It's November 1976. Jimmy Carter, 52, defeats President Ford in a close election to become the first President from the Deep South since the Civil War.

 Rep. Matthew McHugh is re-elected to his 27th Congressional seat. Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan is elected Senator.
 Smokey the Bear, 26, dies of old age at the National Zoo. As a cub, Smokey was rescued from a forest fire  and became the Forest Service mascot.

 Ellen Corby, 65, Grandma on The Waltons, suffers a stroke.

 Paramount announces plans to produce a Star Trek movie next year.

 Atlantic City legalizes gambling.

 Detroit's 1977 cars will feature kilometer readings on the speedometer in order to get the public used to metric measurements. 

 GM's speedometers will display a top speed of 85 mph instead of 120 mph. Ford's speedometers will go to 80 mph by the end of the year. Chrysler's speedometers will display up to 100 mph. The change in speedometers' top speed is being done to de-emphasize speed and encourage economy and safety.

 Former First Lady Mamie Eisenhower celebrates her 80th birthday.

 New York Yankee Therman Munson is voted the American League's Most Valuable Player by the Baseball Writer's Association of America.

 Domino introduces liquid brown sugar.

 More than 20 million Americans have received flu shots in the national Swine Flu immunization campaign.

 Memorial services marking the anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy are held in Dallas, Washington, and Boston.

 NBC celebrates 50 years in radio and TV with a 4 1/2 hour TV special narrated by Orson Welles and hosted by Jack Albertson, Milton Berle, David Brinkley, Johnny Carson, John Chancellor, Angie Dickinson, Joe Garagiola, Bob Hope, Gene Kelly, Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin, Don Meredith, Gregory Peck, Freddie Prinze, and George C. Scott. 

Macy's holds their golden anniversary Thanksgiving Day parade in New York City.

 Actress Rosalind Russell, 64, dies of cancer in Beverly Hills, California. She was best known for playing her favorite role, Auntie Mame.

 Actress Judith Lowry, 86, best known as Mother Baxter on the sitcom Phyllis dies in New York.

 Actor-comedian Godfrey Cambridge, 43, dies of a heart attack.

 Reggie Jackson signs a five-year contract with the New York Yankees. 

In Johnson City, fire destroys the Northrup Supply Corporation's main office and warehouse on Main Street.

 WSKG-TV 46's annual auction raises $91,003.

The Tioga County Legislature adopts an $11.4 million budget for 1977.

 GAF plans to cut 100 workers to reduce overhead costs.

 The Owego Town Board slashes the Town Supervisor's salary from $9,200 to $3,200. Councilmen's salaries are reduced from $2,600 to $2,200 and the Town Budget Officer's salary is cut to $1,200. The salary cuts are made to provide approximately half the salary for a proposed Town Manager position which would pay $18,000.

 The Owego Town Board passes a budget of $2.7 million for 1977.

 The Most Rev. Francis J. Harrison is named Bishop of the Syracuse Diocese.

 Kopernik Observatory celebrates the burning of their mortgage.

 Tioga County Judge George Boldman, 65, announces that he will resign by March 1, 1977 because of the heavy workload. Boldman is in the 2nd year of his second 10-year term.

 The Owego Village Board names James Balshuweit to fill the seat vacated by Richard Root who resigned to become the village justice.

 Movies playing at local theaters include Two-Minute Warning  ("91,000 people, 33 exit gates...One Sniper...) starring Charlton Heston; Shout at the Devil starring Lee Marvin; Car Wash; Woody Allen in The Front; Marathon Man starring Dustin Hoffman; Disney's Snow White ("Still the fairest of them all"); and Carrie (If you've got a taste for terror . . . Take Carrie to the prom")
 

 Monday night TV shows include Little House on the Prairie, Captain and Tennille, Maude, NFL Football, All's Fair starring Bernadette Peters and Richard Crenna, and Executive Suite.

 Top tunes include Rock'n Me by Steve Miller Band, If You Leave Me Now by Chicago, Disco Duck (Part 1) by Rick Dees and His Cast of Idiots, Love So Right by the Bee Gees, Tonight's the Night by Rod Stewart, Muskrat Love by Captain and Tennille, and The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot.

 A one-pound can of Ocean Spray Cranberry Sauce costs 34 cents, a 29-ounce can of Libby's pumpkin costs 49 cents, and a 20-pound Butterball turkey costs 59 cents per pound.

 Happy Thanksgiving!