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Newspaper
Troy Record
Location
Troy, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1969
Page
5
A Loire Valley style two story home designed by Samuel Paul features a brick exterior, Mansard roof, diamond-paned windows, and curved arches. With 2023 square feet of living space it includes four bedrooms two baths a foyer sweeping staircase a formal living room dining room kitchen breakfast area and a paneled family room opening to a curved patio.
S-25 design describes a residence with a living room dining room family room kitchen breakfast room foyer and lavatory on the first floor totaling 1 199 square feet. Ground level includes a mud room laundry and a two car garage. Upstairs holds four bedrooms and two bathrooms totaling 833 square feet. Overall dimensions 75 by 48 feet include the garage and curved patio. Full basement exists.
The Religious Newswriters Association labeled the Black Manifesto and church responses as the top religion story of 1969. It led with 421 points from 430, with James Pike’s death in Israel second, followed by stories on clergy defection, Pope Paul VI’s synod, religious taxation, and other faith topics.
Police said three more Czechoslovak tourists from a 96 member holiday tour of Sweden have applied for political asylum. Forty eight of the group had already sought asylum earlier.
A time bomb damaged Dublin s OConnell Monument injuring no one. The blast shattered the bronze figure and dented the base while an army squad declared the statue safe. Windows broke within half a mile. The Ulster Volunteer Force claimed responsibility for three other recent explosions in Ballyshannon, at the Wolfe Tone Monument and the national television station in Dublin.
A memorial mass marking the first anniversary of the late Bishop William A. Scully will be celebrated by Most Rev. Edwin B. Broderick D D bishop of the Albany Catholic Diocese on Sunday January 4 at 5 15 p m in the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception Albany.
Fire swept the 16th century Rose and Crown Hotel in Saffron Walden England killing 11 people and injuring several others. Firefighters battled the blaze with 75 men as the building suffered heavy damage and residents described chaotic scenes.
Radio Hanoi aired excerpts from a Christmas Eve program for U S pilots held in North Vietnam. POW James Collins sang Silent Night while pastor Bui Hoai Thu preached in Vietnamese and English. The broadcast, monitored in Hong Kong, noted letters and gift packages from home and urged toward a peaceful paradise on earth.
Former President Lyndon B. Johnson says Humphrey would have won the 1968 election if not for a Salt Lake City speech and a few thousand votes. He discusses his own 1955 hesitation, 1968 decision not to run, and views on Vietnam policy in an upcoming CBS interview with Walter Cronkite.
The U.S. Education Office will distribute over 66 million dollars in work-study grants to colleges in the first half of the year. The program, in place five years, has aided more than one million students with federal funds totaling 568.7 million dollars.
In Flint Michigan on Christmas Eve a would be thief attacked Mrs Labertha Lane 40 stole her purse and fled through a used car lot leaping a 15 foot fence. He landed unconscious after the drop and was taken to Hurley Hospital.
A crowded Yerevan bus plunged off a cliff during morning rush hour, killing an estimated 75 people. Reports from travelers in Moscow described an overloaded vehicle and heavy traffic, with Kommunist noting only that there were human victims.
Memphis AP report says St. Joseph's Hospital will rehire strikers only to fill vacancies after a meeting called by AFSCME official Jesse Epps. The move followed urging from Rev. Ralph David Abernathy and jailed ministers to accept Bishop Durick's strike moratorium proposal.
A State Supreme Court Justice in Buffalo issued a temporary restraining order stopping Sheriff-Elect Michael A. Amico from firing Erie County Sheriff's Department employees. The order also bars county officials from placing criminal deputies under civil service protection, with undersheriff and sheriff's secretary exempt. Amico, a Democrat, will assume office January 1 amid a largely Republican department.
A westbound freight train hit a car at an unmarked crossing near Clintondale Ulster County late Christmas night killing three people. Police named victims as Carl Watkins 29 Newark New Jersey Helen Smith Patterson New Jersey and Helen Blue 22 with no listed address. They were believed migrant workers.
The trial of seven men charged with disorders during the 1968 Democratic National Convention was recessed until Monday due to Abbie Hoffman illness. Dr Freilich testified Hoffman has acute bronchitis and should resume normal activities soon. Mayor Daley is a defense witness but unlikely to testify before Tuesday.
An elderly farmer per ished in a house fire near Bainbridge Chenango County. Clifford Jacobson, about 80, was found by firemen in the kitchen corner. He lived alone.
Irma Granger, 75, of Cheektowaga, died at Emergency Hospital after being found injured at a downtown intersection on Christmas Day. Police investigate whether she was struck by a car or fell. she lived at 4611 Genesee Street.
Riverside California police investigated a pre dawn disturbance but found two 4 year old twins using flashlights in a darkened home. The children explained they were previewing what Santa left and did not intend to wake their parents.
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