Fire ravages Lansingburgh High offices in torch blaze
An acetylene torch used by thieves to crack an office safe started a Sunday morning fire at Lansingburgh High School on 107th Street and Seventh Avenue. The blaze gutted several offices and caused heavy smoke and water damage across the building. Deputy Chief William E. Phoenix estimated losses between 75 000 and 100 000 dollars.
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Lansingburgh High School
107Th Street
Seventh Avenue
William E. Phoenix
Phoenix
George Dodge
Dodge
Jeffrey Herrington
St. Mary’s Hospital
Withdrawal of 33,000 U.S. Troops Flows From Vietnam
The second phase withdrawal of 35,000 American troops from Vietnam concludes with deactivation of the 551st and 553rd Combat Support Companies near Saigon and redeployment of five 750-man Navy construction battalions. Final moves include Air Force AC47 gun ships being deactivated and Binh Thuy base cutbacks. In ongoing fighting near Da Nang and My Lai, 53 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong soldiers are reported killed, with 15 Americans wounded and 10 prisoners taken of whom three are wounded nurses.
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Saigon
Vietnam
United States
Mem
Bers
Navy
Mobile Construction Battalion 4
Port Hueneme
Calif
Nixon
Air Force
Binh Thuy
Mekong Delta
U. S. Air Force
U. S
11Th Brigade
Americal Division
da Nang
Nixon to announce further troop cuts tonight
President Nixon plans a televised address at 6 p.m. to report on Vietnam and expected to announce additional troop withdrawals. The White House described the message as an update to the November plan, with likely emphasis on reducing forces beyond the 60,000 already announced.
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U.S
Vietnam
Nixon
Met Opera Reopens After Labor Dispute With Plans Dec 29
New York AP report notes the Metropolitan Opera resumes rehearsals after a three month labor dispute. Marcella Price stars in Aida as the season, delayed since Sept 15, aims for a Dec 29 opening featuring Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci. The accord includes substantial wage hikes and R. Bing hails restored peace.
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NEW York
Metropolitan Opera
Rudolf Bing
The
Met
Andrea Chenier
Norma
Leontyne Price
Bus Trip To Spread Holiday Cheer Kills 7
A chartered bus carrying members of Philadelphia Chapter 68 of the Eastern Star overturned on U.S. 30 near Gap Pennsylvania, killing seven and injuring 30 as snow and a steep grade caused the crash. The vehicle was en route to the Masonic Home of Pennsylvania at Elizabethtown, with victims including Doris Freeland Ruth W Straub Dorothea Mason Olga Klug Julia Mencing Edith R Zecher Florence Gindhart. State police reported hazardous travel conditions and the driver Herbert Whyte 60 declined to speak to reporters.
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Gap
Philadelphia
The
Eastern Star
U.S. 30
Lancaster
Sarah E. Pearson
Ardsley
Coatesville
Masonic Home of
Pennsylvania
Elizabethtown
Horace Fhiney
Masonic
Lancaster General Hospital
Doris Freeland
Ruth W. Straub
Dorothea Mason
Olga Klug
Julia Mencing
Coatesville Hospital
Edith R. Zecher
Florence Gindhart
Larry Wixon
Chester County Line
Herbert Whyte
Heavy Snow Blankets the Northeast Dispatch
Heavy snowfall spread across the Northeast from Minnesota and the Great Lakes to the Appalachians. Four inches fell in six hours at Windsor Locks Connecticut and 1 to 3 inch depths were reported in New York and Pennsylvania. A bus rollover on U S 30 at Gap Pennsylvania killed six and injured 31, as roads grew slippery. Weather warnings extended from West Virginia to New England with up to six inches possible in western Pennsylvania. New York City faced 3 to 4 inches. 1,200 trucks prepared for travel.
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Minnesota
Great Lakes
Appalachians
Windsor Locks
Conn
New York
Pennsylvania
U.S. 30
Gap
Lancaster
The
Weather Bureau
West Virginia
New England
Binghamton
N.Y
New York City
New Jersey
Oregon
Washington
California
Tragic Freeway Crash Kills Two In Warren County
A 33 year old Hudson man Allen W Lindsay and a unidentified passenger died when their car slid on the snow slick Adiron dack Northway Route 87 near Warrens burg Town of Lake George. The vehicle left the pavement struck guardrails jumped rails overturned multiple times and both occupants were thrown from the car. Coroner Dr Clinton E Lawrence declared them dead at the scene and state troopers investigated noting extreme slipperiness.
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Hudson
Warrensburg
Allen W. Lindsay
Allen St
Lindsay
Route 87
Lake George
Warren County
Clinton E. Lawrence
W. W. Granger
W. G. Murray
Missing five year old girl in Tennessee shopping center
More than 900 searchers combed a large Chattanooga shopping center for Kristie Lyn Slater a red haired five year old who vanished during a Christmas shopping trip with her mother Mrs Mary Overton Slater Police investigated possible abduction and expanded the search beyond the J C Penney store where she disappeared around 8 p.m.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
UPI
Mary Overton Slater
Kristie Lyn Slater
Robbery Attempt at St Augustine Rectory Tied Up Clergy
Two well dressed white males, one armed with a knife, tied up Rev. John V. Casey OSA, James Doyle, a sexton, and Mrs. Dorothy Little at St Augustine's Rectory around 3 30 p m Sunday. They demanded the safe, searched desks, and fled empty handed. police issued a nationwide teletype as detectives Bernard Madsen and Patrick Valenti led the probe.
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St. Augustine’s
John V. Casey
O.S.A
James Doyle
7Th Ave
Dorothy Little
5Th Ave
James W. Doherty
Father Casey
London Woman Delivers Sextuplets Nine Months Early
A 23 year old London housewife gave birth to sextuplets, with one boy and five girls, all under three pounds. Five survived, all in incubators at University College Hospital after a Caesarean section. The birth marks Britain's second recorded sextuplet event since 1900.
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London
Rosemary Letts
London’s University College Hospital
Britain
Shelia Thorns
Birmingham
Department of Public Health
John
Moratorium Pushes War Spending Debate Across U S
Across the United States, weekend Moratorium events stressed redirecting war funds to local needs. Washington saw no large rally, while Chicago held a planned Grant Park protest that drew few participants. Harvard Radcliffe students fasted to aid refugee and medical centers in Vietnam. Vietnam veterans read names of the fallen at Riverside Church in New York, with a daily continuation.
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United States
Washington, D.C
Chicago
Grant Park
My Lai
Tucson
Ariz
University of Arizona
Bill White
Cambridge
Mass
Harvard
Radcliffe
Vietnam
San Francisco
New York City
Riverside Church
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Ronald L. Ziegler
Clark Clifford
Clifford
551St
553Rd
Bing
Associated Press
By Leonard Stuart
St. Augustine’s Rectory
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Bernard Madsen
Patrick Valenti
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