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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1976
Page
6
A fire in a turn of the century Holton hotel killed five elderly residents. Names withheld pending dental confirmation. Bodies believed to be four men and one woman. Nineteen residents were in the hotel. all were accounted for except the five deceased. Two escaped by leaping from the second floor and another used a chain fire escape.
The Justice Department will not sue GE and Westinghouse over antitrust but asks a Philadelphia court to modify a 14 year old consent decree. The changes target pricing practices the department says restrained turbine generator trade. GE and Westinghouse together control about 90 percent of large turbine generator sales used in electricity production.
Australia re valued its dollar for the second time in less than a week, setting the rate at one Australian dollar to 1.0521 U.S. dollars. A Reserve Bank spokesman confirmed the 1 percent revaluation and the new exchange rate.
In Jackson Tennessee Bishop Carroll Dozier conducted a Rite of Reconciliation granting general absolution to about 2000 Catholics, following a similar service in Memphis last week that drew criticism from some Catholic leaders. The bishop defended the rite as a path to reengage lapsed worshippers and urged spreading the good news.
Delaware lottery officials canceled all bets on the Touchdown II football lottery after a surge of popular point spreads risked paying out more than intake. Lottery Director Peter M. Simmons announced the action Saturday night and said refunds would be arranged the following day.
Los Angeles area man Donald G. Wiggins, 41, of Ontario, held in a case tied to burying more than eight tons of stolen weapons and explosives in desert bunkers near Lancaster and in his home. He posted 15000 dollars bail and awaits arraignment Friday as police disclose cyanide powder found among the arms.
Demolition experts defused a dynamite device found early today at the entrance to a Union Carbide administration building in Needham Massachusetts. The bomb, consisting of 20 sticks of dynamite a watch and a battery, was discovered in an empty building. Police said they do not know when it would have exploded. Needham Police Chief Louis Roman said an anonymous caller claimed the act was by the Sam Melville Unit.
Health officials sought as many as 600 infants who may have been exposed to tuberculosis from a woman doctor while training at Cedars Sinai Medical Center. The search targets babies born or treated July 1 to November 11 with only a very slim infection risk due to brief hospital stays.
Buffalo AP report says four women died in a two car crash including sisters Beverly Watkins 20, Rosaland Watkins 21, Donna Watkins 22 from Lockport. Lillie Howard 51 of Buffalo also died. Two men, Roger Woodcock 26 and Edgar Miller 56, remained in serious but stable condition at Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital.
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