Christmas Nightmare Rises Over Court and Stamp Debates
A Nashville Tenn AP report recounts a Christmas season clash over church state issues. The piece cites the Supreme Court school prayer rulings of 1962 and 1963 and criticizes efforts to remove religious symbols from public spaces. It notes controversy around a Madonna and Child stamp and critiques the ACLU. The article closes with a Tennessee prison football incident involving Jarence Logan Jenkins and a guard’s thwarted escape attempt.
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Republic
Supreme Court
Cincinnati
San Franccisco
Houston
American Civil Liberties Union
Europe
Hans Memning
Sion
Conreys
Amercan
Nis
Aldous Huxley
Sanfrancisco
Charlotte
N.C
Nashville
Tenn
Jarence Logan Jenkins
Tennessee State Prison
Jenkins
Arkansas Snow Storm Brings Fatal Icy Crash Near Conway
A winter storm dumped up to 16 inches across northern Arkansas causing slick roads and at least one fatal crash on U S 64 west of Conway. A 36 year old woman and an 18 year old man, distant relatives of Alma, died when a trailer jackknifed into a car. Fourteen others were injured as vehicles were stranded and mail trucks faced impassable roads. The storm prompted continued cold weather through Monday and a brief halt to any new snowfall.
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Associated Press
Arkansas
U.S. Weather Bureau of
Little Rock
Seaboard
Shirley Ann Rogers
John Benton Rogers
Alma
U.S
Conway
George Riggs
Rogers
Almond C. Lewis
Alexander
Riggs
Frank Blair
Des Are
Washington State
Kansas City
Litetle Rock
Harrison
St. Joe
Searcy Eo
U N
Christmas Inquiries and Amnesty Parade Across Nations
A collage of short items reports a US congressman reply on Christmas as a red ink operation, a Paris pardon for Gen Maurice Challe by de Gaulle, and a Wyoming boy’s crow foot bounty for Christmas gifts. Timmy Patrick, 12, nets 76.70 for crow feet bounty.
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Paris
Maurice Challe
Algiers
Charles de Gaulle
Challe
de Gaulle
Worland
Wyo
Timmy Patrick
Timmy
Big Horn Wildlife Club
Card Shows Three Homes of Gov Faubus
The Christmas card from Gov. Orval Faubus and his wife features three homes through the years. It includes a snow scene of the Governor’s Mansion where the Fabuses have lived since 1955, a Madison County tobacco house where they resided from 1910 to 1925, and a hilltop Huntsville home pictured on the third page.
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Little Rock
Orval Faubus
Bay
Madison County
Fabuses
Hunts+ ville
No Sympathy for Draft Card Burners
In Livingston Tennessee AP report James Clarence Davis rejects antiwar protests and draft card burnings. He recalls his son Spec 4 James T Davis killed near Saigon Dec 22 1961 and says American soldiers fight so demonstrators cannot mock them. He treasures letters and government documents as reminders of his son.
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Bob Gilbert Livingston
Tenn
James Clarence Davis
Viet Ham
James T
Fom
Associated Press
Malcolm Browne
Davis
Davie
Atelnar
Cindy
Geraldine
Tom
United States
U.S
Vietnam
One Way to Prevent a Robbery
Salt Lake City AP report details how a bank robbery was thwarted when the drive-thru window was secured. A man outside First Security Bank demanded money with a note, but manager A Marlon Andrus locked the door as the robber approached, causing him to flee and fail to loot the branch.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
First Security
A. Marlon Andrus
Andrus
Tonight Christmas Eve Proclaimed The Longest Night
Mary Anita Lasetar offers a nostalgic column arguing Christmas Eve is the longest night of the year. She imagines Santa Claus using many tricks to enter homes and praises the sandman’s sleep-inducing role, noting children awaken eagerly at Christmas dawn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Anita Lasetar
Peature
Santa Claus
Santa
Santa ‘Claus
North Pole
the Sandman
Church says bombing of North Vietnam failed and harms talks
United Nations interview with Sen. Frank Church of Idaho. He criticizes U.S. bombing for not meeting objectives, warns it stiffens enemy resolve, and urges an indefinite cease fire during Christmas to explore peace. He cautions against Chinese intervention and questions seating mainland China at the UN over Taiwan.
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United Nations
N.Y
U.N
Sesson
General Assembly
Soviet Union
Arthur J. Goldberg
Vietnam
Goldberg
U Thant
Lst
Nikolai T. Fedorenko
Albania
China
Halim Budo
Assembly
Abdul Rahman Pazhwak
Pazhwak
United Nations, N
United States
Red China
India
Red Guard
Korea
Peking
Taiwan
Cong Steps Up War Bond Campaign
U S officials say Viet Cong have intensified war bond drives and peasant taxes in South Vietnam to fund the Communist war effort. AID Saigon study reports 40 percent of the budget from bonds, 40 percent from road block taxes, and 20 percent from outside Vietnam. War bond teams pressure every family to buy.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
U.S
National Liberation Front
Hanoi
Mama Santa takes over in Brick Township store
Sophie Deptula, 53, fills in as Mama Santa at Steinbach Co after regular Santa falls ill. The softer voice and gentle movements win over shoppers of all ages. Deptula explains she is Santa's helper, not the real Santa, who arrives Christmas Eve.
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Brick Township
Santa Claus
Mama Saneta
Sophie Deptula
Steinbach Co
Santa
Mama Santa Claus
Mama Santa
Christmas Truce and scattered firing mark Vietnam halt
The two day Christmas truce in Vietnam began with limited firing incidents as U S and Vietnamese forces reported no major combat. A U S spokesman defined violations as calculated enemy attacks, with two minor mortars and small arms rounds recorded near Saigon and Hue.
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Robert Tuckman
Saigon
South Vietnam
U. S
U.S
Free World
U., Ss
1St ‘Infantry
N ‘Seasualles
Hue
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Alex. H. Washburn
Jane Jayroe
Cypress Gardens
Fla
Hal Boyle
New York
Bik Beerat
Department of the Treasury
Department of Defense
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Congress
White House
Washington, D.C
National Foundation
Weill
National
Foundatin
DeGaulle
Cong
Arkansas Highway Commission
Art Carney
Jackie Gleason
Los Angeles
Peter Sargent
Bersnard Engraving Co
Sargent
Hamilton
Associated Press New York
George Hamilton
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