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Newspaper
Childress Index
Location
Childress, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1957
Page
2
The Hotel Edison announced a holiday service offering to send a fully lit Christmas tree to homebound guests who call room service. The program aims to spread seasonal cheer during the holiday season in New York.
Local notes report holiday visits by residents and relatives from Houston, Melbourne, Tulsa, Texarkana, Austin, Lubbock, Amarillo, and more. Families travel for Christmas, with names like Wilson, Watkins, Blair, Price, Waters, Cates, and Roten tying together a regional social calendar.
Hugh Darrell Wade son of Mr and Mrs Ross Wade of Childress will travel with the University of Texas Longhorn Band to the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans January 1 where Texas faces Mississippi. Wade and band members return to Austin December 29 for rehearsals and final preparations for the three day trip with national television appearance.
In San Francisco on December 21 a robber forced Marie Crolla, 47, proprietor of the Town Motel, to hand over $48.50 from the till. The suspect offered a Christmas justification saying he hated to do it but it is Christmas.
President Eisenhower will hunt the national Christmas tree Monday afternoon and deliver a Christmas message to the nation and world as part of the Pageant of Peace. The First Family plans to spend Christmas Day at the White House with plans uncertain beyond Wednesday.
Murphysboro Mayor Joseph Williams says emergency relief is requested as tornado wreckage is cleared. One hundred homes destroyed and 50 damaged amid nine deaths, with refugees needing housing and rubble burned to reduce hazards. The Muddy River threatens flooding but officials anticipate no immediate flood crisis. The U.S. Supreme Court schedules a October term.
Twenty five thousand Sputniks will circle Christmas trees in Communist East Germany while toy exports to the West continue. Czechoslovakia enforces strict controls and timing. Yugoslavia shows defense minded toy selections. Poland and Hungary favor traditional or simple carvings. East German books push party line fairy tales. Kansas reports 48 611 366 acres of farmland.
Authorities admit they were stymied in identifying two men who shot and killed Dr. Maurice Sanderson in his Madison county home. The suspects entered by posing as accident victims and fled after a struggle. A gunman wore a head bandage and a hat with a San Jose haberdashery label was left behind, but tracing the items proved fruitless.
The term scallion for the icon derives from the ancient city of Ascalon in Palestine, linking a modern symbol to a historic locale.
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