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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1968
Page
6
The maiden launch of the Apollo Lunar Module is delayed at least three days to January 21 due to minor fueling problems. No official NAS A statement was expected until fueling is more complete. The module will precede the craft designed to land two astronauts on the moon.
Philadelphia district attorney's office says Robert L. Watson, a library page at the Free Library, was arrested on charges of larceny by an employee after investigators located 300 books improperly checked out to his home.
Short news items from the January 11 1968 Ottawa Herald page include local briefs on civic notices and community happenings. Details are limited in the provided fragment.
Kansas City AP report about Major William D. Gilmer of the police department who keeps a timber wolf, Shanty, in a back yard with a wolf den. He plans to breed it with a German shepherd to create a larger, faster patrol dog while noting neighbors report no issues and the wolf is housebroken.
In Salem Massachusetts doctors said the odds were 100000 to one against her but Lisa Ann Chiango beat them. She weighed 5 pounds 5 ounces at Salem Hospital and went home with parents Mr and Mrs Augustine Chiango of Byfield after a milestone birth in September weighing 1 pound 12 ounces with a nine ounce loss. The baby spent time in an incubator until ready to leave Wednesday.
In Jackson Miss two sisters aged 15 and 17 were committed to Columbia State Training School by County Judge Carl Guernsey. The judge ruled they suffered minor brain damage from sniffing glue after the older sister was hospitalized following a glue sniffing party. The hospital says the younger sister has permanent brain damage.
In eight below zero weather, Roy Bennett attempted to thaw frozen kitchen pipes with a torch. The blaze leveled two homes and damaged a third, leaving ten people homeless as authorities investigated the incident in Norway, Maine.
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