Three Apollo Lunar Landings Possible Next Year
Houston reports NASA weighs three lunar landings starting midsummer after Apollo 8 success. Phillips notes July or August landing goal with Apollo 9 and 10 in sequence, with crew shuffles and possible Borman Lovell inclusion after debriefings.
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New York Times News Service
Houston
United States
Samuel C. Phillips
Phillips
NASA
Borman
Space Agency
Thomas P. Stafford
John _W. Young
Eugene A. Cernan
Navy to award Purple Heart medals to Pueblo crew
The USS Pueblo skipper Cmdr. Lloyd M Bucher and nine crewmen will receive Purple Hearts for wounds from their capture in North Korea. Most of the 82 freed sailors likely qualify for injuries during 11 months in prison as the Navy conducts its extensive debriefing and prepares a court of inquiry.
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San Diego
Calif
Pueblo
Navy
Lloyd M Bucher
United States
Limestone County leads 1968 Alabama cotton production
Limestone County tops Alabama counties in 1968 cotton by Dec 1 with 35,186 running bales ginned, adjusted to 500 pounds per bale. Madison County 30,360 bales, Lawrence 21,657. County agent F K Agee notes above average yield but cites mid November freeze as cause of losses.
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Limestone County
Alabama
Department of Commerce
Madison County
Limestone
Lawrence County
F. K. Agee
China Tests Nuclear Device in 3 Megaton Blast
Washington reports Communist China conducted its first successful nuclear test in eighteen months, yielding about 3 megatons at Lop Nor. The AEC confirmed the atmospheric detonation occurred around 2:30 a.m. EST on December 27, marking a potential renewal of China’s atomic weapons program after prior delays.
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Washington
China
Atomic Energy Commission
Lop Nor
Peking
AEC
U.S
United States
ABC
Plane Hits Hangar At Chicago 30 Believed killed
A North Central Airlines Convair 580 crashed into a hangar at O'Hare during a drizzle. Thirty people were killed. 15 others and eight drum corps youths survived or were injured. The crash halted landings for an hour.
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Chicago
North Central Airlines
O’hare International
North Central
Minneapolis
Eastern Airlines
Resurrection
Holy Family
Colin Cook
Wausau, Wis
Wausau
Braniff Airlines
O’hare
Cook
Soft crash lands Ozark DC9 after takeoff near Sioux City
Sixty six aboard Ozark Air Lines DC9 survived a tree strike and 14 inch snow belly landing after takeoff for Chicago. Most passengers treated for cuts and scratches. 12 admitted. Pilot P G Sweeney and stewardess Trudy Roybal praised for calm evacuation. cause under investigation.
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Sioux City. Town
Ozark Air Lines
Larry Cornwell
Pender
P. G. Sweeney
Wood River
Rita Buhman
Chicago
Yates Aims At Trailer Tag Delinquency
Morgan County residents in mobile homes without 1969 license tags are urged by License Commissioner Cleon Yates to buy them before citations are issued. He cites strict enforcement of the 1962 law, aligning trailer tag requirements with automobile tag rules. See YATES on Page 2.
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Morgan County
Cleon Yates
Yates
Bob Bates
Downtown Power Outage Strikes Decatur During Storm
A severe storm knocked out power in downtown Decatur near Johnston Street causing blackout across 1st Ave SE and adjacent blocks. The Decatur Electric Department patrolled a 16 block area under high winds and rain as a transformer failure and a fallen tree cut lines preceding a near hourlong outage.
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1St Ave
Old Decatur
Decatur Electric Department
Haley Mills
Princess Theater
Decatur Daily
Richard Watkins
Sterchi
Masonic Lodge
Tennessee Valley
Market
Lee St
Canal and Line St
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Gen. Phillips
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Donald K. Slayton
Lovell
Frigidaire Sales and Service
Robinson Furniture
Second Avenue
Dial
James Lovell Jr
William Anders
Frank Borman
Earth
Agee
Trudy Roybal
Jerry Strand
Roybal
Jerome Duracaynski
Sioux Falls
S.D
St. Louis
Paul Rodgers
Ozark
Morris
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