Fires Across Seven States Kill Dozens In New Year Weekend
A New Year's weekend blaze toll rises with fatalities across multiple states. Chicago area fires claim five residents and injure others, while an arson possibility hovers over another Saturday blaze. Boston’s Old North Church suffers smoke damage from a nearby four alarm fire. Other fires kill in Shamokin, Springville, Union City, Dyson, Grand Rapids and New York City, with victims including children and a hotel owner. Police note gasoline can findings and undetermined origins in several cases.
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Chicago
Brookfield
Michael Fanta
Ronald Fanta
Theresa Fanta
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Kenneth Fanta
Shamokin
Walnut Towers
Pennsylvania
Harrisburg
John Luckens
Brenda Miller
Winchester
Theodore
David Ditman
Luckens
Old North Church
North End
Paul Revere
Longfellow
Boston Harbor
Revere
Robert W. Golledge
Bunker Hill
Tennessee
Springville
Pat Childs
Teresa
Miri
Sandy
Union City
Richard Cradeur
Dyson
Lafayette
Michigan
Grand Rapids
Celia Moore
Tupelo
Miss
New York City
Five-Dollar Boss Calls Spur Confidential Message Service
SEATTLE AP For 5 the anonymous service from Rich Fowler offers to relay non scandalous messages to coworkers or bosses via phone for a fee. Fowler says clients seek positive notes as well as light humorous jabs while avoiding slanderous or obscene content and sometimes request the sender to remain anonymous.
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Seattle
Rich Fowler
Fowler
San Francisco
Gina
Mabel
Joan
Wawler
Senators to vote on party leaders in secret ballot
Democratic senators meet to elect a successor to Mancfield as majority leader with Tinbery Humphrey and Robert Byrd as contenders. A Republican meeting will select their leaders as new GOP senators meet with potential candidates. Byrd is seen as front-runner, while Humphrey aides stress the secret ballot.
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Washington
Mike Mancfield
Tinbery H. Humphrey
Robert C. Byrd
Humphrey
Senate
GOP
Byrd
David Gartner
Gartner
Minnesota
Ford in Final 17 Days Faces Heavy White House Schedule
President Ford returns to Washington after vacations to lead a packed closing period. He will push to end gasoline price controls, seek a $10 billion tax cut recommendation, weigh blanket amnesty for Vietnam era draft evaders, push Puerto Rico statehood, and decide pay raises for federal officials. He must finalize the State of the Union, the 1978 budget, and an economic message. Republican politics loom as RNC moves to replace chair Mary Louise Smith.
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White House
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Whitehouse
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Jimmy Carter
Puerto Rico
Carter
Republican National Committee
Mary Louise Smith
Inside The Mail Today Shop Around to Hire Money on Fudo
A fragmented note reports on a mail order shop and a request to hire money for insurance amid scattered references to page two items and regional pricing. It mentions Hagerstown and supermarket price comparisons with a sense of lower prices on some items. The text reads like a clipped newspaper teaser.
Fires Ruin John Brown Farm Homes In Weekend Blaze
Inspector rules arson set fires at the John Brown Farm overnight, damaging two occupied houses and two vacant structures. Fire units from Potomac Valley, Boonsboro, Brunswick, and Sharpsburg fought blazes, with Emergency Air Unit assisting. A rekindle occurred Sunday morning, while other weekend calls included a Turner residence fire and a Stansbury residence blaze on Beaver Creek Road. Total damage to multiple sites estimated in thousands. investigation ongoing.
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Jon Brown
Potomac Valley
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Boonsboro
Brunswick
Sharpsburg
Janies Kittel
Clear Spring
Hancock
Turner
Funkhouser Road
Tom Altman
Greene
Fuvkstown
Franklin
Stansbury
Beaver Creek Road
John Smith
Funkstown
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