05 Jul 1983
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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1983
Page
1
The National Weather Service predicts clear pleasant conditions tonight across Central New York with lows around 50 to 55 degrees and patches of dense fog. Tomorrow will be mostly sunny with a high near 75 degrees and fair weather continues Thursday and Friday with possible showers Saturday and highs in the upper 70s and lows near 60.
Band leader Harry James died today at Valley Hospital in Las Vegas at age 67. The obituary notes his stage career and ties to the big band era.
Richard Burton, aged 57, married Sally Hay in a private New York ceremony. Hay, in her mid 30s, a former BBC television production assistant, reportedly met Burton in Vienna at the start of last year while he shot the film Wagner.
Senator William Proxmire accuses the Compton School District of wasting more than 400000 dollars in federal aid for disadvantaged children. He cites Education Department auditors who disallowed most costs charged to the program in Hawaii trips and other improper purposes. United Press International.
Albanyreporting shows the winning numbers from last night’s daily numbers draw. The main number was 620 and the Win Four result was 0012, per Associated Press.
A humorous quip likens taxes to golf as players chase the elusive green. Drive effort for a perfect shot only to end up in the hole, a playful reflection on financial burdens.
The Syracuse diocese official Fred S. Daley travels with 159 others from 31 states and Puerto Rico on a July Fourth tour of Nicaragua to protest U S military aid to Honduran rebels. The group visits a poor barrio and government social projects in Managua and is coordinated by religious and peace groups.
Bart Pollock, 28, is Herald-Journal religion writer with a year and a half in the role. Previously he edited Catholic Rural Life magazine in Des Moines, Iowa, and he graduated in 1976 from the University of Notre Dame.
Nicaragua is described with population around 2.5 million in 1981, capital Managua, major ethnic groups, geography, and a three member junta as head of state. It notes languages, literacy, minerals, industries, crops, and a condensed history from colonization to the 1979 Sandinista and Somoza era transition.
The narrator recalls a vigil-for-peace trip to Managua highlighting a nation of shortages where many children beg outside the airport and markets. The journey passes bombed industrial areas, a quake-devastated center, and housing projects under a Sandinista legacy.
A Baldwinsville man was killed and seven others injured when a 40 mph gust toppled a very dead poplar during Sylvan Beach fireworks. The tree struck Park Street with crowds, destroying three cars and causing a traffic jam as witnesses described the chaotic scene.
President Reagan shifts to a national teachers union audience as he argues for merit pay before the American Federation of Teachers in Los Angeles after a four day Independence Day holiday at his ranch. AFT leaders remain wary but open to the concept if it meets their terms, while Shanker urges delegates not to boo the president.
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