Carter defense budget proposed at 126 billion
President Carter's 1979 defense budget reaches a record 126 billion while Navy shipbuilding is cut about 20 percent from 19 to 15 ships. The plan shifts funds to Army war reserves in Western Europe and delays MX missile development, with 1986 as the new mobile MX operational date. Navy faces cuts in ships and aircraft, and F-18 funding is added amid debate over feasibility and costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred
Hoffman
Washington
Carter
Navy
Pentagon
Congress
Ford Administration
Defense
U.S
Europe
Harold Brown
White House
Office of Management and Budget
Brown
OMB
Ford
Santa Claus of Sixth Street Delivers Christmas Cheer in San Francisco
For 28 years Fred Politz parks his van on Sixth Street before Christmas and distributes free meals and gifts to the downtrodden. He handed out 800 packages this Wednesday, funded by himself since 1949, recalling his liquor store days and the memory of helping neighbors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Santa Claus
Politz
Mutch
Fred
Bomb explodes at Venezuelan airline office in Miami Beach
A powerful blast rocked the Venezuelan airline office on Miami Beach's hotel row shortly after midnight. No injuries were reported though debris flew across Collins Avenue and windows shattered 400 feet away. An FBI agent estimated damage at 15 to 20 thousand dollars. A caller to AP claimed the attack for the Condor group advocating Orlando Bosch's release.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miami Beach
Fila
Swank Hole
Collins Avenue
Pete Matthews
FBI
Miami
Associated Press
Condor
GTE Sylvania calls indictment unjust over payoffs
GTE Sylvania Inc. and Edward Levine are indicted in Brooklyn for paying bribes totaling about 12,000 to win 3.5 million in subway lighting contracts. The company says the charges are unwarranted and unjust, noting the payments were disclosed in 1976 and steps were taken to terminate them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
GTE Sylvania Inc
General Telephone and Electronics Corp
Brooklyn
Edward M. Levine
Levine
Sylvania
GTE Sylvania
Queens
Grain blast death toll climbs to twenty one at mill
A massive grain elevator explosion near the Mississippi River levee at 9 10 a m destroyed 45 of 73 silos and office buildings. More than 50 workers were on site when the blast occurred as families watched, hope fading for missing colleagues.
Santa Poacher Clown Visits Prison Inmates
A Welsh prisoner Derek Dodmere in a Santa suit climbed Her Majesty's Prison with a ladder and dropped cigarettes and tobacco to about 200 inmates in Shrewsbury England. Police and guards responded as he taunted them and claimed reindeer had been shot before he surrendered after an hour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shrewsbury
England
UPI
Santa
Derek Dodmere
Santa Claus
Her Majesty's Prison
Dodmere
London
Steel price hikes ripple through U S steel makers
Pittsburgh AP report says leading steelmakers announce a 5.5 percent rise on most sheet products with further increases planned for sheet bar pipe and tin mill products. Bethlehem U S Steel Inland Wheeling-Pittsburgh etc align to offset rising costs and 1977 losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
Federal Council On
Tom Joyce
Council
National Steel
Bethlehem Steel
Bethlehem
Wheeling- Pittsburgh Steel
Chicago
U.S. Steel
Lackawanna
N.Y
Johnstown
Santa’s chimney slip leaves boy trapped in damper
Longview Washington AP reports 10 year old Robert Huff forgot his key and tried to enter his home by chimney causing a 10 foot fall. He became wedged in the damper area and was freed by police and firefighters after a long struggle. Bathwater was drawn to soothe soot on his skin and he was not seriously injured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Longview
Wash
Robert Huff
Santa
Robert
Wayne Huff
Couple to celebrate 70 years as stay-at-home marriage endures
Charles Hunt, 97, and Edith Hunt, 86, mark 70 years of marriage on Christmas Day in a Bennington nursing home. They wed December 25 1927 in Buskirk New York after farming life with two children five grandchildren and nineteen great grandchildren.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington
Charles Hunt
Edith
Hunt
Towa
Hunts
Buskirk
N.Y
Crescent Manor
Edith Armstrong Hunt
Charles
Two Army Privates Trapped in Ship Hull Rescued
Two 17 year old Army privates, Dennis Feathers of Memphis and an unnamed peer, hid in an empty container aboard the cargo ship Economy sailing from Rotterdam. They were trapped for about two weeks with no food or water and were hospitalized in Houston in dehydration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston (Ap
Sea-Land Services Inc
Dennis Feathers
Memphis
Tenn
Randy Boutain
Rotterdam
Netherlands
Larry Wofford
Sea-Land
Florida Cold Snap Brings Light Freeze Across State
A frosty blanket covered parts of Florida with readings as low as 24 in Tallahassee and 28 in Jacksonville. Gainesville and the Everglades felt the chill, while Tampa logged an 81 degree mark tying a record. Tourists on the Gold Coast experienced the early morning nip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press International
Florida
Everglades
Miami Area
Gold Coast
Tallahassee
Jacksonville
Gainsville
Tampa
State Buys 1370 Acre Minnewaska Tract West of New Paltz
State officials announce the purchase of a 1,370 acre tract adjoining Minnewaska State Park west of New Paltz. Parks Commissioner Orin Lehman says the land was bought from Kenneth and Lucille Phillips of Wildmere Cliff House for 1,084,750 dollars with funds from the federal outdoor recreation program and environmental quality bonds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
API
Minnewaska State Park
New Paltz
Parks and Recreation
Orin Lehman
Kenneth and
Lucille Phillips
Wildmere Clift House
Lake Minnewaska
Fire kills six in Fallston home where 14 stay
A blaze in Fallston North Carolina killed six people, five of them children, in a small frame house housing 14 persons from two families. Local authorities said the fire swept the dwelling, with survivors reporting the scene. Firefighters battled the flames, investigating the cause as relatives mourn the victims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fallston, N.C
UPI
Gannett to appeal ruling over media access in NY case
Gannett to appeal to the U S Supreme Court after New York Court of Appeals barred media from pretrial hearings unless an overwhelming public interest is shown. The ruling arose from a Seneca County murder case involving Rochester Times Union reporters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rochester
UPI
Gannett Co. Inc. Today
U.S. Supreme Court
State Court of Appeals
Gannett
Douglas C. McCorkindale
Supreme Court
New York State
Seneca County
Also Mentioned on This Page
Air Force
Fred Politz
Van
Orlando Bosch
Venezuela
John D. Ehrlichman
Stafford
Ariz
Ehrlichman
Gls
City of Houston Dock 17
West Germany
State
Hustiar
Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception
Camiile Seint-Saens
Cathedral Choir
Lorraine Carus
Joan Sutton
Elizabeth TaSetle
James Shults
Eero Eskelman
George Alessia
Ursula Kwasmeko
Duane A. Sutton
Mars
Frank J. Harrison
Hamilist
WSYR
Sacrament of Raconelli
Utside
Tyr
Smo
Tmo Daly Vyt
Émo
Ivity
Sumida
Eve
Mitt Usn
Browerton Rd
Syracuse
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!