Dying Weekly Bids Farewell To Shepherdstown Paper
William B. Snyder, editor of the Shepherdstown Register, writes final editorial as the 107 year old weekly closes due to rising costs. He recalls decades of reporting, promises the name lives on in his printing shop, and thanks readers while inviting a possible return someday. The plea also reaches out to former competitors to keep the town’s streets and nose clean.
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Shepherdstown
W.va
Bill
Main Street
William B. Snyder
Panhandle
West Virginia
Martinsburg Journal
The
Register
United States
Snyder
the Snyder
Allied Officers Tour Oklahoma City Christmas Sightseeing
Thirty one Allied officers and students in the Artillery and Guided Missile School advanced course toured Oklahoma City to view Christmas lighting and learn American celebration customs. The group, from 13 countries, included officers from Burma, Iran, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Norway, Philippines, Spain, Thailand, Turkey, Vietnam and others.
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Artillery and
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Ohn Thwin
Burma
Thet Way
Ramon A. Navas
el Salvador
Ali <Abar
Iran
Sharif Khalkhali
Raffaello Cecconi
Italy
Francesco de Trapani
Masao Fujisawa
Japan
Matsunori Ichiki
Takashi Takamori
Kiyohiri Suruga
Chong Rae Choi
Yong Taik Kim
Woo Hyeun Pak
Su Ook Kim
Chong Hoe Koo
Yung Chai Kwan
Chi Su Sum
Yong Suk Sohn
Korea
Mario Oliver
Mexico
Johannas Ystaas
Norway
Basilio T. Genson
Phillipines
Francisco Cotarelo
Spain
Surin Cholpraserd
Thailand
Pratuan
Khittirat
Vichai Phucharoenyos
Suat Taner
Turkey
Nguyen Hien Diem
Viet Nam
Nguyen Tien Loc
Chu Gia Thoai
Sill Man Slices Calendar Costs Sill Man Slices Calendar Costs M-Set
James T. Mullin chief clerk in McNair Hall Headquarters Commandant devised a time stretching method by splitting each issued desk calendar into two. The plan would save $100 in 1956 in McNair Hall. Mullin, recognized for supply economy ideas in 1951 and later, reshuffles calendars to double their pages for reminders.
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James T. Mullin
McNair Hall
Mullin
Sgt
Theodore L. Futch
Wurzburg
Mason L. Young
Aschaffenburg
Prize Winning Poet Hurt In Auto Wreck
Pulitzer Prize winner P. Robert S. Hillyer, 60, in critical condition after emergency surgery for a possible skull fracture from an auto accident near Newark. He lies in Wilmington General Hospital in a coma. Truck driver Clayton Briggs, 55, of Bloomfield, N J, treated for back injury and listed in good condition. No further accident details available.
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Wilmington
Del
Robert S. Hillyer
Hillyer
Newark
Wilmington General Hospital
Clayton Briggs
Bloomfield, N.J
Verse of Robert Hillyer Native of East Orange
Robert Hillyer, a native of East Orange New Jersey, has been a professor of English literature at the University of Delaware in Newark since 1953.
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East Orange, N.J
The
University of Delaware At Newark
Surviving Quints Probably To Spend Yule At Home
In Montreal four Dionne quintuplets likely spend Christmas at the Callander Ontario home of their parents. Marie and Annette, once patients at Notre Dame de l Esperance Hospital, are very well and set to go home for the holiday. Cecile and Yvonne, student nurses at the hospital, may choose Christmas or New Year’s, with the earlier date expected. Marie had hoped to join a Quebec convent and Annette studied art at Nicolet prior to illness.
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Montreal
Callander
Ont
Notre Dame de l’Esperance Hospital
Marie
Annette
Cecile
Yvonne
Quebec City
Nicolet, Que
Milk bulk tanks replace milk cans on many dairies
Bulk storage tanks for transporting milk to processing plants have supplanted traditional milk cans on at least 15,000 dairy farms across the United States, signaling a shift to modern equipment in the dairy industry.
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United States
Jordan Doing Best To Prevent More Anti American Rioting
Washington says Jordanian authorities are doing everything they can to stop further anti American rioting. State Department reports note some minor damage to American institutions but no Americans injured.
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Jordan
Washington
State Department
Lincoln White
Former Area Boy Named OU Senate President
Jim Johnson son of Rex Johnson former school superintendent and Mrs Johnson has been elected president of the University of Oklahoma student senate He was chosen from 21 outstanding OU students Jim is grandson of Mr and Mrs Guy Calhoun Walters and the Johnsons reside in Broken Bow Oklahoma.
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OU Senate
Jim Johnson
Rex Johnson
Indiahoma School
Johnson
University of Oklahoma
Sooner
Jim
Guy Calhoun
Walters
Broken Bow
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Cache Road Furniture Co
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Zomka Tenna Cinema
TV Eye
Crosley
Linwood
Tenna Cinema
Eugene L. Bowman
Ty Laee
Realtors
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Sheridan Rd
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Television Center
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Launduet
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