Week end Vagabonds Panorama of Christmas Festivities
Beverly Hills villa displays dazzle with life sized reindeer nativity scenes. Altadena lights up Santa Rosa Ave with 8000 bulbs. Pasadena Tournament of Roses parade on New Year’s Day promises 60 floats and 200 horses. Travel Town adds UP Caboose 2117 and a 50 year old kerosene wagon. Desert Wonderland contest winner to receive Palm Desert vacation.
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Beverly Hills
Altadena
Pasadena
Santa Rosa Ave
Griffith Park Planetarium
Colorado St
Paloma St
Sierra Madre Bled
Shell Travel
Elien I. Bigleven
S. Holly Ave
Compton
California
Desert Wonderland
State Chamber of Commerce
Blyleven
Palm Desert
Boy Shot Trying To Loot Market Near Redwood City
A 17 year old boy was critically wounded Thursday by a deputy sheriff who surprised him and a companion during a Christmas Day attempted burglary of a food market near Redwood City. Jim Nolan of East Palo Alto was brought to Sequoia Hospital with a groin wound after surgery lasting over two hours, doctors saying a 50 50 chance of survival. His companion Ernest Price 19 of Redwood City was held on burglary suspicions.
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Redwood City
Here
Jim Nolan
East Palo Alto
Sequoia Hospital
Ernest Price
Lakewood Park service dept runs home owners clinic
Since 1950 Lakewood Park Mutual homes have used the service department at 4422 South St as a plumbing and repair clinic. E. Richard Croy, service manager, says about 11 000 new homeowners received instructions, with 183 homes in the past year requiring repair calls. The staff demonstrate plumbing fixes and explain turning on utilities and school and streetlight timing.
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Lakewood
Carl Underwood
Centralia St
E. Richard Croy
Lakewood Park Service Department
Croy
University
South St
Lakewood iPark
Lakewood Park Corp. Service Department
George
Lakewood Park
Lervine
Cray
Cataway
Service Department
Lakewond Park Mutual
Truman Kin Folk Hold Quiet Dinner
President Truman and family shared a quiet Christmas in Washington with relatives from the Midwest. The Truman household included Mrs. Truman's Wallace kin and other relatives, gathering for dinner, gifts, and possibly music with Margaret singing carols.
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Truman
Washington
Trumans
Independence
Christmas Battle at Bethlehem Point on Eastern Front
In Korea on Christmas Day King Company held a narrow ridge near Bethlehem Point as a 200 man North Korean banzai attack drove Americans back. Capt. Gastis reorganized a counterattack while Pvt. Strandlein and Pvt. Thompson recalled grenades and a fallen sergeant. A turkey dinner and Christmas mail were shared in the trenches despite heavy fighting.
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Korea
King Company
Bethlehem. Point
Cpl. Agnew Francisco
Chatanooga
Tenn
Redheld Lake
Francisco
Bethlehem Point
No-Man's-Land
Andrew J. Gastis
Birmingham
Ala
Dis
Billy ‘Thompson
Charlottesville
C. P
Thompson
Dinty Moore Dies in New York Restaurant Owner Record
James Moore an 83 year old New York restaurateur died Thursday. He owned Dinty Moore s a renowned Broadway theater district eatery. Moore opened his West 46th Street restaurant 38 years ago after previously running a restaurant at 87th and Broadway.
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New York
James Moore
Dinty Moore
Broadway Theater District
Moore
West 46Th Street
87Th
Broadway
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Travel Town
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Reviow
Annual Review
James E. Wyatt
Memphis
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Walker's
Dermetics
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Dorothy Gray
Harriet Hubbard Ayer
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