25 Years Ago
by Beverly Brown

 It's August 1978. Greek heiress Christina Onassis, 27, weds Sergei Kauzov, 37, in Moscow.

 Comedian Totie Fields, 48, dies of a heart attack in Las Vegas. 

 Pope Paul VI, 80, dies of a heart attack at the Summer Palace in Castel Gandolfo, 15 miles south of Rome. David and Julie Nixon Eisenhower have a baby girl, Jennie.

 The first balloonists to cross the Atlantic land in a wheatfield near Paris. Ben Abruzzo, Maxie Anderson, and Larry Newman, all of Albuquerque, New Mexico, make the more than 3,000-mile flight in their helium-filled balloon, the Double Eagle II.

 A summer snow storm buries parts of Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks in Wyoming under a foot of snow.

 Bandleader Louis Prima, 67, dies in New Orleans. He has been in a coma since brain surgery three years ago.

 In Rome, Cardinal Albino Luciani, 65, is elected Pope. He chooses to be called Pope John Paul I, in honor of his two predecessors, Pope John XXIII and Pope Paul VI.

 Actor Charles Boyer, 78, commits suicide in Arizona days after his wife dies of cancer.

 Actor Robert Shaw, 51, best known for his portrayal of the shark hunger in Jaws, dies of a heart attack in Ireland.

 A West German Bank makes an offer to buy the World Trade Center Towers.

 In Binghamton, hundreds of people spend the night in line to get tickets for the Bob Dylan concert next month at the Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena.

 A Delaware and Hudson 89-car train derails in Owego near the Jamesway shopping center on Route 17C. Most cars were empty and there are no injuries. 

 Monday night TV shows include Little House on the Prairie, The Jeffersons, Monday Night Baseball, Good Times, M*A*S*H, One Day at a Time, and Lou Grant.

 Movies playing in local theaters include Harper Valley PTA starring Barbara Eden, The Eyes of Laura Mars with Faye Dunaway and Tommy Lee Jones, Disney's Hot Lead and Cold Feet, National Lampoon's Animal House, and The Buddy Holly Story.

 And a dozen ears of home-grown sweet corn costs 89¢ and a pound of home-grown tomatoes costs 39¢.