Disney World draws visitors beyond expectations in Florida
Disney World is attracting more tourists than expected and may be shifting Florida’s tourist mix. Since mid November, Orlando hotels have been fully booked while visitors divert to Daytona Beach, Coma Beach, Ocala and Tampa. Disney plans to hire 2,000 more staff by January and reports solid attendance growth despite early skeptics.
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Orlando
Fla
Disney World
Florida
Daytona Beach
Coma Beach
Ocala
Tampa
Walt Disney Productions
New
Disney
State Department of Commerce
Dade County
Miami Beach
Cardinal Cooke Off For Holy Land
Cardinal Cooke, archbishop of New York, heads to the Holy Land as president of the Catholic Near East Welfare Association to aid refugee camps and funds. He also visits American troops, delaying his Dec. 16 departure due to a lay-teacher strike in the New York Archdiocese, now settled.
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Holy Land
Cardinal Cooke
New York
Catholic Near East Welfare Association
Palestine
Santa-like shoeshine man runs February birthday baskets
Oklahoma City roams with a February charity, Ralph Jackson, 34, who runs a shoeshine stand and a Feb birthday driven drive delivering Christmas groceries to about 700 needy families. He funds it by profits from his stand, gives workers a share, and uses a trailer at events to collect clothing and support for fires victims and other needs. He plays Santa at children’s parties and supports his two college‑bound kids. His mother inspired the effort. he stayed in Oklahoma City to continue it.
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Oklahoma City
Ralph Jackson
Santa Claus
Jackson
California
Inmates Bailed For Christmas By Charity Aid
Forty four prisoners held on bail of 500 or less in Nassau and Suffolk jails will go home for Christmas thanks to the St. Vincent de Paul Society. The Catholic charity funded bailouts after screening as good risks with families or jobs in their home communities. A separate note mentions a 45 star American flag dating from 1896 when Utah joined the union found by Goodwill Industries in Evansville Indiana.
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Wast Meadow
N.Y
Nassau
Suffolk County
St. Vincent de Paul Society
Evansville
Ind
Goodwill Industries
Utah
Seek Source Of Pot Sent To Buy By Sixth Grader
State police and postal workers traced the origin of a California mailed package sent to a sixth grade student at Ben Franklin Elementary School in Indiana Pennsylvania. The package contained two plastic sandwich bags of marijuana addressed to the boy in care of his classroom teacher.
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Ndiana
California
Ben Franklin
Santa Not Stork Will Bring Christmas Babies
In San Antonio at Southwest Texas Methodist Hospital maternity ward deliveries will be gift wrapped this week as Christmas babies are brought to mothers in large red stockings, continuing a holiday tradition begun by officials.
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San Antonio, Tex
Southwest Texas Methodist Hospital
Franklin Tot In Serious Burn Condition After Fire
Franklin A 16 month old girl Erica Edkins is listed in serious condition at Children’s Hospital Pittsburgh with smoke inhalation and burns to the neck face shoulders and arms after a living room fire in a second floor Franklin apartment. Fire Chief Gerald Ace is credited with rescuing the child. a Community Ambulance driver says Ace crawled through the burning building to reach her before taking her to Franklin Hospital and then Pittsburgh. The cause is under investigation by the state fire marshal from Erie. parents were reported absent at the time.
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Franklin
Erica Edkins
Thomas Edkins
Children’s Hospital
Pittsburgh
Gerald Ace
Richard Mason
Community Ambulance Service
Ace
Mason
Franklin Hospital
Erie
Nursing Homes Get Welfare Aid Hike
Harrisburg AP reports a federal ruling allows Pennsylvania to raise nursing home welfare payments from 1 dollar per day to 13 or 15 dollars, depending on care level. The rise costs about 3.8 million dollars for Dec 1 to Jun 30 1972, funded in the current budget but previously blocked by the wage price freeze.
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Harrisburg
Welfare Department
Sisters Plead Guilty In LSD Sale Case
Two sisters Beth Ritter Scurry and Wendy Louise Ritter of Polk pleaded guilty to selling LSD in Venango County after pleads to the drug sale charges. They also pleaded innocent to drug and cosmetic act violations. A related agreement with the district attorney meant not prosecuting those violations.
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Franklin
Venango County
Beth Ritter
Miles Lynn
Minister Blasts Santa Claus Myth as Harmful to Christmas
In Charlotte, Reverend James H. B. Kenyon, an Episcopal priest, calls the Santa Claus myth a lie that damages parental honesty and shifts focus from giving to receiving gifts. He makes these charges in a newsletter from St. Michael's and All Angels and Christ the King Center. He questions whether Santa Claus contributes to Christmas’s degeneration and emphasizes the "great gift giver" theme.
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Santa Claus
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Leo Jackman
Mike
Arco West
Columbus
Senate
Sient
Pine Woods Inn
Corry Road
Union City
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