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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1974
Page
7
A freight train fertilizer tanker blast in Wenatchee, Washington, destroyed scores of boxcars and damaged six homes and several buildings. Two men died the yard foreman David M. Jones, 28, and an unidentified transient. Sixty plus others were injured. damage estimates reach about 1 million dollars.
The estranged wife Eloise Popeil and her boyfriend Daniel Ayers discussed killing kitchenware magnate Samuel Popeil to gain most of his $9 million estate. A police tape captured possible methods including a sleeping pill overdose or a headshot. Nine details were recorded in Lakewood California outside a van.
Rep John M Murphy D NY urged seeking the death penalty for those found guilty in the Los Angeles International Airport bombing. He noted the anti skyjacking law signed by President Nixon eight hours earlier provides for a 20 year sentence for skyjacking and death if a death results. The bombing killed two and injured 18 at a Pan Am and Lufthansa area locker.
James Cary Washington traces Cyprus crisis from 1955 to the latest upheaval as Greek and Turkish Cypriots and guarantor powers struggle. He notes a long history of division, UN intervention, and fragile governance after 1960 independence and 1963 1964 clashes. The current upheaval began with a national guard overthrow of Archbishop Makarios.
San Francisco based report says 10 year old Michael Weather and 9 year old sister Jajean ran away after a family argument. They rode a series of flights to Los Angeles and Hawaii before a return by a paid ticket. FBI probes jewelry theft linked to the flight. The children were later returned to their parents and a formal investigation continued.
At Los Angeles International Airport a powerful bomb ripped through the overseas terminal injuring 36 and killing skycaps. Investigators identified about eight pounds of dynamite as the charge and suspected a locker or box as the detonator. Witnesses described a scene of utter devastation with multiple casualties and frantic rescue efforts.
The Rev. Patrick Shaughnessy of Phoenix, one of 36 injured in the Los Angeles International Airport explosion, was removed from the critical list. The 34 year old pastor at Northwest Missionary Church in Phoenix underwent surgery to amputate his right leg after the blast as he planned a speaking engagement in South Korea and faced a canceled flight due to mechanical problems.
In Aylesbury England the new county jail with self locking doors and soundproof cells welcomed its first visitors the police chiefs who became trapped inside during an inspection tour.
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