Penguins retrace long icebound voyage across 2200 miles
At Wilkes Station Antarctica a third of five Adelie penguins released a year earlier returned 1500 miles to their nesting site, then two more appeared two days apart. Richard Lee Penney notes birds traveled by sea and pack ice, guided by sun and stars, water color, landmarks, and an innate time sense.
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Wilkes Station
Richard Lee Penney
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Sciientific Observatory
Penjney
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Penney
Wilkes Rookery
Kelley Named State Personnel Director In Boston Appointment
The governor appointed Leonard A. Kelley of Scituate as state director of personnel, a $15 000 a year post, confirmed after submission to the Executive Council. He replaces retiring John E. Finnegan. Saul Gurvitz was named to the State Appellate Tax Board, and George A. Wells advanced to deputy state commissioner of commerce.
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Furcalo
Leonard A. Kelley
Scituate
Personne
Executive Council
Kelley
John E. Finnegan
Saul Gurvitz
West Roxbury
State Appellate Tax Board
Angier Jr. Goodwin
Melrose
George A. Wells
Worcester
Raymond [. Rigney
Wells
Bradford-J . Durfee Technological Institute of
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Preston
Fall River
Area Traffic Control Center
Idlewild
DCS
Victim Dies From Munich Plane Crash
In Munich, 13 year old clerk Ingeborg Kraus becomes the first victim of a Convair jet crash into a streetcar filled with Christmas shoppers. Thirteen Germans remain hospitalized with severe burns while all 20 Americans aboard perished.
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Munich
Germany
Ingeborg Kraus
Red Ink Christmas Cards From Mayor Batterton
Denver reports Mayor Richard Batterton, facing fiscal troubles, signed all Christmas cards in red ink signaling urgent concerns about the administration’s finances.
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Denver
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Richard Batterton
Pittsfield High Christmas Program Presents The Juggler of Notre Dame
Pittsfield High School will present its annual Christmas program to the student body in the school auditorium. The Juggler of Notre Dame, directed by Robert M. Boland, features 13 students with Morton Wayne conducting the 80-voice Choraleers and orchestra. Cast includes Sara Davis Barnaby David Gay Bruce Thomson Maaja Sildoya and others with Lynne Downie as narrator. The Madrigal Singers debut, with 15 voices, perform two numbers, and the Choraleers sing four carols joined later by local performers. The program was shown to the Catholic Daughters and Rotary Club in recent days.
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Notre Dame
Robert M. Boland
Morton Wayne
Sara Davis
Barnaby
David Gay
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Bruce Thomson
Pierre
Dianne L. Swaine
Joyce Zaorski
Pittsfield High
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Donna Lee Carpenter
Dianne Swaine
Jeri Dietrich
Barbara Drumm
Elaine Ferris
Martha Williams
Patricia Ross
Jay LaPlant
James Weisberg
Stephen Gordon
Howard Babbitt
Peter Boos
Michael Pensky
Jean McEneany
Gerald Terpak
Catholic Daughters of America
Grange Hall
Rotary Club
Wendell Sherwood Hotel
Berkshire Museum to Close Saturday for Weekend Break
The Berkshire Museum will close Saturday at noon and reopen Tuesday at 10 a.m. as usual, with regular hours resuming after the weekend pause.
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Berkshire Museum
Army Draft Call for 6,000 Men Next Month
The Army issued a draft call for 6,000 men in February matching January’s quota and lower than the 8,000 to 7,000 in November and December. The total drafted or earmarked since the 1950 Selective Service inception rises to 2,595,930.
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