Vajont Dam catastrophe trial caps six year sentences
A Italian court convicted the dam builders including the president and the Public Works Council chairman of negligence and manslaughter for the Vajont disaster of Oct 9 1963. Six years were imposed on each, while five officials were acquitted. Survivors voiced outrage as the Piave Valley's devastation and lawsuits continue to unfold with Longarone slowly recovering.
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L'Aquila
Italy
UPI
Vajont
Public Works Council
Pietro Bezzi
Longarone
Mt. Toc
Piave
Potter Valley Christmas Program Tonight at 7:30
Potter Valley shines with a school program tonight at 7 30 in the school gym directed by teachers from kindergarten to 8th grade Santa Claus will close the show Principal Freeman Whitaker invites parents and friends to attend. The Potter Valley Methodist Church offers a Sunday 7 30 Christmas program with 6 30 potluck and Randolph Farrar leading the service. Farrar a seminary student and part time minister in Potter Valley recently sang with the SF Opera and performed in Messiah and Sassone Christmas Oratorios.
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Potter Valley
Freeman Whitaker
Barbara Hopper
Edna Rosenbaum
Arol Stahl
de DeBruyn
Maggie Gomez
Dan Hirshman
Mary Ann Kay
Ron Selim
Robert Lombard
Santa Claus
Farrar
Ministry of Music
Potter Valley Methodist Church
S.F. Opera
Santa Claus jailed sparks four year protest in Wisconsin
Four year old Bobby Grunfelder refused his nap and good behavior for a week after overhearing talk of a department store Santa being arrested in Eureka California on draft evasion charges. He believed Santa would be jailed and canceled Christmas. Eureka Police Chief Emahiser later explained the arrested man was only pretending to be Santa.
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Wis
UPI
Bobby Grunfelder
Santa Claus
Bobby
Santa
Eureka
Calif
Veronica
Robert
Emahiser
Frankinburger
Humboldt County
San Francisco
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Potter Valley Bible Church
Ukiah
S.F. International
Salinas
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Golden Pacific Airlines
California
Nevada-thru
Ukiah Daily
Laporte
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Detroit
Mich
H & H Furniture
Regnocale
Path School
Women‘s &Girls
Men‘s & Boys
Bankamericard
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