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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1966
Page
7
AP reports 17 year old Californian Lee Graham sails solo toward Tongas as part of a longer voyage. He plans to spend a month there before continuing his healing journey and return to shore.
Fragmented dispatch details a round the world sailor reaching Tonga after lightning strikes and a home fire. It covers frost delays in farming, spring weather contrasts from Washington to Georgia, and unusual temperature swings from 96 to 30s across multiple states with records noted in Lansing, Fargo, Culver City, Syracuse, Richmond, and Cincinnati.
In Mount Clemens Michigan elementary schools begin a city wide program testing different methods of teaching pupils to spell. Teachers encourage children to write notes in class to improve spelling skills during the war effort context.
Leo nard Pruett and his wife, both born on Friday the 13th, say they are not really worried. He claims no superstition, she admits small superstitions like avoiding ladders and walking in front of her. When asked about unusual events today, she says no, but hints she might start worrying and jokes about knocking on wood.
In a night of gunfire from an automobile, a lone sniper wounded nine people with pellets. The attacks traced a pattern from lower Manhattan to Washington Heights as police investigated a single shooter in a car with a girl, with two eye injuries reported and conditions serious.
A Athena missile lit the sky over White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico and impacted successfully officials said. Lights were seen as far west as Turson Arizona and as far east as Las Vegas Nevada. At Green River Utah two men robbed James Pech jewelry store, entering through a front door and fleeing in two cars with $10,000 in jewelry. The sign left on the door read Closed until moon.
Six Scottish schoolboys aged 15 and 16 pleaded guilty in Wigton juvenile court to mailing an obscene letter to a Troy New York pen pal. The letter, containing excerpts from a pornographic book, was sent to Donna Knight via Douglas Wall, Wigton's prosecutor, after the letter was found by the recipient's father and reported to post office officials in London.
Malburn Sivanson of Lindsbong Kansas has installed a basement elevator to ease moving the family piano and other items. He explains it is for convenience and to avoid climbing stairs, noting he cannot predict when the piano may need to be moved in or out.
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