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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1982
Page
2
A $500,000 Elvis Presley artifact tour tours malls for three day stays, featuring gaudy jewelry and pricey underwear. Interviews with John Huston and Dick Clark reveal opinions on Marilyn Monroe and Burt Reynolds, while other notes cover Gov. Brown's hospital release, Ella Grasso's widower remarrying, and Beverly Hills sheika Al-Fassi seeking mansion improvements.
Portland based UPI reports Mount St Helens area merchants complain travel restrictions after the latest eruption hurt sales. Cougar Washington businesses say red zone proximity, ash fallout, and altered travel lanes cut weekend traffic and fuel sales, prompting lawsuits for compensation.
A strong earthquake southeast of Naples damaged hundreds of houses and left more than 1,000 people homeless. In Maratea officials said cracks appeared in over 300 buildings while a police source called the tremor a miracle no one was killed. The five on the Richter scale echoes the 1980 quake that killed nearly 3,000 and left 200,000 homeless.
A 4.5 magnitude earthquake struck the Imperial Valley desert from Palm Springs to the Mexican border at 12 53 a.m. PST. The temblor centered 16 miles south of Borrego Springs, 60 miles south of Palm Springs and about 50 miles northeast of San Diego, causing numerous calls but no damage or injuries reported.
Cleanup crews began work on Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido after a 7.3 magnitude earthquake toppled homes and triggered landslides. About 110 injured, seven serious, with hourly aftershocks reported by residents of Arakawa.
Police said avalanches in the Japanese Alps killed two men and injured a third, raising holiday weekend deaths to 17. Rescue teams recovered two more bodies from yesterday’s Yatsugatake disaster, the worst alpine incident since Mt Fuji in 1972, while Kaikoma and Hakuba Norikura peaks reported additional fatalities among climbers and skiers.
Paris AP Francois Mitterrand and his Socialist Communist coalition face a policy review after provincial council elections showed a rightward swing and discontent with early leftist reforms. Leaders called the results a warning yet vowed to press on with reform efforts begun ten months ago after decades of conservative rule.
A spring snowstorm drops up to half a foot in parts of New England while floodwaters rise in central Illinois and fall in Fort Wayne Indiana. Strong winds and storms strike the South, with substantial damage in Georgia, Alabama, and Hawaii. Fort Wayne evacuees begin returning home as river levels recede, yet major floods continue in nearby Indiana waterways with forecasts of slow improvement into April.
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