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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1968
Page
6
Elsie Cheseldine, 63, braved the cold in Washington to comfort animals on Christmas Day. She crouched beneath a tree offering peanuts to a wary squirrel named Shorty Tail while pigeons fluttered around as she scattered bird seed.
Thousands of city families faced cold apartments due to a weeklong fuel strike and fuel shortages. Hong Kong flu deaths rose as vaccine supply ran out and blood donations lagged. City officials urged truckers to resume deliveries amid freezing temperatures and rising heatless buildings.
Pope Paul VI ended an 18 hour Christmas schedule with a blessing to the world from St. Peter's Basilica after visiting a south Italian steel mill. He urged a rebirth of peace and harmony among men still in conflict while appearing weary from the demanding observance.
Railway hobbyist Gerald Pagano in Saffron Walden gave up on buying the final British steam locomotive after being quoted 5,000 pounds to restore and tow it 200 miles home. Columbia Pictures, now owner, had offered 1,700 pounds for the locomotive.
Mrs Irene M Roose recounts son Alvin H Pluckers account of confinement in North Korea aboard the Pueblo. He endured chair restraints beatings and mock executions while kneecap damage required later surgery. Plucker noted captors favored blondes with blue eyes.
Pan American World Airways reports over 100 names on a waiting list for the first commercial flight to the moon. The airline, long a pioneer of transoceanic routes, says Apollo’s lunar orbit stoked solid interest and that each reservation is recorded and acknowledged.
In Mannington West Virginia the wives of 78 miners killed in the Mannington Number 9 Mine endured Christmas day for their 121 children. Mrs Hartsel Mayle spoke of their forced holiday as cold and hard while the town faced bitter 18 degree weather.
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