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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1968
Page
4
The article describes Apollo 8 May 1968 plans to restart the third stage at 10 56 a m EST for five minutes 12 seconds to raise speed from 17400 to about 25000 mph enabling escape from Earth's gravity. Astronauts Borman Lovell and Anders seek perfection before a 250000 mile voyage into space.
Hart a passenger in a car driven by Theodore Panitz 22 of New Rochelle ran off Route 6 near Columbus, striking four trees and totaling the car. A second collision on Route 6 near Union City involved Paul Rizak Jr. 20 following a truck driven by John Kuzma 18 of Columbus. Rizak was cited for following too closely.
Barbara Mackle recounts being kidnapped and hidden in a wooden box with a faulty lamp before rescue. Her father Robert F. Mackle, a wealthy land developer and Nixon ally, awaited her return at Atlanta with a private plane. The suspects,Krist and Deacon, had a bizarre background including a California reformatory escape and work at MIT and the University of Miami Institute of Marine Science.
Top U.S. and South Vietnamese negotiators will report to Presidents Johnson and Thieu as fears of a split in the allied camp grow. Vance and Harriman met Ky and said Hanoi moved toward the allied position by proposing a round table. The U.S. will meet the NLF on South Vietnamese soil to discuss prisoners, a move viewed as propaganda by some. Thieu warned he could quit if Communists press.
The News Today Report notes inability to summon a physician in case of emergency and provides Corry Memorial Hospital contact numbers. Admitted: Nellie Kirch of Wayne Street. Simon Waldram of Chicago. Bessie Buesink of Findley Take. George Tinko of West Shurch Street. Susie K Tiffany of East Smith Street. Discharged: Margaret Osborne of Bear Lake. Eugene Groel of R D 2. Marion Tripp of 31a King William. Raynor of Dewittville NY. Pearl Upperman of Columbus. John Shira of Mead Avenue. Access details for local ambulance 668-3433 and emergency line 8201.
The Kotzebue National Forest will be fully lighted for Christmas again this year. The glow will warm members of the Alaskan Air Command's 748th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron stationed at Kotzebue Sound on the Arctic Circle. The forest, fenced and signposted, consists of a lone nine-foot spruce planted ten years ago by Air Force personnel.
Death of Emmett Huntley 58 of Corry RD 4 with brief survivor list including wife and four daughters. Funeral arrangements noted at Bracken Funeral Home with services Monday. Also report of a third incendiary firebomb found at University of Pittsburgh Campus Cathedral of Learning after earlier blasts.
Five Southwestern Pennsylvania residents were arrested for passing counterfeit $20s as part of a ring flooding Western Pennsylvania and Easter Ohio. Secret Service said about $40,000 in bogus bills circulated, with the group believed based in Washington County. Arrests followed earlier detentions in Donora Erie and Youngstown Ohio.
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