Six Die in Minneapolis Hospital Fire
Six patients perished when short circuited Christmas tree lights ignited a fire at Doctors Memorial Hospital in Minneapolis. Firefighters rescued over 40 patients, including babies, from the five story building as flames and smoke spread through the patient areas on the third floor. The dead, all from Minneapolis, include Mrs Pilla M Mullins and six others aged 47 to 82. one evacuated infant later died at Minneapolis General Hospital from a heart condition. The 125 bed hospital, about half full, faces about $100000 in losses and expects to take about 10 days to reopen patient floors.
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Sarah C. Stone
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Clarence O. Green
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General
Alfred G. Stasel
Rescuers Spot Possible Site of Air Crash
Alpine patrols reached 7,500 feet on Mt Ginor in northern Italy and found a probable crash site for a twin engined DC3 that vanished after leaving Rome for Milan. The 21 aboard included an American couple and their two daughters in Milan awaiting news.
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Amarillo Forecast Tracks Warmer then Cooler
Weather forecast from the U S Weather Bureau for Amarillo and Panhandle and South Plains predicts clear to partly cloudy skies through Tuesday with a warmer Monday and a cooler Tuesday. Highs 40s to 60s, lows around mid teens to mid twenties, with trace precipitation and sunrise at 7 54 a m and sunset at 5 40 p m.
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U.S. Weather Bureau
White Christmas Hopes Dashed by Sun After Brief Snow Flurry
A surprise cold snap dropped a thin snow cover across the Panhandle and Amarillo region on Saturday night into Sunday. By midday the sun melted most traces, with only amateur observers recording measurable snow and officials noting generally cold, clear conditions for the next two days.
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U. S. Weather Bureau
Amarillo
Panhandle
South Plains
New Mexico
Colorado
Gun-Barrel Buddy Strikes Salt Lake Market Again
In Salt Lake City on December 23 a repeat bandit robbed an airlift grocery store for the second time in 10 days. The armed robber forced night manager Fred Whittington to the floor and emptied the till, taking about $70 this trip and a total of about $190 from the two visits.
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Salt Lake City
Airlright
Fred Whittington
Whittington
Traffic Toll Rises Over Christmas Holiday Weekend
The holiday traffic death toll reached 384 by 1 a.m. Monday, with fires adding 11 to 26 total fatalities and overall deaths at 451 as foggy conditions and heavy travel fuel the crisis. The National Safety Council warned of a potential record 660 traffic deaths for the four day period.
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Meriden
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Associated Press
Alaska Has St Nick Too Santa Takes Form Of Navy Airplane
In Kodiak and Afognak Islands villages children watch the northern lights for clear skies and good flying weather before Christmas. The piece notes Eskimo youngsters in parka and mutin watch the sky for Santa delivered by a Navy airplane rather than a sleigh.
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Weather summary for 1956 Amarillo sunshine days
Amarillo records 340 sunshine days in 358 days for 1956. Comparative readings at 3 30 p m Sunday show Houston 16 mph wind 15 miles visibility partly cloudy Dallas 0 0 35 clear Oklahoma City 17 15 partly cloudy Amarillo 10 15 clear.
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Christmas Eve and Day Services Planned Across Amarillo Churches
Multiple Amarillo churches schedule Christmas Eve and Christmas Day services with seasonal music. St. Andrew’s Episcopal offers a midnight Holy Communion led by Bishop George Quarterman. First Presbyterian hosts candlelight communion. Southern Presbyterian and Beautiful Savior Lutheran plan candlelight and caroling events. Trinity Lutheran and St. Andrew’s also feature Holy Communion and festive programs for Christmas Day.
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George H. Quarterman
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Trinity Luthera
ST. Andrew's Episcopal Church
Lawrence I. Ferguson
St. Andrew's
Christmas Midnight Masses Planned at City Churches
Traditional Christmas Midnight Masses will be held in city Catholic churches with Sacred Heart Cathedral hosting a Pontifical Mass officiated by Auxiliary Bishop John J. Morkowsky and broadcast on KGNC. Readings show multiple parishes listing daily Christmas hour schedules.
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John J. Morkovsky
KGNC
Sacred Heart Choir
St. Mary’s
St. Joseph's
Our Lady of Guadalupe
St. Lucien's
Blessed Martin Mission
Texas jailbreakers captured after 10 hour manhunt
Six Texas fugitives who wounded trooper J W Bilbrey and hijacked his cruiser were captured in pairs near Dover Tennessee after a 10 hour manhunt. Officials reported motels and grills robbed, two rifles seized, and a Texas car used in the escape. Bilbrey was treated for a hand wound. The six were arraigned on armed robbery and attempted murder charges.
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Cumberland River
William Keel
Grand Jury
Nash
Rebel Leader In Sumatra Expands Claim To Northern Province
A young colonel who crowned himself military and political head of Central Sumatra extended his grip to Northern Sumatra. Premier Ali Sastroamidjojo’s central government in Jakarta confronted the move as the Army group declares authority over Sumatra’s richest province. The regime then suspended Col. Simbolon from command.
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Indonesia
Sumatra
Ali Sastroamidjojo
Sastroamidjojo
Col. Simbolon
White Buses Eyed in Montgomery as Integration Rolls On
In Montgomery Alabama Sunday bus service ran with no major incidents after a Supreme Court ruling ordering end to segregated seating. Negro leaders planned a Sunday night meeting on mixed seating while white segregationists promoted a white only line under a membership system run by the pre segregation White Citizens Council. White leaders were near completing plans for a separate city bus line with membership access only.
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Ala
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Montgomery City
White Citizens Council
Christmas Pye recipe from 1747 cookbook shocks readers
Baltimore dispatch recalls an archaic Christmas pie recipe from The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy. It describes a multi‑bird pie with turkey goose fowl partridge pigeon hare woodcock and other game layered in crust with four pounds of butter and a four hour bake. It ends with a dismissive jab at housewives.
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Baltimore
Four Prisoners Break Jail in Albuquerque
Four prisoners escaped Bernalillo County Jail in Albuquerque early Sunday using a meat saw. Two escapees held reporter Jack Gill and his wife hostage for about two and a half hours, stealing their car and $6 before fleeing. Identified: Floyd L. Stokes, Robert B. Kennedy, Paul Reid, and Howard Luke. charges include grand larceny, burglary, car theft, and federal firearms violations. Authorities said the four remained at large late Sunday.
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N. M
Bernalillo County
Floyd L. Stokes
Oakland
Calif
Robert B. Kennedy
Montana
Paul Reid
Laguna
Howard Luke
Gallup
Stokes
Kennedy
Reed
Luke
Jack Gill
Albuquerque Journal
Gill
Linda
One Paper Set for Tomorrow Christmas Day Edition
No Globe-Times on Christmas day Amarillo Daily News to publish Christmas morning with regular Globe-Times features. Subscribers to both editions get Christmas morning issue. Classified Dept closes at 5 p.m. today and all day Christmas. Circulation staff on duty until 10 a.m. Christmas.
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