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ESCANABA DAILY PRESS (Read By More Thu 45,000 Daily) iM-un Year, Ne. 234 12 Pagea Escanaba, Michigan 49829 Monday, December 23, 1968 DOUBLE exposure photo a full moon and the the huge Sa-tum 5 rocket carrying the Apollo 8 spacecraft to a planned moon orbital mission. (AP photo) raffic Kills 3 On Weekend oEqual Record By Tkr AtaocUtci Thirteen traffic fatalities during Hie weekend boosted highway death toll to a recrd-equaling 2,296 in 1901. State Police said that with eight days left this year, and fatalities occurring at the rate of six a day, Michigan would count Hs worst year in history in traffic deaths. 2,296 fatalities In 1966 was the record for any previous year.

Hie Associated Press count of weekend traffic deaths began at 6 p.m. Friday and ended at midnight Sunday. The fstslity which brought the state to its record-matching toll was that of 43-year-old Leo A. Czarnecki of South Bend, Ind. Czarnecki was killed Sunday night when he was hit by a car while walking along U.S.

31 near Niles in the southwestern corner of the state. Others killed were: Marion Offill, 51, and his wife, Leola, 52, of Flint, when their car skidded on a slippery road and smashed into a tree Sunday night in Saginaw County. Richard C. James, 37, of Central Lake, who was a passenger in a car involved in a head-on collision Sunday evening on M75 near Boyne City. Kenneth Jemson, 11, of Battle Creek, when he was hit by a car Sunday in Battle Creek.

Police said the driver. Walter Dozier, 31, of Battle Creek, was charged with negligent homicide. Robert E. Davis, 59, of Bay City, whose car hit a tree Saturday in Bay City. Pueblo Crew Beaten Just Before Release Concentrated Terror Finale For Crewmen Apollo In Moons Gravity Pull Today SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) Racing unerringly toward the grip of lunar gravity, Hie daring explorers of Apollo 8 reported today they are in good Failure 8PACE CENTER, (AP) The first taievissd i earth spaas was a flap but not te the lather ef astronaut Jamas A.

Lovell Jr. No mother ever got a son's birthday greeting frosn farther away. Exports at ths Space Center wore still trying early today to come up with a solution to Apollo television problem for telecast show, the first of seven planned far the Apollo 8 moon mlmion. was to ha vs boon In two posts. First, the Interior of the spacecraft with a wldoanglo lone; then a telephoto view of the receding earth that should have shown all of the United States, western Canada, the Gulf of Mexico and down to half of Antarctica.

The Interior shoto mlttod from 140,000 away were beautiful but when Anders put an the telephoto lens the seeen wont blank. heelth and looking forward to their Christmas Eve orbit of the moon. More than 180,000 miles from his home planet and nearly 80,000 miles from the moon, Weather ESCANABA AND light snow or snow flurries, windy and colder with considerable blowing and drifting today and tonight. High today near 28, Low tonight 12. The high temperature yesterday was 34 and the overnight low was 29.

Tuesday variable cloudiness and colder with chance of snow flurries, high nesr 20. outlook is for increasing cloudiness and not so cold. Winds will be northeast to north 25 to 40 mph today, diminishing slowly tonight and becoming northerly 12 to 22 mph Tuesday. Precipitation probabilities: today, tonight, and Tuesday. Uppsr and colder with snow or snow flurries this afternoon and tonight, with blowing and drifting Mow.

Some locally heavy snow Inland from Lake Superior. High today 80 to 88. Low tonight zero to 10 above. Mostly cloudy and cold Tuesday with snow flurries. High 15 to 20.

Bun sets today at 4:07 p. and rioas Tuesday at 7:81 a. m. Apollo 8 commander Frank Borman reported: looking ahead, of course, to tomorrow, when be just 80 miles from the Air Force Col. Borman, Navy Capt.

James A. Lovell and Air Force Maj. William A. Anders reach a climactic moment at 3:29 p.m. EST today when they will be captured by the gravity field of the first time man will be in the grasp of another heavenly body.

