Trapped in Ditch Car Woman Dies After Eight-Hour Ordeal
A 65-year-old Michigan woman Estelle Overstreet died in Gallia County after spending about eight hours trapped in an overturned two door sedan in a water-filled ditch two miles west of Centerville Jackson County. Her husband Robert Overstreet 56 was hospitalized for shock and possible collarbone fracture. Fire Chief Walter Wise and a passing motorist aided, with help from local residents, as responders retrieved the couple from the car before 8:30 am Saturday.
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Gallipolis
Michigan
Estelle Overstreet
Williama Lake
Pontiac
Mich
Steve Thomas
Holzer Hospital
Rodney
Robert O. Overstreet
Centerville
Jackson County
Gallipolis Post
Jackson Post
Jackson
Overstreet
Galligouxs
Walter Wise
Miller
John
Bill
French Newspapers Split Over West German Rearmament Vote
Paris editors condemned the National Assembly for voting against Western European Union linking West German rearmament to NATO. Pieces warned of Anglo American pressure, noted inconsistencies on Western integration, and urged unity against Moscow while predicting political fallout in Mendes-France’s government test on Monday.
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PARIS
National Assembly
Germany
Britain
Pierre Mendes- France
Franc-Tireur
Figaro
United States
France
Aurore
Mendes-France
Belgium
Holland
Luxembourg
West Germany
Italy
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Ithe Bonn
Patient Climbs 150 Foot Tower Demanding Wife
A Central State Hospital patient bolted from breakfast, scaled a 150 foot water tower using guy wires, and sent down a penciled note asking for his wife. The man descended after five hours as the wife and three children were brought from Ardmore for the incident and Christmas dinner at the hospital.
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Norman
Okla
Central State Hospital
Highway Patrol
Ardmore
Oklo
Harold B. Whitten
Witten
Marines Mark Christmas Day in Korea
Two thousand U S Marines stood bareheaded in biting cold as Francis Cardinal Spellman celebrated Christmas Day Mass outdoors in Korea. The Roman Catholic clergyman held midnight Mass for 2000 soldiers at a floodlit parade ground of the 7th Division, visited patients at the 43rd Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, and made five helicopter flights to other units along Korea's 155 mile front.
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U. S. Ist
Korea
U. S
Francis Cardinal Spellman
7Th Division
43Rd Mobile Army Surgical Hospital
Four Die in Migrant Camp Fire Near Penn Yan
A migrant labor camp building burned yesterday killing four people including a baby girl and injuring three others. About 20 escaped as state police identified the victims as Johnny Dean about 35 his daughter Betty 16 months and two men in their mid thirties, with Ralph Legg noting several locals aided in the evacuations.
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Penn Yan
Yates County
Ralph Legg
Johnny Dean
Betty
Robert Johnson
Walter Moody
Expectant Mother Hides Fate of Husband in Rio Crandy Tragedy
In Albuquerque Sarah Giannini 25 endures Christmas with her three children while her husband Renato 27 is missing and presumed drowned after he screamed for help during a duck hunt near Elephant Butte Lake. Searchers found no body.
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Albuquerque
N. Mw
Sarah Giannini
Renato
Rio Crandy
Elephant Butte Lake
Yule Fire Kills 11 in Arkansas Tenement
Fire sparked by an exploding stove ripped through a frame tenant house on the Owen Cook cotton plantation near Parkin Arkansas killing 11 and injuring five. The victims were two Mexican families celebrating Christmas with tamales. ten children and a mother died. Surviving relatives, including the fathers, spoke of the mother who died rescuing her infant. The scene is ten miles south of Parkin, about 30 miles west of Memphis.
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Parkin
Ark
Here
Jolly
Pete
Sophie
Mando
Jenny
Rue
Montana
Robert
Elma
Gloria
Rosie
Rudy J
Santana
Therm
Owen Cook
U. S. 70
Memphis
Tenn
Arkansas
Wynne, Ark
Mary Ann
Pilgrims Visit Arab Families Enhances Bethlehem Christmas
Christmas pilgrims to Jordan were invited by the Jordan Tourist Bureau to visit Arab Christian families in the Jerusalem area. Groups of American tourists paid calls on Arab households and sang carols in Bethlehem on Christmas Eve, adding a new cultural tie to traditional holy sites.
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Jerusalem
Jordan
Bethlehem
Dulles Sees Hopes for Western Unity After French Reversal
Christmas Eve news from Paris reported by a weary secretary of state urges renewed Western unity as France rejected a plan to rearm Germany 280 to 259. With Eisenhower’s dream of a strong Western world challenged, Dulles pressed for reconciling allies and moving Germany toward rearmament despite French doubt.
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Washington
John Foster Dulles
Germany
Eisenhower
Dulles
Russia
Atttack
Augusta
White House
France
United States
Britain
Christians Worldwide Observe Christmas Day Amid Peace Hopes
Pope Pius XII appeared on the Vatican balcony for Christmas benediction as Bethlehem drew about 10 000 worshippers at the Church of the Nativity. Eisenhower spent Christmas quietly in Augusta Georgia while Queen Elizabeth II led service observances in England. Cardinal Spellman spoke from Korea praising peace efforts amid ongoing tensions. Weather and holiday dining marked celebrations from Australia to Western Europe.
