Record Christmas Trade Hints From Early Start
A United Press survey across New York Boston Atlanta and Chicago indicates a possible new holiday sales peak. STANDARD & POOR'S, Dun and Bradstreet, and the International Statistical Bureau predict record or near record Christmas shopping, aided by higher personal income, rising sales, and job security. Commerce Department reports 1953 ten months total at 283.6 billion, slightly above last year, as New York retailers anticipate a record and Macy’s and other stores see crowded conditions since Thanksgiving.
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Nixon’s Father Improves After Hip Surgery
Fullerton Cot tage Hospital reported 76 year old Frank Nixon, father of Vice President Richard Nixon, in good condition after an hour long operation to repair a broken left hip. A metal pin was inserted to speed healing following a fall at his La Habra home last Thursday.
Smog Investigation Plea Sent to Brown
The Citizens Anti Smog Committee repeats its plea for a smog enforcement inquiry in Los Angeles County in a second letter to Attorney General Edmund G Brown. The note, signed by Francis H Packard and James Lee, Pasadena committee co chairmen, requests a direct answer.
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Solon Predicts Saving On Excise Taxes After April
Washington Ins a Democratic prediction that the next Congress will save taxpayers about one billion dollars by letting the 1951 Korean War excise levies expire on April 1. Rep John Dingell said the Ways and Means Committee will not extend the tax increases and warned the administration cannot unite Republicans to seek another extension. Expiration would cut gasoline and auto taxes, whiskey, beer, wine, cigarettes, sporting goods, and diesel fuel levies, totaling roughly one billion and fourteen million dollars in consumer payments.
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Psychiatrist Rules Morse Unfit for School Duties
Dr. George S. Johnson examined Mission high school principal Alvin L. Morse at San Francisco, directing review of medical records since 1947. Morse, 44, is said to have a mental disorder that prevents him from associating with children, following treatment at Stanford Hospital and a Livermore sanatorium after a trailer fire incident near Carson City.
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Three Youths and Dog Rescued From Bay
A Coast Guard helicopter saved three dripping youths and their dry dog Ike from an overturned skiff in San Francisco Bay. The youths Ron Deluc shi, 19, and Dave Guest, 19, both of San Francisco, and El er Ruano, 20, of Redwood City, were en route to a spur near Brisbane to bully a duck blind.
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World Cruise Halted By Radiomen's Strike
In Los Angeles the 71 passenger liner President Monroe was halted by a radiomen strike. The vessel had arrived from New York last Friday and was slated to sail yesterday, with a tentative reschedule for 1 PM today.
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