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Even Drunks(Afoot) Safe Over XmasSOKOLSKYThese Days10 Car Pile-uLogansport hit a slow pace-yesterday as the comm unity observed Christmas.The police hauled a few drunks home Christmas eve and yesterday and jailed none.Most everybody had more to eat than they wonted.Hundreds went to church the night before. 'There wasn’t any business to speak of as iht* community look the holiday. off.Lots of kids were made happy and some grown-ups.The city was ablaze with colored lights but the usual sight-seeing traffic was negligible.-It was too slick out.There were no prizes for home decorations but there are somegood ones out as usual. •Now being awaited — New Year’s. *Incidentally, only two prisoners ate their Christmas dinner at the jail. They did all right, too. One was a White county man so there was only one Cass prisoner to be the sheriff's guest for the Yule.Center of Disturbance Be Keyed 100 Miles At SeaLos Angeles, Dec. 25 LW — The Christmas calm was interrupted today by a heavy, rolling earthquake that, was felt generally | throughout most of Southern Cali-fond a but apparently did little if any damage.:' Buildings in downtown Los Angeles shook for about 20 seconds when the tremblor started at. 4:45 p.m., pr. (6:45 p.m. CST). In suburban areas many persons ran ; from their homes- Dishes rattled i in some areas.Dr. Charles Richter of the scis-mol ogical J a bora lory of the California Institute of Technology said it was a “heavy quake” but apparently centered offshore in the Pacific Ocean somewhere.Dr, Richter said the quake was strong enough to cause damage at its comer, which he estimated to be less than 1 GO miles from. Pasadena, where the laboratory is located.The quake was felt as far north as Ventura and as. far south as San Diego at the border. It extended inland toward .the desert as far as San Bernardino and Victorville. Residents at Vjciorv.iPs called it “very strong” and said it lasted for about 8 seconds there.In Long Beach, center ot the disastrous 1933 quake, some pcr^ sous reported a sharp jolt while others felt a rolling motion lasting several seconds. At Inglewood, in the southwest part of Los Angeles county, police said the jolt set off burglar alarms.• There were reports of the quake from; six counties ..in Southern California.-. The quake .extended 325 miles from^north to south, and had a radius of about 110 miles east and west. It was felt on Catalina Island, which is 25 miles offshore from Long Beach.$$#’»!i-oca! long distance operators had the workout, of their historyyesterday and last night. The unusual demand on long lines service here followed a national pattern, said at Indianapolis to be theworst jam in history.Operators here said most of their calls apparently were from people who couldn1!; get somewhere for Christmas as planned, or couldn’t get home because of road conditions.That and service calls to hemes on .Christmas day, coupled with the normal Christmas calls, made, business too good. There also was seme disruption ot service from sleet, though, that was net serious,• The rush was continuing into the evening, the operators said, and it compared with any. rush business they could recall in Lo-gansport. ‘Home From Japan In Time For ChristmasSgt. Joseph Muinzer. 931 Wheatland .avenue., arrived here* Tuesday night just, in time for Christmas at homeyafier serving 36 months in Japan. He .is in the administration offices.Sgt, Muinzer, cams in.with a group including 55 Ho osiers on the transport Freedom, From this area there also were on the. shipFriday Set To Mourn For-Disaster VictimsWest Frankfort, HI.,'Dec, 25 L3 —Friday- will be a day of mourning. hero in mcmor}' of the 1.19 miners who died in the West Frankfort mine' disaster.WeatherL06ANSP0RT PUBLIC LIBRARYLogansport PressGOVERNMENT FORECAST Clearing, colder today; Thursday, fair and cold. ’ Only Local Morning Paper Serving Cass, Carroll, Pulaski, Miami, Fulton, White CountiesFor The PressPh. 4141•Vol..31,-No. 163..’• nea telephotos LOGANSPORT, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY,. DEC. '26, 1951 the associated press PRICE FIVE CENTS
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Logansport Press
Logansport, Indiana, US
Wed, Dec 26, 1951
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