Christmas Observed Around the World During a Global Holiday
The article recounts Christmas scenes from divided Berlin and Jerusalem with thousands crossing borders for the season. It notes 75 000 crossing East and West Berlin, and 2 000 Christian Arabs passing Mandelbaum Gate. It mentions Bethlehem attendance, papal Mass, and varied rites in Jerusalem. It also covers U S and Allied efforts abroad, Santa myths, and holiday forecasts from the Weather Bureau. It highlights American service members in Antarctica and Korea distributing gifts, plus Christmas plans of leaders and royals. It ends with a Cyprus shutdown, a Rio de Janeiro display, and holiday decorations in Santa fe.
Bus Bias Issues Surface in Tallahassee Negro Ride Sit-ins
City officials debate steps after court challenge to segregation rules. Lawyer Charles Ausley says careful legal research is needed before advising the transit firm. Negro teachers ride unsegregated with minor opposition as holidays close state offices. two incidents reported including a photographer blocked from interior shots while he could film from outside.
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Charles Ausley
Ausley
Messer
Silent Night Returns On Budapest Radio Amid Christmas Tensions
Budapest’s communist radio aired Silent Night for the first time since early postwar years, signaling a détente as Premier Janos Kadar’s government eases, lifting the military curfew for Catholics to observe midnight Mass. Cardinal Mindszenty sheltered at the US legation with his mother for the Christmas Eve service.
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Budapest
Communist Radio of
Janos Kadar
Joseph Cardinal
Mindszenty
Legation
Wit
Milford Man Injured Falls From Bus On Crow n Street
Walter Lindsey of 122 Chapel Street Woodmont was injured around 9 PM when he fell from a bus on Crow n Street. He was admitted to Milford Hospital with head injuries and listed on the danger list. A full report on the incident was not available.
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Milford
Walter Lindsey
Chapel Street
Woodmont
Crown Street
Lindsley
Milford Hospital
SRBC
Christmas in Budapest Amid Hard Times and Hope
Christmas Eve crowds fill Catholic and Protestant churches in Budapest as Hungarians face high prices and hardship. Many attend Christmas Day services praying for revolution dead and the nation’s future with cautious optimism for Yuletide peace.
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Budapest
Big Boost Seen in U S Budget
Non military items have cost more each year under the Eisenhower administration and this year are estimated at a record 28,300,000. Hints from Vice President Nixon and others suggest next year’s foreign aid request will exceed last January’s 4,860,100,000.
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Eisenhower
Nixon
GE Cuts Prices on 15 Transistor Models in New Year
General Electric announced price reductions from 9 to 17 percent on 15 transistor models used in portable radios phonographs high fidelity gear and amplifiers. The average price of entertainment transistors will be just under 1.25 dollars each about 46 percent below a year ago. GE also cut silicon rectifier prices 43 percent and standard stacked germanium rectifiers 33 percent, effective January 1.
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Syracuse
N. Y
General Electric Company
Wrecked plane crash leaves 24 dead in Alpine snow
OSSANA Italy Dec 24 AP the burned wreckage of an Italian airliner was found on Mt Ginor six thousand three hundred feet up. All 21 aboard died. Snow six feet deep delayed recovery as alpinists found the OC3 plane on a Rome to Milan run off course by 90 miles with the pilot asking to fly lower before radio silence. The victims included 15 Italians four crew and Mr and Mrs Harris Gray Jr of Greenwood Mississippi along with their daughters Connie and Pamela. Two broken dolls were recovered likely as Christmas gifts.
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Ossana
Italy
Mt. Ginor
Rome
Milan
Harris Gray Jr
Greenwood
Gray
Coca-Cola Corporation
Yowling Cat Rescued From Chimney Before Christmas
In Gaylord Michigan a family spent over seven hours coaxing a cat out of their chimney. The cat, later named Saint Nick, slid to a ledge before Mrs Grunewald offered liver to lure it down. The scene unfolded as 3 year old David Grunewald watched anxiously. The rescued cat was placed with the family Christmas gifts.
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Gaylord
Mich
Leonard Grunewald
Santa Claus
David Grunewald
Saint Nick
David
Inmates Stage Christmas Play at New York Prison
Forty four inmates from the Women’s House of Detention in Greenwich Village performed a Christmas play for about 1,900 inmates and Correction Department officials and guards at Rikers Island. The all prison cast traveled across town to bring the event to the New York City penitentiary.
