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Newspaper
Delphi Citizen
Location
Delphi, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1965
Page
2
A Viet Nam soldier, muddy and weary, reads a home letter on Christmas Day and recalls family, gifts, and home. The scene contrasts jungle life with Christmas memories, implying that true meaning and faith endure as long as the soldier finds pockets of joy and hope.
Gertrude Duryea Frier recalls 70 years ago wall-to-wall carpet in a Frankfort home. She describes rag carpet making, the weaving and sewing of strips, laying methods, and daily life with coal heat and chores. The piece celebrates Indiana heritage and Sesquicentennial interest.
A Christmas tale tells of cobbler Conrad who helps a beggar, a weary woman, and a lost child on Christmas Day. He awaits a divine guest, only to learn the Lord was testing him by appearing as ordinary townsfolk. The story ends with a halo and the promised blessing.
Local notes record FHA meeting with Mrs James Coghill and Lt Don Burkhal ter returning from Ft Benning. Engagements announce Earla Jean Atkins to Rob ert L Spivey and Ann Ora Hanaway to Richard Lee Walters. Numerous births and social events listed alongside a Christmas concert and New Year open house. 1945 items mention Purdue Gimlet membership, Field Archery Club, and service leaves.
In a travel diary style segment, Senator Hartke reflects on stops from Hong Kong to Tel Aviv, via Bangkok and Kabul, noting Israel’s holy sites, landscape, and irrigation projects as Christmas nears. He frames Israel as part of a modern Promised Land while expressing longing for home.
Delphi Masonic Lodge Mt Olive No 48 will hold a public installation of officers on Thursday December 30 at 7 30 p m at the Masonic Temple. The public is invited and refreshments will be served.
Flora and Monon defeat the Delphi Oracles in a tense contest. Marjorie Lee Grassmyer becomes engaged to Doyle D. Miller.
An unnamed reader sends a $5 contribution to raise the reward for information on Shaffer's vandalism, urging action and wider newspaper coverage as residents fear weekend closures and feel the community is not being alerted.
The verse recalls L. P. Anderson with lines of twilight memories and enduring love. The author Thelma Anderson writes of dreaming of the departed and resting in peace as day ends.
More than 250 Indiana Democratic Party leaders will travel to Washington, D. C., for a week in March to learn about government programs and 1966 election plans. The trip includes briefings by national administration and party leaders and a prior day study of state progress under Governor Branigin. Carroll County Chairman M. E. Jackson and Vice Chairman Thelma Sines are slated to join.
Mr. and Mrs. Noel VanSickle and daughter Marcella returned from Binellas Park Florida where they visited his sister Mrs Leigh Ringer. Mrs Sylvia VanSickle also traveled to Florida. Sunday dinner guests included Mr and Mrs Ray Pressler Jeff and Pricilla Green Mike Amstutz and Jack Maxwell. They attended the Christmas Convocation at Purdue.
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