Badman Billy Cook Buried In Secret Quiet Ceremonies
Badman Billy Cook, the killer of six, was buried in a private quiet graveyard ceremony at Peace cemetery near Joplin. Relatives ordered the rites after canceling a public Comanche funeral. Only 75 year old father and two sisters attended. a plainclothes officer kept watchers away. Cook had been on death row for murders in Missouri and Washington.
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Seattle
Wash
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Distillers Face Political Mixup Over Inaugural Bottles
In Boston the Old Mr. Boston Distilleries confront a souvenir mixup as 34 presidents’ names appear on glass bottles. An error lists Adlai E. Stevenson as the 4th president on bottles produced before election results were known, and those bottles are missing.
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Mass
Mr. Boston
Adlal FE. Stevenson
Early Visit From Santa Rides In On Helicopter
Crippled patients at Goldwater Memorial Hospital on Welfare Island received an early Christmas visit when Santa Claus descended from the East River aboard a helicopter. Observers attributed the rapid arrival to Santa abandoning reindeer for air travel.
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New York
Goldwater Memorial Hospital
Welfare Island
Santa Claus
East River
St. Nick
Tobacco Crop Expected To Be Large In 1952
The Department of Agriculture projects a 1952 fluecured tobacco crop near 1,368 million pounds, the largest on record aside from last year, with total tobacco output around 2,207 million pounds, a decline of about five percent from 1951. Barley yields at 604 million pounds trail last year’s 618 million, while land in cultivation stays near 1.78 million acres. Production by type cites Virginia and North Carolina as major contributors with burley grown in Kentucky and Tennessee.
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North Carolina
South Carolina
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Inflation Shift Sways Felony Misdemeanor Threshold
The Nebraska County Attorneys Association recommends raising the monetary dividing line between felonies and misdemeanors from 35 to 100 dollars. The change hinges on the amount involved to classify crimes, with felonies carrying heavier penalties. A separate brief notes a quirky sighting in Middle Lake Canada where Art Lemon found a second egg inside a boiled egg at breakfast.
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Neb
Nebraska County Attorneys Association
Lemon
Double Ban
Middle Lake
Canada
Art Lemon
Offers From Blood Donors Pour In
Orlando Florida donors offered to help seven year old Bobby Curry who is critically ill with leukemia. He survives on a daily half pint transfusion of B positive blood, and scarce blood in the area threatened Christmas. The Orlando Sentinel Star publicized his story and the hospital noted hundreds of offers, including some from New York.
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Florida State Sanitarium
Bobby Curry
Bobby
Orlando Sentinel Star
New York
George
Sanford
Christmas Dinner Planned For Animals
The Anti Cruelty Society announced plans to feed horses a hay dinner with mixed grain and carrots on Christmas Day. Abandoned cats and dogs will receive a meal including liver, horse meat, dog candy, biscuits, cooked fish, milk and cream.
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Anti- Cruelty Society
Odd-Sounding Names Changed in Probate Court
In Salem Massachusetts Henry and Rosella Kellyhouse Klink won a probate court decree on Wednesday allowing the couple to change their surname to Texas and Mary O Rourke reflecting their desire to abandon their unusual family name.
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Mass
Henry
Rosella
Kellyhouse Klink
Texas
Mary O'Rourke
Station Time Zone Guidance and Schedule Note
A brief guidance on time zones for broadcasting states that Eastern Time serves as reference, Central is one hour earlier and Mountain is two hours earlier. It notes some local stations adjust relay times to fit schedules and last minute program changes are not included.
Evening TV Schedule and Programs for December 18
A dense listing of broadcast times across channels detailing news, dramas, comedies, and specials. Includes local and national programs with titles such as News and Comment, One Man's Family, Lone Ranger, Death Valley Days, Guiding Light, and Santa Claus segments plus late night talk and movie slots across WRBTV Charlotte and CBS/NBC affiliates.
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Jonathan Story
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Racial School Segregation Debate Shapes State Policy
North Carolina officials and editors discuss Supreme Court cases on segregation and the impact on state sovereignty and public schooling. Observers favor alert preparation over alarm while weighing federal intrusion against state duties and the potential effects on school funding and construction.
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Supreme Court of the United States
North Carolina
High Court
Capitol Square
General Assembly
United States
J. M. Broughton
Baltimore
South Carolina
Congress of the
Ancient mixups label Ethiopia with India in old authorities
In historic periods both scholars and officials frequently confused Ethiopia with India. The article notes such mixups persisted across eras, reflecting limited geographic knowledge and transliteration issues of the time.
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Ethiopia
India
Justice of Peace Fines Self for Hunting Rabbits
Garyville Louisiana report states Justice of the Peace Anicet Klibert, cited by game wardens for hunting rabbits with a searchlight, fined himself 12 dollars and 50 cents in his own court. He quipped that he got hungry for rabbit.
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Justice of the Peace
Anicet Klibert
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