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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1955
Page
7
New York reports Christmas buying at record levels with 200 firms serving the gift trade and top gifts for executives. The American Management Association notes a move to curb accepting such gifts as sales managers and purchasing agents weigh company policies and personal obligations.
President Eisenhower presented about 700 White House staff and officials with copies of a winter mountain landscape he began before his heart attack on Sept 24 and finished while recovering in Fitzsimons Army Hospital. The scene shows St Louis Creek with Byers Peak in Fraser Colorado.
In Ovid Michigan Charlie Starr aged 102 in 1955 notes his grave marker bears 1945. He had the stone carved for himself to save trouble after his wife’s death, thinking a small error would not matter. Starr stopped chin ups on an apple tree last year.
Carpenter Mack Burdine found a photo of his brother John in a door facing while remodeling at Southern State College Magnolia. John recalled giving the picture to a girl at the Magnolia A and M campus nearly 40 years ago when the building housed a girls dormitory. Neither can explain how the image ended up in the door.
Mr and Mrs Dino Lehares stage a humorous hide and seek with a Geiger counter in Decatur Illinois. Lehares built a personal counter and tests it by letting his wife hide a radioactive sample around their home before he searches.
Prime Minister Anthony Eden weighs canceling the invitation to Soviet leaders Nikita Khrushchev and Nikolai Bulganin for a British visit next spring. After harsh anti-Western rhetoric during a Southeast Asia tour, Britain shows signs of cooling while government officials insist the invitation stands.
Orin Benson a former navy man hired by a motion picture crew to film Battle Stations aboard the aircraft carrier Princeton. His task is to ensure clocks and time sequences align with the scenes being shot on the ship.
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