Increase Speed The tug of the moon will m- crease Apollo speed, and the spacemen will sweep toward their historic lunar orbit. A burst from their spaceship engine at 4:59 a.m. Tuesday is to swing them into orbit just 88 miles above the surface. Glynn Lunney, a flight controller, said today that with the spacecraft and the people looks pood for the lunar orbit Hie spacecraft is working in an esssntially perfect He said the only problem was te a secondary cooling system. "It he said, perhaps the back pressure valve did not dose completely te secondary evaporator and that's being trouble shot right now.

I don't think that's anything serious." Lunney said, in good shape as far as the consumables are fuel, oxygen and hydrogen." SEOUL (AP) North Korea freed the surviving 82 crewmen of the U.S. intelligence ship Pueblo today, and they were being given medical checkups at a hospital near Seoul before flying to rejoin their families in San Diego, Calif. The skipper, Cmdr. Lloyd M. Bucher, told a news conference that he and his men in the two weeks before their release were subjected to most concentrated form of terror that ever seen or dreamed is possible." Bucher said about half his crew were beaten badly last week and that many of them still had blackened eyes and bruised ribs.

Bucher added that he thought many in his crew were in bad physical condition" from malnutrition. "The bruises and that sort of thing are going to heal up very quickly," he said. Apology Made A U.S. military spokeeman in Seoul said he did not know how soon the Pueblo men would leave for the United States. it was thought here they might leave Tuesday.

The spokesman said there were no immediate plans to let the men talk to their families by telephone from Korea. To win the release of the men after 11 of captivity, a U.S. representative at the armistice hut in Panmunjom signed a statement apologizing fOr "the grave acts of espionage THIS PHOTO OF the intelligence ship U.S. S. Pueblo was taken prior to its capture by the North Koreans 11 months ago.

The 82 surviving crewmen of the vessel were reteased at 9 p.m. EST Sunday, Hie ship will presumably remain in Communist North Korean hands. The body of a wounded crewman who died in captivity will be returned home for burial. AP Wirephoto) He aaid that the course of Apollo 8 was so perfect that a midcourse correction planned today had been canceled. He said a small correction change would be made about five hours before the astronauts are to reach lunar orbit.

Borman sounded chipper today in a conversation with Astronaut Michael Collins, the ground communicator at Mission Control Center. "We're aH feeling fine." he said and commented that the extra sleep allotted each man had helped them combat illnesses that plagued them Sunday. Shopping Days Collins road him the news and football scores from Hie "Interstellar Tbnes" and reminded Borman there are only two more shopping days until Christmas. Equlgravispbere There be no physical change to alert Air Force Col. Frank Borman, Navy Capt.

A. Lovell and A Maj. William A. Anders that they have passed through a Plesse Turn To Page 8, Col. 8 Ky Suggests Direct Saigon-Vietcmg Talks PARIS (AP) Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky of South Vietnam raised the prospect of direct Saigon-Viet Cong talks as a Christmas lull settled on the negotiations in Paris.

Ky was on his way home today to talk with President Nguyen Van Hiieu, and all delegations began an informal Christmas recess with no agreement in sight on how to start their four-way conference on ending the Vietnam war. Before he departed Sunday. Ky told a CBS panel that his government will never accept the Viet Cong's National Liberation Front "as an entity, but its reality." "Once we recognize its reality, wo have to face this reality and try to solve he said. Ky said several times he would propose to Hkiou direct contacts between their govern- committed by the U.S. ship after having intruded into the territorial waters of the Democratic Republic of Korea." But first he repudiated statement and said he was signing it only to free the crew, a procedure to which the North Koreans agreed.

Denied Iutruslsu Bucher also told his news conference that at no time did the Pueblo sail within 13 miles at North Korea, let alone inside the 12-mile limit set by the North Korean government. "The day we were captured we were some 15 to 18 miles from shore when the North Korean ships showed up and began their harassment tactics," he said, "I surrendered the ship because it was nothing but a slaughter out there and I see allowing any more people to be slaughtered or kill- Houghton Gets 21 Inches Of The Fluffy Stuff Today Please Turn To Page 8, Cols. 4-8 By The Associated Press A pre-Chnstmas blast of winter wind and snow howled out of the northwest early today, blocking Upper Peninsula roads and dumping 21 inches of snow on Houghton befcre daylight. State police and the bile Cub of Michigan reported U. S.

