Apollo 17 Crew Charged For Final Moon Mission
Apollo 17 launches at 8:53 p.m. CST in darkness, sending Eugene Cernan Ronald Evans and Harrison Schmitt on a 13 day moon voyage. Weather clouds loom but countdown is smooth as capewide crowds watch historic nighttime lift off.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
America
Eugene A. Cernan
Ronald E. Evans
Harrison H. Schmitt
Walter Kapryan
Cernan
Evans
Goodby
Schmitt
Apollo
Cape
Roosevelt greeting Hirohito on eve of Pearl Harbor attack
Daily on This Date 1941 notes President Franklin D. Roosevelt meeting Emperor Hirohito of Japan a day before Pearl Harbor. Cold wave alert issued with highs in the 40s and lows in the 20s across the region tonight and Thursday.
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Pearl Harbor
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Hirohito
Japan
Trinity Resident Sells Callie Puppies 22 More Wanted
An advertisement from a Trinity resident promotes Callie puppies for sale with a note of 22 additional listings. The Daily Want Ads service claims broad reach and a 1972 publication history with a special offer of 3 lines for 10 days at four dollars.
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Trinity
Minnie D
Trinity 2
Callie
Decatur Daily
Hudson Defends PM Search For Director
Point Mallard Park Authority chair and members defend their bid to hire a full time executive director and deny charges of bad faith. They say they have contacted major theme parks and are awaiting responses while maintaining in house leadership and planning a Feb 1 hiring target.
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Point Mallard Park Authority Board of
Charles Martin
Harry Rice
Calhoun Junior College
Martin
Leonard Hudson
Six Flags
Georgia
Callaway Gardens
Walt Disney World
Opryland U.S.A
Stone Mountain
Hudson
California
Tom Surest
Levin
Rice
Council
al Jones
Cold front drives Tennessee Valley temps into mid twenties
A cold wave warning spread across the Tennessee Valley as a frigid air mass moves into the region after heavy thundershowers. Decatur cooled from 72 earlier in the week to 46 by 9 am, with many areas dropping from the 60s to the 40s after the front.
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Tennessee Valley
U.S. Weather Service
Decatur
Truman in serious condition with bronchitis and heart weakness
Former President Harry S. Truman, 88, is described as serious after hospital doctors diagnosed bronchitis complicated by mild heart weakness from arterial sclerosis. Inhalation therapy and antibiotics are being used as doctors and hospital officials monitor his condition and potential diagnosis.
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Kansas City
Harry S. Truman
Wallace Graham
John Dreves
Research Hospital
Graham
Dreves
Truman
White House
Margaret Truman Daniel
Trumans
Independence
President Nixons picks Dent to replace Peterson in Commerce
In Camp David notes President Nixon said Earl Butz stays as Agriculture secretary while Peter Peterson leaves Commerce. Frederick B. Dent of South Carolina textile industry named to succeed him. In Montgomery reporter dispatch Wallace plans Cape Kennedy trip to view Apollo 17 launch with family and friends if weather allows.
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Camp David, Md
Montgomery
George C. Wallace
Cape Kennedy
Kissinger Tho Hold Third Talks Amid Pauses In Paris
Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho met for five hours in their third session with two earlier two hour meetings, a long pause followed. officials gave no clear progress report on modifications to the draft cease fire, while Nixon sent new instructions as talks continued in Paris.
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Henry A. Kissinger _Le Duc
Tho
Kissinger
Ex-Astro Guthridge Faces Missing Apollo Launch
SPACE CENTER Houston AP Earl J Guthridge a former space program technician who helped design and train for moon missions will miss the last Apollo launch due to night work and reduced pay He recalls training moon walkers and the parade of souvenirs from spacemen while coping with a new life after leaving the program in 1971.
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Guthridge
Gutheridge
Moon
Cernan
America
Cape Kennedy
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