Man pays for girl's jail trip after costly fine
Lloyd E Cooney a radio account executive challenged a 24 dollar fine for losing his license plate. Nandell MecDougle 18 pleaded vagrancy and faced 10 days in jail but with Cooney paying her bus fare home the judge reduced his fine to 9 dollars plus 21.18 dollars for transit totaling 30.18 dollars.
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Salt Lake City
Lloyd E. Cooney
Nandeli MecDougle
Cooney
Nandell
Leland G. Larsen
Santa Rosa
Calif
Malad
Idaho
Larsen
John Clover
Roscoe Irvine
Movie Stars Ask Santa For Presents at Hollywood Premiere
At the Four Star Theater premiere of I'll Cry Tomorrow Hollywood stars posed as Santa. George Jessel whispered about firing Darryl Zanuck. Dana Andrews wants a Mercedes-Benz while Debbie Reynolds praises Eddie Fisher. Judi Jordan asked for a 6 foot 2 blue-eyed boyfriend. Liberace sought happiness. Lillian Roth's film star pals share playful gift wishes.
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James Bacon
Hollywood
Santa
Four Star Theater
Santa Claus
Lillian Roth
George Jessel
Darryl Zanuck
Jessel
Zanuck
Joan Bennett
Judi Jordan
Taina Elg
MGM
Bobby
Russ Tamblyn
Venetia Stevenson
Hit Run Motorist Caught In Act
Shawnee Oklahoma report says 22 year old Billy Eugene Slaughter was caught after a high speed chase when his car struck Delbert Sales, 15, causing serious injuries. Trooper Leo White chased and halted the vehicle after Slaughter admitted fear of arrest.
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Shawnee
Okla
Leo White
Billy Eugene Slaughter
White
Slaughter
Delbert Sales
German Cops Receive Holiday Gifts From Passersby
In Frankfurt German traffic police are going home with gifts of schnapps wines whisky and cigarettes from passersby as a holiday custom Americans back home might call graft. The practice is part of the festive season sharing between officers and the public.
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Frankfurt
Germany
World’s Just A Big Stage Reported Oddities
Springfield mayor denies buying 30 brassieres in a comical note to Lovable Brassiere Co. Atlanta. He says the invoice listed items sold to the city but they were not his. Also noted are Christmas wedding plans in London and a Maryland whiskey seizure at the state line amid holiday cheer.
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Springfield
Ill
Nelson O. Howarth
Speculator village debates Santa theft amid deep freeze
Speculator New York residents and the Rev Bernard W Kearney speculate about a thief who braved 32 degree below zero temperatures to steal a 16 foot figure of Santa Claus placed in front of the minister’s home.
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Speculator
N.Y
Hamilton County
Bernard W. Kearney
Santa Claus
Miami child issued traffic summons for collision
Ricky Salomon, eight, was cited by police in Miami Beach on Thursday for failing to yield to a motor vehicle after he walked into the side of a car.
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Miami Beach
Fla
Ricky Salomon
Ricky
Knoxville Man Keeps T in Merry Christmas Sign
Restaurant owner Jimmy Caracostis drew national notice by spelling Christmas with a missing letter on his sign. He explained to a United Press reporter that he spells it as he says it and a Paul Harvey radio broadcast urged others to tell him otherwise. He reported a flood of phone calls as a result.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Jimmy Caracostis
Chrismas
Caracostis
United Press
Paul Harvey
Movie Stars Kids To Get Yule Loot
Hollywood Christmas spree items reveal celebs gifting lavish toys to children. Zsa Zsa Gabor’s daughter Francesca will receive four Dior wardrobe dolls while stars pile into Uncle Bernie’s toy emporium in Beverly Hills for unique and pricey presents. From $2.95 electric blenders to $500 stuffed elephants, holiday shopping spans toy tigers and puppet shows as Lana Turner and Lex Barker, Barbara Stanwyck, and Nicky Hilton join the rush.
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Hollywood
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Francesca Hilton
Gabor
Julie
Zsa Zsa
Eva
Magda
Uncle Bernie’s Toy Menagerie
Beverly Hills
Tiffany’s
Texas
Eleanor Parker
Jack Bennys
Jennifer Jones
Debra Paget
Madame Pompadour
Edmond O’brien
Olga San Juan
England
Lana Turner
Lex Barker
Humphrey Bogarts
Red Skelton
Bernie
Barbara Stanwyck
Nicky Hilton
Uncle Bernie
Strike Averted At Eagle Picher Mines
About 500 Eagle Picher mine workers in Picher Oklahoma avoided a Thursday night strike when the CIO United Steelworkers Union tentatively accepted a five cent per hour wage increase. The two year contract with a one year wage reopener covers mine mill and shop workers and awaits a member vote next Wednesday.
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Missouri
Oklahoma
Kansas
M. L. Morgan
Bath-Taking Has A Long, Long History
Harman W. Nichols explains bath culture from ancient Babylon to early America. He notes public dunkings in Babylon, early clay water pipes in Persia and Egypt, and debates the tub's invention while joking about Adam Thompson. The piece ends with holiday wishers and a nod to modern baths.
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Adam Thompson
CAB Cuts Pan American Subsidy in Major Postal Plan
The Civil Aeronautics Board proposed reducing Pan American World Airways subsidy from over 22 million dollars in 1954 to 1.937 million this year and 9.859 million annually thereafter. The plan also aims to create a permanent mail rate covering all four Pan American divisions Alaskan Atlantic Latin American and Pacific.
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Washington
Civil Aeronautics Board
Pan American World Airways
Pan American
Science offers new healing for piles without surgery
Science reports a healing substance that shrinks piles and relieves pain quickly without surgery. Doctors note actual shrinking and patients say piles are no longer a problem. The product Bio-Dyne, used in injured tissue, is now available as Preparation H in suppository or ointment form with money back guarantee.
Hopalong Cassidy to Distribute Gifts in Valley Christmas Event
Movie cowboy Hopalong Cassidy, real name William Boyd, will visit the Salton Sea area for a Christmas event. He plans to pass out gifts and pose for photographs while riding his horse Topper, in a program stretching from Palm Springs to the Salton Sea.
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Lawton Constitution
Palm Springs
Salton Sea
Hoppy
Hopalong Cassidy
William Boyd
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