41 the only road open across the western portion of the Upper Peninsula, whesp winds readied 40 miles per hour and pushed deep drifts across most roads. Elsewhere roads were reported in varying conditions. I 96 between Grand Rapids and Muskegon was snowcovered, reducing freeway speeds by some 20 m.p.h. Slippery spots were numerous. Snowfall was most extensive in the north: 16 inches at Marquette; a foot at Sault Ste.

Marie. Grayling and Roocom- mon had nine inches and eight inches each. Further south, snow Hockey Tournomsot wait- were considerably reduced, due to rain Sunday and retativdy mild overnight temperatures. Alpena reported seven inches by early morning, West Branch had six and Mio five. Lansing showed one inch and Flint onfcr a trace.

Two inches were reported at Jackson. Herman Over 188 The overnight snowfall added to season totals of 101.1 inches since November at Herman southeast of Delaware in the Keweenaw Peninsula reported a season total at 75 inches, and 60 inches were recorded through the weekend at Memorial Airport between Hancock and Qriumet. Taxi drivers te the Upper Peninsula Houghton Hancock area agreed not to take passengers over unplowed roads. At Green Bay, the Michigan Tech hockey team, victorious after several years of sponsoring the Great Lakes Invita- ed for a bus to arrive early day from Houghtcm. Their plane was grounded at Green Bay when officials suspended indefinitely flights north at there.

Ore Csrriers Masters of ahdps still moving through the Great Lekss reported reduced visibility but only moderate winds. Hie Ooast Guard said three large ore carriers were waiting out the storm at Portage Lake before proceeding to Two Harbors, Minn. The three, the A.H. Ferbert, the Philip Clarke and the Endecs M. Voorhees, all over 580 feet in length, were participajting te a test extension of the shipping season.

Further south, tie Coast Guard cutter Bramble freed a 250-foot Canadian carpo Ship, the Imperial Windsor which became stranded on ice for 2tt hours in Lake St. Ckur off Grosse Potete. The vessel was loaded with gasoline and tuibo fuel. Cong Launches Attacks Before Cease-Fire SAIGON The Communist command launched a series of heavy attacks across South Vietnam during the weekend preceding the start tonight of its three-day Christmas cease-fire. The heaviest fighting, often at hand-to-hand range with mortars and rockets falling on American troops at the rate of 100 a minute, raged only six miles from the truce site where U.S.

and Viet Cong representatives are to meet Christmas Day to discuss the release of three American prisoners. A force of 1.500 freshly equipped North Vietnamese soldiers stormed out of Cambodia Sunday morning and lost at least 103 dead and a huge pile of weapons and ammunition in a six-hour attack on an American patrol base 44 miles northwest of Saigon. Outnumbered 3-1 Hie U.S. infantrymen, in deep bunkers but outnumbered by about three-to-one, reported 17 of their men killed and 12 wounded. Bazooka-firing North Vietnamese torpedoed their way through the barbed wire and fought in the trenches connecting the bunkers.

At least 30 enemy bodies were strung along the barbed wire. Six American B52 bombers attacked positions within three miles of the patrol base and of the truce site early today, dropping nearly 200 tons of explosives on "enemy activity, base camps, storage areas and bunker complexes," the U.S. Command said. Closer to Saigon, 400 North Vietnamese troops slashed into a South Vietnamese infantry company 16 miles southeast of the capital and triggered a seven-hour battle that raged until early today. flTiftft Attack Hie North Vietnamese killed 12 government soldiers and wounded 36 out of the 150-man company before two U.S.

Navy hettcoptar gunships helped break up the three prong: attack. A government spokesman said a sweep of the battlefield st daybreak turned up 64 enemy bodies and 8 abandoned weapons. During the night Viet Ooog and North Vietnamese gunners also fired 100 rounds of 100- pound rockets and mortars at three allied air bases and the headquarters of the U.S. 9th Infantry Division. Four sockets fell Aort and crashed into a sleeping village on the outskirts of the Da Nang air base, killing 12 civilians and wounding 18.

