Office party Christmas dinner and Santa visit
The staff gathered for a Christmas meal in the press room with leftovers of turkey ham and potatoes. Debbie Scherling stole the show with Santa calling her name for gifts while her baby sister slept in a buggy. A note from Teresa Lambrano laments tree theft on East Hackberry, urging kindness and Christ’s birth meaning. Ruby’s Maternity Modes will close tomorrow for relocation reopening Jan 2. Local minister jokes about inebriated Parishioners in the midnight procession. Moscow opens a campaign marking the 40th anniversary of Soviet state security forces, warning against West spies and espionage.
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Deborah Scherling
Chris Scherling
Debbie
Susan
Santa
Moscow
Communist Party
Central Committee
Weaterberg
Polar bear cub visitors from twelve states noted
A limp fragment notes Klouske the polar bear cub receiving visitors from twelve states and six towns with another deluge expected on Christmas Day. The cub is said to be about a pound per week gain and will be four weeks old the day after Christmas. Owens’s placeholder is mentioned as well in the unreadable lines.
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Klouske
Wae
Bey
Fragmentary Weather Note With Scattered Data
Readable scraps mention weather observations and humidity figures amid garbled OCR. Includes stray names and numbers, but core items are incomplete forecast terms and stray climate data without a coherent report.
Tax School on Jan 21 Here
A tentative date of January 21 has been set for an income tax school of instruction here. The session is conducted by the Internal Revenue Service Wichita in cooperation with the local Chamber of Commerce. A meeting place has not yet been selected. Individuals and business firms with questions about income tax requirements may attend free sessions.
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Internal Revenue Service
Treasury Department
Wichita
Chamber of Commerce
Garden Sass The Old Bachelor Grumbles on Weddings
The Old Bachelor grumbles that weddings bring showers for the bride but curtains for the groom. He jokes that bachelorhood enjoys the quiet while weddings loom as social spectacle and duty.
McElroy Seen as Key To Easing Congressional Criticism
Secretary of Defense McElroy, two months in office, may become the Eisenhower administration’s chief asset in softening sharp congressional Democrat criticism of missile and satellite programs. His actions lifting overtime restrictions and restoring funds to Jupiter and Thor programs have impressed Senate Democrats led by Lyndon B. Johnson, who seek decisive action on space weapons. McElroy’s future moves to straighten guidelines, streamline Pentagon procedures, and accelerate missile supply could blunt ongoing criticism and influence any shift toward a separate development agency.
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Jack Bell
Washington
McElroy
Russia
Congress
Defense Department
Subcommittee
Jupiter
Thor
Rescue slim hope for Narva crew in North Sea sinking
London reports Rescue officials held slight hope for 28 crewmen missing from the Narva after the freighter sank during a mercy mission in a North Sea storm. RAF planes resumed dawn search for survivors while Boswell’s 14 crew were rescued by a trawler miles away. A company official noted slim chances of survivors aboard life rafts or a radio silent ship.
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London
Royal Air Force
Sweden
Aberdeen
Scotland
Stavanger
Norway
Boswell
Kirdkleness
Kincardineshire
Genn., and Co
Poeta
Advise Against Trial for Gein and Sanity Hearing
Wisconsin Rapids reports Circuit Judge Herbert A Bunde said Edward Gein is not competent to stand trial and will receive a formal sanity hearing after his commitment to Central State Hospital for the Criminal Insane. Gein admitted killing and mutilating two women and looting graves, with authorities alleging similar desecrations at his Plainfield farmhouse.
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Wis. i
Herbert’ A. Bunde
Central State 'Hospital
Edward Gein
Plainfield
Bunde
Gein
Bernice Worden
Stores Open Tonight For Christmas Shoppers
Local firms extend hours as stores stay open late tonight to accommodate last minute Christmas shoppers. The extra shopping night, part of a Chamber of Commerce schedule, marks the season’s final push.
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Chamber of Commerce
Churches Here Plan Special Yule Services
Local churches schedule Christmas week services. St James Lutheran hosts Christmas Eve Holy Communion at 9 00 am service. Trinity Lutheran offers a 10 00 am Service of Song on Christmas Day with candlelight. St Marys Catholic holds midnight Christmas Eve service, First Methodist candlelight communion 7 00 8 00 pm, St Thomas Episcopal prayers 8 00 pm Christmas Eve and 10 30 am Christmas morning with Father Treder of Dodge City.
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Treatsy
St. James Lutheran
Trinity Lutheran
St. Mary's Catholic Church
First Methodist Church
St. Thomas Episcopal Church
Father Treder
Dodge City
Private Eye With Heart in Oklahoma City Favors Destitute Family
Private detectives offered free help locating the missing husband of a 28 year old crippled woman Mrs Alvin Jordan. The Jordan family was destitute and local private eyes brought Christmas gifts and a television for Mrs Jordan’s daughter. Meat Inspector Dies in Atchison Charles J Trail 98 former government meal inspector at St Joseph Missouri died last night. Chile quake felt in Nebraska City no damage or casualties reported
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Oklahoma City
Private
Alvin Jordan
Glenn Magill
Jordan
Atchison
Charles J. Trail
St. Joseph, Mo
Peru
Chile
Nebraska City
Santiago
Plot Locations For European Missile Bases
NATO plans discussed by Gen Lauris Norstad envision intermediate range missiles in Europe, land and sea bases including submarines and floating platforms off NATO coasts. He forecasts 10 squadrons of 15 missiles, plus four sites in Britain, to counter Soviet advances. He expects rapid recommendation and distribution across allied countries, with locations not pinpointed but adaptable to conditions. Former Kansas justice William A Smith predicts 1958 reelection for Gov Docking, criticizes Republican leadership as ideologically void and unlikely to nominate a winnable candidate.
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Paris
Lauris Norstad
Europe
NATO
Norstad
Britain
United States
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATO Report Tonight and Eisenhower Speech Preview
An evening press briefingoutlines President Eisenhower and Dulles amid NATO talks in Paris. Hagerty notes the Gaither report’s secrecy and the security council discussions. Eisenhower planned a radio television address summarizing relations with Europe and U.S. disarmament aims, while New York Gov. Harriman defends Eisenhower’s Paris leadership.
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Washington
Hisenhower
National Security Council
NATO
Paris
Nationalist China watchdog cites Premier Yui in graft probe
The watchdog body today accused Premier C. K. Yui of dereliction of duty amid improvised charges. It referred the charges to a committee to decide whether he should be removed from office. The Yuan said Yui failed to appear for questioning on government spending. Yui, 51, has headed mintang since June 1954 under President Chiang Kai-shek.
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TAIPE
Formosa
Control Yuan
China
K. Yui
Yuan
Yui
H Mintang
Chiang Kai-shek
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