25 YEARS AGO - JULY 1974 By Beverly A. Brown

It's July 1974. Funeral services are held for actor Frank Sutton, best known as Sgt. Carter on "Gomer Pyle, USMC." Sutton died last month of a heart attack at the age of 50.

Juan Peron, 78, President of Argentina, dies. His wife succeeds him in office.

JULY 1974 - In England, a terrorist bomb explodes in the 900-year-old Tower of London, killing at least one person and injuring more than 30 people. Photo by Beverly Brown

On July 4, CBS airs the first of its "Bicentennial Minutes," a series of 732 one-minute documentaries celebrating the nation's 200th anniversary. The minutes will air once a night during prime time until 1976.

Retired Chief Justice Earl Warren dies at age 83.

Mrs. Rose Kennedy celebrates her 84th birthday.

The Supreme Court rejects President Nixon's claims of executive privilege and rules that he must turn over tape recordings of White House conversations.

The House Judiciary Committee recommends that Nixon be impeached and removed from office.

Singer Mama Cass Elliot dies in London shortly before she was to start on a world tour. First reports attribute her death to choking on a ham sandwich. She was only 33.

Solar Sportsystems, a theater conglomerate based in Scranton, agrees to sell the Tioga Theater for $23,000 to five local businessmen who want to renovate the 66-year-old theater and present live theater, childrens' theater and film shows and first-run films.

Women from the Owego and Apalachin area are planning to form a local chapter of NOW, the National Organization of Women.

The National Endowment for the Arts awards $10,000 to Binghamton architect James Mowry to study if Owego's river row buildings are structurally sound and to determine what it will cost to restore them and what type of river bank development can be done. Mowry is thinking of a pedestrian promenade and boating facilities.

The Village of Owego holds their 3rd Annual Sidewalk Sale.

Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle participate in the B.C. Open's pro-am. DiMaggio leaves the tournament early when he learns of the death of his friend Dizzy Dean. Rich Karl, an assistant golf pro at the En-Joie Golf Club, wins the B.C. Open. Karl defeats Bruce Crampton on the first hole of a sudden death playoff to win the $30,000 prize.

SUNY Binghamton is moving books to its new $17,300,000 library. Over 500,000 books will be moved by September.

The last dead elm tree is removed from courthouse lawn in Owego.

Saturday night TV shows include All in the Family, The Partridge Family, Emergency, M*A*S*H, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Bob Newhart Show, Owen Marshall, and Barnaby Jones.

Top tunes include Rock the Boat by Hues Corporation, Sundown by Gordon Lightfoot, Rock Your Baby by George McCrae, Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me by Elton John, and Annie's Song by John Denver.

We're going to the theaters to see Barbra Streisand in For Pete's Sake, Herbie Rides Again, Chinatown, S*P*Y*S, Thunderbolt & Lightfoot with Clint Eastwood, and The Sting.

The 1974 Spring/Summer Sears catalog features textured polyester leisure coats with white stitch trim and double-knit cuffed flare-leg slacks with reversible white belts for men. For girls, it's cuffed denim baggies with super low boy-cut waists. For women, there are polyester double-knit dresses with gored skirts and pretty puffed sleeves, long double-knit polyester print dresses, and cuffed gabardine pants with wide legs.

A box of 24 ice-pops costs 99¢ and watermelon is 8¢ per pound.