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Vatican City
Pius XII
St. Peter's Square
Bethlehem
Christendom
Christ
Israel and
Jordan
Israel
Israel-Jordan
Eisenhower
Augusta National Golf Course
Augusta
Stan Dulles
White House
Congress
England
F Elizabeth II
Commonwealth
Guren
St. Mary Magdalene
Sandringham
Canterbury
Geoffrey Fisher
Anglican Church
Serman
Korea
Francis Cardinal Spellman
United States
Australia
Europe
Britain
Ohio Leads Highway Toll With 14
Ohio reported 14 traffic deaths by 8 p m Saturday amid a nationwide holiday toll. One more fatality and additional injuries were recorded, with authorities warning motorists to slow down as travel pressure rose. Among the dead was Estelle Overi street, 56, of Williams Lake near Pontiac Michigan, who with her husband were trapped for over seven hours in a ditch on U S 35 near Gallopolis.
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Associated
Prev
Ohio
Buckeye
State Highway Patrol
Estelle
I Street
Williams Lake
Pontiac
Mich
U.S. 35
Gallopolis
Security Count Faces Clerk in Detroit Subversion Charge
A 51-year-old Navy civilian clerk, Lockett, suspended November 30 from his post as machinery inspector in Detroit, faces a three member Naval board Monday. An anonymous 1946 Wayne University affiliation with American Youth for Democracy prompted the action. the group is listed as subversive by the U. S. attorney general.
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Detroit
Lockett
Naval
Inspector of Naval Materials
American Youth For Democracy
Wayne University
U. S. Attorney General's Office
Christmas Day Plane Crash Kills 28 at Prestwick
A British Overseas Airways Stratocruiser crashed on landing at Prestwick Airport in predawn darkness on Christmas Day killing 28 people including two Americans. Only eight survivors remained from the New York bound flight described as an inferno with flames 20 to 40 feet high.
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Prestwice
Scotland
British Overseas Airways Corp
Prestwick
West Plans On Germany Go Ahead
A fragmented dispatch outlines Western plans and diplomacy amid German issues. It notes Britain and France seeking coordinated actions and mentions key figures and channels discussing a potential stance toward Germany and Soviet reactions. The report hints at parliamentary and ministerial maneuvers shaping diplomatic leverage.
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Germany
Ike Will Plug Program on Foreign Economies
AVOQUSTA Georgia AP reports President Eisenhower plans a new program in 1956 seeking authority to cut tariffs by up to 15 percent over three years, with a special message to Congress due June 10. The plan aims to ease trade while protecting national security and addressing capital movement impacts. The president will travel to Augusta to speak at the course, with details left to Congress.
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Avoqusta
Eigenhower
Bia
White House
Boreigeri
Hagerty
Stair
Bae Fe
Chre Feliday
Mneytt
Denver
Augusta 4
Ship Burns At Anchor Near Singapore
A freighter named Lexa Maersk anchored off Singapore caught fire and burned amid rubber and carbide cargo. The blaze prompted marine crews from Singapore, Philadelphia, Halted Nia, and nearby harbor facilities to converge for firefighting and containment. No full casualty or cause details are confirmed in readable text.
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Flan Han
Singépor
Barber Fire
Pbuhine
Dames
Singapore
Dawn Blast Destroys Feed Store in Sudden Explosion
A dawn explosion shattered a feed store in a southwestern town at 7 28 am. Concrete debris flew across the area, damaging nearby buildings and startling residents. Fire Chief Franklin Soper said the blast appeared to fill the store with smoke as crews fought the blaze.
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Demven
Christina
Toree Otter
Aitea Studinary Ukeepers
Plate
Franklin Soper
Statan
Readers informed of unchanged copy and subscription rates
A note to readers states there will be no change in the price of a single copy or in the subscription rate. The copy price and subscription cost remain as they have been, with no alterations announced.
Oi Weiress Dies In Apartment Fire
In Ville, Oklahoma 44 year old Lo Vo Mre Kanemith died in a blaze at an apartment building. Fire Chief Ralph Me Nid said the cause appeared to be asphyxiation. The fire occurred yesterday night and investigators are treating it as a fatal apartment fire.
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Oi Weiress
Kanemith
Ville
Okla
Ted
Foster
Press- I O11
Ralph Menid
Smith
Airlines served more and were safer in 1954
Washington report shows airlines carried more passengers and remained safer. CAA Administrator Fred B. Lee released a year end summary noting only 16 passenger fatalities so far, with a projected fatality rate of 1.08 per 100 million passenger miles versus 6.47 last year.
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Washington
Civil Aeronautics Administration
GAA
Fred B. ‘Lee
Red Cross Spent 87 Million Dollars
Washington report shows the American Red Cross and its 2720 chapters spent 7,973,387 dollars on diverse national services in the first fiscal year, as the organization released its findings yesterday.
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Red Cross
Washington
American Red Cross
Big Science Conclave Opens With Smog and Venom Talks
Berkeley hosts the winter meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science featuring discussions on using venom in medicine, smog control, and cosmic hydrogen. Officials like Val Peterson and Maj. Gen. Walter Todd join debates on defense, nuclear science, and new elements led by Nobel laureates Edwin Seaborg and others.
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Berkeley
Calif
American Association For the Advancement of Science
United States
Leles
Bevatrom
Coamotret
Brookhaven Laboratory
AEC
Edwin N. Lan
Hum Seaborg
Wendell M. Stanley
Ek Part
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Mosey
Mnen
bin Rigtt
Guy Cail
Bedi
Oealacers Cenon
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Fech
Fuh
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Hackensack
Pel
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Alley
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Teagueiantie
Nawator C. Lieuglen
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Beemer
Pierpe
Toy
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T . Gur
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