Green coat on the Gold Coast reveals a holiday flair
In Washington the Commerce Department’s Gold Coast area gets a fresh green paint job, replacing ivory. Secretary Sinclair Weeks hosts Austrian Chancellor Julius Raab, who lights a new wooden cigarette box after the silver box sticks. Washington builders push holiday home purchases with December moves and festive decorations.
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Harman W. Nichols
Washington
Department of Merce’s
Gold Coast
Sinclair Weeks
Commerce Department
Julius Raab
Weeks
Bergen brings ventriloquist act to Mayflower hotel suite
Edgar Bergen sets up a new show in the Mayflower hotel office. In Suite 459 he displays his two dummy dependents Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd, kept in wooden boxes that occupy space and cost rent.
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Edgar Bergen
Mayflower Hotel
Charlie McCarthy
Mortimer Snerd
Survey Finds West German TV Audience Patterns
A Pentagon reported survey from five West German cities shows 60 percent of listeners attended only grammar school and 34 percent are high school graduates with 6 percent college graduates. Movies top the programs, followed by sports and live drama, while religious services rate low. Only 19 percent can watch more than six hours daily.
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Pentagon
West Germany
Tele
Rere
Wealthy Man Cleared in $5 Theft Charge
In Baltimore a 5S year old factory worker with a $10,000 bank balance was acquitted after being accused of stealing a $5 bill dropped by a supermarket customer. Police found Gow with $495 cash, an uncashed check for $42, and five bank books. Magistrate Laukaitis noted that a man of Gow's wealth would not commit a $5 theft.
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Baltimore
Emile P. Gow
Gow
William F. Laukaitis
Mexico's mortality rate falls with better sanitation and more doctors
In Mexico City the Mex-Tosa Hygiene Society reported that the death rate declined from 40 per 1 000 in 1900 to 16 3 last year thanks to expanded sanitation facilities and a larger medical workforce.
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Mexico City
Mexico
Mex- Tosa Hygiene Society
Henryetta Priest Challenges Bootlegger Rumor Fallout
The Rev at St. Michael's in Henryetta defends the city against bootlegging furor sparked by whisky sale charges. He notes a citizens league ban and asserts locals believe Henryetta remains a fine town with strangers deterred by uncalled publicity.
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Ane Taal Gouden
St. Michael’s
Henryetta
Citizens League
Justice of Peace
Widow Faces Third Charge Of Murder
Tulsa court records show Grandma Nannie Doss facing another murder charge in Emporia Kansas after autopsy confirmed poison in Arlie Lanning. The 49 year old suspect admitted feeding rat poison to four husbands and awaits a Tulsa preliminary hearing for Samuel Doss.
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Tulsa
Okla
Nannie Doss
Lexington
N. C
Emporia
Kan
Samuel Doss
Name Change at Sheppard AFB Prompts New Identity
A 22 year old airman at Sheppard Air Force Base changed his name from Victor Edward Kuhl to Vytautas Edvardas Kulikauskas yesterday. The legal switch reflects a personal rebranding while stationed in Wichita Falls Texas.
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Wichita Falls
Tex
Victor Edward Kuhl
Sheppard Air Force Base
Vytautas
Marvin Livingston To Lead Federation 4-H Clubs In 1955
Marvin Livingston 16, of Faxon, elected federation president for the coming year at Federation day in Cameron College auditorium. Kath leen Woesner, Margie Mae John, June Slaughter and Larry Watson named to key posts. lifetime memberships awarded to Milton Keating and Cecil Easton. Emmett L. Keough urged 4-H youth to work hard and build strong families for Southwest Oklahoma’s future.
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Faxon
Marvin Livingston
O. L. Livingston
Cameron College
Kathleen Woesner
Cache
Margie Mae John
Flower Mound
June Slaughter
Fletcher
Larry Watson
Fairview
Milton Keating
Cecil Easton
Jim Clower
Emmett L. Keough
Lawton
Oklahoma
Iowa
Keough
America
Livingston
Bill Needham
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co
Miss John
Livings
Rev Bill Alexander vows to abide by law in marriage plan
Lexington Nebraska report notes Rev W H Bill Alexander of Oklahoma City plans to wed Mary Louise Rowsey. Rowsey is the divorced wife of Frederick Hulett who later married Alexander's ex wife Charlsie. Presbyterian official says Rowsey left ministry in 1952 and is now a layman. Alexander says if illegal it won't be done.
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Lexington
Neb
W. H
Bill) Alexander
First Christian Church
Oklahoma City
Presbyterian Church
Mary Louise Rowsey
Alexander
Elwood A. Rowsey
Diamond Springs
Miss Rowsey
Frederick Hulett
Charlsie
Henry Barraclough
Philadelphia
The
Rowsey
Sympathetic Man Fined For Trying To Kiss Woman
Walter Becker argued he was sympathetic not amorous but was fined 25 dollars by magistrate William F Laukaitis for attempting to kiss Laura Gray a 42 year old mother while she showed him an apartment Becker a married father of two claimed she complained of arm pain and he may have placed his arm on her shoulder in sympathy
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Baltimore
Walter Becker
William F. Laukaitis
Laura Gray
L,ukaitis
Becker
Rites Set for Furtwangler in Heidelberg
Funeral rites for Dr. Wilhelm Furtwangler famed conductor who died of pneumonia will be held Saturday at Heidelberg, the Ilin Philharmonic Orchestra announced.
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Furtwaengler Balin
Wilhelm Furtwangler
Heidelberg
Ilin Philarmonic Orchestra
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