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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1972
Page
1
In Managua authorities ordered evacuation as earthquakes left the capital 70 percent destroyed. Officials estimate 5,000 to 10,000 dead of 300,000 residents. Rescue teams searched rubble while mercy flights from the U S and other nations arrived with aid.
Eight year old Donald Warren Adkins of Danville feared hospital stay would ruin Santa visits. Sunday afternoon Santa Claus surprised him in his hospital room at Baugh-Wiley-Smith Hospital, presenting a game and a jack in the box after surgery for appendicitis.
Pope Paul urged peace as war and disaster darken Christmas through Southeast Asia and Managua. In Bethlehem, Arab and Israeli security surrounded Manger Square while pilgrims arrived for Christmas. Astronaut James Irwin and ex PM Harold Wilson visited, amid roadblocks and police patrols.
A large multi agency rescue operation on the Tennessee River aimed to locate four Birmingham men missing after a hunting trip. Jimmy Rodiam 20 was recovered. Charles Edward Bradford 40 Allen 17 and Robert DeLoach 44 remain missing as the search resumes Tuesday on a smaller scale with more than 200 rescuers and 40 boats.
US warplanes pause Sunday night on bombing runs in North and South Vietnam to give pilots a Christmas rest. Saigon sources say strikes resume Monday night. Saigon and Viet Cong observe a 24 hour cease fire starting 6 p.m. Sunday. US losses include a B52, an F4, and an AC130 with nine airmen rescued and several still missing.
Relatives of Air Force Captain Terry Geloneck of Decatur say he was not injured and is being kept in Hanoi after his B52 was shot down last Wednesday. Two crew members were seriously injured while Geloneck was reportedly missing then listed as prisoner of war. His wife, Jane Bass, spoke from California and said she has been instructed not to discuss details.
North Vietnamese militiaman escorts Air Force Sgt. Louis Leblanc, a B52 crewman, through Ha Tay Province northwest of Hanoi. VNA caption notes Leblanc was captured Friday, per AP Wirephoto.
An 18 year old Rogersville boy Rosey Tucker Holt died when a tire blew out causing his car to crash into a bridge abutment on U S 72 west of Athens. It was Limestone County 20th traffic fatality this year and Alabama's 11th for the weekend.
George Washington's troops began crossing the Delaware River to attack Hessian forces at Trenton New Jersey. The brief note appears among a collection of daily items and local notices in the newspaper. Weather mentions a 20 percent rain chance with a high near 47 and a low around 38.
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