Secretary of State Dulles Sets Record Miles Traveled
Secretary of State Dulles logged a record total of 178,749 miles in two years of foreign travel, with 101,172 over oceans. The itineraries included major runs to Berlin, Caracas, Manila, Bonn, London, Paris, and engagements with Eden, Mendes-France, and Churchill, among others, ending with a late-year trip to Paris.
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Paris
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Caracas
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Bonn
Konrad Adenauer
Eden
Churchill
Germany
Diplomat plans trip and Christmas in Washington
State Department aides said abroad this year would include the December 14 to 20 NATO Council meeting in Paris. He would spend Christmas in Washington.
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NATO Council
Paris
State Department
Washington
Boy Survives Ice Break Stunt on Susquehanna River
Eight year old Barry Sussmann fell through ice on the Susquehanna River in Harrisburg and clung to a cake of ice until rescuers pulled him from the water. His companion Jimmy Mullalen, nine, summoned help after urging a nearby house for aid. Barry was hospitalized in grave condition, while Jimmy had previously fallen through ice at a nearby spot about a year earlier.
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RFC Returns 100 Million
Washington The Treasury has received another 100 million dollars as proceeds from the liquidation of the Reconstruction Finance Corp. Secretaries Hum phrey and Laurence Robbins announced the latest payment. Robbins noted RFC assets totaling 250 million still must be liquidated.
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Lena Horne Debuts Satirical Sands Act in Las Vegas
Lena Horne opens a new Sands Hotel night club act in Las Vegas and jokes she is tired of singing Stormy Weather. Critics call the opener her strongest material in years as she adds dancing and satirical acting to her singing with chorines and costume changes portraying Camille Mata Hari and Juliet.
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Calves Wholesale: Guernsey Cow Delivers Triplets Twice in 26 Months
Bassie the Guernsey cow belonging to Mrs. Alice Hoagland of Fremont, Missouri, dropped three sets of triplet calves in under 26 months. All five bulls and four heifers were normal at birth, with two calves dying.
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Alice Hoagland
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Five Die In Small Cottage Near Wilmington
Five people from Tarboro North Carolina perished in a cottage fire near Wilmington while en route for Christmas plans. Ernest Farmer 26 and his wife Lilly Mae 26, their daughters Ann 5 and Joan 4, and Lilly Mae's brother Roosevelt Williams 19 died in the blaze which fire officials believe started in a wood stove while the family slept.
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Three arrested for poker on cemetery hill in London
London Kentucky AP reports three men were arrested for gambling after police found them playing poker on a cemetery hill. Police chief Joe Noe described the site as a pleasant shady spot where the slick ground suggested it was a favored place for card playing.
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Joe Noe
Army Takes Over Korea On Christmas
In Korea Christmas joys arrived via a U.S. Army helicopter dropping Santa for 200 Bukhan San orphans near Seoul. Lt. J C Virgil E Mitchell led the Santa act and gifted children as soldiers of the 314 Ordnance Group and the Psychological Warfare Team funded the event.
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Bicycle stolen then found with rear wheel missing
Richard Sherchunas of Hasson Heights, Pennsylvania, reported a bicycle stolen from his back yard. It was recovered a few hours later with the rear wheel missing, leaving the bike incomplete.
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Hasson Heights
Richard Sherchunas
Boat Is Now Bus Makes River Crossing For Kids
CLINTON Iowa AP A row boat serves as a school bus for six children of the Peter Edfors family living on Beav er Island in the Mississippi River. Each morning they cross about 290 yards. Mrs Edfors checks coats jackets and life preservers. In freezing river they mount the boat on runners and their father or brother pushes it across.
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Iowa
Peter Edfors
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Town caps barred from company ads in Ipswich hands
Ipswich town workers forbidden to wear advertising on work caps. A rainy day led to caps supplied by a local merchant with ads taped over in white to comply with Town Manager Nathaniel Quint ruling.
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Ipswich
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Nathaniel Quint
Harrisburg Bishop Warns of Press at World Council Assembly
G Bromley Oxnam, Methodist churchman and president of the World Council of Churches, predicts trouble with reporters at the council’s Evanston assembly in August. He notes requests for space for 1,200 reporters but only 300 seats are available.
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G. Bromley Oxnam
World Council of Churches
Evanston
Film Fire Disrupts Script At Universal Studio
A fire at Universal International Studio broke from the script when actress Anne Baxter threw a book at Rock Hudson causing a kerosene lamp to topple. Flames climbed 80 feet, hitting acetate drapes. Standby crews failed to contain the blaze and sprayed sprinklers on an adjacent stage, damaging other sets. No loss estimate is available.
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Rock Hudson
Morrison Cove Livestock Market Prices December 20 Sale
Livestock prices listed for Morrison Cove Livestock Market in Martinsburg Pa with sale starting 7 PM Monday. Steers and heifers priced medium good, cows canners and cutters, calves by weight, butcher hogs and boars with ranges.
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