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Newspaper
Register Herald
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1998
Page
3
Judy and Jesse Paluck celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary in a hospital setting as Judy donated a kidney to Jesse. The couple, wearing gowns and stockings, said the gift confirmed they were a perfect match and felt fate linked the timing to their anniversary.
Nobuo Fujita, the only Japanese pilot to drop a bomb on the U.S. mainland in World War II, returned to the Brookings Oregon site where his 1942 incendiary run began. The ashes of the bomb were scattered there as he remained a symbol of peace after dying in 1997 at age 85.
In New Orleans Celeste Keys ages four but waits to celebrate while her twin Timothy turns four first. Born October 15 premature at 1 pound 14 ounces, Timothy faced medical hurdles and years of recovery before catching up. Now both twins learn colors and enjoy preschool with Timothy favoring purple.
The 88 year old actor known as Grandpa from The Munsters seeks to topple Gov. George Pataki with a Green Party candidacy. He pushes repeal of drug sentences and entertains voters with sharp quotes as he campaigns at Rockefeller Center.
US bombers move into position for possible NATO strikes on Yugoslavia while Richard Holbrooke presses Milosevic in Belgrade after six talks in seven days. Holbrooke seeks a peaceful verifiable compliance system to stop the Kosovo crackdown, with NATO ready to act if diplomacy fails.
In San Jose and across California, after Proposition 227 required English immersion, many parents sought waivers to place their children back in bilingual classes. Schools, interpreting “nearly all in English,” still taught substantial second language instruction, and no districts fully comply with 227.
Forensic teams began exhuming more than 240 bodies from the largest mass grave found in Bosnia near Tuzla. The site in Donja Glumina is linked to early 1990s killings of Bosnian Muslims, with remains transported to Tuzla for identification by officials and doctors.
Thousands of demonstrators marched in Istanbul Ankara Izmir and eight towns to protest a ban on Islamic head scarves in schools and public offices. Police shot and killed a 25 year old soccer fan in Elazig and wounded two others during a traffic jam caused by the protests.
In St. Peter's Square Pope John Paul II canonizes Edith Stein, the nun killed at Auschwitz, as the first Jewish born saint of the modern era. He designated her saint's day to honor all Holocaust Jewish victims and urged renewed Christian Jewish understanding. The ceremony showcased Vatican gestures of reconciliation between faiths.
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