Night launch of Apollo 17 lights Cape Kennedy sky
Cape Kennedy witnesses Apollo 17 launch at 2 hours 40 minutes late, Saturn V fire blazing bright and white. Astronauts Gene Cernan Ron Evans and Jack Schmitt ride the towering rocket as spectators watch the fiery plume arc northeast and fade into the dawn while the mission heads toward the moon.
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Apollo 17 crews plan quiet day in space schedule
Space Center Houston reports Apollo 17 astronauts will rest for six hours forty four minutes and eat meals with a later eight hour rest. Mission Control notes some coast to moon events may shift due to faster travel and networks plan limited telecasts until Monday lunar landings by Cernan and Schmitt.
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Apollo 17 Lifts Off After Delays At Cape Kennedy
Apollo 17 blasted toward the moon aboard a Saturn 5 from Cape Kennedy. Commander Eugene Cernan and crewmates Harrison Schmitt and Ronald Evans rode the orbiting stage, with a late countdown fix allowing a bright lift off and quick ascent.
Truman Remains Critical Amid Heart Failure Fight
Former President Harry S. Truman, age 88, remained on the critical list at Research Hospital and Medical Center with congested lungs and heart failure. Doctors reported fluctuating fever, acute pulmonary edema, and kidney impairment but noted some stabilization and optimism about lifting him from the critical list.
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Harry S. Truman
Research Hospital and Medical Center
Truman
John Dreves
Wilson Miller
Wallace Graham
City workers on alert for burst water pipes
S B Hunt city water superintendent says crews were ready Wednesday night with city trucks to handle emergencies. Only one call came from the Brandon Hotel as freezing weather threatens more frozen pipes. customers told to call 445-2932 for 24 hour service and to drain or wrap exposed lines to prevent breaks.
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S. B. Hunt
Brandon Hotel
Hunt
First Lady Imelda Marcos Slashed In Manila Attack
In Pasay City at an amusement park, Imelda Marcos was attacked with a foot long bolo knife while congratulating contest winners. She sustained arm and hand wounds but was reported safe and out of danger after transfer to Makati Medical Center. the assailant was killed by guards.
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Ferdinand E. Marcos
Imelda
Constantino Manahan
Pasay City
Mrs. Marcos
Prices Up Wholesale Index Rises Sharply in November
The Labor Department reports the wholesale price index increased six tenths of one percent in November, the steepest jump since July and reversing a trend of slowing inflation. The rise dampens hopes that inflation is under control.
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Washington
Labor Department
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Texas Warmth Limited as Cold Front Grips State
Texas and nearby regions report frigid conditions with single digit lows in Amarillo and Dalhart. Coastal towns reach only mid 40s while Galveston notes 44 and South Texas stays in the 40s as an Arctic air mass dominates much of the state.
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Austin
del Rio
Galveston
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Texas
Amarillo
Dalhart
Pecos Home Yard Christmas Lighting Contest Opens Entries
The Young Homemakers sponsor a Pecos lighting contest with no entry fee and a Dec 20 closing date. Enter by call or mail, list names and address, then compete in two city divisions for cash prizes or donate to charity. Commercial displays judged as well with plaques awarded.
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Pecos
Home Yard
Food baskets aid Pecos families this Christmas season
Pecos Evening Lions Club joins the Community Council of Reeves County in gathering needy family names from teacher surveys and welfare requests for Christmas food baskets. A contact list with family names and sizes is available by calling 446 3166 or 445 4036 from 9 am to 5 pm, plus a list of typical basket foods.
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Pecos Evening Lions Club
Community Council
Reeves County
Evening Lions
Nixon Names Volpe Ambassador to Italy and Brinegar for Cabinet
President Nixon named Transportation Secretary John A. Volpe as ambassador to Italy replacing Graham Martin and selected Claude S. Brinegar to succeed Volpe in the second-term Cabinet Brinegar a Union Oil executive and former Pure Oil president Brinegar has no prior government service and will join the administration after the Nixon retreat plans noted by Ronald Ziegler
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Italy
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Richard Kleindienst
Volpe
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Rome
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California
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Union Oil
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Yorba Linda
Calif
Whitter College
Anxious wives watch and wait at Cape Kennedy
Anxious wives of Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene Cernan and Ronald Evans returned to Houston after a long launch delay to prepare for about 11 and a half more days of watching. Barbara Cernan recalled the liftoff as overwhelming and described the moment as daylight with fish jumping and falling stars seen. Tracy, nine, cried as her father rode the Saturn rocket into the sky. Janet Evans shared similar emotions about the first night launch of a manned space flight.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
Eugene A. Cernan
Ronald E. Evans
Houston
Barbara Cernan
Tracy
Spiro T. Agnew
Mrs. Cernan
Forgetful trio flee after $14 dine-and-dash
Police hunt two men and a woman described as hippy types who left Ben's Spanish Inn without paying a $14 bill on Wednesday night. They drove a yellow Volkswagen with black stripes and out of state plates. the woman carried a credit card labeled Sherryl Detmar.
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Ben’s Spanish Inn
Sherryl Detmar
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