Fragmentary sports note hints at upcoming bout outcome
The readable line hints at a boxing or fighting bout with two contestants to face off soon. It mentions speed and timing and an implied result but lacks names, places, dates, or clear actions.
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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1966
Page
3
The readable line hints at a boxing or fighting bout with two contestants to face off soon. It mentions speed and timing and an implied result but lacks names, places, dates, or clear actions.
Readable fragments hint at a local report with uncertain wording about events and individuals in Rouse. Content is too incomplete to identify names, places, or outcomes.
Miami dispatch reports Cuba’s Youth Technical Brigades, called shock troops, mobilizing across industry and farms with military training for youths. Exiles compare them to China’s Red Guards, saying members wear blue shirts and carry revolvers. Castro framed them as defense oriented youth groups with military instruction. Also notes 15,699 dropouts to return under Operation Rescue with vocational paths.
London AP reports eight more convicts escaped British prisons during the Christmas weekend raising total escapes to 23 with four recaptured. Dartmoor Prison fugitives overpowered guards and slipped a 30 foot wall while Leyhill Open Prison inmates vanished in rain and mist. Derbyshire open prison escapees were recaptured. George Blake remains at large after Wormwood Scrubs exit. Mountbatten warned Dartmoor authorities over prison conditions amid an ongoing crackdown.
Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower expected to depart Walter Reed Army Hospital this afternoon after his December 12 gall bladder operation. The 76 year old plans to travel to Palm Desert California in January from his Gettysburg Pennsylvania home.
A narrator notes a man named Mitchell outside the walls and recalls a jail built in 1806 for Napoleonic prisoners, admitting it was inadequate for modern needs.
Three stranded Boulder photographers Gerald Brown 17 John Squires 19 and Bill Prather 19 were rescued after spending a day and night on Longs Peak 14 255 feet south of Estes Park Colorado as a blizzard moved in. They had gone to photograph two climbers whose ascent of the mountain east face was postponed due to poor weather.
Mrs Kennedy has reached a settlement over deleting parts of a 60,000 word extract from the Look magazine serial. The book is due for publication in April. Manchester remains hospitalized with pneumonia and is reported as improving.
Washington AP reports researchers developed single cell protein by feeding bacteria or yeast high quality hydrocarbons from crude oil. The process aims to create a major protein source for developing countries, with heat treatment to kill microbes after fermentation.
In Washington the Defense Department confirmed civilian damage in North Vietnam from raids while insisting only military targets were attacked. U.S. troops unloaded cargo in Saigon during a strike by 2 500 Vietnamese dock workers, with 1 703 tons moved by American stevedores. Evangelist Billy Graham left the U S after an eight day Christmas visit, pessimistic about an early end to the war, calling it complicated and frustrating. Heavy fighting near Bong Son accompanied a helicopter zone as U S and Vietnamese forces reported substantial American casualties. The cease fire saw 122 incidents in South Vietnam, mostly minor, with no Communist charge of violations. B52s struck three times in a day, hitting a base camp 65 miles north northwest of Cam Ranh Bay.
ERIE County Commissioner William C Hill Jr is likely to be named chairman at the board's reorganizational meeting next Tuesday Louis J Rzymek current chairman says he expects to nominate Hill for the post If approved the two Democrats would hold chairmanships for two years each in the county board and institution district and election board The Republican Fred W Lamberton is not expected to be named a chairperson
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