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New England's. Largest Newspaper () VOL. 194 NO. 183 1968 Glob Newspaper Co. SUNDAY, DECEMBER Z9, 196835 CENTS Armored Truck Hijacked on Canal Street EO inl QMMO OYSTER HOUSE DINERS UNAWARE Machine Gun Pair Robs Messenger By ROBERT M.

SMITH, WITLLAM A. DAVIS and ANDREW BLAKE Glob StaH A Brink's armored truck was robbed of an estimated $500,000 at 6:30 p.m. yesterday on Canal Street, North End, after two ski-masked bandits armed with machine guns kidnaped a messenger and drove away in the truck. 1 1 1 4 1 Customers at the Union Oyster House enjoyed Saturday fish dinners unaware that a spectacular robbery was under way directly across the street. The restaurant's cashier, Mrs.

Lorraine O'Mal-ley, who sits near the window that looks out on the robbery scene, told The Globe she did not hear about the holdup until newspapers from New York and Washington began calling. Waitresses said they heard about the robbery over the radio. Patrons of nearby taverns and saloons were likewise oblivious of the holdup. POLICE EXAMINE BRINK'S TRUCK AFTER ROBBERY (Bill Murphy Photo) No one was injured. The robbery took place in front of the Union Oyster House, 122 Canal only four blocks from the historic 1950 Brink's holdup scene.

The robbers drove the truck to the rear of the Dept. of Public Works building on Nashua Street, about half a mile away, where they emptied the contents into a station wagon driven by a third man. According to first reports, two guards were out of the truck, and a messenger, Richard Haines, 43, of 797 Livingston Tewksbury, remained in the front passenger seat. Haines told police a man wearing a black ski mask opened the driver's door with a key and confronted him with a machine gun. A second man.

also armed with a machine eun. APOLL What does lt prof it man? Aerospace MoonFKght Spins Off entered from the passenger side and disarmed The robbers pulled Haines' hat down over Key to Our Own Planet 2750 Ideas his eyes and told him to keep quiet "or we'll blow your head off." ROBBERY Page 2 What docs Apollo portend for the future of man his health, security and environment? Globe Reporters asked these questions of experts in Washington, Texas and Boston. Their replies are below and on pages 27 through 31. Lebanon Airport Bombed by Israelis "V- rTf i By DAVID ZENIAN United Press International BEIRUT, Lebanon Israeli commandos striking from helicopters last night attacked Beirut's big international airport in retaliation for an Arab attack on an Israeli airliner. They shot up Arab airliners, bombed airport installations and touched off huge fires.

There was no immediate report on casualties, but it was believed there were seyeral killed and wounded. The attack, reportedly staged by several Israeli helicopters, began at 9:15 p.m. (2:15 p.m. EST) when the first Israeli helicopter dropped a flare to illuminate the scene at the airfield, biggest in the Middle East and hub for traffic in the area. An Israeli army spokesman in Jerusalem said an Israeli commando unit struck at the airport and returned without suffering casualties.

He estimated "eight to 12 Arab planes destroyed on the ground." MIDEAST Page 11 By JAMES A. DOYLE Glebe Waintnrtoa Bum By the end of this year, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration will have announced more than 2750 technical innovations of potential use in industry, medicine and other non-aerospace applications. Recent ones range from a miniature paint spray gun to an automatic alarm that keeps watch over hospital patients suffering from breathing difficulties. New ideas like these are byproducts of research and development by NASA scientists and engineers, and those of its contractors, in practically every field of technology. To build machines that can keep men alive in space, for example, they have had to design valves, pumps, filters and switches that function with a reliability never before achieved.

They have devised miniature medical sensors to monitor the astronauts' reactions to stress. They have extended the range of communications equipment for flights to the moon and beyond. They have developed compact computers, improved electric power sources, new alloys, new adhesives and new lubricants. SPINOFF Paye 30 By VICTOR K. McELHENY Globe Science Reporter The Apollo 8 voyage around the moon was more than a daring survey of a sister planet.

The successful first attempt to put men into orbit around the moon and reclaim them safely' opened the door to a manned landing by American astronauts during 1969, perhaps three such landings. Those first steps on the moon's surface, in turn, will open an era of exploring the lunar "vast-ness of black and white," as James Lovell called it, researches which are certain to give men far deeper knowledge of the nature of the planet they walk on. This most spectacular manned journey signaled the advance of a quiet manned space journey sigbut massive revolution in the management of giant, complicated enterprises like the $24 billion Apollo moon landing program. Perhaps most important of all, the flight of Lovell, liam Anders and Frank Borman opened a new window for the human imagination. APOLLO Page 27 nmiriiiiiiiiiiiiii i T-pinrr- in mini i r- '-finr Ir ninu'1'' BACK ON THE GOOD EARTH, astronauts James Lovell, Frank Borman and William Anders wear leu i as they are greeted by white-haired Gov.

William Burns of Hawaii and a crowd at Hickam A.F.B. Honolulu. (AP) Sleet Snow, Fog Snarl New England Pueblo Crew Prayed For Bombing Attack By RICHARD J. CONNOLLY Glob sun SAN DIEGO "Where the hell are the bombers? Why don't they come over and blast this place?" The questions were asked often and in varying forms by the 82 men of the Pueblo during 11 terrible months in the compound at Pyongang. The men were so bitter at the North Koreans, first for what they considered an illegal seizure and then for brutal mistreatment while they were in prison, that they didn't care about their personal safety.

Some of them have informed their relatives during visits at the San Diego Naval Hospital that they actually prayed that the United States would bomb North Korea. They couldn't retaliate themselves. There was nothing they could do when they were struck or punched with a two-by-four timber. PUEBLO Page 7 Santa's Fund Near $200,000 Four days after Christmas and the recording of donations to Globe Santa continues donations which are nearing The grand total now stands at $192,984.43. Names of those who gave are listed on Pages 32, 34 and 36.

Year That Was -a Look: Back The major events of 1968 are highlighted, with emphasis on the best pictures of the year, in today's Globe. The presidential campaign, the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy, another year of political dissent and the war in Vietnam all the big stories' are retold in a special section beginning on Page A-17. By KEN O. BOTWRIGHT Globe SUS The weatherman threw the book at Boston and the rest of New England yesterday.

Ice storms, sleet, rain, snow and fog boosted the week-end highway death toll to six, made driving generally nightmarish, grounded planes, and stalled public transportation. Minor fender-bender accidents on glazed roads became too numerous for Greater Boston police to Motorists, who had trouble starting their cars in the zero and colder temperatures earlier in the week, cursed the warmer weather and the rain that sheathed highways and streets with ice. Heavy loads of ice snapped power lines, causing blackouts. A falling wire blew out a. transformer at Rte.

30 and River rd. in Weston at 4:55 p.m. plunging the south side of that town into darkness. The same power failure is believed re-. sponsible for a blackout that doused lights in half of neighboring Wayland.

Also blacked out was a six-block stretch of Concord rd. in Lincoln a stretch that extends into Wayland. STORM Page 17 Weather BOSTON and VICINITY Rain along the coast with freezing rain inland changing to snow flurries early today. Northwesterly winds 25 to 35 m.p.h. Highs 23 to 30.

Partly cloudy and colder tonight and tomorrow. Page 38. Maximum Dividend on Reular Savings. Maximum Insurance by a Federal Afency. 5 For All.

Home Owners Federal Savings. See ail on Pace 10. ADVT..