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New York
New York City
Roker I Island
Greenwich Village
Correction Department
Bells Resound in Bethlehem and Gallic Pageant
In Jerusalem the Roman Catholic patriarch Msgr Alberto Gori led a dawn procession to Bethlehem for a papal midnight Mass and the re enactment of Christ birth at the Church of the Nativity. A Protestant service was held in Shepherds Fields and an Anglican ceremony took place at the Nativity site. In Korea the 24th Division hosted a large Christmas party distributing toys and clothing to thousands of orphans, with Santa visiting Ascom City and hundreds of celebrations planned.
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Jerusalem
East
West Berlin
Holy Jerusalem
Israel
Jordan
Mandelbaum
Beth- Sehem
Bethlehem
Mary
Jerusalem-Bethlehem
South Korea
I. D. White
U. S. 8Th Army
United States
Weather Bureau
Eisenhower
White House
Christ
Itatian
Alberto Gori
St. Catherine's Chapel
Grotto
Jaffa
Church of the Nativity
Manger Square
Shepherd's Fields
Seoul
Korea
Santa Claus
J1st
Ascom City
Dennis Ervin
Studio City
Calif
Nixon on Refugee Relief Show With Major Stars
Vice President Nixon will host a hour long radio television program to aid Hungarian refugees. The lineup includes John Daly Arlene Francis Gary Moore Edith Adams Julie Andrews Sammy Davis Jr Charles Laughton Frank Sinatra. Shows air on ABC CNBC CBS and MBS from 6 to 7 p.m. local time with additional radio coverage 8 to 9 p.m. The Red Cross CARE Church World Service Catholic Relief Services and United Jewish Appeal organize the drive.
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Washington
Nixon
Morrow
John Daly
Arlene Francis
Gary Moore
Edith Adams
Julie Andrews
Sammy Davis, Jr
Charles Laughton
Frank Sinatra
ABC
CNBC
CBS
MBS
Jeus Radio
Red Cross
CARE
Church World Service
Catholic Relief Services
United Jewish Appeal
Newspaper launches dial a phone news service in Montgomery
Montgomery Advertiser and Alabama Journal start a dial a phone news service. Calls average 450 per hour with 24 hour operation. Recordings are made hourly and supplemented as news warrants. Southern Bell notes no prior newspaper use of such service.
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Montgomery
Ala
Montgomery Advertiser
Alabama Journal
Southern Bell Telephone Company
R. F. Hudson Jr
Advertiser-Journal
Southern Bell
Belafonte Anthem Plans Collapse Over Race Objection
Miami plan to have Harry Belafonte lead the National Anthem for the North South game collapsed after promoter Ben Lanier, a Miami potentate, said he had objected to Belafonte due to race. Lanier denied voicing such objections and cited program commitments and no official invitation. Belafonte called it a step backwards for democracy.
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Miami
Fla
Harry Belafonte
Ben Lanier
Shrine
Lanier
Belafonte
Pattie Page Plans Las Vegas Wedding to Charles O Curran
Singer Patt Page and dance director Charles O Curran announce they will wed Friday in Las Vegas Nevada. The ceremony will be at Wilbur Clark's home with a 10 member wedding party. Page is accompanied by Mrs Edward Barrett of Chicago and Ray Ryan is best man. This is Page's first marriage while O Curran was previously married to actress Betty Hutton.
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Palm Springs
Calif
Patt Page
Charles O’curran
Las Vegas
Nev
Miss Page
Wilbur Clark
Edward Barrett
Chicago
Ray Ryan
O'Curran
Betty Hutton
Man Denies Guilt in Gulf Oil Maps Theft
Jose Richard Seagraves, 70, a Texas oil promoter, proclaimed his innocence as one of four men arrested by the FBI in a case involving alleged theft of Gulf Oil maps. His lawyer, Parnell J. Callahan, said ethics prevent discussing the pending matter beyond the denial. A full hearing and possible removal to Pennsylvania were noted with ticket sales at the Lithuanian club.
