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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1956
Page
3
Article reports Soviet plans to recover from recent setbacks with new initiatives and leadership changes. Charles H. Klensch outlines strategic aims, potential reforms, and international reactions to Moscow’s efforts to restore confidence and demonstrate resilience.
Miami Beach INS reports Belafonte will skip the national anthem at the Shrine North South game amid conflicting accounts from Shrine officials and his agent over race related objections. The piece also covers a Moscow central committee plan to launch a new five year program to boost per capita output and tighten control after 1956 shortages.
Queen Elizabeth remarks on unity amid Britain’s Egypt crisis and Commonwealth tensions. Her Christmas broadcast stresses tolerance and brotherhood while denouncing divisions and urging steadfast friendship among nations and peoples.
Residents around Rompot push for a full time community center as a branch of the Community House with a local board. A survey shows 169 families and 604 children lacking activities and transportation, urging year round clubs, social programs, day nursery, and a well baby clinic run under Public Health supervision.
A minor earthquake struck Helena Montana on Tuesday with no damage or injuries reported officials said. The tremor caused brief shaking felt around the state capital but no structural concerns were noted by geologists or city responders.
Warren R I ham radio operator Newton Evans of Warren Rhode Island connected with the South Pole on Christmas Eve via short wave for 46 minutes. He enabled two telephone patches for seabees and their wives, the first direct telephone links from the Pole.
The weather map shows generally fair conditions over most of the country. Snow flurries hit sections of the Northeast and northern Rockies while the East remains colder with 8 below in Grantsburg Wisconsin and 50s in northern Florida.
In Great Falls Montana three Long children perished in a Tuesday apartment fire believed to have started from a Christmas tree. The victims include a baby.
Christmas across the world carried peace hopes and hard times. In Bethlehem pilgrims faced barriers while Europe faced fuel shortages and a hangover from the Egypt invasion. Pope Pius XII blessed Rome as 100000 gathered in St Peter’s Square. US troops aided orphans in Korea and West Berlin. Antarctica held 3000 Deep Freeze members near tree gifts.
Traffic deaths across the nation surged through Christmas with 686 fatalities counted so far and the National Safety Council predicting the toll will exceed the prior holiday record of 609. Weather brightened but travel dangers linger amid winter conditions and holiday drinking. California, Illinois, Texas, Michigan, New York and Ohio led fatalities while Maine, North Dakota and Wyoming reported no deaths.
Vice President Nixon and a roster of film and TV stars headline an hour long radio and TV telethon to aid Hungarian refugees. The program airs tonight on ABC CBS NBC and MBS with broadcasts across TV and radio networks from early evening CST.
In Budapest temples packed despite snow and subfreezing winds. Russian troops guarded bridges as Cardinal Mindszenty led a private Mass at the American legation with aid from diplomats. Churches held midnight services after a Soviet backed curfew relaxation.
A Pakistan Convair airliner and a trainer plane collided about 700 feet above an airport near Bombay on Tuesday. Both fatalities were occupants of the trainer aircraft. The airliner with 30 passengers landed safely and was only slightly damaged with no injuries to passengers.
In Vienna many of the 19 Hungarian refugees arriving overnight said asylum in the West would be the best Christmas present. Red Cross workers stayed on duty to aid the crossings as lights guided refugees through snow covered fields. One group included a man and his wife with a wash basket.
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