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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1996
Page
4
Wilder described actions to bring the vehicle under control on its left side as responders treated passengers. Kelly Anthony reported injuries appeared minor and noted transport to Lawr Memorial Hospital for evaluation and care.
Police spokesman Aree Th Taria announced a theft at a local Jewish synagogue. Investigators are reviewing security footage and interviewing worshippers to identify suspects and recover the sacred scroll.
In northern Louisiana a deadly tornado struck Saturday night, destroying six homes and damaging over 40 in a 900-person community about 45 miles east of Strevenort. Three people were killed as debris toppled trucks and snapped power lines. residents Sara and Kacey Solomon survived huddling on a hallway floor. Tornadoes also touched Mississippi Alabama and the Florida Panhandle causing scattered damage and injuries.
Cape Canaveral Florida NASA delayed the Mars Pathfinder spacecraft launch to Mars until Tuesday due to a cold front bringing strong winds thick clouds and rain to Florida. Pathfinder carries a lander and the first Martian rover and is set to reach Mars on July 4 1997. NASA's Global Surveyor launched November 7 remains en route.
Dan Ellison, once the town’s famed bachelor, 38, married Gwen Fredrickson, 32, after she paid 265 dollars at a July 1994 bachelor auction for lunch. The couple announced their engagement last December and wed this Saturday, amid a surge of new residents and three more marriages since Ellison’s 1990s national notoriety.
A Sunday fire at Royal Tower a 10 story downtown high rise mainly home to elderly residents killed one and sent 32 to area hospitals. Acting Fire Chief Rick Brisbin said evacuations were hampered by medical problems and many residents could not use stairs with some carried from ladders. Fire began in a second floor apartment with most hospital cases due to smoke inhalation and some minor injuries reported.
Elkton Oregon crash ends in flood tragedy as 21 year old Crag Appler escapes his sinking car after a tractor trailer hits it. Searchers recover Georgina Marie Appler 24, Daisha Ann 2, and Austin Wayne nearly one year old in the Umpqua River. The car was found 40 feet from shore in 15 feet of water under murky, high water conditions.
More than 159 people attended a World AIDS Day event at the First Universalist Society of Syracuse. Christine Fiz of AIDS Community Best serves nine Central New York counties and urged support for families living with the disease. A quilt honoring AIDS victims, including Peter Marie van der Ven, was displayed as part of the ceremony. By June 1996 New York state had reported 102,356 AIDS cases.
World AIDS Day see drivers priests activists urging prevention as HIV infections rise to 22.6 million globally and AIDS deaths near 6.4 million. Desmond Tutu appears in South Africa ads urging condom use while memorials and demonstrations mark the day from Tokyo to Madrid to Philadelphia.
Singer Herbert Khaury known as Tiny Tim died at a Minneapolis hospital after a heart arrest. His widow Susan Khaury said the performer collapsed during a club appearance while attempting to return to his chair. Born Herbert Khaury, he rose to fame with Tiptoe Through the Tulips, noted for his falsetto and quirky persona.
The late Thurgood Marshall, longtime NAACP legal director and Supreme Court justice, reportedly supplied the FBI with civil rights movement information starting in 1950s. A June 4 1959 memo shows tips on a dissident NC ACP leader and on violence advocating leaders, with 1956 notes of an NAACP convention vote critical of the Justice Department.
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