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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1968
Page
2
Pope Paul VI celebrated a historic Christmas Mass for thousands of workers at the Itarsider steel works in Taranto Italy. He spoke from a steel altar before two blast furnaces urging justice for working people and civil and social rights.
A mosaic of holiday events includes industrial plant activity with molten steel and a spiritual turn as a rolling mill hosts prayers. A Brooklyn woman and Nyack sister reunite after 40 years by a chance street encounter. A Des Moines child is reported kidnapped amid Christmas Eve search. Vatican aid for pawned goods charity is announced by the pope. Sir Francis Chichester likens solo circumnavigation to Apollo 8 isolation. A California mother receives a posthumous kidney from a Boy Scout donor. A Milwaukee couple’s robbery tale inspires widespread Christmas generosity totaling about 950 dollars by Christmas Eve.
Comedian Bob Hope performed his fifth Christmas road show in South Vietnam on Tuesday. He entertained 35,000 service members at two coastal bases and aboard the aircraft carrier Hancock.
The 24 hour Christmas cease-fire in South Vietnam saw at least 80 incidents and one American soldier killed with 38 wounded. Twenty two Communist soldiers died and talks on prisoner releases were planned with Viet Cong emissaries north of Saigon.
A Pacific gale battered the Northwest for three days, pushing snow east to Montana and south to the Mexican border. Bitter cold gripped the upper Midwest as blizzard conditions filled the gap to three feet of snow, with lighter accumulations along the Great Lakes and in parts of the South and West. Readings ranged from record lows in the 20s and subzero in the Dakotas to 85 in Miami and 14 below in Sioux Falls.
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