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Newspaper
Anderson Herald
Location
Anderson, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1969
Page
5
Interlaced reflections on Christmas decorations, urban windows, and the tension between beauty and restraint. The speaker laments a lost joy, recalling festive scenes downtown and the crowd of strangers, while pondering fear, temptation, and a world that outlaws happiness. A nostalgic meditation on memory, beauty, and societal limits.
A puzzling arithmetic problem asks to spend 1 3 plus 22 from cash on hand leaving 105, yielding a suspected total of 787. A historical insurance note records the first re insurers policy issued against William Gybbars of London, with a premium of 22 pounds for one year and a beneficiary payout of 400 pounds after Gybbars death.
More than 1,000 Israeli police and troops guard Manger Square at Bethlehem as pilgrims gather for Christmas. Combat-clad officers monitor crowds outside the Church of the Nativity, with a large outdoor TV screen and festive lights, while security reminders of regional conflict underscore the holiday.
Grand Junction Colorado AP reports a Colorado Game Fish and Parks official links a drop in the immigrant market to a surge in skunk numbers in western Colorado. Skunk pelts sold for 359 or 41 dollars years ago, and now bring only around 1 dollar.
A mother warns children to stop talking and giggling about Santa or risk him not leaving presents. The family plans pajama songs and a Christmas story to ease children to sleep, seeking calm amid the excitement of Christmas Eve.
Puzzle text presents a large mixed crossword with numerous garbled clues and letter substitution instructions. It describes field letters mapping, code words, and a sample crypto quote. The readable portions hint at a daily cryptic style puzzle and guidance for solving through letter substitution, with a concluding quotation credit.
In a four spade contract West leads the queen of diamonds. Declarer must resist the temptation to ruff and win, then handle trumps and clubs carefully to reach eleven tricks. The defense’s trump returns force declarer to give up a heart, but patient play yields the nine or eleven tricks depending on suit layout. A side note mentions a jail sentence for a bus driver in Dar es Salaam with an odd alternative punishment.
A wearying holiday season piece advises involving children in housework to ease last minute rushes. It suggests tasks like cleaning the living room tidying the bathroom and kitchen prep with simple labeling and cutting tasks. It notes mothers often burn out in the kitchen marathon and urges memorable family moments through shared effort and planning. It ends by offering a booklet on obedience and punishment for a dime with a self addressed stamped envelope.
Household tips discuss applying new enamel paint over a previously enameled surface to prevent cracking and dulling. The note suggests adding a small amount of a competing additive to improve adhesion and longevity of the finish.
A garbled advert fragment describes nature driven imagery with references to flowers, snow, holly and color. It mentions summer and winter scenes and urges readers to breathe and wander while noting a creator named Gor or God in nature. The text is incomplete and stylistically wavering.
A warped fragmentary piece recalls an exhausted father guiding three children to a Planetarium box office, buying four tickets for a Moon show amid chaotic theater seating. Nonsense jokes and stray names mix with bizarre lines about awards and a dancer using glass fragments in a staged number.
Report from Beirut cites Libyan radio announcing that U.S. troops will leave Libya by June 30, 1970, as talks in Tripoli resume after a pause. Wheelus Air Base near Tripoli houses about 200 Air Force personnel and 2,000 civilians, with plans to dismantle facilities over six months. UK forces withdrawal discussed in early talks between British and Libyan officials.
A Bogota wedding ended in tragedy as the bridegroom and two guests died while the bride and four others remained critically ill from food poisoning. Police work to trace the poisoning source continues as officials identify the groom Luis Mornandy Padilla and bride Anais Priele Pinila amid unclear reports.
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