Christmas Time Family Fun Ideas for Kids and Parents
Mrs Shoemaker urges families to use the Christmas season for shared activities and learning. She suggests music records, plays, and the two record album The Glooby Game to spark imagination, plus watching programs with children and reading books together.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rowena Shoemaker
Play Schools Association
Santa Claus
Lucy
Ann Molloy
Mabel Hill
Daddy
Junior
Jim Crow Action In Jury's Hands
A North Carolina man seeks 25000 dollars in a federal case against Atlantic Coast Line Railroad for ejecting him from a coach and arresting him over segregation. The ACL argues it had right to enforce its rule, while Chance claims unlawful restraint. the jury must decide if the railroad could have known its rule was illegal.
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Richmond, Va
North Carolina
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
William C. Chance
Parmele
N.C
ACL
Chance
Sterling Hutcheson
Boys Swap Courses In Defiance Bake Cakes
In Defiance a swap between the home economics girls and shop course boys leads to both groups learning new skills. Girls handle hammers and saws while boys bake cookies and baste turkeys, with one worker promising a cake if someone visits.
Search Ordered For Lost Navy Fighter Planes
Coast Guard Navy and Civil Air Patrol planes were ordered to search the South Atlantic seaboard for two Corsair F4U fighters reported missing after departing from the Leyte off Norfolk. The planes last dropped position over Lake Waccamaw North Carolina at 8 23 am with estimated positions near Conway or Georgetown at 9 45 am. Flight fate followed a turnback toward Cherry Point Marine Base as ceilings dropped near zero and fuel was limited to 12 30 pm. Highway patrols and police across Virginia to Florida scoured coastal areas for the two pilots and aircraft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
Coast Guard
Navy
Civil Air Patrol
South Atlantic Seaboard
Sanford
Fla
Leyte
Norfolk
Lake Waccamaw N. C
Conway
Georgetown
Cherry Point Marine Base
South Carolina
Virginia
Florida
Wilkes County Killer Given 30-Year Term
Millard Bell, 36, received a 36 year term for second degree murder after pleading guilty and choosing the sentence over facing possible execution for first degree murder. He spoke of a life of crime started young and sobbed as Judge Allen Gwyn instructed him to tell his story. Witnesses testified Bell threatened six youths in a parked car, fired a shotgun, broke windows, and killed Carl Call as he begged for his life.
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North Wilkesboro
Millard Bell
Allen Gwyn
Robert Junior Call
Bell
Call
Carl
Eighteen New Schools Planned for Singapore in 1952
Singapore announces a five year education plan to build eighteen new schools next year to educate 45 000 children reaching school age in 1952. More than 1 000 teachers will be recruited to staff both existing and new schools as part of a ten year goal to recruit and train 5 290 teachers.
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Singapore
Ducks Run Rampant After Bootleg Mash Spotted
Fifty wild ducks on a spree were seen near Francois Lake British Columbia by a game warden. Ducks appeared to have sampled mash from a bootleg distillery hidden in the woods.
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Francois Lake
B. C
Ima
Suit Jewelry to Costume Glamour from the Gabors
Magda Gabor of Madison Avenue fame urges American women to wear more jewelry. She favors pearls for both evening and casual wear and advises coordinating pieces with dress line and necklines. For evenings she prefers diamonds or rhinestones, warns against gold with evening wear, and outlines bracelet, necklace, and earring rules. She cautions against wearing two rings at once, suggests one ring per hand, and champions versatile pins and tailored jewelry for casual attire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Magda
Madame Jolie
New York
Madison Avenue
Magdm Gahber
Caudle Says Outside Activities Normal for Official
Washington D T Lamar Caudle, fired by President Truman for outside activities, argued on a radio program that his work was not unusual for a government official. The North Carolinian ex assistant attorney general in charge of tax fraud prosecutions claimed his greatest outside duty was speeches for the Democratic National Committee in 1948 and said he never acted dishonestly or blocked prosecutions.
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Washington
T. Lamar Caudle
Democratic National Committee
Vincent Price Collapses After Stage Show in Tacoma
Actor Vincent Price collapsed after a performance of The Cocktail Party in Tacoma Washington. Hospital attendants would not disclose the illness or its nature and kept details private.
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Tacoma
Wash
Vincent Price
Picketing man fined for urging boycott in Woonsocket
Wilfred Boiteau a 55 year old man was fined 3 dollars for standing outside a restaurant of his former employer and urging people not to patronize it. The incident occurred in Woonsocket I T based on UP dispatch.
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Woonsocket, I. T
Wilfred Boiteau
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David Taylor Marke
ADP
New
Orace Flower Shop
Wigh Feter’s Leading Florist
Fhones
Wreen & Bowell
Bee
Wilkes County
Alicia Hartner
Beauty
Springfield
Youth Farm
Denier
Hosiery Package Store
N. Main ST
Kodak Verichrome
Lyn-Mar
Willowbrook ST
Ingram’s Food
Fallegse
Palizer
Caudle
Elley's Wrandies
Helen ‘and
Francis Nelson
Nelson Florist & Decorators
Main St
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