Roadside Coffee Run Sets City Police Tone
The service urged motorists to have a “one for the road” coffee rather than stronger drinks. The day-long project modeled behavior for citizens with key figures present including Traffic Squad director Sgt. Bill McKenzie, Chief Constable A. R. Bull, Lloyd Shelton, Reid y Motors officer manager, and Carl Sorensen, sales representative.
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Bill McKenzie
A. R. Bull
Lloyd Shelton
Reidy Motors
Carl Sorensen
Christmas holiday traffic toll tops reports across Canada
A Canadian Press tally through Christmas Eve to early Saturday lists at least 38 deaths nationwide. Traffic fatalities include 10 in Ontario and Quebec each, with four in Chambord and two in another Quebec level crossing crash. Other deaths include a Halifax fire and suffocations in Ontario and Saskatchewan.
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Ontario
Quebec
Newfoundland
Prince Edward Island
Chambord
Trenton
British Columbia
New Brunswick
Alberta
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Halifax
N.S
Toll toll rises as holiday deaths mount nationwide
After 30 hours of a three day Christmas holiday period, 217 people died in vehicle accidents including cars buses and trains. Authorities cite bad weather and heavy traffic as key factors and urge doubled safety efforts.
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Chicago
U.S
National Safety Council
Summit date uncertain as Khrushchev nods to meeting
Paris AP Khrushchev accepts that a spring summit with Eisenhower Macmillan and de Gaulle is desirable but rejects April 27 and suggests April 21 or May 4 as alternatives. London May 3 Commonwealth meeting and de Gaulle's US trip may affect scheduling. Khrushchev says personal high level talks are best for solving urgent international problems.
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Paris
Nikita Khrushchev
Eisenhower
Macmillan
de Gaulle
Khrushchev
Moscow
Commonwealth
London
United States
Canada
Foreign Office
Fiselffower
Lost Girls Warned During Christmas Eve in Montreal
A four year old in Montreal's St. Henri wandered the streets on Christmas Eve after a warning shouted at girls. Two constables found her and brought her to the station while her parents were traced. An unidentified man bought her a large doll minutes before the parents arrived.
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Montreal
St. Henri
Monkey Breaks In Eats Breakfast Then Tries To Stay
A Roseville housewife called police after a neighbor's escapee monkey walked into her kitchen and ate breakfast. Patrolman Ted Therington, off duty, responded to the scene. the monkey is her mother's pet, bought on Christmas Eve.
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Detroit
Roseville
Ted Therington
Christmas Joy and Violence Mark 1959 Canada Holiday
Canada ended Christmas 1959 with joy and tragedy as refugees arrived in Halifax and Canadians faced fatal accidents and crimes. Across the country warm weather, snow in parts, and reports of bank robberies, driving accidents, and a murder charge contrasted with refugees in a new land and a brother reunion in Augusta Maine.
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Canada
British Columbia
Alberta
Ontario
Halifax
St. John
N.B
Freeland
Son Surprises Mother with WWII Reunion in Oakville
Eddy Emond, 39, believed killed when the U S carrier Lexington sank in 1944, arrived at his mother Rose Gilbert’s Oakville home on Christmas Eve. He had been rescued after 18 hours afloat and had kept search efforts private until reuniting at the door. His mother cried with joy as they embraced after years apart.
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Ont
Rose Gilbert
Eddy
Eddy Emond
U.S
Lexington
South Pacific
Gilbert
U.S. Marine Corps
Pearl Harbor
San Diego
Calif
United States
William
Rockefeller Declines Presidential Bid
Nelson Rockefeller of New York announced he will not be a presidential candidate. The Albany report confirms Rockefeller's decision during a day of political developments in New York.
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Albany, N.Y
Nelson Rockefeller
New York
Russian refugee feeds Christmas spirit in Brooklyn shop
Nina Zazulin, 35, a Russian refugee running a Brooklyn grocery and luncheonette, refuses charges on Christmas Eve. Patrons note her generosity as she locks up the cash drawer and shares goodwill after surviving wartime displacement and a German camp.
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Ray Kohn
New York
Nina Zazulin
Nina
Brooklyn
Ukraine
Quake Strikes Pomabamba Area in Peru. Relief Flown In
President Prado's government ordered relief supplies flown to the Cangallo department after a Yuletide earthquake. Fragmentary reports say seven killed and 37 injured in Pomabamba with 254 homes destroyed. Mollebamba and Huantupuquio also described as heavily affected. tolls in those villages not yet detailed.
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Lima
Peru
Manuel Prado
Cangallo
Pomabamba
Mollebamba
Huantapuquio
Fire engine gift surprises Utah husband
Mrs. Stanford P. Darger gave her husband a real 1921 four cylinder fire engine for Christmas. The purchase in Pocatello Idaho came with hoses helmets and ladders as the couple toured Yellowstone National Park. Darger, a director of the Antique Automobile Association of America, says it will be his twelfth vintage vehicle.
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Salt Lake City
Stanford P. Darger
Tragic Christmas Car Crash Kills Eight in New York
A family visiting an inmate at Wallkill State Prison in Haverstraw plunged into a concrete abutment on a wet road. Eleven aboard, eight died including three children. five adults and three children survived, with one child not expected to live. All victims identified as Puerto Rican. The Cruz family had met with Pedro Cruz, imprisoned for the 1958 stabbing case, and were traveling home to the south of Haverstraw.
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Haverstraw
N.Y
Wallkill State Prison
Pedro Cruz
St. Dominic’s
Blauwell
Frisday
James Huntington
Cruz
Bronx slaying of 70-year-old man by utility worker
James Brennan, a 24-year-old Consolidated Edison employee, surrendered after admitting he killed Thomas Fitzgerald following bar visits in Manhattan. Brennan said he tried to move the body toward the East River but dumped it in a vacant lot after a woman pedestrian frightened him. Four other victims were slain in separate stabbings and shootings across the city on Christmas morning.
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NEW York
Bronx
James Patrick Brennan
Consolidated Edison Comepany
Thomas Fitzgerald
Brennan
Joan
New York Man Dines Christmas Dinner in London on Trip
Lynn Porter a 44 year old Penn Yan New York restaurant owner dined Christmas dinner in London after a cross Atlantic flight. He arrived and weighed 200 pounds after departing Idlewild 193 pounds earlier. Dinner included 16 creamed oysters two Dover soles roast Norfolk goose a two pound pudding and assorted drinks.
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New York
Lynn Porter
London
Porter
Penn Yan
N.Y
Mayfair
Power
Idlewild
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