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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1997
Page
2
The notice lists online weather data and telephone codes for forecasts and local conditions. It provides a URL and four snowfall and county codes for Hancock Airport Madison Cayuga and Oswego counties plus ski conditions at Onondaga County parks.
The almanac reports an index based on the highest readings of sulfur dioxide ozone suspended particles and carbon monoxide at two monitoring sites over a 24 hour period.
On this date 1935 Elvis Presley was born in Mississippi. 1642 astronomer Galileo Galilei died. 1964 President Lyndon Johnson declared a War on Poverty and power.
Babu the 14 year old elephant at Zhengzhou Zoo in central China injured his trunk when it got caught in an iron window grating while waving at a nearby female. Local surgeons from Beijing Shanghai and Shenzhen reattached the trunk in a four hour operation. Ten days after surgery the elephant could store cabbages in his mouth on his own. The trunk now measures about sixteen inches.
The piece cites Sawry Danish outrage after a Swedish columnist calls Queen Margrethe II a plague-woman. It notes the queen’s ashtray bearing habit at banquets and gatherings across multiple venues. The column’s strong tone triggered national backlash.
Herald Journal editors invite corrections by readers with Tim Bunn contact between 3 a.m. and 5 p.m. weekdays. The paper highlights use of recycled newsprint with about 40 percent fiber from Syracuse newspapers and urges Onondaga County residents to recycle.
The text notes the presidential inauguration is January 20 at noon per the 20th Amendment. It covers Pierre Trudeau and Brian Mulroney’s post office activity in Montreal law firms, a Delta-Continental merger rumor, airline rankings by revenue miles, and pension eligibility for Cabinet members like Janet Reno based on age and federal service.
Beverley Byrd, 76, son of the late Sen. Harry F. Byrd Sr. and brother of Sen. Harry F. Byrd Jr., died in Winchester Va after a long apple-industry career at H.F. Byrd Inc. Andre Franquin, 73, Belgian cartoonist of Gaston La Gaffe, died in Paris of a heart attack. Jason W. Kellahin, 87, AP reporter linked to Roswell UFO reporting, died in Santa Fe N.M. of a heart attack.
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