Fires in subzero cold claim 39 lives over weekend
A Kansas City style surge of fires across 18 states amid 10 below zero weather left 39 dead. In Tyrone Pennsylvania a three story hotel fire killed 13 and injured 31, amid widespread ice and cold hampering rescue efforts.
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Pennsylvania House
Tyrone
Dominick
Jo-Ann Turiano
LPI
Pennsylvania
James W. Hoover
Dominick Turiano
Jo-Ann
Christine
Michael
Mary Elizabeth
Dominick Jr
Michele Marie
Richard Bell
Walter Hieny
John Magino
Malcolm Miller
Charles W. Jones
Nazareth
Johnson
Amboy
Ill
Lincoln County
Tenn
Pittsburgh
Windber
Barbara Langley
Joseph F. Martin
Zanesfield
Ohio
Kimberly Puckett
Lisa
Akron
Ronald W. Thompson
Kathryn
Little Rock
Ark
Chicago
Martha Brooks
Elk Grove
Muskie Visits Cleveland for Water Pollution Talk
U S Senator Edmund Muskie arrives in Cleveland for a news conference on water pollution and a meeting with local Democratic leaders. He plans to fly to Columbus as Ohio launches its presidential primary efforts with speeches from Muskie and other hopefuls.
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Muskie
Cleveland
U.S
Edmund S. Muskie
Maine
Burke Lakefront
Cuyahoga River
Columbus
Ohio
George McGovern
D-8
Henry Jackson
Wash
Eugene McCarthy
Supreme Court to Hear Northern School Segregation Case
The Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments on segregation claims in a Northern public school system from Denver. A hearing will occur later this term with ruling by June. Justice White will not participate. Eight justices will hear the case, addressing de facto segregation through school site choices and attendance zones.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Byron R. White
White
Colorado
High Court
Lewis F. Powell Jr
William H. Rehnquist
Denver
North Carolina
Weather warms with sun and wind today
Becoming mostly sunny and windy with a rise in temperature. Highs near 25 to 30 today with a mild, clear night and lows around 25 to 30. Tomorrow shows increasing clouds and a high near the mid 40s with about 10 percent precipitation. Winds from the south to southwest at 15 to 30 mph. Sunset 5 32 p m. sunrise 7 45 a m.
Hanoi drive seeks Nixon defeat in U.S. campaign
US observer notes Hanoi is believed to not want Nixon re elected while Hanoi uses rising pressure in Laos Cambodia and South Vietnam to test Vietnamsization and influence the 1968 election. Watch for a new mid February offensive as China and the Soviet Union loom over Nixon trips.
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Washington
Peking
Moscow
Richard M. Nixon
Hanoi
Laos
Cambodia
South Vietnam
U.S
Nixon
India
Pakistan
Russia
Soviet Union
China
West Coast longshoremen strike resumes as pickets ordered
The ILWU ordered pickets at West Coast ports resuming a 13 000 member walkout. Negotiations with PMA to be mediated by J Curtis Counts continue as the Nixon administration signals possible congressional intervention to force settlement.
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San Francisco
International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen's Union
Nixon
Congress
Counts
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
Edwin M. Scott
Mediation Service
Scott
Taft-Hartley
PMA
ILWU
Lone star on chimney marks bitter start for day
Silhouetted against a pale dawn, a lone star perches atop a chimney on Eastern Heights Boulevard as a cold spell grips the region. Temperatures fell to 12 degrees below zero, rose to about 8 degrees by afternoon, and the low for the date set a record at 7 am before temperatures warmed to the upper 20s later in the day.
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Eastern Heights Boulevard
Mercury
C-T
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Hubert Humphrey
D-Minn
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W. A
Tony’ Boyle
Yablonski
Boyle
Clarksville
Joseph A. Jack Yablonski
United Mine Workers
UMW
Mike Trbovich
Labor Department
Trobovich
Miners For Democracy
George P. Shultz
United States
Jim Nick Nelson
Defense Department
Nashville
John D. Larkins Jr
Trenton
N.C
Richard L. Strout
Christian Science Monitor Service
North Vietnam
Henry M. Jackson
Pacific Maritime Association
International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Association
J. Curtis Counts
Longshore
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