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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1982
Page
6
A Houston Hilton fire on a 13 story hotel killed ten as a desk worker repeatedly cut off the general alarm system after being alerted by guests. Eleven others were injured while investigators probe a possible cigarette cause and alarm failures in the hallways.
The Sun Times reports Helen Dolan Wilson, tied to Cardinal Cody, has drawn about 33000 in a Chicago pension based on allegedly falsified Archdiocese records. Archdiocese officials deny charges as grand jury probes possible misused church funds, with Wilson's pension spanning 1969 onward and linked to disputed payroll data.
Defense lawyers in the attempted murder trial of socialite Claus C von Bulow reveal they did not know two key witnesses when the trial opened eight weeks ago. Hospital tech C Robert Huggins and former exercise instructor Joy O Neill bolstered the defense claim that heiress Martha Sunny von Bulow had a death wish and used drugs recklessly. The defense rested without calling von Bulow himself. Judge Needham expected a jury by Wednesday afternoon.
Raleigh AP reports a Lipid Research Clinic Follow-up Study prepared for an American Heart Association conference suggests women using estrogen after hysterectomy have about one third the death rate of nonusers. The study argues reduced heart disease risk could offset higher endometrial cancer risk, given lower uterine cancer incidence versus cardiovascular deaths.
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