Eastern Star Chapter to Meet Tonight at Masonic Temple
Mary Lou Dancy Chapter No. 320 Eastern Star will hold a regular session tonight at 7:30 in the Masonic Temple. Christmas Day reported quiet with residents well behaved and one minor incident noted by Police Chief Pack Selft. Morgan County sheriff's force reported 11 weekend arrests including public drunkenness and highway intoxication and investigated a break in at Johnny Steele's Store in Danville with two broken windows.
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Mary Lou Dancy
Order of the Eastern Star
Masonic Temple
Pack Selft
Morgan County Sheriff's Force
Johnny Steele
Danville
Icy bridge collision injures one near Courtland
A Sunday morning highway crash about 1 mile west of Courtland on Highway 20 left one person injured and three cars damaged. Walter Dempsey Riner and Herman Rosenberg were involved in separate impacts on the icy bridge with a fractured wrist reported for Mrs Rosenberg and minor Buick damage to Theodore Mason.
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5Th St
10Th Ave
Triumph
Bobby Lee Hayden
Rosevelt Macklin
Cain St
Macklin
Abner Cook
Decatur
Moulton Road
Linda Marvelene Dewey
Decatur 3
Ford
Baugh-Wiley-Smith
William Vaughn
McCartney St. N.W
Highway Patrol
Caddo Road
Moulton
Linda Marvelene Denney
Why Christmas Is Celebrated On December 25
Writers note that Christ was likely born late December though shepherds in fields by night are unlikely for that season. The term Christmas comes from the Mass of Christ and the tradition of annual celebration dates to early medieval England, with early uses recorded in an 1123 chronicle.
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Christ
Palestine
Peace and Unity Yule Messages From World Leaders
Leaders across the West urged peace and unity in Christmas greetings amid fears over rising tensions among major powers. Kennedy assured West Berliners the beacon of free Berlin will shine and that US stands with them until there is goodwill among men. Berliners lit 800 trees along the wall as churchgoers filled churches in both Berlin sectors. Queen Elizabeth II spoke of patient effort to dispel clouds, while Pope John XXIII warned the church faces grave tasks ahead. In Jerusalem and Bethlehem pilgrims gathered for services as violence flared nearby.
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Kennedy
East
West Berlin
John XXIII
Jerusalem
Judean Hills
Bethlehem
Special Yule Warmth Lingers Across Land
A winter storm brings freezing temperatures to the South with Florida records and milepost cold in Jacksonville and Tallahassee. Forecaster Sugg ties the chill to a Canadian front, while rescue crews pull 12 people from a Maryville Missouri pumping station marooned by six foot drifts. Christmas generosity follows tragedy as stories of Freddie Downer and Donna Lee Staats highlight gifts, mercy, and community aid.
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Florida
Arnold Sugg
Caribbean
Miami
Jacksonville
Tallahassee
Tampa
Birmingham
Ala
Midwest
Maryville
Mercury
Associated Press
North Pole
Freddie Downer
Massena
N.Y
Santa Claus
Santa
Vicky
St. Nick’s
Donna Lee Staats
Louisville
Bloomfield
Christmas Observed At Lonely Outpost
In South Viet Nam at a ranger base north of Saigon 15 U S Army instructors and Vietnamese trainees marked Christmas with a midnight Mass a small tree and a turkey dinner carried 30 miles. Viet Cong snipers fired on the camp as 300 ranger trainees and officers observed the holiday with a French speaking chaplain and a pink jeep chaplain. See CHRISTMAS on Page 3.
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Malcolm W. Browne
Associated Press
South Viet Nam
Saigon
U.S. Army
Trung Lap
Cap. Linton C. Beasley
Lynchburg
U.S
Dinh Tuan Ngan
Father Ngan
Viet Nam
Fire Destroys Maxwell House in Nashville on Christmas Night
The 102 year old Maxwell House hotel in Nashville Tennessee was destroyed by fire on Christmas night. Between 60 and 70 people were evacuated in night clothes with pets or gifts as air temperatures hovered around 30 degrees. One elderly guest remained unaccounted for. The fire started on the fourth floor of the five story building.
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Nashville, Tenn
Maxwell House
South
Alabama Death Toll Climbs With Christmas Drowning and Fires
A Christmas weekend toll in Alabama rises to 21 deaths from accidents including drownings, shootings, and a fire. Autopsies were planned in Mobile for three deaths linked to a poisonous alcohol concoction. One man died on U S 78 near Jasper, and other victims include a Negro woman found dead in Mobile and several hunting related shootings involving teens.
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Mobile
U.S. 78
Jasper
Charles B. Helms
J. Hines
Marie Jones
Luke Brewer
Talladega County
Julius Thomas Pilkington Jr
Pilkington
Bon Air
James Robert Cothran
Cothran
Alford Evans
Scottsboro
Clyde Collins Barrett
Green County
Joe Shockley
Walter Eugene Barrett
Albert Woodham
Columbus
Opp
M. C. Meredith
Woodham
Tombigbee
Aliceville
Letha Dunner
Luella Williams
Jilt Horton
William Halas
Air Force
Milwaukee
Wisc
U.S. 80
Cuba
Alabama
Kennedy Busy Keeps Watch On Ill Father
President Kennedy returns to work on national business while monitoring his seriously ill father. He undergoes a back checkup as Dr. Preston Wade arrives for a yearend examination. aides plan a final review of the 1963 budget before Christmas plans with Caroline and John Jr. at Palm Beach.
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Kennedy
Palm Beach, Fla
Preston Wade
New York
Wade
White House
Janet Travell
Pierre Salinger
Washington
Salinger
Joseph P. Kennedy
Col
C. Michael Paul
Caroline
John Jr
St. Mary’s Hospital
West Palm Beach
Death Toll Surpasses Holiday Traffic Estimates
The National Safety Council raised its three day Christmas traffic fatality estimate from 500 to 550 or more as 512 people died on highways and 678 total deaths occurred including 82 in fires and 84 in miscellaneous accidents over the 78 hour period. Weather ice and snow fueled crashes with noted tragedies near Hearne Texas Warren Pennsylvania and Marietta Ohio. See DEATH TOLL on Page 2.
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National Safety Council
Associated Press
Hearne
Tex
Warren
Marietta
Ohio
NAACP Hearing Set Wednesday
A U S Supreme Court ordered hearing is set before Circuit Judge Walter B Jones on a five year old injunction against the NAACP in Alabama. The state seeks to make the ban permanent after Jones in 1956 halted NAACP business in the state under a temporary injunction. Gov John Patterson filed the complaint charging the NAACP with doing business without qualifying as an out of state corporation and fomenting racial strife.
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Federal District Court
Jones’ Court
John Patterson
NAACP
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