Fire hydrants freeze as house fire spreads on Lancaster Ave
Firefighters battled a blaze at 854 Lancaster Ave as subzero temps froze two of three on the block. Water came from a third hydrant and onboard tanks to douse flames. The fire, caused by cigarette carelessness, damaged the upper floor with no injuries reported. Fire Chief Hanlon noted cold weather can slow operations and hydrant freezes if valves or drain plugs are misused or blocked.
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Lancaster Avenue
Lancaster Ave
John Plew
Plew
Thomas F. Hanlon
Hanlon
Monroe approves controversial budget in midnight session
Monroe County Legislature narrowly adopts a $302 million 1977 budget after a boisterous all night debate. The plan raises the property tax by $4.99 per $1,000, eliminates 473 jobs, and cuts several agencies and programs amid GOP led reductions from the original proposal.
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Rochester
UPI
Monroe County
Nate
GOP
Ways and Means
Lucien Morin
Morin
UPS workers to vote on tentative contract pact
18000 UPS striking employees will vote in 74 local meetings to ratify a tentative contract ending the walkout that disrupted holiday shipping across 15 states. Union officials say ratification likely returns workers by next Monday. terms were not disclosed.
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Washington
UPS
United Parcel Service
Teamster
U.S. Postal Service
Slain Waitress Barbara Kemp Found After Week Missing
Oswego County police probe the decayed remains of Barbara Jean Kemp 19 found along Great Bear Road Volney with stab wounds and a plastic bag, suggesting abduction and possible links to other unsolved upstate killings of young women.
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Oswego
Barbara Jean Kemp
Homestead Ave
Phoenix
Great Bear Road
Volney
Martin F. Hilfinger Jr
Troop D
BCI
Sanders
D.H. Byte
R.H. Dempsey
Atty
John Elliott
Onondaga County County Medical Examiner's
Miss Kemp
Terry Cornell
Burnet Park Drive
Upstate
Morrisville College
Regina Reynolds
Madison County
Otisco Lake
Debra Lesperance
Alexander St. Avoca
North Syracuse
Verona
Carter Interv 4 For Cabinet Posts In Georgia
President elect Jimmy Carter interview four prospective cabinet appointees at the Georgia governor's mansion before heading to Washington for transition talks. The slate includes Harold Brown Jane Cahill Pfeifer Brock Adams and Michael Blumenthal with Mondale observing the sessions.
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Atlanta
UPI
Jimmy Carter
Washington
Carter
California
Harold Brown
Jane Cahill Pfeifer
Brock Adams
Washington State
Bendix Corp
Michael Blumenthal
Georgia
Walter Mondale
Bomb threat evacuates American Bicentennial exhibit in Moscow
A telephoned bomb threat forced the American Bicentennial exhibit in Moscow to be evacuated and closed for the day. No bomb was found. It was the second such incident in three weeks.
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Moscow
Swine flu victim's family shuns shots in Wisconsin
Debra Harris of Brodhead Wisconsin says she will not vaccinate herself or her year old son despite her husband Don Harris having the first confirmed swine flu case in the nation’s inoculation program. CDC confirms Harris recovered and notes area concern grows as about 6 000 Green County residents had been immunized by Nov 29.
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Miss Kemp
Foody
Baldwinsville
Phoenix High School
Hard Hat
Phoenix
Onondaga County
Harris
Green County
Jean Ripp
Center For Disease Control
Atlanta
Concordia
CDC
Bernard Hasterday
University of Wisconsin
Brodhead
Ft. Dix
N.J
Court backs teacher's right to talk at public meetings
The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that a public school teacher may speak at a school board meeting during negotiations without losing First Amendment protections. The decision, reversing Wisconsin's ruling, says excluding teachers from forums on public questions undermines constitutional guarantees.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Madison
Albert Holmquist
Burger
Warren
E. Burger
William J. Brennan Jr
Thurgood Marshall
Potter Stewart
Holmquist
Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission
State Supreme Court
Jury Deliberations Resume in Bronfman Kidnapping Case
In White Plains two men await verdicts in an eight week trial in state Supreme Court. Prosecutors allege a kidnapping plot against Samuel Bronfman II while the defense argues he staged the abduction to extort money from his family. The jurors resumed deliberations after closing arguments and a three hour charge by Justice George Belsheim Jr.
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White Plains
Samuel Bronfman
Mel Patrick Lynch
Dominic Byrne
State Supreme Court
George Belsheim Jr
Cold Snap Forecast For Hancock Area
The mercury sits around one degree above zero this morning with more frigid conditions tonight and tomorrow. Skies clear overnight with a low between zero and five degrees, then cloud up and a 20 percent snow chance rising tomorrow. tomorrow's high reaches 20 degrees.
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Hancock
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Debra
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Bs Eene
Teteaee
Teeneeve
Sylvia Porter
Seees
Madison Teachers Inc
Bronfman
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