Amish Youths Herald Birth With Music
Iowa AP report on Pleasant Hill School children performing a Christmas program inside a one room Amish Mennonite school. Seventeen to twenty one youngsters recite poems and sing carols while bearded fathers and modest mothers watch. The scene reflects Mennonite faith and simple farm life with gifts and Bethlehem imagery.
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Kalona
Iowa
Jack Donovan Balona
Pleasant Hill
Rachel Yoder
Amos Yoder
Eldon Beachy
Calvary
Bethlehem
Gift of Freedom for 1,113 Cuban Prisoners
1,113 Cuban invasion prisoners are to be freed in a deal with Havana in exchange for medicine and food. The release, announced by attorney James B. Donovan, could occur by Christmas with aid shipments from Port Everglades en route to Havana.
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Havana
Castro
James B. Donovan
New York
Donovan
Principe Castle
Isle of Pines
Cuba
Washington
Red Cross
Miami
Principe
S. S
Lucius Clay
Packing Plants Wage Slices Spark Union Divisions
South packing plants have seen some union workers accept wage and fringe cuts of 50 to 65 cents, while others refused and faced layoffs or plant closures. In Memphis 350 UPWA workers lost jobs after a 50 cent cut was accepted elsewhere.
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Chicago
South
United Packinghouse Workers of America
Afl-Cio
Wilson and Co
Memphis
Tenn
UPWA
Swift & Co
Atlanta
Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen
Tional Brotherhood of Packinghouse Workers
Amalgamated and Armour and Co
Multrie
Nashville
Russell Dressler
Jail Man Charged Over Candy Cigarettes Sale
John H. Larson, operator of a Minot variety store, was arrested and charged Friday with violating North Dakota’s candy cigarette ban. He was released without bond as police confiscated nineteen packages after an investigation sparked by a young girl seen with candy cigarettes. The 1955 law carries up to $1000 fine and 90 days jail.
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Minot
N.D
North Dakota
John H. Larson
Floyd Rouse
Larson
State patrol denies ticket quotas amid education aim
St Paul AP reports Highway Commissioner James C. Marshall rejects claims that patrolmen face ticket quotas. Leo Smith, chief of the 378 member patrol, says three times as many warnings as summons are issued to educate drivers. The department cites its three E program engineering education and enforcement, with promotions based on civil service exams, not ticket totals. Minnesota's highway patrol is praised as a national model for morale and duty.
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ST. Paul
James C. Marshall
Highway Department
State Highway Patrol
Marshall
Leo Smith
Smith
Minnesota
Soviet Bloc Creates Central Bank Agency
The Soviet Union and Eastern European states will establish a central bank to handle intra bloc financial issues. The decision came from a COMECON meeting in Bucharest aimed at coordinating industrial production.
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Moscow
Soviet Bloc
Bucharest
Economic Mutual Assistance Council
Comecon
Soviet Union
Europe
Tass
Skybolt Missile Soars on First Flight From B52 Bomber
A Skybolt missile completed its first successful test flight, dropping from a B52 over Cape Canaveral and flying about 900 miles down range before splashing into the Atlantic. The test marked the first ballistic missile to launch and fly its mission from an aircraft, though the program faces future work and political delays.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Atlantic Ocean
Air Force
Cold Wave Warnings Spread Across Midwest and Plains
The Weather Bureau warned Minnesota Iowa and Wisconsin residents about a cold wave with heavy wind tonight. Snow flurries visible across Minnesota and Iowa Sunday with subzero lows in the Dakotas and Iowa near 18 below. Blizzard conditions hit North Dakota Red River Valley reducing visibility while New York and New England face heavy snow warnings.
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U. S. Weather Bureau
Minnesota
Lake Superior
Iowa
Canadian
North Dakota
Red River Valley
New York City
Idlewild
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
New York
New England
Virginia
Miami
Montana
Polaris Sub Fleet Costs Could Burden Britain Without U S Help
United States may subsidize Britain’s Polaris submarine program as Nassau talks outline Britain buying missiles and building subs to launch them. US costs run about 116 million per nuclear sub plus 1 million per missile, with fire control gear largely US supplied. If US provides navigation and firing control free, Britain could cut hull and reactor costs to about 58 million. diesel options cheaper. The plan aims to save about 2 billion compared to Skybolt, with shared facilities possible at Cape Canaveral and on the observation island.
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Washington
Britain
United States
Nassau
Kennedy
Harold Macmillan
U.S. Navy
States
Atlantic
Cape Canaveral
Fla
Observation Island
Cape
Kansas 4-H Leader Dies in Train Crash
Roberta Anderson 30, longtime Kansas extension staff member and former Brown County 4-H agent, was killed when her car struck a train near Waterville. Funeral plans expected for Wednesday after noon. Survived by parents Gilbert and Mrs. Anderson and four sisters. noted for extensive 4-H work and multiple scholarships.
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Kansas
Roberta Anderson
Gilbert Anderson
Sargeant
Miss Anderson
Missouri Pacific
Waterville
Kan
Manhattan
Waterville Telegraph
Dahl Herald
Herald
Kansas Extension Staff
University of Wisconsin
Brown County
New Ulm
Freeborn County
Mower County
National Junior Vegetable Growers Association
University of Minnesota
Migs Anderson
Minnesota Club Agents Association
Cuban Prisoners To Arrive In Miami Monday
The Cuban Families Committee announced that the first liberated Cuban prisoners of war will reach Miami on Monday. Longshoremen in New York plotted round the clock picketing as a dock strike threat loomed across Atlantic and Gulf ports from Maine to Texas. North Korea accused the U2 of violating the armistice by a two hour overflight on December 6, with the aircraft entering from the South Korean island of Yuspyng.
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E. Roland Harriman
American Red Cross
Miami
Pan-American World Airways
Havana
Red Cross
USS
Havana O
Cuba
Fla
New York
Atlantic
Gulf Coast
Maine
Texas
North Korea
Panmunjon
Korea
Changwan
Yuspyng
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Banfield
Sterling
Adolph Johnson
Skybolt
Austin
Howard Benedict
Douglas Co
Bahamas
Macmillan
United
Poe
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