Local News Briefs From Iowa and Surrounding Areas
Local items report Gilbert Gay in justice court fined for axle overload. Des Moines visitors and weekend guests include Helene Althayer and Hillary Goslin family. YMCA leaders at Ottumwa Hi Y conference. Civilian travel and family visits noted, plus a Cass County Game Conservation meeting with a raccoon dinner. Road collision near Atlantic injures 1948 Frazer. two men arrested for intoxicated driving and reckless driving with licenses.
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Gilbert Gay
Iowa City
Costa
Justice Court
Richard Martin
Omaha
Iowa Highway Patrol
Liberty
Richard Peters
Wiota
Pope Pius to Speak at Christmas Address
Vatican City announces Pope Pius will deliver his usual Christmas address at 11 a.m. Vatican time on December 24, with translations broadcast immediately afterward in major world languages.
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Vatican City
Pius
Man leaps 80 feet from Jacques Cartier Bridge
A 29 year old man jumped off the Jacques Cartier bridge in Montreal yesterday and fell 80 feet into a shed roof. He sustained only minor cuts and was taken to hospital for observation by police.
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Montreal
Que
Jacques Cartier Bridge
Girl for Cavallaro at Cedars of Lebanon
Pianist Cavallaro fingered nursery rhymes on the keyboard today. Mrs Cavallaro presented her band leader husband with a seven pound seven ounce daughter at Cedars of Lebanon hospital yesterday.
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Cavallaro
Hollywood
Carmen Cavallaro
Death of H Trochtenberg in Sioux City shocks region
Harry Trochtenberg 29 former Atlantic supermarket manager died suddenly from a heart attack. He lived in Sioux City after working in Elliott Griswold Avoca and Atlantic and was born in Fremont Nebraska in April 1909. He married Lucille Baker and is survived by a son a sister and two brothers.
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Sioux City
Harry Trochtenberg
Atlantic
Johnnie's
Trochtenberg
Elliott, Griswold
Avoca
Fremont
Nebr
Harry
Sophia Trochtenberg
Lucille Baker
Larry
Stella Vann
Omaha
Max Trochtenberg
Los Angeles
Phil Trochtenberg
Anita
Amarillo
Tex
Borger
Legion
Tho House
Kansas City
Air watch around C-54 survivors in mid Pacific
Survivors from a C-54 transport ditched 478 miles southwest of Johnston Island are under constant air watch while a rescue ship and escort carrier head to the scene. The craft carried 37 air force personnel and radios stayed active for eight minutes after ditching, raising hopes some of the 30 passengers and seven crew survived.
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Johnston Island
mid-Pacific
Air Force
Honolulu
Rendova
Zelma
Okinawa
Spokane
Wash
98Th
Fire damages Hampton grocery market causing heavy loss
The Jennings food market in Hampton sustained an estimated 50 000 in damage after a three hour blaze that started on the main floor and led to the building’s collapse. Firemen from Hampton Mason City and Iowa Falls fought the flames, with three second floor apartments only lightly damaged and contents on the main floor and basement a total loss. Graydon Jennings and C R Atkinson valued the loss.
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Hampton
Jennings
Mason City
Iowa Falls
Graydon Jennings
C. R. Atkinson
Postmaster Dies in Iowa Falls at 74
O K Dick longtime Iowa Falls postmaster died today of a heart attack while en route to the post office. He arrived in the community in 1921 and served the town in a public role for years.
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Yowa Falls
O. K. Dick
Iowa Falls
Offie
Calgary man reports ear chewed off in street fight
Edgar Williams was rushed to hospital after a street fight in Calgary. He told police his ear was chewed off and an ambulance took him to receive treatment as doctors sewed the ear back on.
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Calgary
Alberta
Edgar Williams
Births New Son Allen White in Lexington and Dixon Welcomes Boy
Mr. and Mrs. Earl J. White of Lexington Nebraska announce a 9-pound son named Allen born yesterday. Jessie Fancolly, mother, is daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Fancolly of Atlantic. Mr. and Mrs. Don Rodgers of Dixon Illinois announce a son weighing 7 pounds 2 ounces born Sunday at 8 30 A M. Virginia Carroll is the mother, and the child is the first grandchild for Mr. and Mrs. Harry Carroll of 507 Linn Street.
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Earl J. White
Lexington
Neb
Allen
White
Jessie Fancolly
Roy Fancolly
Atlantic
Don Rodgers
Dixon, Ill
Doctor's Rites Held for Dr. 8. E. Braught
Elkader services were held today for Dr. 8. E. Braught 80 who died Saturday. Braught who came here in 1925 served as a major in World War I.
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Elkader
8. E. Braught
Polio Strikes Clinton Family. Mother Hospitalized
Mrs. Arthur C. Anderson, 22, of McCausland, husband died Saturday morning of polio in a Clinton hospital. She is now a polio patient at the University hospital after falling ill Saturday afternoon. Her two young children are in the care of their grandparents.
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Clinton
Arthur C. Anderson
McCausland
Clinton Hospital
University Hospital
Atlantic Woman's Father Killed in Icy Highway Crash
Avcea Alfred Schuster 66 of Shelby was killed when his car collided with a Harlan bound bus on Highway 64 four miles west of Atlantic. His wife was seriously injured and hospitalized in Council Bluffs. Bus driver Gayther Mayne owned by Davis Bus Lines of Harlan. Six bus passengers shaken but unharmed. Dr J H LaTona of Shelby aided victims.
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Aveca
Alfred Schuster
Shelby
Gerald Te. Hair
Spruce
Atlantic
Here
Harlan
Mayne
Schuster
J. H. LaTona
Victoria college bans student drama and card games
In Victoria British Columbia Faculty ban student activities after complaints the crowd spent excessive time on stage plays and card games. The move targets campus social events and entertainment as discipline tightening measures.
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Victoria, B. C
Victoria College
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