Jenny or Johnny number sparks a national quip
A misdial on a bus station wall phone number in Gastonia North Carolina links to Southwestern Junior High School as guidance counselor Johnny Biles fields surprised calls about a message saying for a good time call Jenny. The item blends with wide ranging notes on Prince Philip baby elephant Thatcher Schlesinger Wilson and civil rights debates.
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North Carolina
Jenny
Johnny
Tommy Tune
Southwestern Junior High School
Gastonia
N.C
Johnny Biles
Britain
Prince Philip
Sri Lanka
London
World Wildlife Fund
Elephant Conservation Fund
Wilpattu
Srikan
Buckingham Palace
Philip
London Zoo
The
Palace
Winter Storm Ties North Era With Deep Snow Rumors
A major storm battered the Northeast and Midwest while a second system blanketed the Texas Panhandle with 2 inches of snow. The week of steady storms since March left at least 23 dead, with blizzardlike conditions shaping travel advisories in Maine Vermont New York and snow and ice draping Nebraska Kansas Iowa and Denver.
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Midwest
Texas Panhandle
Chicago
New England
Upstate
Caribou
Maine
Vermont
New York
Texas
Duluth
Minn
Binghamton
N.Y
Florida
Miami
Rio Grande Valley
North Atlantic
Denver
Inter- State
United Press Interraii
Weather forecast with past data and broadcast note
Partly cloudy with scattered flurries tonight and a high near 32 tomorrow. Winds light and variable. Sunset today 5 58 p m Sunrise tomorrow 6 31 a m. Record highs and lows for the date are noted with 1946 71 and 1948 minus 8. Seasonal snowfall totals 113.5 inches. A station tease mentions 24 hour weather data broadcast on Mineral Oceanic and Armoor Wency 102550 AA.
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Armoor Wency
Priest Sentenced 31 Years In Martial Law Poland
A unil ary court in Koszalin jailed Roman Catholic priest Rev. B. Jewulski for slandering Polish leaders in a sermon delivered after martial law began. The verdict, reported by Sztandar Mlodych, came as Solidarity was suspended and ahead of a meeting with Archbishop Glemp. The case marks the first reported priest trial under the new regime.
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Warsaw
Poland
Independent Union Solidarity
Sztandar Mlodych
B. Jewulski
Koszalin
Communist Party
Woj
U.S
Jozef Glemp
Carlos threatens release of two suspects in Paris case
The terrorist known as Carlos resurfaces after six years and demands the release of Bruno Breguet and Magdalena Kaupp, arrested near the Champs Elysees with a car packed with hazardous materials. He set a one month deadline and warned of reprisals against the French government. The letter, bearing thumbprints verified by police, was delivered to the French Embassy in The Hague.
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Greg MacArthur
PARIS
Carlos
Interior Ministry
Hague
Agence France-Presse
OPEC
Vienna
Venezuela
Ich Ramirez Sanchez
the Jackal
Bruno Breguet
Minusio
Switzerland
Magdalena Kaupp
Ulm
West Germany
Champs Elysees
Breguet
Kaupp
Agence France Pregse
Gaston Defferre
France
Robels
Tenement Fire in Lowell Kills Eight
Eight people, including five children, died in a three story wooden tenement fire in Lowell Massachusetts. Two firefighters and a passerby were injured while trying to rescue residents as the blaze began around 1 a.m. Fire chief John Mulligan called it the worst fatal fire he has attended. The dead were residents of the first and third floor front apartments.
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Lowell
Mass
Carmen Rivera
John Mulligan
Mulligan
Jobless rate hits 8.8 percent in February
The February unemployment rate rose to 8.8 percent as 99.6 million people remained jobless for a third straight month after July to December declines. Civilian labor force grew 286,000 but manufacturing lost about 45,000 jobs while construction rose 80,000. Adult women led February jobless gains pushing their rate to 7.6 percent, equal to adult men’s rate.
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Bureau
Ge Alment
Unempa
Manhunt ends safely after hostage incident
State police from Oneida Morrisville Sylvan Beach and North Syracuse aided a nightlong manhunt. Captain G M Chromey said the event looked serious but was ultimately minor, with Harrington fleeing the house into the woods after possibly breaking a window and dropping his shotgun on the back porch. He was apprehended around 3 15 a m without the weapon.
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Page
Oneida
Morrisville
Sylvan Beach
Syracuse
G.M. Chromey
Harrington
Power outage hits Mattydale and North Syracuse area
High winds caused a widespread outage in Mattydale and parts of Syracuse along Teall Avenue, affecting 2,345 customers. Traffic signals failed and roads froze into ice rinks, with injuries minimal. Niagara Mohawk restored service by 9:15 a.m. A separate Solvay Crucible plant switch issue disrupted a transmission line briefly.
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Bob Wells
Niagara Mohawk
Mattydale
Salina
Syracuse
Teall Avenue
Irving Avenue
Ells
Crucible
Solvay
Oswego County
Miami
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Dad
Mark
Miss Thatcher
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National Park Service
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Hyde Park
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Canada
Supreme Court
Bertha Wilson
Ontario Court of Appeal
Kirkcaldy
Scotland
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Dalhousie University
Halifax
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt
Sandra Day O'Connor
US Supreme Court
Arthur Flemming
U.S. Civil Rights Commission
Congress
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House
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Winter
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President Lincoln
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Solidarity
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Solidarity Union
Washington
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