Families Readying Homes For Big Christmas Holiday
Christmas in all its glory will be celebrated citywide despite defense clouds. The Immortal story of the Child in the manger will be shared in homes and churches. Children’s voices will rise with joy as presents are opened and family dinners delight all ages. Churches plan services and communities organize events as holiday gaieties spread, toylands busy, and gift shopping peaks before a quiet Christmas weekend.
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Mt Lana
Truman Assayes Home Town Folk Of Peaceful World
President Truman speaking in Independence Missouri during holiday visit addressed a group of home town Masons. The event, a formal dinner at the Kansas City Hotel, featured Roy Roberts of the Kansas Star as a co speaker. Roberts noted public confusion among Americans amid the season.
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Truman Assayes
Folk of Peaceful
Washington
Truman
Independence
Missouri
Kansas ‘City
Roy Roberts
The
Kansas
Star
Roberts
Hit President's Foreign Policy in Washington Debate
Washington is engulfed in a harsh duel over the president's foreign policy as Republican and Democratic senators press for concrete evidence of European defense contributions. Secretary Acheson touts a three million man international army for Western Europe to be built in three years, while critics demand specifics on American commitments and question the Korea action and reinforcement plans.
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Washington
Bourke Hickenlooper
Dean Acheson
Europe
Acheson
George Malone
Nevada
Senate
Korea
Shorty
State Department
Gala Yule Program Delights 500 Children
Five hundred children attended a Grafton Women's Club event featuring a film of A Christmas Carol and a festive program. Gus Gianakos served as master of ceremonies introducing performers. Laura Powell and Shirley Bumgardner sang Winter Wonderland and Joy to the World with piano accompaniment by Hele Lowie Carrigat. Paddy Wolfe played O Come All Ye Faithful on glockenspiel.
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Grafton Women’s Club
Gianjoved
Scrooge
Gus Gian
Akos
Laura Powell
Shirley Bumgardner
Wonderland
Hele
Lowie Carrigat
Paddy Wolfe
White Christmas Hopes Fade in Grafton Weather
Warmer, sunny noon as no snow is forecast for Grafton with highs near 45 to 50 degrees. Overnight low around 29 degrees, noon read 34 as winter appears to arrive but remains mild in Morgantown and Elkins with brief snow in places.
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Grafton
St. Nick
Lycy Area
Nine Accidents in County in One Day
A holiday warning was issued by Corporal G F P Randall of the State Police after reporting nine traffic accidents in the county yesterday. Icy roads blamed for the mishaps, with three crashes west of Grafton on US Route 50, one at Flemington, four east of Grafton on Route 50, and one inside the city. No serious injuries were reported.
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G. F P. Randall
State Police
Grafton
Flemington
West Virginia nurses to join Army Nurse Corps drive
Sixty three West Virginia nurses will soon wear Army Nurse Corps uniforms as the American Nurses Association plans recruiting from the Mountain State. The nationwide need is 3,000. West Virginia will furnish 59 general duty nurses, plus a head nurse, nurse anesthetist, operating room nurse, and psychiatric nurse.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Army Nurse Corp
American Nurses Association
Mountain
Ridgway Named Top Commander After Walker Death
In Korea, Lt. Gen. Ridgway is named the new Eighth Army commander following the fatal head on jeep collision that killed Lt. Gen. Walt Walker north of Seoul. Walker’s death follows a planned decoration for his son at the front, as MacArthur expresses shock and Tokyo notes the shift in U.S. Army leadership amid mounting front-line pressure.
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Gen. Walker
Patton
Washington
United States
Korea
Walt Walker
U.S. Highth Army
Walker
Seoul
Od- Highth
Si Walker
facArthur
Tokyo
Macdathir
Macathur
U.8
Army
Matthew Ridgwi
Eighth Army
Waller
Adrea
Sory
Onondye
One Thousand Children Await Santa in Ronceverte
Charlestown area news notes that Santa deadline is at 2 PM in Ronceverte as Rotarians face a mixed up Christmas stocking delivery. A Rhode Island firm shipped two thousand stockings but only one thousand arrived, leaving hope alive for about two thousand children awaiting gifts and a search of the missing shipment along the air route.
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Charleston
Santa Claus
Ronceverte
Rhode Tolland
Rotarians
Comany
Laguardia Field
New York
Drunken Greek symposium linked to ancient drinking
University of California professor Dr. Arthur F. McKinlay says the term symposium originally involved drinking bouts. He notes Xenodon’s teetotal stance created confusion, while Plato offers a clearer picture of what occurred at these gatherings.
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Los Anghles
Arthur F. Mckinlay
University of California
McKinlay
Xenodon
Plato
Christmas Eve and Yuletide Services Across Local Churches
Churches across the area plan Christmas Eve observances from 11 p.m. to midnight including candlelight Holy Communion and special cantatas. St Pauls and West Main churches host children programs and combined Christmas worship, while St Augustine and First Presbyterian schedule masses, carols, and a Christmas message by pastors.
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Paul ‘Warder
Paul W. Shahan
St. Paul's Lutheran
First Presbyterian Church
Iva.b. Wilson
F. Carr Davis
St. Augustine Church
First Brethren Church
Bible School
Church of Christi
St. Matthias Church
Richard’Coffman
Evangelical’ United
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Puruman
Radio City Music Hall
Central Press
Huntington
Morgantown
Elkins
West Virginia Military District
Eugene Hughey
Parkersburg
Burdette Byers
Eighr
Jullang Street
Kanawha
Byers
Richard Corbitt
Lon H
Whitten
Ridgway
Hope Santa
Yuletide
Ayithe
Andrews Methodist
Richard Leonard
St. Paul's Methodist Church
West Main Street Methodist
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