17 Dec 1996
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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1996
Page
1
The notice directs readers to the Internet site http://wwwsyracuse.com for forecasts and Nexrad images and provides a NewsLine phone line 472-2111 with category 2466 for Central New York pollen levels. It also mentions a daily interactive weather query by a teen named Srian Samson with category 9094.
Doris Williams, 87, of Tacoma Washington, spent about 15 hours in a bank vault after staff closed the vault for the day. She emerged when the bank opened Thursday morning, with friends and family reporting her missing. A bank official said the vault was found locked and a customer was inside the chair greeting them. The bank called the incident shocking and in disbelief.
The entry notes 1836 as the death of Simon Bolivar and in 1503 the Wright brothers first achieved a manned airplane flight near Kitty Hawk North Carolina.
In Richmond, Virginia, Myrtle Bond and Owen Taig were married on a Saturday in a Velaten convenience store. The bride walked down an aisle to The Wedding Song as baby food lined the path and a cassette player sat on a counter near Big Bite hot dogs.
The SS United States, once the fastest passenger ship, sits docked at Packer Avenue Marine Terminal in Philadelphia with uncertain future. Edward Cantor and Fred Mayer seek $250 million to restore it as luxury liner or floating casino, after decades of decline since decommissioning in 1969 and auction of furnishings in 1984. The vessel’s history includes a 1952 New York to Le Havre maiden voyage that broke the Queen Mary record and carrying over 500,000 passengers before jets eclipsed such ships.
Whit ney Houston faces a hurdle as a Barbie camper toy is at stake forcing a store search. Wendy Thomas undergoes heart surgery this week at age 64 after years as Wendy's chief pitchman. A charity single by siblings of Dunblane victims tops Britain’s charts featuring a choir and Mark Knopfler.
Herald reporters pledge accuracy and offer corrections via Tim Bunn at 470-2240 during weekday business hours. The Syracuse newspaper notes use of recycled newsprint and paper fibers, and urges recycling with brown bags placed by curbside recycling bins on collection days in Onondaga County.
The Herald Journal promises delivery by 5 p.m. If late or missed, call Customer Service at 470-0050. Staffed 6 am to 8 pm Monday through Saturday and 8:30 am to 5:30 pm Sunday, with efforts to deliver the same day at no cost.
Sir Laurens Van der Post a 90 year old South African born author and confidante of Charles Thatcher and Margaret Thatcher dies in London after a long career including World War II service and Nobel work. Jean Pierre Guerlain dies in Paris aged 92, former cosmetics chief. Adim Karayn 64 a TV executive who drove Watergate hearings coverage dies in Washington. Robert M Hederman Jr 36 publisher of The Clarion Ledger and Jackson Daily News dies in Jackson Mississippi.
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