Community groups hold Christmas events and meetings
North Valley Ladies Aid hosts a basket dinner at North Valley school Thursday at 6:30 for the Christmas party. VFW Auxiliary gathers at Memorial Building tonight at 6:30 for a covered dish dinner and gift exchange. BPW Club schedules its annual Christmas party at the Tioga Hotel Wednesday at 6:45 with gift plans. Harmony School Community meeting features Harvey Rhodes magic show Wednesday at 8 p.m. Sorghum Valley Grange holds a Christmas covered-dish dinner and gift exchange Wednesday at 6:30. Petterson family from Kansas City visited, and Zion Homeworkers meet Wednesday at 1:30 with a freewill offering for Newton Orphans Home. Pittsburg Social Security rep briefs on social Security checks and combined benefits Tuesday at 10 a.m.
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Memorial Building
Business and Professional Women’s Club
Tioga Hotel
Radio and Television Committee
Mariam Mih
Sorghum Valley Grange
Leighton youths rewarded for missing mail pouch find
In Leighton Alabama three youths who found a missing mail pouch containing forty four thousand dollars in one dollar bills have received rewards from the Post Office Department. Ingram Mitchell 18 who first located the pouch and alerted authorities was among those honored.
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Post Office Department
Ingram Mitchell
Negro Students Back In Tennessee School
Clinton High School in Clinton Tennessee reopened with eight Black students eight total walking to class without incident. Three police cars patrolled briefly as authorities reported no disturbances during the return of roughly 800 students to classes after last week’s closure.
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Clinton, Tenn
Clinton High School
Mrs Comiskey Dies In Her Apartment
Chicago business figure Grace Comiskey head of the White Sox died suddenly in her apartment likely from a heart seizure. The pioneer family matriarch had led the club and business interests in Chicago.
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Grace Comiskey
Chicago White Sox
Comiskey Dies at About 66 After Ill Health
The Chanute Tribune notes Mrs. Comiskey, aged about 66, had been in poor health since a serious heart attack in March 1950, with the report appearing on page 9 of the December 10 issue.
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