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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1978
Page
3
In the second court session of the Son of Sam trial, Bronx DA Mario Merola says David Berkowitz confessed to setting 2000 fires in New York City since 1974. A spot check of Berkowitz diaries is cited as showing the fires occurred.
Kenneth Gregory 27 of Buchanan Virginia was hospitalized after his tractor trailer struck a car on the one lane U S 340 bridge over the Potomac River between Sandy Hook Maryland and Harpers Ferry West Virginia. The rig fell onto B O railroad tracks. Debris severed telephone and telegraph lines. The bridge remained closed for repairs and rail service was rerouted.
The Harry Flood Byrd Memorial Commission will present a portrait of Sen. Harry F. Byrd Sr. at the Byrd Visitor Center in Shenandoah National Park on May 20. Richmond artist David Silvette will unveil it, accepted for the government by Daniel J. Tobin Jr. The elder Byrd helped found the park, and the event coincides with the park's 52nd year since its 1926 authorization.
Harvard experts warn patients treated with radioactive iodine can emit radiation that may exceed cargo limits, yet passengers face low risk. The study notes half the radiation is excreted in hospital and persists weeks, urging scrutiny of medical versus industrial radiation controls.
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