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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1968
Page
1
Apollo 8 veterans Borman Lovell and Anders fast approach Earth after circling the moon. They expect a Friday morning splashdown in the Pacific about 10 55 a m EST, amid favorable recovered area weather.
In Jonesville a Jan 18 election will name a successor to District Judge Jesse C. McGee of the Seventh Judicial District serving Concordia and Catahoula parishes. Candidates include R. P. Boyd Jr. and Wedon T. Smith. The winner will serve until the next regular Congressional election in 1970. Deadline to qualify is 5 p.m. Friday.
Twin Cities chit chat notes Bill Atkins found an egg shaped kumquat on the floor during Christmas morning with friends at the Howes home 4803 Blanks St. He joked to guests that someone had lost an Easter egg while Rev. Ted Howes pastor of the First Methodist Church in Delhi looked on.
A playful note riffs on the four dimensions of existence length breadth thickness and cost. The quip treats size and value as comic measures in everyday life.
Anthony Erthell Williams, a self described minister with prior sex charges, turned himself in at Davenport police as the search for 10 year old Pamela Powers continued. Clothing items found near Grinnell linked the Des Moines YMCA disappearance to the suspect who faced child stealing charges.
A 30 hour Christmas patrol period saw nine deaths in Louisiana traffic crashes. Several pedestrians were struck on Christmas Day, including Wade Ledet a 15 year old near Montegut and Loris Cassisse 47 of Napoleonville. Six died on Christmas Eve in a head on crash north of Krotz Springs and in Simmesport. Tragedy touched Plaquemine and Diamond communities as cars and conditions claimed multiple lives.
Apollo 8 is set to land in the mid Pacific about 1,000 miles south of Hawaii at 10:54 a.m. EST on Friday. Recovery chief John Stonesifer said visibility may be limited by weather but expected seas are manageable. Yorktown and Arlington will handle most communications for the isolated recovery.
Surgeons under Dr Denton A Cooley performed a heart transplant on a 33 year old woman in Texas transplanting the donor heart into her chest. The AP Wire photo accompanies the report.
U S combat deaths last week fell to 151 killed and 838 wounded, the lowest in five weeks. enemy and South Vietnamese government forces casualties rose slightly. South Vietnamese reports 202 killed, 886 wounded, 15 missing. Initial enemy deaths listed as 2,118, with adjustments common week to week.
Mostly cloudy skies and warmer temperatures are expected today and tonight with a chance of showers. Showers and a few thundershowers plus cooler temperatures are forecast Friday. Saturday will be partly cloudy and cold with highs 62 to 66 and lows 52 to 56. FAA at Monroe Municipal Airport logged a Wednesday high of 52 and a morning low of 49 with no rain recorded. Winds southerly 12 to 22 mph shifting to northerly Friday. Drying conditions are fair to good today then deteriorate to poor by Friday night. Dewpoints in the 30s to 40s and little sunshine through Friday.
U S forces resumed offensive actions near Saigon after a 24 hour Christmas truce. Air Cavalry scouts reported 53 enemy killed and several explosions in two groups near the Cambodian border. American casualties totaled none.
Navy officials delayed until Friday the start of intensive interrogation of the 82 surviving USS Pueblo crewmen at the San Diego hospital. The men face debriefing on all aspects of the seizure and release, with medical exams taking place first and families kept distant from details.
A nine foot, 400 pound tiger was shot by a U S Marine patrol after it attacked a Leatherneck asleep at a fire support base near Alpine in Quang Tri Province six miles east of the Laotian border. The injured Marine is in satisfactory condition at a Quang Tri hospital. Officials say the tiger may be the same animal linked to a prior killing nearby.
An El Al Boeing 707 bound for Paris and New York was attacked by two Arab gunmen who fired through window blasts and threw grenades as it prepared to take off. One passenger, Leon Shudan, a 50 year old maritime engineer, was killed. The attackers were captured by Greek police after the assault claimed by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
River stages reported at Camden and Monroe show no change. Camden reads 26 with 23.3 feet, Monroe at 40 with 23.3 feet, both station keeping status.
Gov John McKeithen vetoed a companion bill to a tax increase that failed to pass. An aide said the exemption would have cost the state about 100000 dollars a year immediately and millions in the future, affecting holding corporations under the dual taxation provision.
Classified note promotes using the News Star World Want Ads to connect sellers with buyers. It advertises cash payments for items and mentions a 16 ft coldspot refrigerator in good condition as an example of items likely to be sold.
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