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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1983
Page
2
Dateline May 24 1983 reports Brooklyn Bridge commemorations hitting 100 years as a milestone. Readers see brief notes on local events and a range of short items from video arcades to a bottle bill compromise on the same page. The dateline also mentions People and A11 sections in the paper.
A South Carolina man Richard Tony Cimo, after four years waiting for Tyner’s killer’s execution, receives eight years for conspiracy to murder and related charges. Judge James Morris says he understands the crime but cannot condone vigilante acts. Donald Pee Wee Gaskins is sentenced to death for placing a booby trapped intercom and detonating explosives in Tyner’s cell at Central Correctional Institution. Two others face trial and a third has pleaded guilty.
Four young men pulled Richard Salerno from a flaming car in Westwood, Massachusetts, just before a gas tank exploded. They used a television technique to douse flames on his body, while Langdon was burned himself and Salerno remained in critical condition with third degree burns over half his body at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
United Press International reports kidnap and revenge clashes between Christian and Druze militiamen expanding from mountains to Beirut. Gunmen attacked the west Beirut Progressive Socialist Party office led by Walid Jumblatt. no casualties reported as roadblocks halted traffic on routes to Beirut and along the Beirut Damascus highway.
In Los Angeles a publicity stunt by an anti smoking group offered $100 to 15 winners who brought 10 000 cigarette butt equivalents. Nineteen people turned in butts. some slept in cars while a misunderstanding led to a random drawing from all participants. An anonymous donor later added 50 to four non winners.
Virginia Lee Wanick, president of the Hesperia Republican Women's Club, once a Democrat and a nightclub stripper known as Bazoom Girl and Miss 44, says she is an ex stripper and actress with no regrets. Joan Moser, head of San Bernardino Republican Women, knew nothing of Wanick's past and declined further comment.
Albany will acquire the 57 year old Erie County Correctional Facility in Alden for 48 million dollars and convert it to a maximum security prison. Plans include housing 200 prisoners this summer and filling 800 cells by 1985 while 30,085 inmates already overload the system. Gov Cuomo’s office noted 500 new jobs plus construction employment, with the project financed by Urban Development Corporation bonds.
A 1946 safety chief warned 42,000 American service members risk from radiation fallout, but his memos show ship commanders dismissed the unseen hazard. The Bikini Atoll tests in July 1946 sprayed radioactive water as 40,000 servicemen and 2,000 civilians watched, with Col. Warren overseeing radiological safety during Crossroads.
Firefighters Mark Harris and colleagues risked their lives as a house fire trapped a family. Harris entered through a window seeking Brandon Heaney and his parents William and Dawn. after 30 seconds he was pulled out with his fire coat aflame. The Heane ys family died. their preschool daughters survived with severe burns.
Dozens of thousands flee rising rivers in Mississippi and Texas as storms avert more damage. About 6,300 displaced in Mississippi and 5,000 in Texas, with 34 storm deaths reported across the Dixie region. In Texas, 10 killed by Friday tornadoes and 1,000 families left homeless near San Jacinto River. Mississippi floodwaters threaten Jackson and New Orleans region, while Louisiana film set replica village flooded.
Forecasters predict a clear cool night with a low around 45 and a high near 70 tomorrow as rain restrictions ease across the nation. Scattered showers and thunderstorms dampened many areas from the Plains to the Atlantic, with heavy rains and some hail in New England yesterday causing flooding in Vermont and New York and the mid-Atlantic.
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