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Newspaper
Sunday Dominion Post
Location
Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1967
Page
1
In Point Pleasant West Virginia a bridge crashes into the river during a busy crossing. Rescue crews pull survivors from wreckage while drivers recount the moment the structure gave way. A 15 year old eyewitness and two truck drivers describe the terrifying plunge and subsequent rescue efforts.
President Johnson signed a multibillion dollar Christmas package raising pay for 5 million servicemen and civilian workers with a retroactive start to Oct 1. A new postal rate schedule increases regular mail by one cent and airmail by two cents, effective Jan 7, with further hikes planned for July. The package totals about 2.7 billion annually for civilian pay and 2.7 billion for service pay, plus post office revenue to streamline the service. The move includes a commission to recommend future raises for judges and officials and bans nepotism with grandfathering for current relatives. The end of unsealed Christmas cards two cent discount is noted as six-cent cards begin next year.
A charter bus carrying 40 U.S. servicemen from Ft. Bliss overturned in a heavy snowstorm on U.S. 180 near the Guadalupe Mountain Range, killing three and injuring 24. Four of the injured were critical. 13 uninjured. Victims' names not released.
Red Star quoted by Tass says Soviet instructors served on duty defending North Vietnam from US air raids. It claims Soviet experts trained Vietnamese missile crews day and night, demonstrating skill during engagements with American planes.
A reflective line compares patience to letting a car idle when urge to rush is strong. It frames patience as controlled restraint rather than inaction, using a vehicle metaphor to advise calm, steady progress over impulsive speed.
Divers comb the swollen Ohio River after a steel suspension bridge failed, trapping dozens of vehicles. Officials report eight confirmed dead, with authorities fearing up to eighty may be lost as cranes struggle against swift current.
UPI reports a rare monsoon break let U S pilots strike the Hanoi Haiphong area for the third straight day. In Bong Son Plain fighting North Vietnamese and Viet Cong casualties topped 700 with 22 Americans dead and 52 wounded.
Gov Hulett C Smith called the Silver Bridge collapse one of West Virginia's worst disasters at a news conference in Pt Pleasent. He praised rescue efforts, noted a slow salvage process for cars and bridge debris, and said Ohio River traffic would remain closed to boats until late this week.
Dr. Thomas E. Stelson of Carnegie Mellon said eyewitness reports of heavy traffic on one lane, with four semi trailers three feet apart, plus divers finding 57 vehicles, point to overload as a factor. He noted modern standards require greater truck spacing and that corrosion at the anchorage is unlikely.
Louis Washkansky, who received history’s first human heart transplant two weeks ago, fights pneumonia at Groote Schuur Hospital. Doctors report mild pneumonia and no alarm, while immunosuppressive therapy complicates infection and donor readiness for a second operation is being assessed.
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