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The Mercury from Pottstown, Pennsylvania • Page 46

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The Mercuryi
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Pottstown, Pennsylvania
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46
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46 the Mercury, PotUtown, PoTHuridoy Moy 26, 1977 Charleston opens Spoleto, U.S.A. CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) This Southern port city, one of the most culturally rich in the days before the Civil War when cotton was king, again focused on the arts Wednesday as it launched Spoleto U.S.A., a 12-day arts festival making its debut in America. Opening ceremonies at the 150-year-old College of Charleston included the inaugural playing of "Fanfare for which was written for the American debut of Spoleto by the founder, composer Gian-Carlo Menotti. Mayor Joseph P.

Riley Jr. called the opening of the Italian arts fete of the most significant days in the history of Charleston a true rendezvous with our Riley compared the festival to Ihe pre-Clvil War heyday in the beginning of the 19th century. "Once again our city is the site of best the cultural world has to offer." he said. More than .1.000 persons turned out for the opening fanfare and were treated afterward to e.e Cummings' poems put to music, magic performances and acts by some of the 15-foot puppets built as caricatures of festival performers. Flaming bath A IsSmrphotn Firemen, left, fight the flames from adjoining building as the upper floors, which eventually collapsed, are engulfed in fire at the midtown New York sauna bath and rooming house.

The owner of the Everard Baths said that there were between 80 and 100 persons in the building when the fire broke out. Nine persons died and more than a dozen were injured but fire officials say it could take weeks to complete a search for bodies PORTABLE BLACK WHITE TV Come in and register Nine men Killed in N.Y. bathhousefire NEW YORK (AP) Nine men died Wednesday after flames and smoke enveloped a 70-year-old bathhouse frequented by homosexuals, about six blocks south of the Empire State Building. Fire officials said the occupants of the four-story structure housing the Everard Baths had tried unsuccessfully to fight the fire themselves. When firemen arrived shortly after 7a.m.

flames were roaring through two floors of the buriding. An unreported mattress fire about an hour earlier was suspected of being the cause. The bathhouse was partitioned into cubicles, where facilities were provided for patrons to spend the night. The bodies of eight men were found in the building, and a ninth man died later in a hospital. More than a dozen persons were taken to hospitals; one was in critical condition.

Two firemen also required hospital treatment for smoke inhalation. One of the survivors, a year-old actor, declared bitterly that the city allows hazardous conditions to exist where homosexuals congregate. are given a certain amount of liberty in New York City and most of that is to hang out in sleazy sorts of low places that are substandard. At a straight health spa you have rooms partitioned halfway up the walls so the fire could said the actor. Michael Rhone of Manhattan.

Rhone described the scene as a smoking hell, but the people were very together. No one went crazy or The flames were brought under control by 200 fire fighters after about hours, but Fire Commissioner John pulled his men back from searching for bodies for fear that the weakened, partially collapsed structure might come down on them. He said a search for bodies would continue using a crane to pick at debris. now have the job of searching 135 he said. The owner of the baths, Irving Fine.

62, estimated that between Rarest U.S. stamp sold for $90,000 NEW YORK (AP) Sotheby Parke Bernet Stamp Auction Co. reported the sale at auction Wednesday of a one-cent, blue grill stamp for $90,000. the rarest stamp in America, and the sale price was a world record for an American a spokesman said. The is an embossing that was applied to stamps in the late 1860s to thwart counterfeiting.

It was scarcely noticeable and collectors were slow to recognize and save it, with a result that only two copies of the blue one-center are now know to exist, one unused. The sale involved the used one-center, bearing the profile of Benjamin Franklin and a cancellation mark and carrying a list price of $50,000. The stamp had sold two years ago for $42,500. The new buyer was Michael Orenstein of the Superior Stamp and Coin of Beverly Hills, a leading West Coast dealer. 80 and 100 customers were in the buildino, but an exact number was not determined immediately.

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