were among the injured. Regan declined to speak about the ordeal.
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Odessa
Air Canada
Gerald Regan
North Kentucky
East Texas
Cranfill H. Cox Jr
Gilmer
Cranfill
Curtis Mathes Jr
Irving
Curtis Mathes Co
Regan
Booth Hospital
Florence
POSSLQ enters dictionary in edition from Random House
The Dallas Morning News reports POSSLQ a term for a live-in partner has reached a dictionary. Random House editor cites usage driven entry selection while noting language reflects culture and can outlast trends.
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Dallas Morning News
Dallas
Henry Youngman
Charles Osgood
Random House College
Artner
Haring
Iving
Stuart Berg Flexner
American Booksellers Convention
Dallas Convention Center
Flexner
Random House Dictionaries
Flat Earth Society
Shultz salutes ousted diplomats amid Central America shakeup
Secretary of State George P. Shultz praise for two outgoing officials, Enders and Hinton, as President Reagan nominates Thomas R. Pickering as ambassador to El Salvador. Shultz says policy remains the same despite personnel changes, while White House criticism of officials had sparked tensions. Pickering, former ambassador to Nigeria, would be the third key Central America post in a month.
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Washington
Central America
George P. Shultz
State Department
White House
Shultz
Reagan
Thomas R. Pickering
Il Salvador
Pickering
Nigeria
Foreign Service
el Salvador
Deane Hinton
Thomas Enders
Lawrence Eagleburger
Enders
Shhultz
Tom
Deane
Hinton
William Clark
Gardendale residents oppose steep tax reappraisals
About 100 Gardendale residents gathered at the community center to protest new property reappraisals. Lulu Sanchez faced a jump from eight thousand to seventy five thousand dollars in assessed value, triggering higher school county college and tax district taxes. Local official David Childers urged appeals to taxing entities to lower rates, citing the large share held by the Ector County Independent School District. Residents criticized rising land values and payroll and transport costs, urging budget cuts to reduce taxes.
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Gardendale
Ector County
Lulu Sanchez
Gardendale Community Center
Odessa
Sanchez
Laura Jarman
Jarman
Precinct 1
David Childers
Childers
Ray Chasteen
Chasteen
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