Christmas Spirit Shines Across the Nation
A Christmas spirit appears across the continent as donors aid homeless families and sympathetic neighbors rally to help children like Freddie Downer, a seven year old killed while crossing a street to mail Santa. Communities in Bloomfield, Nashville, New Cumberland and Massena mobilize gifts, funds and services to ease hardship this holiday season.
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Pierce Lehmbeck
Associated Press
North Pole
Freddie Downer
Massena
N.Y
Santa Claus
Santa
Vicky
St. Nick's
Bloomfield
Conn
James F. Cahill
Cahills
Louisa Cahill
James Sanders
Clarence Lofton
Nashville
Brewster Rites Set For Thursday in Dexter Maine
Former U S Senator Owen Brewster of Maine died at a Christian Science house in Boston at age 83. He lifelongly battled Franklin D Roosevelt’s New Deal and led Maine politics for 18 years. Funeral services are set for Thursday at 2 30 p m in Dexter with burial at First Universalist Church.
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U.S
Owen Brewster
Maine
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Christian Science Benevolent Association
Brewster
Christian Science Mother Church
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Charles
Bangor
Christian Science
State House
Margaret Chase Smith
Senate
Edmund §. Muskie
Chuckle on Miser as Ancestor Joke
A witty line notes that a miser is hardly pleasant to live with yet makes a fine ancestor, playing on thrift and family heritage with light humor.
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Copr
Gen
Fea
Corp
Christmas Holiday Traffic Toll Surges in Nationwide Fatalities
Traffic deaths during a 78-hour Christmas period rise above 500 for the first time since 1955, totaling 506 on highways and 82 in fires, plus 82 in miscellaneous accidents for a three-day toll of 670. Weather and ice contributed to the spike across the country, with noted crashes in Texas near Hearne and a fatal station wagon collision near War.
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Associated Press
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Hearne
Tex
Kennedy Prepares State Of Union Amid Ill Father
President Kennedy returns to work on the nations business while monitoring his seriously ill father Joseph P. Kennedy at St Marys hospital. A yearend back checkup by Preston Wade is planned with Dr Janet Travell and the White House team. Edward Kennedy visits, no change in Joseph Kennedys condition, fever subsiding, Christmas celebrated with children.
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Harrisburg
Wilbur Jones
Fairview Fire Co
Fairview Lions’ Club
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Salinger
Wade
Chester W. Clifton
Washington
Joseph P. Kennedy
Congolese Soldiers Join United Nations Army at Kamina
Ninety Congolese soldiers will wear the blue beret of the United Nations on Wednesday at Kamina base to join the U N Congo force. They will have the same status as other national contingents and are the first of more than 900 planned to serve under the U N flag. Their duties include guarding the base and reconnaissance work with Indian Swedish Norwegian and Canadian troops. The U N says they are not to be used offensively against Tshombe's secessionist government, a move likely to heighten Tshombe's fears of a forced reoccupation of Katanga. Continue on Page Eight.
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the Congo
United Nations
U.N
Kamina
Katanga
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Tshombe
Cyrille Adoula
Parlia
Social Security Tax Rate To Take Hike
The Social Security tax rate increases on January 1 to 6.1 percent for employees and employers, and 4.7 percent for self employed, applying to the first $4,800 of earnings. The annual maximum payroll tax rises to $300 for workers and $225.60 for the self employed, with amendments signed June 30 expanding benefits and adding incentives to work.
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Washington
Saco Mother Welcomes Christmas Day Baby
A baby girl born at about 9 50 Christmas morning at Notre Dame hospital is the only birth recorded in the three local hospitals this Christmas. The infant weighs eight pounds ten ounces. Parents are Mr and Mrs Gerard Boisvert of 49 Park Street Saco. Paternal grandmother is Mrs Wilfred Boisvert Sanford and maternal grandmother is Mrs Anna Provencher Sanford.
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Gerard Boisvert
Park Street
Saco
Notre Dame Hospital
Wilfred Boisvert
Sanford
Anna Provencher
Christmas Day Reflections Across World In War and Peace
President Kennedy reassures West Berliners and appeals for unity as Christmas messages stress peace. Willy Brandt thanks Kennedy while Berliners light trees along the wall. Queen Elizabeth urges patient effort and Pope John XXIII convokes a global church council. Jerusalem pilgrims fill churches as violence erupts in Colombia killing at least 50 at a Christmas Eve service.
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Associated Press
Kennedy
Willy Brandt
East
West Berlin
John XXIII
Jerusalem
Judean
Bethlehem
Buga
Colombia
Pope convokes ecumenical council to seek unity
Pope John XXIII issued a papal bull convoking Vatican II for 1962 to address church administration and Christian unity. He warned of militant atheism and the world’s advances, stressing the need to evangelize in a modern era while preserving Catholic authority and avoiding a shared, federated church system.
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Vatican City
John XXIII
St. Peter's Basilica
John
Council
Martin Luther
Church of
Former Child Bride Will Observe Silver Wedding
TREADWAY Tenn AP Mrs Charlie Johns will be 34 when she and her husband celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary next month. She wed Eunice Winsted at 22 on January 19, 1937, in a marriage that caused a national uproar. The couple has nine children, eight of whom live on their 65 acre farm. The oldest daughter Evelyn, now 18, married last year. Charlie says he would do it again and credits Eunice as a good mother and housekeeper.
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Treadway
Tenn
Charlie Johns
Johns
Eunice Winsted
East
Tennessee
Evelyn
John Henry Antrican
Charlie
Eunice
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