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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1956
Page
1
The message urges Christmas as a religious holiday, not just a secular break. It says most people will keep Christ’s message in their hearts year round, and that love should endure beyond December.
Tallahassee bus service resumed after a Christmas layoff, but early runs showed few Negro riders challenging segregation. A spot check of 12 buses near the downtown transfer point found Negroes mostly in the rear and seven buses with no white passengers. Inter Civic Council leaders urged seating without regard to race as a boycott ended, while drivers indicated they would ask riders to move or exit if seating beside a white person caused trouble.
The Central Committee ordered changes to the new five year plan with heavy industry priorities. First Deputy Premier M G Pervukhin was named chief planner, replacing Maxim Saburov, as six agriculture and industry experts join to form a guiding supercommittee. The sixth plan was returned to the Supreme Soviet for revision amid criticism of overambitious quotas and mismanagement.
Traffic deaths reached a historic peak over the long Christmas weekend with 695 highway fatalities, 49 in fires, and 117 in other accidents for a total of 861. The 102 hour period from Friday 6 p.m. to Tuesday midnight set a new all time high.
Egypt's government blocked any canal clearance until Israel pulls all forces from Egyptian soil, threatening weeks of delay. U.N. Aides Cordier and Katzin rush to Cairo after Hammarskjold orders. Israel signals Gaza withdrawal for U.N. control as six security council backed principles face strain.
Eight of the twenty four men stationed at McMurdo Sound Antarctica were flown to the air base as the first step home after celebrating Christmas early. One bachelor, Robert L Chaudoin of Long Beach Mississippi, offered to stay through winter but was not accepted. The party endured weeks of 30 to 49 below and built six prefabricated buildings in the summer.
A Santa Monica Mountains brush fire east of Malibu grew to 1500 acres in four hours and destroyed 25 homes. LA County Fire Chief Keith Klinger said crews, numbering 250 county men and 25 engines plus 3 bulldozers, fought the blaze with help from Los Angeles City, Ventura County, California Division of Forestry, and aid from Port Hueneme. No casualties reported.
In Cleveland a man ordered off a Pittsburgh to Chicago bus opened fire fatally wounding the driver Leo Almerica 49 and an 18 year old girl Georgeann Kartzke of Fort Eustis Va. Police killed the attacker after a brief pursuit. Five others were wounded and treated at Charity Hospital with four released. An 83 year old man was held for observation as investigators pursued motives. Emmett Jefferson a depot porter witnessed the event as the crowded terminal heard gunfire during a holiday travel rush.
Thirty seven Olympic athletes who left Iron Curtain lands were greeted in New York after arriving from San Francisco. A crowd cheered as flags waved and the Hungarian national anthem played. Lidia Domosky hugged her brother George as he joined the crowd, tears in their eyes.
State Highway Patrol reports 195 injured and 155 accidents from 6 p.m. Friday to midnight Tuesday. Fatal crashes include four in the Con cord area with three Negro victims and two-vehicle wrecks near US 29. Other deaths occurred in Roanoke Rapids Wilmington Gastonia and near Chapel Hill plus a hunting dog fight accident and a train collision near Gastonia.
Edgewood Maryland report notes Henn H Liiv a former refugee who served as a soldier personally raised 300 dollars for Hungarian relief at the Army chemical center. He with his mother and grandmother were deported from Estonia in 1944 to a German munition plant during the war and later became displaced persons.
Soviet youths counter Allen Dulles by insisting Russians remain committed to socialism. In a Komsomol Pravda letter from Moscow Power Institute students say they are "as Red as ever" and reject claims of widespread unrest. They acknowledge anxieties but frame them as love for home and desire to improve socialist life.
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