Several American troops also were reported wounded at Da Nang, but there were no reports at any US. hit Me- Santo Stolen SHEPHERD (AP) A sized plastic Santa Claus den this weekend from the lawn of Mrs. Walter Chaffin in Shepherd, State Police repost Kidnaper Held On S500.000 Bond Faith In God Sustained Mackle Today's Chuckle The men who thinks he can eat and drink anything te any quantity and never ter any oonsequencei is it Internal Optimist, ment snd its opposition in South Vietnam, including the NLF leaders. But his imperfect English made his precise meaning unclear. His talk of accepting the Viet "reality" appeared to envisage an entirely new policy toward the NLF, but at other times he seemed to restate the old Saigon offer to talk directly with individual NLF leaders who openly relinquish their Communist allegiance.

Ky stressed that such contacts would have to take place in South Vietnam, not Paris, and that the Saigon government would not recognize the NLF as an equal. And he said once again that there could be question of a coalition with the Communists." CBS broadcast the Ky Interview 6unday on its "Face the Nation" program. Shortly after the broadcast, Hanoi's chief negotiator, Xuan Thuy, told a Paris rally the peace conference can only get off the ground "when a government has been set up te Saigon which really wants to negotiate with the National Liberation Wont" MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) Barbara Jane Mackle. ransomed from a live burial for half a million dollars, clung to her arm Sunday as the wealthy land developer explained he met kidnapers' demands because "1 had my faith to go on." Robert Mackle and his daughter met newsmen Sunday for the first time since her release Friday.

The meeting was on the patio of Miami Heart Institute where Barbara is recuperating from an 80-hour burial in a coffin-like box. Faith in God sustained the family throughout the ordeal, Mackle said, even as he paid a fortune to ransom Barbara without knowing she was alive. SHOPPING 'Til CHRISTMAS "Our first and deepest thanks of myself and Mrs. Mackle. our son and our daughter, to Almighty God, who in His infinite mercy has seen fit to return our beloved daughter safely to our family," Mackle said.

Lost It Poaads Barbara was freed from the box when the kidnapers, ransom money in hand, telephoned the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Atlanta with directions to the site of her North Georgia burial. Weakened, dehydrated and 10 pounds lighter. Barbara smiled radiantly Sunday. "I just feel wonderful and I just want to thank everybody for their prayers and their cern for both myself and my family." she said. A few hours later Gary Steven Krist, a husky 23-year-old escaped convict, was booked into the Dade County jail an Miami on a kidnaping charge.

Krist was held in a safety cell in lieu of $500,000 bond, the amount of the ransom. Carried 818,988 A posse captured Krist early Sunday on wild, swampy Hog Island on Florida's lower Gulf Ooast. The FBI said he carried suitcase containing about 818,000 in $20 bills. Another $480,000 in 20s was found nearby in the rotting hull at an abandoned boat. The ransom was paid te used, wrinkled $20s.

Krist, suffering from exhaustion, was taken to a Fort Myers hospital where he was later nlfMd op charge. ROBERT MACKLE, left, smiles, as he hetps his daughter, Barbara Jane, from an automobile at the Atlanta Municipal Airport Friday night. The 20-year-old coed was kidnaped at gunpoint Tuesday from a motel just outside Atlanta. It was reported that the father paid $500,000 raneom for her return. She was found buried in a dark coffin-like box 18 inches undergound in a heavily wooded, isolated area northeast at Atlanta.

(AP Wirephoto) The FBI refused comment Sunday on its search for Ruth Eisemann-Schier, 86. for whom it also has issued a kidnap warrant. She worked alongside Krist at the University of Miami Institute of Marine Science. The FBI also refused to say whether other persons were sought te connection with the Traced Car. Beat Krist was identified by the FBI through a tracer on license plates found on a car abandoned by two men during an aborted attempt to collect the ransom Thursday.

The 8500.000 was again dropped for die kidnapers in a Miami shopping center parking lot Friday morning. The FBI said a car rented te Miami Springs under the name of George Krist alias found Friday at West Palm Beach. A boat dealer at West Palm Beach said he sold a 12.300 boat to an "Arthur Horowitz," who paid for it with 820 bills from a money-stuffed suitcase. The boat traveled the St. Lucie and Caloosaha tehee canals to Florida's West Coast Friday night and Saturday, the FBI said.

The Horowitz name was signed to forms at four navigation locks. The FBI dossd te on its quarry Saturday when agents te helicopters spotted Krisf boat in the mouth of Charlotte Harter. He bsachad the boat on Hog Island and was found te tie grove swamps about It hours.