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New York
Jose Richard Seagraves
Texas
Gulf Oil Corporation
Parnell J. T. Callahan
FBI
Callahan
Young Men's Society
Seagraves
Stores report buying spree and holiday rush
The piece notes an unprecedented last day shopping surge praised by Howland's vice president Earl W Brotherton who called it the biggest day in 33 years. Post Office operations also ran at peak with extra staff and a Christmas rush forecast to exceed 1955 volumes by 8 to 10 percent as agencies provide meals and baskets for needy families.
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Earl W. Brotherton
Howland’s
Russel Neary
Hirohito Pays Visit Tokyo Tomb Of Taisho
Japan's Emperor Hirohito visited the Tama mausoleum southwest of Tokyo to honor his father Emperor Taisho on the 30th anniversary of his death. He was accompanied by Empress Nagako and their family.
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Japan
Hirohito
Tama Mausoleum
Here
Emperor Taisho
Nagako
Pope Pius XII Observes Christmas With Kin At Vatican
Pope Pius XII celebrates Christmas midnight Mass in his private chapel with a few aides. Later he will share Christmas with his sister Elisabetta and nephews who visit annually, viewing the Presepio he has kept since his early nuncio days in Germany.
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Pius X11
Elisabetta
Germany
Bomb Found in New York Library
A bomb of the familiar era planted over 16 years across theaters, transit hubs and stations was found in a New York library. A helmeted bomb squad loaded the five by four inch device into a steel covered truck and planned to dismantle it at Fort Tilden after transport to Hudson River Pier.
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Hudson | River Pier
Fort Tilden
Rockaway
Queens
Reporter in China prompts U S protest over trip
William Worthy, Baltimore Afro-American correspondent, crossed into Red China for a month despite U S government policy and passport ban. State Department deplores the action, citing non recognition of Peiping and lack of diplomatic protection for Americans in China.
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Red China
States Department
Department
United States
William Worthy
Baltimore
Hong Kong
Worthy
C. W. Mackay
Eisenhower
State Department
Peiping
Beating of 11-year-old girl near Montgomery bus stop
An 11-year-old Black girl Ollie Mae Collins was beaten by several white men near a Montgomery bus stop. Police Capt. E. P. Brown confirmed the attack and bus passengers corroborated the incident. attackers were not identified.
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Montgomery
Ala
Ollie Mae Collins
Lattackers
E. P. Brown
Egyptians Raze Lesseps Statue and Resume Canal Salvage
UN directed salvage ships continue clearance near Port Said with three vessels, two British and one French, allowed to operate only in the harbor under UN flag. Egyptian official Yunes says canal clearing begins in all areas while restrictions limit ship movement and weapon use. Wheeler notes no major change and hopes for broader access once clearance is granted. Mines at the canal add to ongoing challenges as additional ships await authorization to move.
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Port Said
U.S
Raymond A. Wheeler
United Nations
Yunes Wheeler
Mahmoud’Yunes
Suez Canal Authority
Yunes
General Wheeler
Wheeler
el Cap
Train Wrecks Car on Milford Track
A west bound passenger train demolished an auto stalled on New Haven railroad tracks near Wheeler's Farms crossing at Herbert street around 8 p m. Owner William E Washburn 34 of 20 Wood avenue and companion George E Wood 46 of 212 Nichols avenue reported the car had been left and they went to summon a taxi. Patrolmen Smith and Crowley investigated.
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New Haven
Herbert Street
William E. Washburn
Wood Avenue
Wheeler
Farms Crossing
Washburn
George E. Wood
Nichols Avenue
Walnut Beach
Wood
Robert J. Smith
Terry Crowley
Man Held for Firing Shotgun in Street near Lexington Avenues
James Shelton, 32, of Bidgmore apartments, was arrested for breach of the peace after firing a shotgun at Lexington and Harre avenues. A bullet hit a parked car, and another man identified by police is being sought for questioning. Patrolmen Bridges and Russell seized Shelton who is held on a $2,500 bond awaiting city court.
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Harre! Avenues
James Shelton
Charles H. Greene
Shelton
Frederick Bridges
David Russell
Three Boys Arrested in Meter Thefts in South End
Police arrested three boys last night over a series of parking meter thefts in the South End. They admitted stealing coins totaling 4.86 using a screwdriver found with them. The youths, one 15 and two 13, were held by parents pending juvenile court appearance Wednesday.
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Castoday
Liberty Street
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