Dachshund Champion After Three Shows
Herthwood's Christmas a two year old wirehaired dachshund owned by Mrs. Dorothy Pickett of Mohegan road earned 15 championship points in three shows. Born December 27, 1952, he won winners dog Oct 2, best of winners Oct 3, and winners dog Nov 27. His littermates Holiday and Happy New Year also feature in the bloodline with Holiday having 10 best of breed, and Happy to tour AKC circuit. Father Sir Bors needs three more points. mother Ava von Marienlust has 12 points.
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Huntington
Herthwood
Dorothy Pickett
Mohegan Road
Christmas
Suffolk County
Vandal releases brake as tank car crashes into train
In Guthrie Kentucky an oil tank car brakes released by vandal caused a crash into a passenger train. The leaky car was moved to Front Street crossing by a switch engine and trucks dumped gravel to control the spill. Crews tamped the oil into a smooth dustless street.
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Guthrie. Ky
Fairfield U Blood Bank Sets Christmas Drive
Fairfield Red Cross blood bank aims for 300 pints next Tuesday from 11 15 am to 5 30 pm in Berchmans hall on the Fairfield University campus The Bellarmine club and Bellarmine guild sponsor the drive with Fr Joseph FitzGerald rector of the university leading efforts Edward J Sheehan and Mrs Edward W McPadden presidents of the clubs stressed the event as a Christmas gift to those in need Fairfield residents may join by calling CL 9 5869 or FO 6 3471 Mrs Clarence A Earl Jr captains the day and Red Cross volunteers handle operations James P Vail recruits college students assisted by class father captains Joseph Ganim Alfred Jennings Donal Collimore and Charles Stubbs
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Fairfield Red Cross Blood Bank
Berchmans
Fairfield
Clarence A. Earl Jr
Red Cross
James P. Vail
Joseph Ganim
Alfred Jennings
Donal Collimore
Charles Stubbs
Kiss room at airport aimed to boost romance and business
A columnist imagines Philadelphia's airport adding a kissing room to foster romance. Proponents cite emotional benefits and future revenue from weddings, honeymoons, guests, and family travel while budget officials doubt a revenue source exists.
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Jlane
Tom Meets Flying Saucers In Santa Land Night
Tom rides with Granny on a witches broom as flying saucers chase him. Lost in a snowy desert, he recalls Granny’s rules and wishes himself into Santa Land, hoping to find a way back to the witches' field tomorrow.
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Granny
Tom
Witches’ Field
Santa Land
Santa
Stumbles on Knife Boy Stabbed to Death
Eleven year old Donald Morris went to nearby woods to cut pine for a wreath. He collapsed at home with a red stain on his shirt and died at People's hospital. Police say he apparently stumbled and fell on the knife, driving it into his upper abdomen.
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Akron
Ohio
Donald Morris
Deer hunters bag 1000-pound Black Angus steer
Salisbury md December 9 AP deer hunters on Maryland's eastern shore bagged a 1000 pound Black Angus steer labelled as game. Battie Mixon regional game warden said the steer was killed before daylight on Elmer Massey’s farm near Massey’s Crossing Worcester county. He blamed jacklighters who hunt at night with lamps, an illegal practice.
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Salisbury
Maryland
Battie Mixon
Elmer Massey
Massey's Crossing
Worcester County
Christmas in War Prison Echoes for The Thirteen
A reflective meditation on Christmas 1954 amid American servicemen held in Asiatic prisons. The piece laments absence of home, family, and celebration for detainees, recalling a child’s dream of Santa and a tree, while urging readers to feel the harsh isolation of captivity and the moral weight of yuletide absence.
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Yuletide
North Pole
Bethlehem
Christmas memories and nativity imagery stir public sentiment
By H. L Phillips notes a shift to spiritual Christmas cards in 1954 as Americans recall Bethlehem's stable, Magi, and Nativity figures. He laments abstention and diplomatic delay while urging renewed Yuletide faith, recalling boyhood snows and holly hunts amid UN debates and Uncle Sam anxieties.
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Sam
Temple of Peace
Thirteen
Bethlehem
Santa Claus
Uncle Sam
Associated Newspapers
Playground conversion in St Louis park gains after-school use
Northwestern Bank and Trust resurfaces its parking lot and installs night lighting to serve as an after-school playground for neighborhood children. Edna St Vincent Millay wrote the libretto for Deems Taylor's opera The King's Henchman.
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ST. Louis
Northwestern Bank & Trust Company
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Deems Taylor
King
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High ST
Newark
Walt Kelly
Little
Orphan Annie
Harold Gray
Sandy
Good OL Culvert
Jimmy Matlo
Yeau
Iim .S
Buckley
Cuit
Sir Bors
Ava von Marienlust
TOBY
Gladstein’s
East Main ST
Blood Bank
Norway
Tonsberg
Boston
Boston Ave
OPP
Dan’s Auto Sales
Florida
Sunkist Calif
Ray
Ibs
U.S. No
Pascal Young Tender
Philadelphia
Civil Aviation
Mexico
NFA Service, Inc
Turkeys
Jack Heaney
Turkey Farm
Reservoir Avenue Tel
Edison
Deer Hunters
H. L Phillips
Mary
Hotpoint
Bridgeport
Hotpoint Factory
Call Forest
General Electric Supply Company
Hotpoint Appliances
Seaview Avenue
Bridgeport, Conn
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