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Newspaper
Oswego Palladium Times
Location
Oswego, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1968
Page
1
An Associated Press survey notes extreme cold and a mid week Christmas reduced deaths but traffic accidents still claimed several lives in upstate New York. Eight teenagers died in crashes and additional fatalities occurred in home fires and other incidents during a 30 hour period around Christmas Eve.
In Albion New York a 14 year old boy placed his 18 year old brother wounded in the thigh into a car and drove for help after an accidental shotgun discharge during a hunting trip. William Connor died an hour and a half later at Arnold Gregory Memorial Hospital from massive hemorrhage.
As the Johnson presidency ends, federal grants bolster Model Cities to move projects from drawing boards to action. Seattle receives 19 million, with many more cities eyed for similar funding to entrench programs before Nixon takes office on January 20.
U S and South Vietnamese forces reopened attacks after a 24 hour Christmas cease-fire, reporting over 200 enemy troops engaged northwest of Saigon. The U.S. command said at least 53 enemy soldiers were killed by bombs rockets and artillery with no American casualties. The strikes hit near the Cambodia border about 63 miles northwest of Saigon.
In Athens an El Al Boeing 707 incoming from Tel Aviv to Paris faced a gun and grenade assault by two Arab attackers. One passenger died and another was wounded as police detained the assailants and investigated.
Apollo 8 races toward Earth on a near perfect course after lunar orbiting. Commanders Borman Lovell and Anders report rest and readiness for Friday re entry, aiming for a precise two degree corridor at 400000 feet to reach the Pacific.
After a six day mission the Apollo 8 crew will perform a 30 000 foot skip maneuver from 180 000 feet to 210 000 feet before re entry. They will parachute into the Pacific Ocean about 10 55 a m EST Friday 1 000 miles south of Hawaii with daylight landing expected.
The report covers a late midcourse correction by the crew and a plan for a final televised space segment at 3 51 pm. NASA officials assess the mission as a major step toward the United States goal of landing men on the moon in 1969.
In Adirondack conditions on Christmas Eve three Soviet citizens were hospitalized after a weather affected crash near Lake Placid. Two were in fair condition at Lake Placid Memorial Hospital, with officials noting weather as the cause of the ice slick collision.
Navy officials postponed the intensive questioning of the 82 surviving USS Pueblo crewmen until Friday. A full day was set aside for medical examinations, with the crew confined to two buildings for about ten days of exams and debriefing.
Traffic accidents on the nation s streets and highways killed 212 people during the Christmas holiday, compared with 107 two weeks earlier. Despite hazardous driving conditions nationwide, the deaths were far below the National Safety Council s earlier estimate for the period.
President-elect Nixon and wife visited a private island in the Bahamas by helicopter. They were joined by newlywed daughter Julie and her husband, David Eisenhower, on a Bahamas trip as reported from Key Biscayne.
A Pan American World Airways 707 on a charter mail flight crashed during takeoff at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage Alaska. The aircraft carried a crew of three and their fate was not immediately known.
A charter bus traveling from Chicago to a Washington church convention veered off the Pennsylvania Turnpike, plunged down an embankment and flipped over. Three people were killed and thirty seven injured, with most others only jarred.
Union Station, opened in 1900 at a cost of 400000, will close Sunday. Services move to a new station across the Hudson River in Rensselaer, about ten minutes from downtown Albany, as the State Transportation Department absorbs the depot for an arterial project.
Bitter cold and fuel oil shortages blamed for a miserable Christmas as thousands shivered in unheated apartments. Health Commissioner Dr. Edward O Rourke urged Mayor John V. Lind to push oil firms to speed emergency deliveries amid a flu outbreak.
Warsaw AP reports Zygmunt Choromanski a leading Polish Roman Catholic prelate died of heart failure at age 76. He was the No 2 figure in Poland's church hierarchy and a strong defender of church rights in a Communist ruled nation.
Davenport Iowa AP police search for Pamela Powers missing since Christmas Eve continues as her father identifies orange stretch pants and white bobby socks found in a Grinnell waste receptacle as her clothes. Authorities say a man described as Anthony Erthell Williams fled in a green 1959 car after removing with a blanket wrapped bundle.
The U S Navy begins debriefing 82 Pueblo crew members at a naval hospital. Debriefing covers all phases from the Jan 23 seizure to the crew’s release last Sunday with two buildings assigned for a 10 day period. Families report crew spirits remain high while physical toll shows weight loss and possible torture.
Apollo 8 crew prepares a sixth and final 15 minute TV telecast from SPACE CENTER Houston. Commander Frank Borman describes life aboard the ship and shows the interior while William Anders and James Lovell recount space routines and a Christmas meal surprise from Santa.
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