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Newspaper
Oswego Palladium Times
Location
Oswego, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1972
Page
1
Two year old Michael Battelle and other youngsters enjoyed a visit from a white beard Santa in Oswego at a Jaycees party. Santa spoke on Christmas meaning, sharing stories and wisdom with children and adults alike.
In New York Mary Mitchell 70 known as queen of about 250000 Gypsies lies in a coma in St. Vincent's Hospital after cancer surgery. Gypsy mourners travel from as far as Hawaii to be near their regent as sons Steve and Frank Mitchell and others keep vigil in the hospital board room.
Doctors said former president Harry S. Truman, age 88, remained semiconscious with stable vital signs and a quiet night. Kidney function was still unsatisfactory and had not improved despite treatment, becoming a primary ongoing concern.
Guerillas opened fire in Belfast wounding seven people in three hit-and-run attacks. Three Protestants were shot outside a social club on Springfield Road, three Catholics were shot in North Belfast, and a 16 year old Protestant youth was shot outside a cafe. All victims were hospitalized. one Catholic remained seriously injured.
Brent L. Hichman, 35, of New York City died after his car collided with a trailer truck on a snow covered stretch of the New York State Thruway west of Batavia. He was thrown from the vehicle and run over by the truck, state troopers said.
Thai military leader Thanom Kittikachorn announced that after a Vietnam cease fire the U S Air Force in Indochina would relocate its 7th Air Force HQ from Saigon to Nakorn Phanom on the Mekong River near the Thai border. He said about 4000 American personnel at Nakorn Phanom would be replaced by the 7th Air Force HQ code named Blue Chin. He framed the transfer as a precautionary measure citing trust concerns over a cease-fire.
Sandra Pryce of Kitchener, mother of two with a cystic fibrosis patient, received a reformatorio sentence for stealing about 20 dollars worth of baby clothes and was placed on two years probation for her third shoplifting offense. The defense plans an appeal against a nine month maximum. The Crown argued the term was warranted by prior offenses.
A winter storm dumped four to sixteen inches across most of New York as two storms merged into a heavy overnight snowfall. Massena led with sixteen inches, followed by Glens Falls fourteen, Watertown ten, Utica Rome eight, and six inches in Buffalo Syracuse and Albany.
Apollo 17 crew Cernan Schmitt and Evans prepare to fire their engine at 6 33 p m EST and depart lunar orbit for splashdown Tuesday in the South Pacific. Scientists hail their discoveries of orange lunar dust at Shorty Crater indicating possible youngest lunar material.
An explosion and fire at a coke plant under construction for Weirton Steel killed 21 men and injured more than 20 others. Officials cited seeping coke oven gas as the likely cause as rescue crews worked 11 hours amid rubble and confusion over trapped workers.
Henry Kissinger painted a bleak view of Paris peace talks with Hanoi and Washington at odds over fairness. He cited last minute obstacles from North Vietnamese negotiators while signaling cautious optimism that one decisive step could yield an international supervised cease fire and a settlement.
Communist gunners launched three rocket assaults on a major U.S. and South Vietnamese installation 15 miles north of Saigon. Two Vietnamese civilians were killed and at least one wounded as rockets struck nearby villages. No significant damage to Vietnamese aircraft or two U.S. Marine squadrons at Bien Hoa.
New York police say 80 of 97 pounds of pure heroin tied to the 1962 French Connection case are missing from the department’s evidence vault. Valued at $16 million, the heroin could supply about 7,000 addicts for 100 days. Police Commissioner Patrick V. Murphy said 57 pounds were initially reported stolen, a figure later raised to 80 after further lab analysis.
Buenos Aires reports the Peronist party nominated Dr Hector J Campora for president after Peron refused the nomination and swiftly endorsed his top adviser for the March 11 elections.
Bob Hope and a 75 member troupe arrived in Tokyo from the Aleutians on a Christmas tour of Far East U.S. military bases. The group includes 32 performers and Les Brown and his band, along with the American Beauties contest winners from across the United States.
Six American sailors have died in Hong Kong from apparent heroin overdoses since July. The USS Enterprise is on a week long rest and recreation visit, with several crew members treated for overdoses and one suspected death. The U S Consulate says it will work with Hong Kong authorities to curb drug use.
Ground controllers failed to activate the TV camera left on the moon during Apollo 17 by astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt. Two attempts to power the camera aboard the lunar rover were unsuccessful. The unit had been positioned to record the Challenger liftoff and was later tried to capture the impact of the mission’s jettisoned ascent stage, but the crash occurred outside the camera’s range.
Westminster police respond to a downtown store ruckus as Bob Tessier aged 21 and John Di Lubbio aged 19 present scripts and claim they are auditioning for roles in a Community Theatre Youth Groups staging of Thornton Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth in the audition center.
A New York grand jury investigating the Attica prison uprising handed 37 sealed indictments to State Supreme Court Justice Carman Ball. Arrests were expected across the state with arraignments at the Wyoming County Courthouse, as officials declined to disclose the number of defendants or charges. The probe, led by Deputy Atty. Gen. Robert Fischer, follows the 1971 revolt that left 43 dead.
A twin engine light plane crashed into two residences in Cheektowaga near Buffalo International Airport. Three aboard and three in the first house were killed. two were injured. The plane struck power lines, cleared a house, then nosed into the second home. Witness Florence Libraire described the shock of the crash.
The Labor Department announced Arnold Miller, a 49 year old retired coal miner, as president of the United Mine Workers with 70,373 votes to 56,334 for incumbent W A Boyle. Certification will precede court ruling on a Jan 15 deadline, following earlier fraud findings after Boyle's 1969 win and the murder of rival Joseph Yablonski. Miller’s running mates Mike Trbovich and Harry Patrick also won their races.
President Nixon plans to appoint John A. Scali as ambassador to the United Nations. The White House adviser and former journalist is praised for his role in Nixon’s visits to Peking and Moscow. Scali, 54, would replace George H. W. Bush who takes over as chairman of the Republican National Committee.
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