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Newspaper
Oswego Palladium Times
Location
Oswego, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1972
Page
1
Apollo 17 astronauts Cer man Schmitt and Evans wrap up packing and cleanup aboard the America in advance of splashdown in the South Pacific at 2 24 p m EST Tuesday. The crew nears the halfway mark home as mission control coordinates final steps.
Sen. William Proxmire presses Litton Industries over possible attempts to shift the firm's financial troubles onto the Navy as four days of hearings begin. Litton’s Fred O Greene declines to testify while negotiations over more than 500 million in shipbuilding claims continue with the Navy.
Harry S. Truman, age 88, was reported slightly improved and spoke for the first time in more than a week at Research Hospital and Medical Center where he has been a patient since December 5. Doctors said his kidneys remain the main deteriorating problem, with heart weakness and fluid in the lungs.
A series of gas explosions and fires rocked the Uptown Harrisburg area injuring one woman in a laundromat near W T Grant. The blast gutted the Grant store and damaged a nearby church as windows blew out across the block. Army Reserve forces aided city workers and guards were posted to protect damaged businesses.
Saigon reports U S air operations resumed above the 20th parallel after peace talks collapsed. U S sources say Haiphong harbor remained open to activity and rockets were fired near its suburbs. Defense Secretary Laird confirms lifting of the restriction with limited detail.
John Misha Petkevich and Wendell L Wilkie II were chosen as Rhodes Scholars to study at Oxford for one year. Petkevich, Harvard pre-med student from Great Falls Montana, discussed skating with his coach. Wilkie, 20, Harvard senior from Wayzata Minnesota, called the honor a challenge. The broader report notes Hanoi dismissing Thieu's peace plan and a unilateral Christmas cease fire while Kissinger said talks with Tho had broken down and Nixon paused bombing above the 20th parallel.
The Minnesota Museum of Art reported the theft of a gem encrusted 14 inch National Cup designed by John Flaxman in 1826. Executive director Malcolm E Levi said the priceless piece was taken after a break in when a lock was drilled and an alarm alerted police, but the cup was missing.
Washington reports say North Vietnam plans post cease fire actions to resume fighting in South Vietnam. Intelligence suggests smaller units move covertly, with reinforcements and caches of ammo entering the south. U S officials call for a stronger international supervisory force than the failed 1954 Geneva control mission.
Rhodes Scholarships have been awarded to 32 U S college students for two years study at Oxford. Winners were chosen from 733 candidates by Prof William J Barber of Wesleyan University, pending Rhodes Trustees approval.
The Electoral College meets in state capitals and the District of Columbia to cast ballots for president and vice president. Nixon is expected to win about 521 votes while McGovern has 17, with Massachusetts and the District of Columbia casting McGovern electors.
Pickets marched in front of the Wyoming County Court House as arraignments loom for indicted individuals tied to the Attica riot case. Thirty-seven sealed indictments were handed to Justice Carman F. Ball amid ongoing state police arrests and ongoing grand jury work led by Deputy Atty. Gen. Robert E. Fischer.
Walton resident Arnie Edwards 25 a communications specialist for the Coast Guard is missing after a Coast Guard helicopter crash in the Gulf of Mexico. His parents in Walton were notified Sunday. Edwards joined the Coast Guard after graduating from the College of Forestry at Syracuse University.
President Nixon sends Gen Alexander Haig to Saigon and neighboring countries to brief leaders on Paris negotiations. Haig’s trip follows Kissinger remarks and Hanoi claims of stalled talks amid renewed air activities north of the 20th parallel.
Moscow based Tass reports a U S attack on suburbs north of Hanoi with a fire raging in the area. The brief conveys wartime aerial activity and rising tensions around the Vietnamese capital.
North Vietnamese negotiator Le Duc Tho flies to Hanoi to report on the secret talks in Paris and carries pledges of Soviet and Chinese support as announced by Radio Hanoi.
The Air Force told House members that politics did not influence contract awards for developing a new cargo plane. Contracts for two prototype medium range STOL planes went to McDonnell-Douglas and Boeing Aircraft Co of Wheatfield New York.
Six shackled and unidentified suspects were escorted to the Wyoming County Courthouse for arraignment on Attica prison uprising charges. The proceedings were delayed until this afternoon. One suspect was later identified as Charles J. Pernasilice, 20, of Camillus, a Syracuse suburb, who was allowed to speak to reporters.
Five members of the East Coast Conspiracy to Save Lives were arrested in York Pennsylvania for allegedly pouring concrete into a Penn Central switch at a siding owned by American Machine and Foundry Corp. The group, all from New Jersey, faced charges of malicious injury to railroads and targeted a facility supplying material for the air war in Southeast Asia.
The White House official said the administration has drafted legislation to hold local television stations accountable at license renewal for the balance and taste of all network news and entertainment programs they broadcast.
In a 70 minute broadcast President Idi Amin announced the seizure of an American television sales firm International Television Sales and seven British concerns along with all foreign tea estates as part of his drive to end foreign influence in Uganda. The U S firm is International Television Sales owned by Harry Engel, an American resident in Perth Australia.
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