24 Dec 1978
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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1978
Page
1
Palerrmo crash leaves 108 dead as 21 survive from 129 aboard the DC-9 on a Rome to Palermo leg. Most passengers were Sicilians returning home for Christmas. rescue efforts focused on the Tyrhennian Sea. Investigations and airport safety criticism follow the disaster.
Roswell contents a possible commuter replacement as Texas International Airlines weighs pulling out the Convair flight. CEO Sam Coats says no written agreement with the city exists, while Mayor Stiles plans a CAB protest if assurances are not given.
Cub Scout Pack 154 members Jeff Bechler eight Larry Brown ten and Mike Brown eight spent Saturday packing stockings for 18 children to be treated in St Marys Hospital pediatrics ward. Goods donated by local merchants and Monterrey Elementary School PTA.
A compact history traces Saint Nicholas origins to 300 A.D. and follows through 19th century English and American works shaping today’s fat, pipe smoking Santa. It notes Clement Moore, Thomas Nast, and Weir art influencing the modern gift delivering figure.
The Roswell Daily Record will not publish on Monday so staff may spend Christmas with families. Normal publication resumes on Tuesday. The newspaper extends a Merry Christmas to readers.
A Daily Record synopsis notes risks of mixing alcohol and drugs as a potential fatal outcome this holiday season. The warning appears on the regional page 6.
In Morgantown West Virginia an anonymous donor placed a $1 000 bill shaped gift into a Salvation Army kettle outside a First National Bank for the third straight year Capt Oliver Michels said the report notes the gift had been skipped in 1975 and specifies the cash source as a Grover Cleveland bill presence.
The body of 76 year old Dean Luker of Alto was found Saturday in river debris near where he and his son Rudolph Luker fell into the Rio Bonito Tuesday. Ira Young located the body within 300 yards of the initial collapse as rescue teams had struggled through torrential waters and inaccessible terrain.
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