Happy Honeymooners end tent stunt with Las Vegas trip
Sam and Bridgette Money return to solid ground after three weeks atop a 8 by 16 foot tent trailer above Omaha shopping center. They earned $1000 for an all expenses paid Las Vegas honeymoon and received gifts from merchants as radio station promotion. They endured heat storms and two tornado warnings while staying perched above the center.
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Ellen Haddow
Omaha
Neb
Las Vegas
Sam
Bridgette Money
Money
Earth
KXNN
Glenn Valentine
Valentine
Nevada
Dallas Doctor Advertises Abortion Costs in Newspaper
Dr. Imogene Mayfield placed an ad in the Dallas Times Herald listing abortion prices and clinic location. She argues patients have the right to know service options and costs, noting fees are about one third of typical charges and asserting no law prohibits medical advertising.
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Dallas
Apt
Imogene Mayfield
Mayfield
Supreme Court
University of Oklahoma Medical School
State Board of Medical Examiners
Austin
Tex
Wet and windy weather tops Central New York forecast
The National Weather Service at Hancock Airport forecasts tonight in Central New York a 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms with heavy rain at times. Winds will be southwest 10 to 25 mph with stronger gusts in storms. Overnight lows near 65 to 70. Tomorrow sunny intervals with a 30 percent chance of more showers or thunderstorms and a high near 80. A stray humorous line about a bashful young man at the beach ends the fragment.
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Central
New York
National Weather Service
Hancock Airport
Carter welfare plan seeks jobs or cash
President Carter proposed a $34 billion federal welfare overhaul to force work from more than a million current welfare mothers and reduce state costs by at least ten percent. He warned the plan won’t meet his goal of net zero initial cost and called the current system antiwork and unfair to the poor.
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al Ullman
D-Ore
House
Ways and Means
Phone talks between unions and Bell System continue with mediators
Federal mediators press marathon talks among three unions and AT&T to avert a strike by 700,000 Bell System workers at midnight. No progress reported though the automated system would mostly function with delays in installations and 4.8 million daily operator assisted calls. Carter reportedly monitors the talks as mediator James Williams joined after unions rejected a wage offer considered inadequate.
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Washington
Bell System
Carter
James Williams
Williams
At&t
Glenn Watts
Communications Workers of America
Syracuse Man Dies After Head-On Crash Onondaga Lake Parkway
A 22-year-old Syracuse man, David K. Fredericks, died after his station wagon collided head on with a northbound pickup driven by 32-year-old Thomas Hoffman on Onondaga Lake Parkway. Hoffman was injured and charged with driving while intoxicated and failure to keep right. Fredericks was trapped 45 minutes before rescue. The parkway was closed during wreckage removal.
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Onondaga Lake Parkway
David K. Fredericks
Berger Ave
State University Hospital
Thomas F. Hoffman
Morgan Road
Town of
Clay
Community General Hospital
Fredericks
Liverpool Fire Department
Hoffman
D. W. Ptak
Town of Salina
Herman Harding
Full confidence in Lance. inquiry widens to banks
President Carter expressed full confidence in Budget Director Bert Lance and in the Comptroller of the Currency as the probe into Lance's banking loans broadens. The inquiry examines Lance's $2.7 million loan from Manufacturers Hanover and related correspondent accounts with New York and Chicago banks, amid Lance's confirmation of the details and calls to lay the matter to rest.
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Carter
Lance
Comptroller
John
Heimann
Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co
New York
Georgia Bank
Manufacturers Trust
National Bank of Georgia
First National Bank of Chicago
New York Bank
Inmate Named as Suspect in Attica Prison Slaying
A 29 year old Attica inmate is identified as a suspect in the death of Nancy Vial a 48 year old prison cook at Attica Correctional Facility. State police said evidence from a 30 man detail will be presented to a Wyoming County grand jury Monday. The Erie County medical examiner ruled that Vial died from strangulation. Her body was found in a meat cooler near the kitchen where she worked.
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Attica
Attica Correctional Facility
Wyoming County
Richard Bolan
Erie County
Nancy Vial
Slaying Suspect in Custody in Syracuse
Syracuse Police charged Milford Breland Jr. with first degree manslaughter and possession of a dangerous weapon in the slaying of Pearl Porter 59. Porter's body was found in her Tallman Street home around 9 p.m. after a neighbor reported an open door. A hammer lay on her chest and a sauce pan on her forehead.
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Syracuse
Pearl Porter
Tallman St
Milford Breland Jr
Forest inferno rages as fires in California threaten mega blaze
Fires across the western United States, led by California’s Scarface blaze in Modoc County, threaten to fuse into an 82 000 acre monster with Pan dosa and Indian Springs fires nearby. Barrette of the California Department of Forestry warned the big blaze could form today as 400 fires burn across California and Alaska reports ignite more acres.
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San Francisco
California
Brian Barrette
California Department of Forestry
Modoc County
Indian Springs
Barrette
Rockies
Federal Interagency Fire Center
Boise
Idaho
Alaska
Kugruk Hi
Nome
Explosions Hit Fuel Tanks Near Houston Ship Channel
Heavy blasts near the Houston Ship Channel sent flames up to 150 feet high above three large fuel tanks at General American Tank & Storage Co. southeast of Houston near La Porte. No injuries were reported. Two tanks had already exploded as a dense smoke cloud spread over the area.
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Houston, Tex
Houston Ship Channel
General American Tank & Storage Co
Houston
LaPorte
Bomb Blast Kills 12 at Woolworth in Salisbury Rhodesia
A 75 pound bomb exploded inside a two story Woolworth store on Pioneer Street Salisbury killing at least 12 people and wounding 40 to 50. Police said the toll may rise as bodies are recovered. Eyewitnesses described shattered glass and hoses flooding the ground floor while ambulances ferried victims away.
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Salisbury
Rhodesia
Woolworth
Pioneer Street
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