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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1972
Page
2
Puzzle clues reference word pairs and letter plays across themes. Readable fragments hint at definitions and puns, with lines suggesting replacements or an editor’s note style. The jumble includes terms like BURN TURN, CHANCE CHANGE, and ELECTION, hinting at wordplay dynamics.
Rudy Stornes of Jamestown Maine tops last week's Moneyword Puzzle Contest No 775 with nearly perfect entry missing two words. Honorable mentions include Mrs Thomas Clemens Lakeland NC Robert C McCoy Walton NC and Susan’s 74 Fenteroon Dr Syracuse. Jackpot now stands at 22500 dollars.
Songwriter Irving Berlin donated an old upright piano used to compose classics like White Christmas and Easter Parade to the Smithsonian Institution. He called the museum “a center of history culture and knowledge” in announcing the gift.
The AP reports on Christmas eve hopes for peace amid Irish sectarian violence, Pakistani Bengali students stranded in Pakistan, Israeli troops in Bethlehem, and American POWs in Hanoi. Navy Cmdr Gordon Nakagawa faces his second Christmas in captivity after a helicopter downing near Haiphong. his mother in Auburn, California, remains hopeful.
Auto weapon fire struck a Catholic home in Belfast injuring none of visiting American Mrs Ann McConnell and her daughter Anne Marie. The attacker sought another target, a police spokesman said, as bombs and sniping marked the Christmas truce launch amid sectarian tension.
Final certified vote totals from 50 states and DC show Nixon with 47,168,963 votes and McGovern with 29,189,815, a margin of 17,999,348. Indiana and Georgia revised their tallies but national and state percentages remained unchanged.
President Nixon announced that 40 parcels of surplus federal land totaling 6 755 acres valued at over 18 3 million will be given to state and local governments in 22 states for park and recreation use This brings to 258 properties totaling 41 278 acres valued at 134 million transferred under the Legacy of Parks program New York sites include Lan caster U S Marines Training Center portion of Nike battery BU 18 47 acres valued at 38000 and Hero Montauk Point 118 acres valued at 2950000.
Western Berliners began crossing the Berlin Wall yesterday, signaling eased tension after the Big Four accord. The tentative easing lets families in the West spend Christmas with relatives in the East as hopes for a calmer city rise.
Rates listed for daily and Sunday mail subscriptions with different plans. Details show charges for daily, Sunday, and combined options, including outside New York State. The table presents prices per period and various total amounts for 1 year and periods.
A jetliner carrying Norwegians home for the holidays crashed and burned in a forest clearing west of Oslo. Officials say most of the 45 aboard were killed, seven survived including a Danish passenger, with three missing.
The Managua quake destroys hospitals and thousands of buildings leaving many injured and displaced. Relief flights and American rescue teams mobilize. U.S. officials evacuate Americans as Guatemalan witnesses report citywide devastation and fires. A separate Hawaii tremor registers 4.8 on the Richter scale near Captain Cook.
In St Petersburg a Florida restaurant owner shipped 7,000 pounds of snow from the North to Buffalo style swap for 10,000 oranges. About 500 residents queued in Aunt Hattie’s lot as sun warmed the snow and kids made snowballs pelted with oranges. Boore plans to repeat the stunt if possible.
Andrei N. Tupolev, renowned aircraft designer, died yesterday in Moscow at age 84, per Tass. His bureau produced over 100 aircraft from wooden monoplanes to the first supersonic jetliner, the Tu-144, and he recently received his third Hero of Socialist Labour medal from President Podgorny.
New York AP reports Harold H. Gray, former Pan American World Airways chairman, died of cancer at 66 at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center. He piloted the first transatlantic passenger flight in 1939. Buffalo UPI reports Alma Stewart, 48, died in a residential fire yesterday.
A bank was robbed as a robber fled with $2595 and a so called gun. A bank official pursued the thief who fled to a car that sped away with lights off. Witnesses described the event, and bank security photos circulated widely. FBI joined local police due to federal jurisdiction.
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