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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1973
Page
3
A bomb blast at a crowded lottery ticket stand near Pochentong airport in Phnom Penh kills nine and injures twenty one. A second device was found before detonation as authorities describe the act as the worst extremist attack in six weeks.
Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky says Soviet Jewish transit through Austria will continue but more discreetly. He will close the Jewish Agency camp as part of a hostage deal, citing it became a showcase attracting Arab guerrilla scrutiny. He rejects discussing camp reorganization.
A Tennessee hermit known as John the Baptist or Johnny Hayes lived 17 years in a 70 foot tunnel beneath a viaduct near the old Tennessee Casket Co. before being bulldozed out. He rejected help, claiming faith will See him through, while police and officials offered aid.
A mild 2.8 magnitude temblor struck along the Hayward fault seven miles southeast of the University of California Seismographic Station at 5:24 a.m. No serious damage or injuries were reported. This followed a smaller Morgan Hill quake felt across the Bay Area the day before.
Coroner confirms pilot Wendell Troyer died from a gunshot wound and that his service revolver discharged during the fire aboard the police helicopter. The crash killed Troyer and Officer David G. Guider during a robbery investigation in a parking lot.
President Nixon adviser Herbert Stein warned Americans to expect six months more of rising food prices with supermarket costs climbing faster than normal though less than the peaks of recent months. He said declines may not come until late 1974 and cautioned the worst of 1973 is behind us despite higher industrial prices ahead.
NBC News quoted Florida prosecutor Richard Gerstein as saying James McCord fed information that secret listening devices were used at the DNC headquarters in the Fontainebleau Hotel during the 1972 Miami Beach convention. He said proof exists and involved espionage beyond dirty tricks.
An employee accidentally opened a valve at Burr-Brown Research plant in Tucson releasing arsine gas. Fifty people were treated and released as authorities evacuated the affected building and air out the site, briefly halting traffic near Tucson International Airport.
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